Roya Nava - Author, Painter, Songwriter

06/15/2026

Etched on My Skin- Book 1 in The D trilogy.

Do you think doing Laundry with someone on a lazy Sunday morning, can feel like a promise?

06/14/2026

Episode 2: I found a letter I wrote when I was fifteen — twelve days before I turned fifty. I have no memory of writing it. this is that story…

Link in bio.

06/10/2026

Sharing a few quotes and passages from my book…in the hope of enticing you to read it or at the minimum listen to the podcast ❤️❤️❤️

Here is the first one…



Hollywood romance. Emotional fiction.
Woman’s fiction.
Bookclub fiction.
Twin flames.
Quotes. Life quotes. Quotes that make you stop and think.

06/08/2026

Part 3 — Looking back series.

Pride & Prejudice, 1995, A&E.
A dress with no pattern or instructions, hand stitched through the night, because the feelings were too big.

When you answer ART with ART because the feelings are too big.

06/07/2026

Episode 1: At nineteen I watched Pride and Prejudice and sewed an Elizabeth Bennet dress from a bedsheet. By hand. No pattern. Because the feeling had nowhere else to go. I have been making things my whole life — all of it private, all of it in boxes. Until this story. Because this one wouldn’t go back in the box. Have you ever had that? The making or the saying that arrived before you were ready?

https://royanava.substack.com/p/the-story-that-wouldnt-go-back-in

Come join the conversation.

06/04/2026

I am going to share a few quotes and passages from my book that is coming out soon… in the hope of enticing you to read the book or at the minimum listen to the podcast ❤️❤️❤️

Here is the first one…

This is how the book opens—

This is Sole Witness: a book series, a podcast, and a conversation for the woman who has lived enough to be tired of performing fine. She reads books that destroy her. She loves an epic love story that actually costs something. She cries at the slow burn, the almost, the forty years of nearly. She’s 35 +.

The kind of story that stays in your body for weeks. Newsletter is at the link in bio. The podcast is free. Stay as long as you need.



Hollywood romance. Emotional fiction.
Woman’s fiction.
Bookclub fiction.
Twin flames.
Quotes. Life quotes. Quotes that make you stop and think.

05/11/2024

01/18/2024

It snowed here today and this image is pretty much my view out of my window… so here is a little reminder

You are equipped with all you need to flourish. Just as each snowflake finds its place in the tapestry of white, know that you, too, have a unique space to fill.

01/14/2024

Remember that everyday is the best day of the year.