Guess Who’s Back?!

In the last five years I’ve moved six times. There was one move across the state (finish college), two across the Atlantic Ocean (starting grad school), one up the East Coast (continuing grad school), and two across Manhattan (rent is high and landlords suck). Obviously, that was never what I intended, but you go where life takes you.

Grad school is hard for anyone, but when you’re trying to measure up to the standards of what a seminary thinks you should be as a clergy person…well, let’s just say something had to take a back seat. Unfortunately, that was writing for me because fourteen classes a week weren’t going to take themselves.

For four years, I’ve pushed through every obstacle they set before me with only my fieldwork internships at area synagogues to tell me the other side would be worth it.

Last fall, as we were picking out our thesis topics for our fifth and final year, I had a realization: writing feeds my soul just as much as anything else I’ve been doing and training for the last four years. And suddenly, I had a way of incorporating this long neglected talent.

I could write my thesis…as a novel.

I could incorporate all the research I would do into a deep and exciting fantasy adventure. From there, I slowly clawed my way back into the writing world, forged new friendships, found a mentor or three, and dusted off my keyboard.

Thanks to a few good people, the healing powers of the Scottish Highlands, and a LOT fewer classes this coming year, I’m glad to say the creative juices have begun to flow once more and…well…my cup runneth over.

I wanted to say thank you to all of you for your patience. As someone who gets frustrated when an author takes forever to come out with a new book, I get the feeling of disappointment and frustration.

But the wait is soon to be rewarded! That novel which will become my thesis, truly is a labor of love, and contains a piece of my soul will be completed in 2024.

AND

The long-awaited sequel to Jesimae is currently being edited and will be out before the end of the year! All your favorite characters from book one will return (well, except the ones who can’t) in…

In Ruins

Ashdan can’t remember who she is or where she comes from. The only thing she knows is how to kill. But when she’s commanded by the King to assassinate the Crown Prince, memories spark and allegiances to the crown begin to crumble.

Aedrian finds himself the head of Jesimae’s criminal underworld – something he never wanted. When he breaks into the Palace to save his lover and collect his mind-wiped sister, he and his companions find themselves once more on the run with Crown Prince Emyr – this time, to stage a coup.