Who is Glow?

Glow starts as a stand-in for the reader—waking up disoriented, surrounded by systems she doesn’t understand, and haunted by a decade she doesn’t remember. She’s trying to find truth in a world that keeps rewriting itself. I think that feeling—of trying to make sense of chaos, of needing to reclaim your own story—is something a lot of us relate to, especially in times of personal or cultural upheaval.

But Glow doesn’t just react—she grows. She begins skeptical, isolated, pragmatic… and by the end, she’s the only one capable of truly seeing the recursion, of breaking the loop not by power, but by choice. That matters. She doesn’t become a hero because she fights harder. She becomes one because she remembers better—herself, others, the fragments of the world that still deserve saving.

Readers will relate to her because we all wake up in unfamiliar worlds sometimes. And many of us spend years trying to make sense of things that feel stolen, broken, or rewritten. Glow proves that even when the system is rigged, you still have the power to choose who you are.

Q9. Without question, the most challenging part of writing Echoes of the neXt was time management. I put the manuscript down more times than I can count. Every time I came back to it, I’d reread what I had and think, “I need to change this, I can do better.” That loop of revision, doubt, and reinvention was exhausting, but also part of the story’s DNA. It felt like the writing process itself became recursive, echoing the themes of the book.

The most rewarding part? Sitting back with the final manuscript and realizing that what I’d created was nothing like what I originally set out to write. And yet, it felt exactly right. Somewhere in all the rewrites and abandoned drafts, the story found its true shape. It stopped being the story I thought I wanted to tell, and became the story it needed to be. Seeing that come together was overwhelming, in the best way.