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Merchandise has Arrived!

All of my merchandise has arrived for my book bundles! I’ve officially received everything but the books. I’m still waiting for one more proof to arrive, so that I can approve the final hardcover. Due to the artwork that I included in the physical copy, some of them hit the edges of the pages, and I needed to reformat it to make sure that all of the artwork does exactly that. I’d like the copies to be as perfect as they can be.

I’m expecting this (hopefully) final proof...

A Break in The Barrenmire Lights

I am adjusting the dates for my next releases.

As fellow author, Jenna Barwin, once said, “There’s a clown car of characters screaming to get released from my brain, and the one yelling loudest gets released.”

I was planning on releasing the entire Barrenmire Lights collection, one after the other. However, I have an idea that has been screaming at me—screaming to get out of my head—within these last few weeks, and it’s been so loud, if you know what I mean, that...

The Reoccurring Dream

Sometimes it’s hard being an author. And when I say ‘hard’ what I mean is that I’ve got all these story ideas and all of these characters screaming at me in my head to get their stories written, so I have a hard time sticking to one story at a time. I’ve noticed that when I try too hard to stick to one story at a time, say for one week I force myself to focus on one story, I don’t want to write anything for days after that.

So, I’ve been giving into my little ideas and...

Love Cover

I released my book cover for Love on tiktok last week! Totally on a whim, I didn’t want to release it until the book was available on Amazon and Goodreads, but I couldn’t wait. I’ve been so excited to show you all this book collection, and once the first one is available on Amazon and Goodreads, I will also be releasing the covers and release dates for the following three books on each of those platforms plus my website. Well, maybe not all three of the others. But definitely the...

Progress on Love & A Dark Romance Series to Compete with My Favorite

I’ve made great progress with my next book this week. Last week, I really didn’t get much, but I did write 800 more words than my minimum this past week.

I’m still waiting for my beta readers to finish my book, but I will be starting today on edits for those who have finished. Ten more days and I’ll be cutting off the time though, because at that point, it will have been over one month that my book has been in my beta...

Halloween Scares

The scariest thing that has ever happened to me on Halloween: I wasn’t even planning on pulling out my laptop and writing, but I did—at this point, it’s out of habit; if I don’t want to write, I have to force myself not to. I did something slightly different than usual the night prior: reorganized my workspace and unplugged my USB thumb drive while my laptop was still turned on but not open. This is something I’ve done before with no issues. However, I went to turn on my...

Love

Related to my current novels, I am waiting for the completed versions of my upcoming book covers, and I can’t wait to release to you all the first book in the collection!

As of right now, book one Love is being line edited by yours truly, and it’s been a battle. I mentioned a bit about that last week, but I will say that I am past the point of hating my book, and I again love it. It takes a while to push through that little phase, but I only have three more chapters to line edit. After...

Book Covers Coming Soon

I have sent out copies to beta readers for my next book! I’ve already got one beta readers that has finished and filled out my questionnaire, and things are moving along super nicely. My beta readers should be done soon, at least within the next 30 days, so I will be on track for completing all edits by the end of November.

Currently, in the middle of a line edit on this book, and unfortunately, that is having a negative effect on my other writings. I’m even behind on my...

The Psychological Horror Genre

As it is almost Halloween, and many of the romance book lovers also love horror movies and/or slasher movies, I thought I’d talk about my love of the horror genre.

I’m picky when it comes to my horror, be it reading or watching. My go-to is psychological horror. Get Out, Psycho, The VVitch, Lighthouse, Midsommer, and even The Shining and Saw (the first one. Only the first one).

Slashers and torture porn (things like Saw II and Terrifier) are not my thing, however I...

A lot

I'm taking two weeks away from my next book, and I'm taking this week—this past week—off up until Tuesday not focusing on any of my novels.

However, the week hasn't been boring. I began writing articles again, making sure to that I'm scheduling articles to be posted regularly on Medium. I've also submitted a few different types of article proposals to different publications. Hopefully all works out well for the future.

I have also decided that I am going to remove my podcast from the...

The Accident

Well, I feel like I've almost fully recovered from my concussion. I didn't explain much in my last blog, simply that at the beginning of the month I had an emergency, but what happened was I got a concussion. I won't explain the situation, but it was bad, and I'm only just now starting to feel like myself again. This past week has been very beneficial in terms of my mental health, and it's great to not feel so lost and alone again. I've been pretty open about my mental health on...

I feel lost.

I don’t know what’s going on with me. It feels like time moves too slow when I want it to move faster and too fast when I need more time.

Every time I pick up my phone, I feel lost, almost like I don’t have anyone to talk to. And it isn’t that I don’t have anyone to talk to, it’s that I don’t have anything I want to say to the people that are available to talk to right now.

Will there be a day that I finally just give up? I can’t see myself doing that, but how long can I keep up...

Personal Changes

This week has been difficult—and different. I had somewhat of an emergency situation happen, but that isn’t something I want to focus on. I wish I had more to talk about this week, but I will say that my next book should be published on time. Last week, I mentioned that I had set my book aside for the time being until I could afford my own ISBN. Well, turns out that I should be able to afford it now, so I’m currently continuing to work on Love, and I will keep you all updated...

Album Reviews & Freelancing

This week has been filled with lots of writing! Unfortunately, not much writing has been done for my novel *cough* none *cough* but I haven’t forgotten about it. Simply, I have set it aside for now so that I’m not rushed and also… I’d like to purchase my own ISBN for my book instead of using Amazon’s free one, and I need to save the money for that. If you’ve never published a book, you probably don’t know how expensive ISBNs are, and the reason that Amazon gives...

Writing. Just... writing.

All I want to do is work on articles. All I want to do is write all day, and I don’t want to focus solely on my novels. I just want to write. I want to create for people, non-fiction articles, feature pieces, album reviews, concert reviews, interviews with artists.

My current 9 to 5 really gets in the way of my writing. Honestly, writing and networking are all I can think about while I’m at my current 9 to 5. I might not feel that way if my 9 to 5 wasn’t so physically...

This Week’s Ambitions & A Personal Story

I recently submitted a query to Harper’s Magazine to write a non-fiction article. This article will be written regardless of a rejection from them, as I plan to query the article idea to other publications that have potential to accept it. This query to Harper’s Magazine is more than a hopeful acceptance for their magazine, but it’s also a way for me to get a feel of how long it takes to receive a response from them, regardless of the outcome. I’m...

Down to Weekly

Well, it’s finally happened. My schedule has worked out well enough to the point that I am able to write this blog once per week now! Honestly, I didn’t think I’d be able to do it this quickly. I’m still working on cutting down my social media time. Wednesdays are my content creation days, so certainly I’m on social media longer on those days, but the rest of the time I’ve been trying to cut down. My average is about two hours per day, and I could attribute most of that time to...

A Longer Intro This Week

Focusing on tasks that need to be completed and creating schedules for them is one of my favorite things to do. Recently, I have been arguing with myself about which book I am going to publish next. Surely the answer is obvious, right? Well, not exactly. You’d think that the book I have the most completed words in would be next, however, the first two books in my upcoming collection both have the same amounts of words completed. Then there’s the idea that I came up...

This Bi-week's Intro

I'm pleased to say that my portfolio is officially completed! I have uploaded it to the appropriate websites in order to market myself accordingly as a freelance writer. I will certainly make this a full-time job as soon as possible, and it's looking better already.
In addition, I recently made more this month on KDP [so far] than I have since the month of my release, and I am honestly so thankful. It has been hard work trying to keep up with posting to social media and...

A Brief Introduction

I'm so pleased to be able to say that my portfolio is almost completed! I've been working on taking my freelance writing career further; I'd like to be able to focus whole-heartedly on writing for the rest of my days and put my soul into everything I write, as I have always done.
I also have a photoshoot scheduled for some custom and fun headshots to showcase myself as a person--you'll get to see who you're working with.
I recently found a very old piece of my writing from...