J.L. Whitehead

I've been going about this all wrong. I've been treating Four Brothers Publications as a side hustle and not the business that it truly is. I didn't go through the hassle of creating an LLC for vanity's sake. I wanted an official name associated with everything that I publish as going through traditional means for publication was a tedious process that led to more rejections than I could count. However, during this process I was validated by two literary agents that read the first few...

Most of you know that I was sexually assaulted at the age of 6 and then 3 times by 3 different men who used 3 different grooming methods in order to victimize me. In my journey to figure out who I was and why I acted and behaved the way I did throughout my life, I had to perform a deep dive into my past. What I initially thought were isolated incidents that simply "occurred" were in fact episodes of trauma inflicted on a child that should have never happened even if I thought I wanted it...

So much has happened to me in the past 7 months that I hardly know where to begin. I mean, after all how do you explain my mindset and what has allowed me to get to this point? In November, I was fired from my position at the company that I had been employed by the better part of 8 years. Outwardly when it happened, I acted as if I were fine and that I was going to be okay. Inwardly, I was a mess and there's no shame in admitting that. My husband and I had to figure out what we were going...