2023

What-ho, fellow humans! (Oh. Spoilers, I'm not a robot.) You, like me, have survived crossing the threshold into another year! Well done. (Seriously. After the last few years, it feels like a genuine feat and something worth celebrating.)

I had a good, long break, exactly the mental decompression and de-fragging I needed. Getting back to work has been slow, but I don't know anyone who is terribly bright-tailed and bushy-eyed after extended time off.

So now that I'm back, what will I be doing with myself?

New things. The whole time I was away, but especially after the year ticked over, the urge to do something new was a constant, throbbing pulse in the back of my head. Not since I started Midnight Magic have I felt such an overwhelming urge to try things I've never done before. That book was cathartic, super fun and came out really well, and that experience has given me confidence to go along with this newfound desire. Severing the cord of the Ashes books has unmoored me from a lot of mental weight and expectation, and I am eager to take advantage of it.

So what does that look like? Well... it's hard to say. What I will say is that I have no fewer than three books under active development right now, and I'm just working out which one gets my full focus. I love aspects of all three, but they all have their own challenges. Do I continue the Alumita book I started? Tread the familiar path to ease back into my work flow? Or do I dive headfirst into something completely new that may not pay off and also requires a f*ckton of research? It would definitely be new though, a different challenge than I've ever taken on before.

What a weird (and fortunate!) problem to have. Needless to say, it's one I'm looking forward to solving.

Around here, I am thinking about going to a bi-weekly blog instead of every week. These posts take time and I don't always have a lot to say, and with so many ideas careening around my head it might be better to devote that time and energy into book words instead of a blog post. I'm not sure yet, we'll see how the writing goes.

Whatever I do, I am committed to bringing you the same quality of story you've come to expect from me, with even more wonderful, unique characters that I hope you will come to love and enjoy spending time with as much as you have the others. More weirdos finding love, more badasses standing up for themselves and what's right, more magic, more worlds to explore, more of a world you already know... I have so many strong sapphic women in my head waiting to to have their stories told!

And I will. Just give me a minute to figure out who gets to go first.