I have survived the acid-yellow ceilings, the late-night diner scenes, and the chaotic headspace of Mona, and I successfully wrestled it all into a completed manuscript, Now that Mona’s wild story is officially out of my hands and sitting in those agents’ inboxes, how do I feel? Sometimes it’s hard to know how you feel because you just experience this feeling after a long time of imagining it. So I’m in it. I’m feeling good. I’ve grown a lot. It’s been pretty much a self-discovery for myself as I wrote it. And now I’m also turning 30 in three days. And I feel like I’ve accomplished what I wanted to accomplish in my 20s.