Aurora Kelly

I’ve been using TikTok for four years. I broke down and signed up in the depths of May 2020, shortly before my blissful paid hiatus from Starbucks would end. In addition to losing myself in hundreds of hours of Breath of the Wild and self-publishing my first novel, The Catalyst, I found myself creeping along a for you page I didn’t understand. TikTok is just an app, sure. But it’s an app that helped put pieces together for me to finally realize I am bisexual. It’s an app that brought humor and light to a dark time in my life. It’s an app that helped me to move from democrat to socialist. To find a book community. To finally generate a handful of sales. To push me to publish the second book in my duology, The Commander. It’s taught me recipes, inspired a million little projects, given me the confidence to tackle some house projects above my pay grade. It does, at this point, feel like I’m losing a friend. In celebration of all it has given me, and in a little full circle moment, I am making The Catalyst free for TikToks last days. From now until January 19th at midnight, the book that sparked this long, endless journey will celebrate an end.

https://a.co/d/dyUbBdW

To TikTok, I’ll miss you.