Stories and Conversations for the part of us
WE WERE TAUGHT TO HIDE.
A place where fiction, essays, art and conversations explore love, grief, identity, memory and the quiet search for what remains beneath performance.
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What remains when everything else is stripped away?
Hi, I’m Roya
I write stories about the quiet things that change us.
For over twenty years I built brands and identities for other people. Somewhere along the way, I realized I was searching for something much harder to design — what remains after grief, love, success, failure, and time have stripped everything else away.
Today I tell those stories through novels, essays, illustrations, music, and conversations. Because I believe everyone deserves to be truly seen.
The Trilogy
Where the story lives longest
The Podcast
Where the performance stops
The Essays
Where it all started
BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE
THE D TRILOGY · BOOK ONE
Etched on My Skin
“Only the goodbye knows the love between us.”
A Hollywood love story about two actors who played lovers for decades — and spent a lifetime pretending it wasn’t real.
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2026
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THE PODCAST
SOLE WITNESS
I’m an Author, Mom, Wife, Daughter, Sister — and most of all, a human trying to figure out this life, one reflection at a time. If you’re a master of acting “fine” and have forgotten what it feels like to be truly seen — this is for you.
NOTES & ESSAYS
Poems written decades ago, and the reflections it takes a lifetime to write beside them.
Empty Existence
A poem on love, loss, and losing yourself in the process.
Proof of Existence
A letter written at fifteen, read again at fifty.
Forty-Eight Hours. Same Song. Same Woman.
Two paintings, forty-eight hours apart.
THE INNER CIRCLE
Once or twice each month, I send stories from behind the books, early chapters, essays that never make social media, and reflections on creativity, grief, and the questions I’m still trying to answer.
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