NOVEMBER BLOG UPDATE: SLOWLY RETURNING TO WRITING AND PUBLISHING

It’s funny how I always find it hard as to how I should start my blog post. I mean I know beforehand what the content is going to be about, but the first sentence is always the hardest. Should I go “Hey, Everyone” or “So here I am again” or something along that line of “Hello, people, it’s Alexia here” etc. Anyway, I’m sure that’s not important, but I find it strange and wonder if I’m the only person who has trouble with the first sentence of a blog post and even writing emails. LOL!As the title of this blog post states, I’m slowly coming back into writing and publishing. It seems I can’t stay away for long before I come running back. I mean I just can’t help myself. LOL! It’s like there’s a force that keeps pulling me back. Even when I’m supposed to be resting, I’m constantly thinking about books and writing and publishing. Weird.Anyways, first off, I just want to say hello to all of my wonderful fans. You guys are super awesome for sticking around and supporting me. Without you guys reading, loving and buying my books, I just don’t know how I’d function. Honestly. LOL! So once again, arigatou gozaimasu (thank you very much). Okay, there’s some Japanese language going on here. Can’t help myself since I’ve been watching too much anime. ^_^Secondly, I’m updating you guys on my health status. As I have previously stated in my blog post back in September I decided to take time out because of my bad health. I was constantly sick this year, and extremely so between May and October. As some of you guys suggested, I might have an adrenal problem. I thought so, too, and even went to see my GP about it because I was constantly tired and sick that I was literally tired and sick of it. LOL! No pun intended. It’s true that I felt that way.Anyways, the first thing my GP told me after I’ve listed her my many symptoms was that I might have depression and anxiety. I was like, umm… Okay? Apparently, I have depression? But of course, being the stubborn person that I am, I told her that I don’t think that is really my problem. I think it’s something to do with my thyroid and some blood tests would be a good idea. When I left, I didn’t feel in the best of mood because that was already my second time visiting a GP and there seems to be no solution to my sickness, which annoyed me. I mean if I feel that shit, surely there’s something wrong with me, right? And I’d know if I’m depressed. I mean you’d know, wouldn’t you? When you’re depressed? Also, my BaZi chart has very little to no metal and water elements to warrant for any sort of depression. (BaZi Note: If your BaZi chart has a lot of water and metal elements, you’re prone to depression and anxiety problem. It’s the emotional thing. The same thing with water and earth, then it’s the contamination thing. For that one, think of blood disorder and tumors/cancer.)So anyway, I waited patiently for my blood results. I admit that the first few days was disappointing as there were nothing on the blood results that told me I have any problem with my health. Then again, those were the basic screens. After a few more days, I gave up waiting and decided that my tiredness was in my head and that my GP was probably right in that maybe I might have depression which in turns led to my tiredness. It wasn’t until two weeks passed by that I received an email notification of a new blood result. I wasn’t the least bit interested and put it off. Then, of course, one night, I was curious about it and decided to log in the manage my health system to see what it was. And then behold! It was one of the antibodies that sky-rocketed. Needlessly to say, I was both overjoyed and freaked out at the same time. I was like SHIT!I check in the diagnosis section and my GP wrote that I have Thyroid Autoantibodies. Another word, I have Thyroid Autoimmune Disease, which was confirmed by my GP in person when I went to see her again this week.So there you go, this explains everything, this autoimmune disease thing. Apparently, my body decided to make a type of antibodies that destroy its own cells. For now, there’s nothing I can do except for just having to deal with it. Not until my Thyroid Stimulating Hormones is so out of whack that it warrants for some treatment. At the moment, I’m kind of stuck in a limbo having to deal with feeling fine one day to extreme exhaustion the next. I’m talking about the extreme exhaustion that you can’t even get out of bed.So that’s my health. I have an autoimmune disease now, which confirmed my fear. Yes, I knew beforehand since I started learning BaZi that some sort of health problem is going to crop up sooner or later as I have a fan yin in my chart. A fan yin is a heaven and earth clash, a complete clash so to speak, and it’s between my output stars and my resource stars. Relating that to BaZi makes sense to me. The output stars are what you produce, hence, my body produces the antibodies. The resource stars are your health amongst other things. A clash is easy to understand. It’s basically an attack.Once the idea that I really do have autoimmune disease sunk in, I thought there’s no point in waiting to get better because I don’t know when my own body decided to stop making those antibodies and killing its own cells. I just have to deal with it as a part of my life and work on my books during the days that I feel fine. So what I’m basically saying is that I will do my best to write and publish my books, although it will be slower in term of release because it all depends my health, which fluctuates like a yoyo. ^_^MY YA FANTASY BOOKSTalking about books, now I will mention about my young adult fantasy series, The Blood Alchemist Chronicles, which I plan to release in early February of 2018. I mean I’ve already finished volume 1 and it’s already edited, completed with covers and everything. So I thought I might as well release it even though volume 2 is a long way off yet. I mean I have to release something, right? Since it’s been awhile since I published a book. LOL!For my YA Fantasy, I will be writing under a different first name along with the same last name. The author name is Akari Praks. I decided on a different first name because I don’t want people to get confused with the my romance genre. I mean some of my romance books are pretty hot and sexy and I certainly do not want young adults to read those.Why do I choose the name Akari? The name Akari is Japanese, and it means light or glimmer. That sounds awesome to me already. Also, Aka means red. To me, the meaning is deep and it relates to my YA fantasy well. It’s all about people who can transmute blood into powerful weapons as well as changes and transformation and leading/lighting the way to a different world etc. Or something along that line. LOL! I have lots of ideas in my head that I hope will translate well in term of execution in books form when the time comes. ^_^The official website for Akari Praks, along with the details and links to buy the book is coming in January of 2018. I will notify everyone when it is published. I do hope that you guys will give the book a go even though it will be completely different from my romance ones. ^_^Below are the book covers for volume 1 and 2. I hope you guys like them. ^_^You can check out the details of the book here, along with the characters introduction. I hope they sounded kick-assed enough for you guys to want to at least read the first volume. LOL!MY ROMANCE BOOKSI'm currently writing Falling for Sakura Book 3: A Secret Affair along with Chained to You Volume 6 and Chained by Love Volume 2 at the same time. I'm hoping to finish those and have them published by mid-2018. Please look forward to them. ^_^That’s all from me for now.Alexia