Author’s Journal

I’ve been a storyteller longer than I’ve been anything else. Before I even knew publishing imprints existed, before I understood the mechanics of a manuscript or the weight of a memoir — I was a thirteen-year-old girl in Queens with a notebook and something to say. By fourteen, the writing turned serious. Angry, honest, necessary. It didn’t matter if anyone read it. It mattered that it existed. Spice & Soul Media was born from that same urgency — the belief that the stories t