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Postponement of A Light in the Dark due to Jury Duty

Jury Duty is an honor and a duty. While it isn’t 100% confirmed I will be serving, I have been summoned back to the courthouse, and having seen the number of hardship cases among jurors, the chance of being in the standard pool or the alternate pool are fairly high. (And both have to show up for the entirety of the trial.)

I’m 100% okay with this! However, I cannot serve on a jury and write books at the same time. As the trial is a criminal case, it could last anywhere from 2-4 weeks… or long...

The Closure of the Per Novel Patreon

The time has come. The Per Novel Patreon has officially been shut down. Thank you to everyone who supported me while it was in operation. You’re appreciated!

Here is how Patreon will move forward from here. Everything will be done through the “Monthly” Patreon. If you can’t do a monthly subscription, you can follow the page for free for news and updates on what I’m doing. There is also a Patreon store where you will be able to purchase ePubs and audiobooks of my titles. (The backlist catalogu...

Adjustments to Patreon, plus an exclusive series (to Patreon)!

I have spent this week evaluating life, the universe, and everything, and I’m starting my general life changes with how I run my Patreon.

For the most part, things will be the same… with an exception: I will be doing an exclusive series over at Patreon. How it will work is simple: Cindercorns and Spicy Ponies with Bite will read along an entire series as I write it. Once the entire series is concluded on Patreon, I will then begin the process of preparing the entire thing on retail. (With a 3...

A Notice re: A Light in the Dark (Audrey Greene)

I am going to be pushing the release out a month (August instead of July) due to personal reasons. Due to same personal reasons, which I won’t be discussing in public, so pleae don’t ask, I won’t be doing any additional preorders for a while.

The release for Partner in Crime and Booked for Theft should go forward as scheduled, although I may move them out a month each if more time is needed due to life things that are going on.

No, it isn’t dental surgery related. No, it’s not related to t...

So, You Found a Book Like Mine? Wheeee!

Dear reader,

Someone on my discord tentatively brought up an interesting subject; they had found books that were similar to things I write to the point they thought about asking if I’d written them. (Spoiler alert: I hadn’t.)

Plagiarism is never okay, so we’ll start there. That’s when someone directly steals my stuff and claims they wrote it, especially for profit. (This is bad, don’t do this.) I also strongly dislike piracy… I like getting paid. I don’t get paid when people pirate my book...

Readers, YOU decide if a series lives or dies.

Dear reader,

Today’s post is a response to something I saw on facebook, posted by someone who sneezes and makes more money than I do. (What? That’s just fact. This person’s sneezes are worth than my entire career basically.) And that’s okay. More power to them! They’re doing great, and I’m happy for them.

But they said something absolutely important, and I want to take the time to have a talk about it.

Readers, at the end of the day, you decide if a series lives or dies.

Authors are ...

Tentative Writing Order of Upcoming Books

Please note that this list may change. Also note that I write “play projects” around other things, and when a play project reaches a certain point, I insert it into the writing list for publication. As such, this list will change.

There are also a few projects that I deliberately did not list but are actively being worked on. They fall in the “play project” category, I have no idea when they’ll be done, so they were excluded from the list.

Here goes. I am listing the title, series, and aut...

Statistics for Those Who are Asking.

There seems to be a great deal of confusion on how the other vendors work, including volume. As such, I’m going to expose Playing with Fire’s sales between January 1 to now and the sales for Whiskers on Kittens from its launch to current. (The date ranges are “close enough” for this purpose.)

Hopefully, this will illustrate the basic issue and why I used Amazon’s figures in general.

Please note that getting the data out from the wide vendors is not easy, it’s very time consuming, and no, I wil...

Allow me to Reassure You…

Dear Readers,

I love you. Please take a deep and soothing breath, release it slowly, and allow your worries to fly away.

Just because there was bad news on the decline of the Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) series, it’s truly not a big deal. You’ll still be getting books in the series. You’ll still be getting the exact same number of books in the series! It’s just going to take a little longer than anticipated.

Dragon Her Heels will be coming in 2025. I’m planning my writing...

I guess it’s time for the bad news…

I am about to do a TL;DR summary of this post on my author-centric site, Shiny Sugar Goblin. The Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) series has reached its “Death Throes” for a series. While I will be finishing it as planned, if the math maths as it has been mathing as of late, the new releases in this series will no longer be making any profit.

Too bad, so sad. That does mean one thing: the release frequency is officially being dropped to no more than once a year, and honestly, I may...