Writing · publishing · rebuilding
The honest, occasionally chaotic side of an author life.
Behind-the-scenes numbers, writing experiments, publishing detours, creativity when life blows up the plan—and one French-American author figuring it out as she goes.
French accent included. Raccoon energy inevitable.
current status:
Drafting. Revising. And so much more…
Pick your rabbit hole. Or raccoon tunnel.
Start with what brought you here.
01
Listen
The self-publishing diary
Candid numbers, experiments, wobbles, small wins and the stories hiding behind an indie-author business.
02
Read
Cancer Is Not My Brand
Cancer, creativity and what happened when cancer swallowed the author Elodie thought she was—and what it meant to come back differently.
03
Come closer
The Raccoon Author tier
The author-facing corner of Elodie’s Writing Nook: closer access to the process, the experiments and the diary behind the diary.
No six-figure guru promises here
Just the story behind the story.
The Raccoon Author is where Elodie shares what she tried, what worked, what absolutely did not, what the numbers looked like and what she is learning next.
It is part field notes, part audio diary and part peeking behind the curtain while the curtain is still being sewn.
The human behind the tiny trash paws
Hi, I’m Elodie.
I have been self-publishing since 2014. I write first kisses, second chances, things that scare the crap out of me and—apparently now—books about creativity, cancer and the messy middle of an author career.
Raised in a small French village, I moved to the United States at nineteen and now live in Belgium with my husband and Bobbie Voltaire, a cat who insists he has never been fed.
Come sit in the messy middle
You don’t have to have it all figured out.
Clearly, neither does the raccoon.