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Kobo Version of Booked for Theft available for Preorder!

Look at me, despite the move and chaos, Booked for Theft *IS* releasing on time! You can preorder now at Kobo. Yes, this book will be available on Kobo Plus at release.

For some random shit, I have been doodling and painting (watercolors) lately, and here are some of my fails:

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I have also picked up mosaic as a fun little hobby, and I’m truly enjoying it!

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Booked for Theft releases on Tuesday, and will be available at most major retailers.

New Audiobook and a Short Story Challenge!

Grave Affairs by Lilith Daniels is officially in the Patreon store for purchase. There is a very strange issue with Chapter 24. It works for everyone except ACX, who claims there is an error… but nobody can figure out what the error is, not even ACX. As such, I included the original chapter 24 in the main zip file and a backup chapter 24 just in case.

We are trying to figure out what is “wrong” with the file so, when I get the audiobook cover and a few weeks goes by, it can be uploaded to aud...

Dragon Her Heels preorder is now live at B&N, Iron Unicorn is now available at Audible! (Plus some other Audiobook updates!)

I will keep this short, sweet, and to the point!

Dragon Her Heels can be preordered at Amazon, Apple Books, and Barnes & Noble. (Kobo will be launched as a preorder the moment the book is finalized, so approximately 10 days prior to its release.)

Iron Unicorn can now be acquired at Kobo (also on Kobo Plus) and Audible. Other vendors will be coming sometime next week. Iron Unicorn is performed by Cameron Hill.

A Guiding Light is on route to Audible and is already available on Kobo and Ko...

Dragon Her Heels is Coming December 23, 2025.

I made a rather notable mistake on the Barnes & Noble upload. Please don’t preorder on B&N yet; the current file will be taken down and deleted. (I got distracted by IRL at a poor time, and didn’t fix the preorder date.) I will correct this tomorrow/the next day, as soon as the system allows me–and I will post here when it’s ready for you to preorder. (Sorry about that.)

However, for the Amazon and Apple readers, here are links you can use to preorder this book.

Read this very carefully, prett...

Iron Unicorn in Audiobook Format!

Greetings. Iron Unicorn is now available to be downloaded here. (In Audiobook format.) I actually have had the files for a while, but I received them the day we left for vacation, and our travel internet could not handle the file size, so it went into the cheese grater factory that is my brain. The data regarding the existence of this file was shredded.

Sorry. That is my fault. I have to write stuff like this down, and I didn’t have a planner with me while on vacation, so it didn’t get writte...

Playing with Fire & Hoofin’ It are $0.99 for a limited time only!

If you want to try these two books, now is the time. They will not be discounted again until 2026.

Playing with Fire: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple Books

Hoofin’ It: : Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple Books

Happy reading!

A Guiding Light is now available in audiobook format at the Patreon store!

You can purchase the audiobook here for $12.99. A Guiding Light will be moving to retail (Audible, Kobo/Kobo Plus, etc) on February 1, 2025.

Note: as this was previously published, it is not part of any Patreon tier.

Thank you for your support! I’m back to the trenches to get Booked for Theft written so it can release on time. As always, I’m behind schedule. Whoops!

Audiobook Update (Shadowed Flame is now out!) Plus Other News!

Greetings! Welcome to 2025. May we navigate through this year without much fuss and with more joy than grief.

I want to say I’ll be brief, but there is a lot of stuff to cover, so I’m getting to it.

Audiobook Updates: all but one or two audiobooks have been uploaded to all vendors. The stragglers will be dealt with later. A Guiding Light has been proofed, and the changes are with the narrator for completion. I expect 1-2 months before it is sent over to the Patreon store, and then another ...

Happy Holidays! Experimental Voyage has released!

When a spaceship accident costs Camellia her chance to explore the universe as a botanist, she jumps at the chance to be a test subject on an experimental voyage. If the gamble restores her hearing, her dreams for the future will no longer be out of reach.

Venturing into the depths of space is dangerous enough, but when a shiftgem gate develops a mind of its own and yanks them into uncharted space, Camellia’s skills and tolerance are tested. Her chance to explore a new world proves to be ...

I did an “Oops”!

As far as oopses go, this one is minor… I went to push through a few tiny typo corrections on Amazon for Experimental Voyage, and I may have accidentally included the Patreon notes/author note forward with the book. So, if it’s included, you get to see one of the more unusual Patreon notes. If not, no harm no foul. But if you see an author note starting off with “I’m tired…” well, you got a special peek into the Patreon world.

And yes, even the best proofreaders in the world miss stuff, which...