Claudia Merrill

My 2024 in pictures ✨

This year was a big one for me. I was thinking so much about the future. What do I want to be in the next 10 years? Where do I want to spend my time? Since I was 19 I had this little feeling inside of me to become an author, but since then I had so much to do like learn how to make a living in a foreign country. 🙈🇦🇹 It felt like I never had the time to become an author.

In 2023 when I published the first part of my novel I had this rush of believing I could do it. So in 2024 I left my full time job and since then I’ve been writing, doing an editing course, and figuring out how to make my author life happen. I also published my first poetry book this year with some other talented creatives. 🫧📘

And now I’m looking into 2025 👀 and seeing those possibilities. It’s so exciting and terrifying at the same time😅

Are you doing something next year that terrifies you?

When I started writing The Last Oracle, I didn’t find many books for adults that centred around friendship ✨

🕯️The friendship that forms between my two female protagonists becomes the very thing that keeps them on the path to becoming their greatest selves.

So often in life, friendship really does keep us on the path. Without their bond, both protagonists would fall into the darkness. Why do we always focus on romantic relationships? Why not the power of friendship?

I’m on the editing path right now and I’m excited (and scared 😅) to start getting the manuscript formed. I’m so happy with how the first part turned out in this short book, but stay tuned for the complete version. ✨🫶🏻

Have you read this one already? What did you think of it? 😊 I have it added on too if you want to leave a review. Link is in my bio!

This week ✨ autumn strolls and museums ☕️

My parents are visiting me in Vienna from Australia! It’s been nice to have them here and show them around my new home.

For those of you that are new here 🍃 I’m originally from Sydney, Australia and I moved to Vienna, Austria almost 5 years ago now 😳 I see my family once a year which isn’t that much but better than nothing.

Today we went to the 📍Hermes Villa in the Laizner Tiergarten just outside of Vienna and it’s honestly my favourite place for autumn landscapes 🍂

What have you been doing so far this autumn?