u/Forward-Bee-6953

Hello! I am currently a sous pastry chef at a small desert bakery in Tampa. I love my job but I'm wanting to expand my skills into a more fine dining restaurant. My only kitchen experience is at my current job and I can make cute pastries but I want to be able to grow as a chef. I know I need to know the basics like knife skills, sauce making and such but I was wondering if there's anything else that could help. I may also leave Florida to another city next year and want to be ready to join another kitchen.

I have finally started writing my first horror novel and I realized a new concern I didn't think of until now. The childhood events of one of the characters deal with parental abuse and other graphic and traumatic things. I want to write about them not only because it'll help build a character's core personality but it's also therapeutic for me to write it this way. Writing has always been better than going to therapy for me and I don't mind writing it for others to read.... But what if people from my past read it? Or my abuser?

The names and everything has changed in the story and they're really only used as flashbacks. But if they read it they would automatically know I was writing about them. I will keep going with the story just as I want it to. I just want some advice about dealing with anyone who catches on. Or am I overthinking this?

I'm interested in reading all of his books since he has a new one coming out and I've heard great things! I wanted to see which books of his would be a good place to start? Or what a ranking of his best to worst books were and start reading from there!