On September 19, 2012, two events occurred simultaneously. First, my grandmother celebrated her birthday. Second, I self-published my very first book, Zoe Thanatos. I started writing Zoe in the Spring of 2012 while in the middle of pursuing my Masters in Media Psychology at Fielding. I’d done a lot of reading both academic and non-fiction, and out came this labor of love about a young woman named Zoe who one day decides to end her life by jumping from a cliff into the ocean. She jumps, but is caught – impossibly so – and from that moment forward she finds herself discovering that her life is made up of a…