Authorpreneur Dashboard – Theresa Sopko
Cold Sober-Poetry
Romance
A girl with no plan to fall in love realizes there is no choice in the matter. Cold Sober is a delicate and organic collection of poems that chart the journey from skepticism to fulfillment. With the genuine tone of somebody discovering love and navigating a relationship for the first time, it is impossible not to feel the surprising wonder as you turn each page. Sopko's words are a slowly blooming bud, taking readers from apprehension and distance to to trust and intimacy. Cold Sober asks all of the questions, addresses all of the fears, and acknowledges all of the beauty within the perfect storm that is falling in love.
Book Bubbles from Cold Sober-Poetry
Broken Unspoken Agreements
Counting Crows said it best: You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
The Things We Said We'd Never Do
Everyone says they won't be "that couple". Everyone says they'll be different, they'll be cooler, more bearable. And then they fall in love, and are helpless to its whims.
Bewilderments of the Eyes
Literature & Fiction
The climb from the shadows of her cave into the bewildering sunlight is not an easy one, but Quinn can’t afford not to try. When her best friend insists on a spontaneous summer road trip, twenty-year-old Quinn Aldredge finds herself on a desperate and daring mission to reclaim the version of herself that was swallowed by her crippling depression. Not entirely sure if it’s even possible to bounce back from something as bone-deep as depression, she abandons the numbing life she had established in her hometown and dives head-first into an attempt to break free of the confines from her own mind. If she wants to succeed, Quinn will have to learn a valuable lesson: sometimes the right path isn’t the safest one. As her eyes adjust to the light of the living, she finds friendship, freedom, and romance waiting for her under the sun. Quinn wants nothing more than to uncover The Old Quinn, the one who smiled and socialized and actually participated in her own life without the whisperings of mental illness in her ear. But what she finds instead turns out to be so much better. Quinn’s story is one that captures the hope that there is a purpose to getting out of bed every morning, without denying that it will be difficult.
Book Bubbles from Bewilderments of the Eyes
Isolation and guilt
One of the worst parts of suffering from a mental illness is how alone and wrong you can feel. On days when you can barely get out of bed, but you get on social media and your friends are at the mall or a concert, it's too easy to feel scornful or even disgusted by yourself. Always remember to celebrate the little victories. Everyone has different capacities--don't compare your own to someone else's.
