Hey Love Letter Collectors 💌,

I wanna get deep for a second.

I wrote Three Months in Accra at one of the darkest points of my life. 🕯️ For five years, I was the Executive Director of an organization I loved. But I left. I left because my health was taking a nose dive. Even though the work was fulfilling, the cost was too high on my mental, my physical, and my emotional well-being.

And while it was 100% my choice to leave, I was grieving. Grieving the six-figure salary. Grieving the friendships that faded when I chose to sever ties. Grieving the title and the power I held for half a decade.

After years of writing 10–25 page grant applications almost daily, and after spending time as a creative writing professor teaching other people how to write, I finally gave myself permission to dream again. ✨

I chose to write Three Months in Accra because in the middle of that darkness, I wanted to relive my time in Accra, Ghana. 🇬🇭

Three Months in Accra saved me from the darkness. It is my love letter to Accra. To Ghana. To the people I met and the places that shaped me. It helped me come back to myself and my purpose.

I’m no longer an Executive Director. But who I am is a writer. 🖊️

🎶 Want to vibe while you read?

I made a playlist to capture the soft, messy, magical vibe of Kofi and Aliza’s journey.

👉🏾 Listen to the Three Months in Accra Playlist on Apple Music

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Thank you again for being here. I can’t wait to hear what you think about this story and these characters who live rent-free in my heart. 🫶🏾 Three Months In Accra goes LIVE tomorrow. It is available on my payhip page and on Amazon.

Signed with love,

L.B. Gaines

@lbgainestheauthor 💋