Links are properly updated, along with the book banner images on the My Books page.
I have just received the paperback proof for Exile's new cover today. I love it so much. 😭It is also the first test of the groundwood paper option, which I also love! (Super floppy, comparatively, and smells like a BOOK. SO NICE.) Barring no weird things with getting Virin's proof (for staying with KDP and the same 5.5 x 8.5 size), both should be available soon. I am hoping within a week or so. And I am hoping to get started with the designer on the new cover for Whispers in the Dark super soon. ^.^
Health-wise, things are a little crazier than initially anticipated. Will update if there's anything definitive to update. (I was expecting that to happen soon (being able to update), but I have to go get some stuff checked next month. So. Won't know for a while.)
I did start another new book. And with things not feeling like they're pulling me in a million different directions? I am HOPEFUL that I will be able to WRITE.
Also, I mean no offense to anyone who loves the newer Marvel movies, but... Ant-man 3 felt like it broke me. Especially so soon after the other ones. I am skipping GoG3. Maybe the rest of the ones I haven't already seen as well. (I do have a LOT I could say about S2 of Loki. Maybe sometime....)
Does anyone read these?
I did watch a cute movie the other night that makes me wonder if maybe I have more 'happy, princess-like fairytale' in me than it sometimes feels like. Maybe something cute will come soon. Maybe something happy. Just wholly nice, and sweet, and happy.
Dang. That sounds nice....
Anyway.
I will update when there is something to update! Otherwise, I will be spending time with family and hopefully writing. I am being extremely aware of my time right now--what it's spent on and why. In a sense, having such a shock to the system about time is actually a really good thing. (I'm ensuring it's a good thing, to the best of my ability.)
Also, most of my books are back in Kindle Unlimited. If you missed it, you can read the post mentioned in the previous update to explain why. (I did decide to (at least for now) keep Reave and its series wide.)
If you're a KU reader, they ARE available again now, as of a couple days ago! You can head to the My Books page and check them out.
I'll be focusing on 'health and happy'. I hope everyone reading this is already healthy and happy. If not... sending you internet hugs.
Sooooo...
Never say never?
This post will explain things and what has been going on, for the most part, lately: The 6-Month Wide Experiment
It is shorter than most of my blogs, so that's surely nice for anyone wanting to read it! ha!
In 'news' beyond that post?
I have been rewatching Marvel movies and shows (some of them) and doing an initial watch on some of them. I am at the point now where everything has, for the most part, turned into garbage. (I did like Ms. Marvel, which was unexpected. I thought it would be too kidsy, but it was adorable, and she is adorable.) (I did also watch Shang-Chi for the first time, and that is now probably my FAVORITE Marvel movie. Wasn't expecting that, either! Loved it so much I already watched it again. Not like Predator: Badlands, which I watched legitimately 5 times or so--3 in a week-long span........ >.>) (Wasn't planning on rambling so much.) Having Doctor Strange 2 and Thor 4 so close to each other was torturous. (I halfway apologize for saying that, if someone reading this enjoyed them. I freaking HATED them. I am hoping Ant-man 3 will be good? Have not seen that one yet....)
In Marvel-adjacent news, my hair is one or two shades darker than Black Widow's in Iron Man 2, as of yesterday (technically two days ago). Don't read the rest of this paragraph if you've never watched Endgame and plan to, because *spoilers*.... (Miss you, Nat. So much.)
The hair color was sort of accidental. It was supposed to be purpleish. It ain't.
I kept saying, "No more red," then ended up red again. *shrug*
Mention health things in the post, if anyone cares to know about that.
Didn't mention that Exile's cover is basically done. I decided after getting Virin and it done to go back to the 5.5 x 8.5, so... adjustments required. It will be up soon.
If you're a Kindle Unlimited reader... you will probably want to read the post.
If you're an author thinking about going wide... you might ought to read the post.
If you're family/friend... might ought to. Have a bit of a scare going on at the moment. Not saying more until or unless there's more to say.
Other news, other news....
I am enjoying my 'basketball offseason news'. That is keeping me moderately entertained and looking forward to the future. I really need some basketball friends. I think my family is tired of listening to me....
I feel like I had two other actual THINGS to mention here. As of right now, I have zero idea what they are/were. Thinking........
Closing down my shop. The post explains.
I will work on getting certain things updated on here--links AGAIN (so TIRED of messing with links, y'all), images AGAIN (so tired).
Once I get done with what I'm doing, I might take a long freaking 'vacation' apart from random things like working on new covers with the designer. Maybe I'll write. I just need to get back to happy. 'It ain't' is what I'm feeling about that, too. It just ain't.
Have you ever had one of those spiritual-adjustment sorts of moments where you realize that time is a precious commodity that is also a limited resource? Yeah, I'm living in that space right now. As Kylie's mom says (in flashback) in one of the books in From the Ashes?
"Time iddn't infinite, baby girl."
That's where I'm at right now, and I'm about two inches away from the line of, "IDGAF anymore." Which is both true and the most inaccurate thing in the entire world. (That's been a fun space to be in, lemme tell ya.) Obviously, I very much care. But things seem more important than other things sometimes, and I feel it's important on occasion to have a reason to get that sort of... chiropractic adjustment so that you can get your priorities straight.
I might write. I might just spend some time with my family. Those things and being happy seem so much more important than the things I've been drowning myself trying to do/get done the last few years.
If anyone has read my rambling?
Be freaking happy. Time isn't infinite on Earth. Go be freaking happy. If something is holding you up/down/back from that? Knock it down and be on your freaking way to something better.
That's where I'm at. In some ways? This is the best place I've been in years. By far. Feels like getting weight off that I'd been piling on. And that ain't bad.
Also, I did add some more pictures to Pig's Page, if anyone wants to go look!
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