About the Author
​Erika Daniels is the pen name that represents a single, divorced, mother of three who lives in the boondocks of the Midwest. All my life I have wanted to write a book, but I never felt like I had the life experience to do it, until now. Unfortunately, I had to earn it the hard way.
Books
On The Rocks,
Marriage and Margaritas (2012)
I started this book 3 days before I left on a 10-day vacation to Mexico. I had written 3,000 words at that time. By the time the plane touched down at home, I had written over 33,000. Within a week, the book was done, just 30 days later. I had no idea how easily the words would come.
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Thanks to my first best friend, Jess, who grew up down the street from me and was the very first person I shared this work with. As kids, we rode our bikes and swam at the pool, and when the sun went down we played “Kick the Can” and “Ghosts in the Graveyard,” stealing kisses and claiming our first boyfriends. We lived in a neighborhood full of boys, which I’m still convinced is what made us the smart, strong and amazing women we are today.
She read the book in just over 6 hours. In her feedback to me, she told me she sees a sequel in my future. I say, only if it’s a love story.
Come Back Kinda Love (2025)
I wrote this book over a few weeks in the fall of 2012, shortly after I published my first book, 'On the Rocks, Marriage and Margaritas.' My grief and pain was still very raw then. I spent months editing it, almost a year, and then deleted it from my laptop in 2013 because it was so deeply personal and emotional for me. It stayed that way until earlier this year when I started thinking about the book again, whether I could handle the contents and raw feeling that comes with divorce and loving again. My publishing company helped me find software tools that could recover the deleted files, unprotect the password and get me back on my way to publishing it, now over 10 year later.
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I have found over the years that my story is so common, too common, yet nobody talks or writes about the agony of divorce and moving on after infidelity. I wrote this book with love in my heart for others recovering from such an awful life experience. I wrote this book for my kids, to help them understand that the heartbreak was real and painful. I have no regrets on how I have lived my life. There is no timeline on grief and no expiration date for finding a ‘Come Back Kinda Love.’