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The Crowned Event: June 25-28, 2020 Appearance in New Orleans.

Dear humans,

The female will be attending The Crowned Event in New Orleans, taking place between June 25-28, 2020. (We almost teleported back in time.)

This is an adult only romance convention. This means 21 and over. For those of you beneath the age of 21, we’re sorry. It’s an adult-centric event, and there are limited events at the con allowing those below the age of 21 to attend.

We’re slightly concerned that the female will be the most innocent of the attending authors there, as it’s a ra...

The Female and the Quest for ALL the Preorders. (New preorders are live! Mostly.)

Dear humans,

Yesterday, Amazon decided to offer all independent authors the opportunity to set preorders for up to a year in advance rather than the previous three months.

As you may be aware, the female has already finished her schedule and planning for the year. As such, she knows when all of her projects will be finished. This has led to… you guessed it! Preorders!

Preorders for you, preorders for you, and preorders for you!

Yes, yes you CAN has preorders!

So. Some are expected. Steel Hear...

Cheetahs Never Win on sale for $0.99.

Dear humans,

Cheetahs Never Win is currently on sale for $0.99. You can grab a copy from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, and Google Play.

About the Book

Witnessing a double homicide dumps Aaron Clinton into the middle of a gruesome murder investigation. To stop the budding serial killer from striking again, Aaron’s forced to join forces with a reformed cop and a colony of cranky cats.

Warning: this novel contains cats, murder, more cats, mayhem, cheetahs, mischief, felines, a serial kil...

New Preorders: Water Witch and Double Trouble: A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count)

Dear humans,

The female has lost her mind. Again. No matter where I turn, office supplies clutter my path. I’ve found her on the floor, surrounded with pens and planners, giggling like a maniac on a sugar high.

She’s been found hissing protectively over her schedule.

Even worse, she’s now wearing a doohickey on her wrist that yells at her once an hour to get up and move around. She’s taken to prancing around our home lacking all semblance of dignity and restraint.

We felines are concerned.

Bu...

Bat out of Hell Preorder

Dear humans,

Bat out of Hell is now available for preorder on Amazon, as the readers in the Fantasy Worlds of RJ Blain group seemed really, really eager to have the preorder of this cute little book.

Preorders on Barnes & Noble and Apple Books will be coming soon. Kobo and Google Play preorders will only be made available when the book is completely finished. (The female does not have sufficient mental strength to handle preorders on these vendors at this time. But don’t worry! They’ll be re...

Witch & Wolf Republishing: Let’s talk Audiobooks

Dear humans,

While the female hasn’t a chance to do a re-read of the series yet to do her clean up work in, she went ahead and did the formatting work on Winter Wolf to get that part of the update finished.

The series is now republishing.

As she has time, she will be doing a re-read and cleaning things up. (Mostly spelling type search and destroy and fixing minor grammar things.) The inclusion of the epilogue of Winter Wolf is the big thing, and it’s finished.

So, hooray on that!

Now, we nee...

The female… may be an idiot.

Dear humans,

The female spent many an hour scheduling the rest of her life, but through her checks, her double checks, and all of her meticulous planning… she forgot something rather important.

Those who are part of the Fantasy Worlds of RJ Blain facebook group were cruelly teased about a Pat and Jessica Royal States novella… one she’s about a third of the way through.

She completely neglected to account for its existence in her scheduling.

She can has a dumb.

Here’s the cover for the novell...

Tentative Schedule Moving Forward: September 2019 through December 2021.

Dear humans,

The female finally got around to sitting down and reviewing her schedule for the rest of the year.

It will be insanity.

She’s okay with this, as she’s also done her schedule for 2020 and 2021. She’s also started looking at 2022.

I know. That’s a lot of years in advance, but she wants to manage her time better. She also doesn’t want to work herself to death.

Keeping up with the schedule she’s set will involve a great deal of work between now and Christmas. By the time Christmas r...

Books, Authors, and Beliefs: Authors aren’t their Books.

Dear humans,

While this isn’t meant to be a political or religious post, these things will be touched on by necessity. Debate on religious or political subjects is not welcomed. You’ll understand why soon.

At least once a week, someone asks the female if her books reflect her personal beliefs. Sometimes, people accuse her of things, including being a pedophile, all because she wrote a book series that includes the very real issue of child marriage in the United States. Honestly, these people...

Special Announcement Regarding Witch & Wolf Main Series Individual Novels.

Dear humans,

In the next few days, the female will be removing these titles from sale for a little while. She must make some adjustments to Winter Wolf, in particular, which is throwing a hammer in things. The books may or may not return for a while, depending on how long it takes her to figure out the Winter Wolf problem.

The Witch & Wolf Complete Series Box Set will remain on sale, as it has solved the problem the human faces. In short, Tales of the Winter Wolf Volume Six is no more, but W...