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Waiting on the formatter...

As soon as I get the final versions of the print and ebook files for Harrowing, I'll get them going on Amazon, and post a link. I was hoping to get them sooner today, but I guess everyone needs to sleep 😂

Soooooon, though!

I have the pdf proof back from the formatter!

Fingers crossed we stay on track, and Harrowing should be available in ebook on August 16, though it can take a day for the paperback version to get through the process. Fingers crossed that both versions will be available by the end of day August 16! Woot~!

Harrowing is off to the formatter!

She's going to try very hard to get it done by the 16th, so I can publish by then, but she has two projects in her queue ahead of me. Fortunately, we should have pretty well settled on fonts and styles in Clearing, so it should be a fairly smooth process 🤞

I started writing a chapter of ...

Harrowing is heading your way!

I'm in the final stages of editing Harrowing, and I'll get it to the formatter by Friday. She'll get it back to me Monday-ish, and the second book should be up early next week! My goal was the 15th, and I'm going to miss it by a day or two, but I'll be close.

My daughter heads back...

I'm back!

We had an amazing vacation, and here is my daughter getting dolphin kisses. (Though I'm pretty sure the dolphin is just like "Why do you make me bump the humans with my face, Human with Fish?")

My plan for this week is to buckle down and get book two through editing and to the formatter. So...

Phew!

I was starting to be worried that I wasn't going to be able to get that chapter finished! Hopefully it makes sense. I had a lot of distractions. After tomorrow, I'll be completely out of touch for a week, but when I get home I'm going to get book 2 of LF published. Since my brot...

Grimalkin Chapter Six

Never hesitate to venture into new places and meet new people. You rarely know what questions to ask until you have already stumbled upon the answers.

Lady Chatterwick

The carriage was large, and stuffed with ...

Tobias (almost)

Obviously, there was no new chapter today. Packing with a kid is way harder than packing by yourself. Sheesh! I promise I'll get a chapter written this week, but it won't be today or tomorrow. In the meantime, this is almost Tobias in his human form. He should have a little more smile, and a litt...

Bookmark!

Here's what I ordered for the bookmark. I'll be getting a thousand of them, so I hope they look good! 😬 You'll notice I changed the sky on Harvest again, since my husband noted that it looked more like a Sci-Fi novel with a black space background. (Yay, feedback!).

I'm going on vacation ...

New cover for Harvest

I'm working on designing a bookmark to give away as a sort of business card (you'll get one with your book if you just send me an address for a signed copy!) and I want to get all the covers finalized. I realized that the battle in Harvest (formerly Reaping) didn't actually look like the cover I'...

Grimalkin Chapter Five

When traveling long distances, be certain to find excellent companions. I find that dullards only make a boring journey even more tedious, while those high society might shun as odd make jolly company indeed.

-Lady Chatterwick

To Maria’s immense surprise, Tobias ma...

Grimalkin - Chapter Four

Chapter Four

Upon beginning a new adventure, one should never forget the three basics: food, money, and a good disguise.

-Lady Chatterwick

Maria’s mother was allergic to cats, and thus they were technically banned from the palace. Maria knew there were a fe...

Autographed book?

I can't figure out this coupon thing (I think it may not be available for self-pub authors), so for those of you who've stuck around (thank you!) if you PM me your address, I will mail you a copy of Clearing, complete with autograph. If you want a particular greeting, please let me know!...

Still writing!

I just finished chapter three of Grimalkin's Test, and I'll be writing a minimum of two chapters per week until September, when that should pick up to three. I won't be releasing anything after the third chapter of Cuckoo on Royal Road until all five books of LF are com...

Grimalkin - Chapter Three

Chapter Three

Upon beginning a new adventure, one should never forget the three basics: food, money, and a good disguise.

-Lady Chatterwick

Upon further discussion, it seemed that Tia was actually on her proving qu...

Cuckoo's Dream Chapter Three

“Who-?”

Amy just shook her head, grinning, and motioned toward a small hole at the back of the eye socket. Alpha hesitated, but the elf seemed innocuous enough, and she had kept Alpha from falling. Plus, Alpha really didn’t like R3dLit3 and his buddies, and she had no respons...

Paperback book is live!

That comes with a caveat, however. The cover looks a bit low res, so I'm going to look into that. Feel free to buy it, but the cover may change (though the inside should be fine). I'll get a coupon code once I'm actually happy with it. I'm going to order an author copy and see what's what.

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Free ebook anyone?

From 7/6 12AM PDT-7/9 11:59 PDT, Clearing will be free on Amazon! Please go snag a copy, review, and push it to all your friends! I could really use the help, and you guys are awesome!!

Final, Final, For real final - Chapter One - Rouge

Book One: Clearing

clear  /ˈklir/ verb

gerund or present participle: clearing

1. free      (land) for cultivation or building by removing vegetation or existing      structures.
2. gradu...
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Why is there so much waiting?!

Today, as promised, I uploaded the final draft of Clearing on Kindle. It's now in the review process (which no one told me about! 😬😂) and when it's approved, I'll get you guys that link, and figure out your coupon code so you can get the print book at cost, if you want. I had to pr...

The Cuckoo's Dream

Okay, Ava's story has a name! In this case, the 'cuckoo' is Amy, since she's a substitute for the real Amy, or at least she feels like she is. The dream refers to the game, since the premise of VR in the LF universe is that Bridget and Amy were able to induce and control theta (dreaming)...

Moving right along!

Clearing has cleared the formatter. It's almost 400 pages, so there's that 😬 I'm trying to price it as reasonably as possible, but in order for me to get any royalties, I have to put the physical book at about $11, and the ebook at at least $3.99.  They'll be really pretty though! My form...

Ava - Chapter Two

Sampson, Alpha’s horse, stood placidly by as Alpha and R3dLit3 signed the contract. [Contract] was one of the first skills a mule learned, and was almost as important as [Identify]. A contract proved that two players had agreed upon something that might require a higher authority to step in and...