Cedar Hollow Series, Book 4

A year ago this month, I made the decision to leave my previous publisher and strike out on my own. Since that time, I've republished all three of my Cedar Hollow Series books, published a new novel separate from the Cedar Hollow Series, and put my thoughts and experiences together to publish Self-publishing Made Simple: A How-to Guide for the Non-tech-savvy Among Us, my attempt to help new authors who may be as clueless as I initially was.

More recently, I decided to pull out my old short stories, the ones originally published in the Cedar Hollow Anthology (now out of print) and get those back into circulation. They've been made available as titles under Snippets from Cedar Hollow.

While readying the short stories for publication I began to miss Cedar Hollow. For several months I'd been working on a novel set in Florida, but seeing the residents of Cedar Hollow triggered something for me. For that reason, I've set aside my Florida novel and returned to Cedar Hollow. I hope to have the fourth book in the series, tentatively entitled Shadow Days, ready for publication by mid-fall.

I hadn't expected the termination of my contracts to feel so personal and disruptive. I hadn't expected to feel so derailed by the whole experience, but I should have known. Grieving is always a natural part of the end of anything. It took a while for me to find my footing, and even longer for me to feel like writing something new. But it's a new year, and I have renewed energy. Onward and upward, as they say.