Today we’d like to introduce you to Rose Pulford.
Hi Rose, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I was always a nerdy kid. The one with a book in her hand, a movie quote ready, and a deep love for stories in every form. Theater. Film. Fiction. I couldn’t et enough of it,
That became especially true during the years I spent fighting severe depression and anxiety. When treatment after treatment failed, stories were one of the things that kept me going. The books I once picked up just to disappear into became something different. Instead of escapism, it became a reminder that the world was still full of wonder, that people were capable of beautiful things, that love was real and worth believing in. They gave me hope when I couldn’t manufacture it on my own.
When COVID hit, and I finally felt like I was rejoining the world, I wanted to do something with that. I started creating content, sharing pieces of my life, my love of books, the slow and intentional way I’d learned to move through a day. And somewhere in there, the dream of becoming an author stopped being a quiet background wish and became something I was actually going to do.
I published my short story Coded for Love and now I’m deep in writing my debut novel, Bittersweet, releasing in 2027. The reason I write romance is pretty simple: I want to be for someone else what those stories were for me. A reminder of what’s possible. Of how much warmth and love and goodness still exists. And even if someone never reads a word I write, I hope they can find that same feeling somewhere in my content.
That’s what drives all of it. Always has been.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Smooth? No. Chaotic, curious, occasionally overwhelming, and deeply worth it? Yes.
I have ADHD and I’m extremely ambitious and curious, which is a combination that sounds great on paper. However, it occasionally looks like seventeen browser tabs open with no clear thesis. Learning how to work with my brain instead of against it has been a real and ongoing journey. What a lot of people do not know is that I also have dyslexia. Which makes for an interesting plot twist when your dream is to be a writer. Reading and writing have always come with an extra layer of complexity for me. But I think it also means I have had to develop a really deep relationship with storytelling itself, with the feeling and the voice and the meaning of a piece, not just the mechanics of it. The practical side of creative life is also just genuinely hard. Paying bills while building something that does not pay off immediately requires a level of faith in yourself that nobody warns you about. And I’m someone who deeply hates uncertainty, so learning to sit inside the not-knowing has been maybe the biggest growth of all. What I keep coming back to is this: not everything works out. Not everything is a success. But some things are just lessons in the making, and eventually those lessons become the foundation you build on.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I’m a Dallas-based lifestyle creator and romance author, and I think what genuinely sets me apart is that I don’t separate those two things. My content and my writing come from the exact same place: a belief that the most meaningful parts of life happen in the quiet moments, and that those moments deserve to be celebrated.
On the content side, I create around laughter, slow mornings, books, and the kind of cozy, warm aesthetic that feels like a deep exhale. On the author side, I write romance that’s emotionally grounded rather than just plot-driven. My published short story Coded for Love explores love in the age of AI, and my debut novel Bittersweet is coming in August 2027. I write romance that isn’t loud or dramatic for the sake of it. I’m drawn to the kind of love that shows up in quiet moments, that sees the whole person, that doesn’t ask you to shrink.
What I’m most proud of is building an audience that feels like a community. People don’t just follow me for aesthetics or recommendations. They follow because the content makes them feel something. That emotional resonance is the thread that runs through everything I do, and I think it’s what keeps people coming back.
Do you have any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
I genuinely could not pick just one. There’s this picture book called Good Dog, Carl that I absolutely loved as a kid. It’s about a Rottweiler who basically becomes a babysitter and gets into all kinds of trouble with this little baby. And here’s the thing about that book that made it so special to me: there are no words. The whole story is just pictures. As a kid who struggled with reading, words could feel like a wall sometimes, but with Good Dog, Carl that wall just… wasn’t there. My imagination got to take over completely. I would flip through it and make up a totally different story every single time, and then I would run to find my parents to tell them my newest version. Looking back, that book was basically where my love of storytelling started. It just looked like playing at the time. And then the second memory isn’t really a single moment, it’s more of an entire atmosphere I grew up in. Food was how my family loved each other. My parents cooked and baked constantly, and every time we sat down to eat it felt like a small celebration. It wasn’t a grand gesture, it was just quiet and consistent and so, so warm. I think growing up that way gave me this deep appreciation for the love that doesn’t announce itself. The kind that just shows up, every day, in the most ordinary ways. That’s something that finds its way into my writing more than I probably even realize.
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