Hello to all you wonderful people and Happy New Year (half a month late, lol)
I hope you are all having an amazing day and a great January!
Personally I can't quite believe that it's January already. 2025? Crazy!
Looking forward, I am excited by all the things this year will (hopefully) hold.
Book 3, Unraveling Grimm, is set to be published this summer! Though, I have yet to set a date, I am waiting for some updates on progress from my editor. But, UG is a literal CHONK of a book, so It will be late summer for sure.
I am also hoping to get my YouTube up and running this winter/spring.
I plan to read book 1 and 2 aloud to try and garner interest in the series and hype up book 3.
Paired with recording the videos, I plan to start recording the audiobooks for the first 2 books. I'm a bit behind, lol. But I guess that's just me in a nutshell. I have sooo many goals and projects and things I want to be doing or learn, and with work I just, don't have time for all of it. I also tend to hyper focus, so, I can't work a little bit on each thing, each day. If I can't work full send for hours at a time on the project, well, it doesn't exactly happen. facepalm I am trying to get better about that. Finding balance with working on various different things, is a goal I have for this year, a skill I'd like to learn.
Like I mentioned, book 3, Unraveling Grimm is with my editor, and the feedback I've received from early readers has been extremely positive. One dear friend's response to it this week made my day (I was literally grinning like an idiot and hopping up and down for ten minutes straight. She totally made my day!)
With book 3 being out of my hands for now, I've set my sights on book 4. I have all of 8 chapters written, and while currently, the chapters feel like they're crappy and awful, I keep reminding myself that right now all they need to do is exist. I can edit them and make them better later.
I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so if something is not amazing right from the get go, my mind just wants to throw it out entirely. (It's a problem) (but again, I'm working on it.)
So, as we trudge through these winter throes, I keep slogging away with my outline and vague sense of direction and a desperate hope that book 4 will be just as good as its predecessors. :)
Outside of my writing, I want to share about some other authors!
There are several books releasing this Spring that I am excited about!
My friend Jordan Abitz has her debut book coming out this spring, March 5th, it's called The Magic of Light, it's a romantasy book, and I am soooo excited for her! She is my hometown's branch librarian and she's literally the best librarian. This book sounds absolutely amazing and I'm just, SO happy for her and cannot wait to get my hands on this book! You guys should definitely check her out! She's on all the social media platforms, and you can find her book on Goodreads and Amazon!
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Another book I'm excited about is one coming out by Carl R. Jennings, called the 90 Day King, it comes out April 18th. It's about a King, who decides he doesn't want to be the king anymore, he wants to woo a bakery owner instead. Carl's book The Witch Doctor was the first book I read of his. It was both sweet and hilarious at the same time, and the concept of this book is just ripe with potential. I also can't wait for this book!
You should also check him and his books out. You can find him on all the social media platforms, and he just launched his website and newsletter as well, you can find the links on his Instagram page! :)
With the ever present, freezing reality of winter looming over me, I am trying to do better with well, general life things. Such as staying alive, (lol) and in that goal, I am also trying to do better with my social media engagement and also with this newsletter, so you'll probably be hearing more from me, with random content and hellos.
I hope you all know how grateful I am for you, and how I cherish every interaction. Thank you for coming with me as I navigate the ever challenging terrain of publishing and online presence. You all mean the world to me, and I hope that you know that and have an absolutely wonderful day.
Now, as Promised! A full, sneak peak at the cover for Unraveling Grimm.
I did do a little, 2 second blip of the cover on one of my last content videos on Instagram. But it was so short, I'm not sure how many people actually saw it.
This is a full, unbridled, you can stare at it and drool as long as you like looking at it sneak peak! :D
