Hello, I'm back! A letter from the writer who disappeared... & Hurricane Helene fundraiser

Hello everyone! It has been a million years (read: several years) since I posted on here, and that's because during college I was the Editor-in-Chief of my university's Her Campus chapter. All of my non-academic writing from college is hosted on the Her Campus website. Since I'm graduating in two months, and I want to continue writing, I'm back!!

I've also been very active on my instagram, @strawberryblondebookshelf, for the past 2.5 years. It'll be my three year anniversary of that account in January! I love my community on Instagram and I'd like to start sharing my writing with all of you.

I will be writing a lot about books, as I did with Her Campus. I loved having a blog format to post my work in, and I'm very excited to be back writing on here. I previously wrote a lot about fashion on here, and I will probably still do that. I also plan on writing about some deeper topics as well.

I'd really appreciate if you subscribed so that you don't miss any posts! I intend to post about once every week or two.

Also:

I'm currently running a fundraiser for Hurricane Helene relief efforts on my instagram.

Here is the post: Link

I'd really appreciate if you joined!! I'm donating for every bookstack that I'm tagged in, and I've also included links to donate if you don't want to post :)

Thanks for reading this little letter, and I'll see you all very soon for my first real post back!

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