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monthly wrap-up

Spring 2025 Writing Update

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Happy 2025! I can’t believe it’s almost June, and it’s the first time I’m posting this year. It’s been a wild ride this past year with a lot of unexpected and unwelcome surprises, and unfortunately, writing had to take a backseat to all the unplanned emergencies in addition to everyday responsibilities. I am still planning to put on my writer’s hat, but for now, I’m not sure when that will be.

My plan is to at least get 15 to 30 minutes of anything book-related each weekday, so I can hopefully entice my muse to come out and tell some stories again. Hopefully, I’ll have some better writing-related news with my next update! Until then, happy reading!

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Spring 2024 Writing Update

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Happy Spring! Yes–I know, I’m cutting it close since there’s less than three weeks until summer, but better late than never! This year so far has been an emotional rollercoaster with stressful family health scares and fun and exciting vacations. Even though the school year is almost over, I still am not able to find a balance between family life and writing. Having a 6th grader and a 3rd grader in new schools has been such a huge learning curve! Also add in extra-curricular kid activities and volunteering, and it’d be an understatement to say my plate has been full (and overflowing!). Unfortunately, I unintentionally took a hiatus from writing–just now I’m realizing how so much time has passed since my last update!

Since I haven’t made any progress on my writing goals since Jan, I had to update my 2024 goals with the hope that I can get some writing done in the summer and once school starts up again. I’m really hoping that since the kids and I now have a year of experience in their new schools, 7th and 4th grade will go a bit smoother and my muse can come out of hiding.

Happy reading, everyone! I hope to put another update at the end of summer with a better idea of how achievable my 2024 and 2025 goals actually are!

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Happy 2024! January Update!

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Happy Holidays everyone! Farewell 2023 and a big, excited hello to 2024!

My New Year’s resolution is to try to find a way to get back into writing! Since the school year started, my writing time had pretty much dwindled away as we dealt with dealing with new routines with my kids’ new schools, family health issues, and managing kid extra-curricular activities and the volunteering that goes with them! My writing muse pretty much gave up, but I’m hoping to coax her to get back to work in 2024!

Unfortunately, the rest of my 2023 goals had pretty much halted after releasing my paranormal romance Soul Keeper. I was determined to get Mara and Rai’s story out, and I’m so glad I was able to do it! Doing that used up all my writing bandwidth, so I wasn’t able to work on my other stories, including by YA paranormal academy series. Originally, I was planning on having Liz’s duet out in Spring 2024, but now I’m anticipating Spring 2025.

As of now, I’m not anticipating any new releases for 2024 unless my writing and home life balance shifts back to writing. I keep saying I’ll update Jane and Gray’s covers, so I’m still keeping that as a 2024 goal along with getting some paperback companions to go along with my ebooks! I do hope I can work on some drafts and have complete first drafts for Liz and Ryken’s Duet and Rose and Blue’s novella so that I can release all three in 2025. I’m also hoping to have some rough drafts and outlines for at least four more books: two adult paranormal romances under Ellie Parin and two more in my young adult Andersen Grimm Academy of Elites.

I hope to have more of an update in the next few months after I have a few weeks to see how writing is going!