CPJ Creates

09/10/2026

Created a home for my longer writing pieces! Check out my dystopian short story “The Original” on my new substack, and subscribe to be the first to read what I publish next! 🖤📖

By sixteen, Milo Vance had consumed more lives than he had lived.

09/07/2026

“Some people go to priests;
others to poetry;
I to my friends.”
-Virginia Woolf 💖

“To My Friends”
8x10, ink & watercolor, original NFS
DM for print info ✨

08/02/2026

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.”
-Rumi 🌄

“All Along”, mixed media, 20x30
SOLD

07/25/2026

Need something to read on the beach, as summer winds down? My second novel blends the moral weight of To Kill a Mockingbird with the haunting Southern nostalgia of Forrest Gump. Wading In is a suspenseful story about a town that has truly changed with time, but still holds a buried history, whispered tragedies, and secrets no one wants uncovered. Go grab it on Amazon today!

06/22/2026

LOOKING FOR A BEACH READ?? 📖🌊

Inspired in part by a mystery my aunt remembered from her childhood, Wading In follows Crystal Gantt as she returns to Tybee Island after losing everything in New York City. Hoping for a fresh start with her young daughter, she instead finds herself pulled into a decades-old mystery tangled with buried tragedies, dangerous men, and secrets that refuse to stay hidden.

Blending the moral weight of To Kill a Mockingbird with the haunting Southern nostalgia of Forrest Gump, Wading In is a suspenseful Southern novel about figuring out right from wrong when the lines aren't clear, finding the courage to protect the vulnerable, and discovering that some secrets are buried for a reason.

📚 Available now on Amazon.
(Linked in the comments!)

05/01/2026

“You were always mine, I just had to find you.” 🤍
-r.h. sin
“Always Mine”
30x40
mixed media
DM for purchasing details

02/08/2026

The ULTIMATE book nerd’s dream come true….my novel is on the shelf at the library!!
📚🤓

The Richland County library downtown is now stocking my first novel, Salt and Silence, on its Local Authors shelf! If you’d like your own copy though, the Amazon link is in my comments- I’m so (wildly, unimaginably 🤯) close to hitting 100 copies sold in it’s first month, I’d be so grateful for your help in reaching that goal. 🙏🏼

Experience Columbia SC Richland Library

01/23/2026

📚Salt and Silence, now available on Kindle📚

Just in time for a cold weekend, stuck inside!🥶
(Link to buy, in comments! 💛)

01/19/2026

01/14/2026

✨My first full-length novel is officially out!✨

I had so much fun working on this project, and I’m honestly so excited to finally share it. If you like southern fiction or suspense, this could be a fun read for ya! If you’re part of a book club, or if you teach/work with students, I’d absolutely love for it to be used there — it’s appropriate for middle school and up. (Let me know if you’re purchasing more than 4, so I can help you out!)

I know it’s not realistic to make a full career out of this, but I would love to use whatever this brings in to fund my next creative adventures: another novel for sure, who knows what else! Please share this post, if you can, and thank y’all for always encouraging my creativity and crazy dreams. 💛