January Julep, 2023 Edition

What says January more than a wintry mint julep? (Google ‘winter julep’; it’s a thing.) Grab your minty fresh drink, wrap yourself in a blanket, and let’s chat 2023!

Upcoming in 2023

Adult Reads

Vella:

The Hauntings of DoG Street–Chowning’s Tavern is drawing to a close! There are two chapters left and one more poll to vote in when the next episode is released. Read here with your free 200 tokens Amazon is still giving away; first three chapters are always free.

Is there a future with Melody? Tentative plans for three more seasonal Vellas with her, Anya, Michael and Oliver over the next few years, as well as turning Chowning’s Tavern into a published novella. Keep an eye out!

Paperback:

When Violet Got Bored: It’s time to look at the next book in the series to see what I’ve already written for Violet, Grayson and Nathan. From there, I’ll see what it will take to have Book Two of The Light Thrower series, tentatively titled When Violet Ran Away, published at the end of 2023. For now, you can purchase the first book here.

Blogs:

Swellness Vibes Blog: I plan on coinciding posts with the podcast episodes a fellow bodyworker and I are working on, or picking up another series/topic to explore and talk about. Perhaps following The Bhagavad Gita or some other yogic text! Stay tuned.

Flight of the Seedling: No major plans for this blog other than to continue randomly posting about parenting and/or the kid.

Kiddo Reads

Phenix & Fox: 2023 should bring the colored, hard back edition of Shooting Stars and maybe the start of another children’s book featuring our friends????

Children’s Chapter Book Idea: My son wants me to write him a chapter book. We will see what we can conjure up together!

Children’s Epic Adventure Book Idea: Ideas are already swirling for this adventure! This will probably take years to evolve, but all it takes is a seed to be planted… and the seed is planted.

2022, the Year that Was

WOW! What a year for writing, publishing, learning! Not only did I spend half the year learning how to query, I finally published my first full-length novel. Yay! I also finally knocked out my children’s book, which was created before the novel even existed.. I’m not gonna lie, it feels good to have those out in the world.

What about that Vella story? That totally happened on a whim, pretty much the second the kid jumped into public school. I thought about the old adage “write what you know”, and while I don’t know too much about ghosts or Colonial Williamsburg, I certainly have an insider’s view to both. Visiting CW to prepare for writing has been so much fun, and it gave my husband and I something to bond over. He’s not much of a reader, definitely not a writer, but he has lots of ideas!

Happy New Year, and thanks for reading! Without you my words would just be symbols on a computer screen. Hope you all are swell, happy, joyful, and laughing. allison keli