What’s Coming?

Happy New Year!!! Given that it’s the very beginning of 2025, it seemed appropriate to talk about my writing plans for the year. 

Inspiration

Up first, of course, will be The Missing Heir, the trilogy focusing on the celestial guardian clan Heavens, who has been without a matriarch for about a decade. Which is rather a problem when matriarchs are primarily how clans get their power and the celestial guardians serve an essential purpose with fighting off a force that would decimate all life on Earth if it could. This first trilogy will release in March (which feels like it’s almost here already!).

The next trilogy releasing near the end of 2025 has already been named: The Burden of Royals. It’s Cynthia the sorceress’s story, focusing on her needing to choose who to marry among her marriage candidates (and, of course, the one she actually wants to marry isn’t interested in her), as well as political drama over some sorcerers very much NOT appreciating the direction Cynthia wants to take things with working more equally with the other races.    

I’ve already started plotting out the trilogy and am really excited for some of the ways this series will differ from the other two (Hidden Hotel and Missing Heir). One big way it will be different is Cynthia’s relationship with her dad. It’s a common trope in fantasy for the main character to either have missing parents, terrible parents, or something else along those lines. Dahlia, of course, fell into the first category. I won’t say anything about Arabella’s situation, the heroine of The Missing Heir, of course, but you already know from the description of the first book that her parents are in her life and that she’s (kind of) a human who is completely ignorant of the enchanted races. 

But Cynthia was not only raised within the enchanted races, but was raised to one day lead the sorcerers, and has been helping her dad do just that since her mom passed away. It’s led to them very much having a relationship that’s a partnership where they completely trust each other, which is quite fun to play with. 

I’ll also be working on some projects for 2026 this year, but what, exactly, I’ll be writing is a little more complicated. I’ll be working on the fourth trilogy set in the enchanted races for sure (focusing on the vampire conflict over their prophesied leader!) but I also want to start a series that takes place in a brand new world . . . However, I’ll be polling my newsletter after the release of The Missing Heir to get their thoughts on whether they’re intrigued enough by the synopsis I wrote to have me write this new story for 2026 or if they’d prefer I just focus on the enchanted races to get those trilogies out faster. 

I hope 2025 is off to a great start for you!

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