🥀 Welcome to the Forbidden Garden

It's a brand new website!

Hello Darlings! I will try to avoid sharing the same content between here and my newsletter, but this was an important one and I didn’t want any of you to miss it! If you’re also subbed to my newsletter, please forgive me for sharing again 😅 The plus side is it’s much easier to comment and chat here than it is via my NL! 😜

I have something fun to share today. I wish it was a new book release, but alas, I'm still writing. 😅

*whispers*

In fact, I am working on two books -- DoM2 and a brand new project I can't wait to tell you about! I'll hopefully be able to share more soon. If you’d like a little tease on the new project, let me know and I could share a bit!

In the meantime, I wanted to share my brand new website designed by the dark, delicious, and ever talented Tarantula Studio.

If you've been with me a while, you'll remember Virginia and her team at Tarantula Studio created a new logo and vibe for my brand earlier this year.

As an author, I specialize in creating worlds through text, but when it came to translating all that into imagery, I was found wanting. 😂

I stumbled on Tarantula Studio through an instagram ad years ago, but at the time, I wasn't ready to make the leap. I think for a lot of creatives, and especially women, we feel like good enough is all we deserve and for a long time, I thought that way with my logo and my website.

Good enough was good enough.

But through a lot of therapy, coaching, and pep talks with my husband, I realized it was time to take things seriously. My craft, my career, all of it deserved something beautiful. After all, I’ve been writing and publishing for over twenty years. I had worked very hard to get to this point and shouldn’t I start taking it seriously?

Good enough was not good enough any longer.

Virginia came up with a “forbidden garden” concept and I immediately fell in love. I was the kid who obsessed over The Secret Garden. I was the kid who spent hours in her grandmother’s garden, hiding behind a hedge row, daydreaming about magical worlds. 

It was like Virginia peered into my soul and translated it into something tangible. Something dark and beautiful. 

You’ve been seeing the new brand direction for a while – the logos, the florals! 

Now I’d love to share with you a brand new website. 

Virginia and her team carried over all the forbidden garden goodness to the website, but they went a step further and organized it in a way that’s easier to navigate. There is no labyrinth in this garden. It’s a well manicured cobblestone path and I invite you to come on in. 

I hope you love it as much as I do! 🖤🥀

Visit here ✨ Nikki St. Crowe Website