It’s been a long road to get here, but Happy Cat Press was born on April 20, 2023, and my debut novel Apothecary 709 was released in September 2023. Let me tell you how it all came to be. While I’ve kept up with the demands of running a fast-paced graphic design studio for 20 years, when it comes to my personal professional goals, I’ve always been the tortoise rather than the hare. I’ve known I wanted to be a writer and artist since I was a kid. I used to sit in my windowsill and compose (and illustrate with crayon) tiny books of bad poetry, while questioning my parents…