I Dunno: A Blog, I Guess

One thing I’m slowly learning through therapy is that talking about myself isn’t a waste of time—or something I should stop doing because that feeling of unimportance is my own anxiety turning against me, not an actuality. And talking about my struggles might help someone else feel like they’re not alone. If you’ve followed my writing on the Authors 4 Authors blog, you might have read my post where I talk about my dyslexia.  What is dyslexia? To put it broadly, dyslexia is a learning disability in reading, but it’s a lot more involved than that. This disability makes learning to read much harder for sufferers because it’s hard for our brains to connect the accompanying sounds with the letters, and the combinations they make. Not only that but letters and words often get flipped around both on paper and/or orally. Another area that gets affected by dyslexia is in math where numbers will flip, especially if they are similar shapes like 6’s or 9’s. (This is not the same as dyscalculi...

The answer to that question should always be 24601—but in all seriousness, I would like to introduce myself as a new(ish) blogger. If you want to check out my blogs written for Authors 4 Authors, you can find them all categorized here . So, really...who am I? Well, my name is Rebecca Mikkelson, and I’m a fantasy author who works as an editor and the Chief of Business Development at Authors 4 Authors Publishing . I’ve been writing fantasy stories since my early teens for fun and I made my first foray into publishing in 2018 when my short story, “ The Measure of a Princess ,” was published for the first time in an anthology. (It has since been republished on its own in 2019.)   I currently live in Hawaii with my husband of nine years, who I affectionately call Mr. M on all of my social media profiles, where we enjoy not going outside and avoiding the scare ball in the sky. In my free time, I like to cross-stitch and embroidery to relax when my cats aren't hogging the embroidery ...