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I promise I didn’t run away!
I got smacked really hard with the flu in November (after traveling almost 5 hours to see my kids… I got sick at midnight Thanksgiving Eve). For someone with autonomic dysfunction & autoimmune issues, that’s even more difficult to recover from. My cardiologist commanded me to not get sick from the moment we met. However, I think this time I got sick during my visit to HIS office! So, yeah.. it hasn’t been fun. And just when I finally start recovering, I’m hit with “cedar fever” for the first time ever. So my last couple months have been rough and put me behind in where I had my deadlines set.
It also didn’t help that I blew past my word count goal for Ascension and had an OMG, I FORGOT ABOUT X moment and had to rearrange some things. And where I thought I’d be finished, the story was like… yeah, not quite bitch.
Anyway… new year, new goals.
Totally and completely unedited:
I stab at the iPad screen with a flour-coated finger, trying to keep the stupid thing from going dark. I’ve been trying to do the math on this recipe for far too long, but every time I think I’ve got it, a wave of anxiety hits.
Or, at least I think it’s anxiety.
It steals my breath and renders me frozen in place. My hands tremble, my heart races, and my entire body feels hot and cold, all at once. I’ve got over a thousand years behind me, but it’s what’s ahead that scares me.
I’ve been hiding in this human-like body for over four hundred years. Holding this glamour never took work. It was like breathing to keep up the façade. But lately, it’s taken effort. And things that used to be so easy have grown more difficult. I rarely use my power beyond the glamour, but when I do use it, it takes me a moment to tap in.
And then I’m fatigued from the exertion.
That can only mean one thing: I’m losing my grace.
The one thing I have that keeps me hidden and allows me to be a fraction of what I used to be. Who am I without my grace? My power? What will I become?
Can I even hide my scars without the aid of my grace? This body—this glamour—isn’t beautiful, but it serves its purpose. I’m not looked upon with pity. And in this mansion full of beautiful creatures, that’s exactly what would happen.
What will happen.
Because I can do nothing to stop it.
All I can do I is stop using my grace completely and hope I can at least extend the time I’ve got left.
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It’s been a minute since I updated. I’ve been getting caught up in the writing from day to day and I’ve kind of let the website updates slide a little. However, I had to come and make a page for Ascension so I could list the content warnings. OMG, so scary and kind of spoilery, but at least it’s done. Yay!
What else:
Umm, if you’ve reached the end… Whew! Thanks for reading all that. If you have any questions, just let me know!
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, all of the Soul Mates books are in the process of being updated to make sure everything aligns with the upcoming book Ascension. Bound by Blood and Deceptions have been the only titles so far to have content removed. The shorts/novellas are all up-to-date. Sacrifice and Secrets are still in-progress, but I’ll let you all know when those are complete.
If you bought the Soul Mates books on Amazon and currently have them in your Kindle library and want the updates, I’ll show how I got them to deliver for me. Amazon no longer pushes updates, apparently, so this is a method I’ve found to have worked every time. The next time you click the title, it should deliver the most recent version:
– Go to Content and Devices
– Go to Preferences–> Scroll down to Automatic Book Updates. Make sure this is ON
– Scroll back up and click on Content
– Find the title in your Book library.
– Deliver or Remove from Device. NOT DELETE PERMANENTLY!
– Choose devices… Make Changes.
The book will still be listed in your library, so when you click to open, it should sync to the Amazon server with the most recent copy.
Also… with the exception of Bound By Blood (because it’s still in KU), all of these titles are/will be available in my shop here.
I didn’t realize my last update was in December. Yikes! There’s not a lot that’s new, just a few things that are coming together. So here we go:
— Writing is still trucking along! As many of you already know, Patreon is where I’m posting my in-progress chapters. I didn’t think I could work on more than one book at a time, but it’s happening! We’re up to chapter 4 with Ascension and chapter 4 of Collateral Damage uploads on Saturday. That’s not all that’s written on them, so don’t freak out that I’m not further along, lol. There are another couple of things I’m percolating over, so we’ll see what else pops up.
— Soul Mates series books. As I mentioned recently, all of the short stories/novellas are coming out of Kindle Unlimited. However, I’m also pulling Deceptions, Sacrifice, and Secrets from there as well. Bound by Blood will remain for a little while longer. Those will all be available direct on my website and at other retailers such as B&N, KOBO, Apple, etc. May 2nd is the last day for KU. I’ve been asked about paperbacks and I don’t have a firm answer at the moment. Just know that’s on my to-do list.
— If you haven’t joined my newsletter, please consider signing up. I promise I won’t spam you with emails. Just updates when I have news to share.
If you want to follow along with my works-in-progress, Patreon is the place to do it. I just uploaded the first chapter of Ascension (the next Soul Mates novel) as well as the first chapter and the blurb for Collateral Damage. Collateral Damage was born from what was originally titled, “Target”… but we realize why that sucked, right?
You can click HERE for the way to Patreon… or click in the Nav menu and it’ll bring you there as well.
Please excuse the construction. I’m working on getting the site set up for direct purchases of new releases. Unfortunately, since I am me, that means me breaking a lot of shit before I get it right. The higher this number gets to, the more I’m screwing up, LOL! 😉
I went back and forth on whether I wanted to post this update or not. It always seems that whenever I do post or get excited about what I’m working on…life happens. Life has happened so hard since 2011/2012 that it’s been a struggle to just get from day to day, much less be creative while doing it. So through many illnesses, hospitalizations, surgeries, diagnoses–with myself and others–I put writing aside.
I just couldn’t do it. The words were gone.
In May 2024, a lot of things changed. Life stopped stabbing so hard and started putting pressure on those wounds that it had inflicted instead. I’ve kind of tried to just roll with it and be cool, but the distrust that this reality wasn’t quite “real” was strong. But here at the 7-8 month mark, wounds seem to have healed. Scars remain, but I’m slowly easing back into what I loved to do so long ago.
I never planned on a long cliffhanger between Secrets and Ascension. And I never willingly abandoned the series. More like it was ripped away and hidden until I was ready to find it again. Along with all the other works I had in progress. I tried to “come back” a few times, but the unkindness of some readers (likely anxious for the book, not another excuse why it wasn’t here yet) was so hard to ignore.
My skin’s a little thicker this time.
As of today, 12/26/24, Ascension is … oh, about 70% complete. The words are slow, but they’re coming every day. I’m trying to re-learn not to second-guess everything, but I’ve been away for too long. It’s a process, I know. And that’s how we do things now.
Small steps.
Consistency.
Looking forward to 2025… we’ll see where it goes.
