Travel. Awareness. Within.
I have been on the XPlorPreneur trail forever (that's Expat. Explorer. Entrepreneur, because life is for loving every single day) and my novels reflect the On The Road lifestyle of delving deeply into other cultures in order to understand yourself. Working from a beach hut in Goa or up a mountain in North West Argentina beside the world's highest altitude vineyards (have you ever tried Torrontes?) writing is the way to figure it out, although not without its challenges.
Settings are always integral to the psychological journey - something as important in life as the novel.
The Narcissism Novels are set in London, New York, Toronto, LA, Paris and Shanghai. They reflect my experience of domestic abuse with a narcissistic parent that was repeated in my marriage. They are auto-fiction but the truth is the stranger story.