10 JUN 2020 Hi, I have been writing anonymously under the pseudonym April Hill Writing for the past five years. I live on planet earth and have currently been quarantined for the past three months. I write poems, I doodle doodles, I write comics and I have three books out called “Thoughts on Love,” “A Slow Fall Into Weirdness,” and “Hold This When You're Scared.”

I have been given a ton more time to focus on my work in the ongoing quarantine, which has been both good and bad. I have been able to focus more on getting things done, the actual work part, but my creative brain has died a bit.

The Black Lives Matter movement is an idea I have been constantly supporting and thinking about since I started creating. The whole point behind writing my work under a pseudonym while being covered in a ghost sheet is because I strongly believe who you are, what you look like, where you are from, what gender you are, or how much money you have does not matter. To me, what matters the most is what you do, how many people you make a little bit happier, and who you help.

I wrote my book “Hold This When You’re Scared” in an interesting way when compared to any other art I had tried to create before it. My other art, whether it be writing, comics, poetry, or drawings has always come as a direct product of myself as a way of showing people that they were not alone. I had the idea to try and create a collection of comics by reaching out to my now grown group of monsters and asking about one hundred of them what their biggest fears were. Some people gave me expectedly awesome answers that were easy to make into comics, such as meteors, bugs, or aliens.

When it started getting hard was when people had written me and discussed a fear of dementia, dying alone, seperation anxiety, depression or suicide. I didn’t really realize what I had signed up for and what an interesting, difficult project this would become. I was just merely scratching the surface. That is why I decided to donate the proceeds from this book towards helping people who needed help getting through these things, just like I do. “Hold This When You’re Scared,” includes a list of resources that anybody can use to educate, and seek critical help when my book just isn’t enough.

If you are currently at home I would love to direct you to a blog I wrote called Paper Thin. It is my basis for dealing with most of life’s problems or issues. Write stuff down. Get it out of your head. If you can not talk to people, go for walks, get out of your head in any other way, do yourself the favour of writing your ideas down on paper, I promise it helps.

I have been inspired greatly by the way people have been able to come together. Even in what seems like a world full of negative things it makes me so happy that there are still good people. I am happy that love is winning.

I would love if you checked out my comic page @theghostofaprilhill. I also have a website aprilhillwriting.com with links to everything. Short stories, blog posts, doodles, books, and a little shop!