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Happy New Year! 2024 Edition

Happy 2024 everyone! So much has happened in the last year that it’s hard to quantify everything I’ve done as well as everything I survived. But survive I did. It certainly wasn’t easy, mind you, but while things are still difficult, I started this year off on a better trajectory. For a lot of reasons.…

January 12, 2024
Anthology Announcement: The Beautician’s Guide to the Resistance

I am pleased to announce that I am helping 2 Rules of Writing organize an anthology, The Beauticians Guide to the Resistance! I am so excited to be able to present this finally to you fine folks. What if the male gaze weaponized implants and other body mods for women and AFAB people? How would…

January 7, 2024
End of Year Sale!

Hey folks, Savior of the Damned is on sale on every platform for .99 cents and both Tales From 3 AM and A Field of Beheaded Roses is free on every platform except Amazon until January 7th! It’s been an amazing year, even filled with ups and downs like it has been, but I am…

December 27, 2023
The Paths We Take

It’s the uncertainty that gets to me. I’m the kind of person who likes to have a backup plan for a backup plan because nothing ever seems to go right. Backup plans fail often too but they bring a sense of security, of having a way out that might save me this time. But plans…

December 1, 2023
Opinions

Your opinion comes first. There are all sorts of people with all sorts of opinions, especially when it comes to your work, but the reality is your opinion is ultimately the only one that matters. As long as you’re not writing instruction manuals on how to get away with murder or something similar, or glorifying…

November 24, 2023
Book Writing Hangovers

Apparently book writing hangovers are a real thing. And apparently that’s what I’ve been experiencing since putting Savior of the Damned up for pre-order. It was no small feat to get here. I have devoted so much of the last two years to this it’s still a bit unreal I got here at all. I…

October 13, 2023
Discarding Work

I made the executive decision to throw out fifty thousand words (not in Savior of the Damned, in case you’re worried). It was not made lightly, especially not after throwing out around fifty thousand words just a few months ago. For the record, none of it was bad. Most of it is also salvageable, at…

October 6, 2023
Savior of the Damned is Available for Preorder!

It’s been a trial to get here, but I’m over the moon I finally made it. Two years of writing, revisions, editing, and beta reading have all paid off. It was not my first book ever written, but it was the first one I managed to get into publishing shape. I learned so much along…

September 29, 2023
Happy Bi Visibility Day!

Happy bisexual visibility day! Part of my journey as a writer has been figuring out where my sexuality fits into the grand scheme of things. I don’t mean who I date or anything like that, but how honest did I want to be? Did I want to sit on it, considering the current climate of…

September 23, 2023
Savior of the Damned ARC announcement

Savior of the Damned is done. The ARC is mostly ready now too, I’m just waiting on the cover. And let me tell you folks it has been an absolute rush of feelings. It’s not quite done yet, of course. I still have to format the actual book, and I have to send out the…

September 21, 2023