August Goals
It was a busy July. One I didn’t really set goals for because a lot was going on, and that turned out to be a good thing. Mini-Editor went on her first vacation with her grandparents while Mom and Dad stayed home. She got in …
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June Goals
May flew by like I knew it was going to. We started the month off with Mini-Editor being sick and once we were in the clear from that we fell right into release day activities for both Catastrophe on the Road and Foster Familiar. And …
Foster Familiar is Now Available!
I am so excited to be able to finally reveal this book! The plot for Foster Familiar struck at the end of January when I was working on a totally different book, and it was speaking so loudly I had to give it a couple of days to see if it would stick. And it did.
This book features Nora, who works at the Feline Familiar Cat Café introduced in Catastrophe on the Road, only as you’ll learn in this book, the café is home to cats waiting to find their homes AND familiars waiting to find their witches.
When Nora isn’t at the café, she fosters kittens who have the potential to become familiars, and until they learn to control their abilities, they might just talk to anyone! I’m sure you can see why this might become problematic, especially if their secret fell into the wrong hands. And when Nora stumbles upon a crime scene with some of her foster kittens, she’ll have to think fast to keep them safe.
And best of all, you can grab this book along with 48 others by a fabulous bunch of authors for everyone’s favorite price as part of Supernatural Sleuths hosted by Prolific Works. When you grab any of the books from there, you can send them to your favorite reading device or app. Instructions are provided on the site should you need them.
Catastrophe on the Road Is Now Available
Catastrophe on the Road is now available where ebooks are sold!
April Goals
Somehow we have made it through another month, and let me tell you, it felt like one of the longest months ever. We started the month with one cat at the vets needing test for an issue (allergies), then two and a half weeks later, the other went to the vets for a different issue. $2k later he’s had surgery and is now on the super expensive prescription food for the rest of his life. But it keeps him alive, so you do what you gotta. We’ve had illnesses, water in the basement, more illnesses, and probably more tears on my end than there have been in a long time. Life is stressful sometimes, and it all happens at once.
There’s also been writing. I really wanted to finish my current WIP by the end of the month, but, life. Life happened. And my routine and stable writing time went with it. There has been writing, though, and I am so much closer than I was when I started the month. So the WIP will get done. It has to. There’s a concrete deadline for it, so yeah, has to happen.
But when the words wouldn’t come because of stress, there was cover art happening, and all of the mixing up magic books have updated covers. I’ll work on the Matchmaking Baker books soon. When this WIP is done.
Then after I exist for a few days doing nothing (I never really do nothing), I’ll start lining up my other projects, including the rerelease of Catastrophe on the Road, which as I said last month, will be part of a much bigger endeavor. More on that soon!
But in the meantime, April is also really busy with life. There’s Easter. There’s Mini-Editor’s 5th birthday. My 6th wedding anniversary. Lots of stuff.
Thanks for sticking around and reading to the end of this. What are you hoping to do this month?
March Goals
February was about embracing a new story that will hit your ereaders in June. My March goals are all about getting it finished in time for my April deadline.
Word of the Year
Do you come up with a word of the year for yourself? If I remember correctly, my word for the year in 2022 was persevere. Maybe that was my word for 2021. Do those two years blend together for anyone else?
Either way, I feel like I did just that. I persevered, revised all of my books, republished all of my books, and found myself in control of everything once again.
For 2023, I couldn’t settle on one word, and to me that’s because the words I chose are related.
RELEASE and FINISH
Yes, release does mean release books. I am an author, after all, and after releasing only one *new* book in the last two years, I do want to make sure I’m releasing books.
But release also means letting go, release myself from those things that I’ve been holding on to. Like the guilt and frustration that it took me two years to get Muffins and Mediums out into the world. Things like that. From negative feelings to physical things that are weighing me down. A la old clothes that don’t fit that I just haven’t gotten around to going through to donate. Or projects that I say I’ll get around to.
But on the flip side of release is finish. There are projects I want to finish. So this is the year I’m going to finish at least some of them, the ones I want to finish the most.
I’m also a serial book one reader and then I never go back to finish the other books of a series. I read a full series in November, and I LOVED IT. Just bingeing one book after another in a series. So I’m going to do more of it. I’m going to go back and read a lot of Book 2s this year. And Book 3s, 4s, etc. Maybe in a row. Who knows.
And I’m going to finish up some half-written projects to help release the feelings I’ve had about them not being done yet.
See how these things are intertwined?
So here’s to 2023, the year in which things will get done in one way or another.
Do you have a word for this year?
Goals for 2023
Happy New Year! I spent 2022 republishing my entire catalog. Three were books that had been republished at the end of October/early November 2021, when they were with a small press, only for me to buy my rights back in May 2022 and republish them …