Slowly But Surely!

August has flown! In this newsletter:

• Anthology News

• Baked & Brewed updates

• Deals & Dalliances News!

• Life & Cat Update

• Recommendations

• Current projects

All the Promises We Cannot Keep is the second anthology from Red Herrings Society authors! I cannot wait to be able to share a pre-order link - the ebook will be free again, as well!

In my short story titled “Promises, Promises” Victoria is preparing for her life to change - again. The day dawns for her journey to the Academy, and she can't help but remember the moment when she found out she had magic. When her mother promised nothing would change - a promise she failed to keep.

Thank you to everyone who has read, reviewed, and bought a copy of Baked & Brewed. I’ve surpassed over 130 sales, which is amazing. In September, I’m also doing an event at my local library! I truly appreciate all of the support!

Book 2 is well on it’s way! I finished writing it on July 31st, and it is sitting at a little over 69,000 words. A friend/fellow author is reading through it for me, as I am also self-editing. The plan is publish it around March 7th next year. I know that’s a bit far out - but I’m currently going up for promotion, teaching 9 classes, car hunting, and doing all the normal stuff too. I had to give myself grace, and time, to try and do this right!

Blurb and book cover will come out in my next newsletter, which will probably be September 14th instead of the 15th!

As a tease:

As always, my life is chaos. The semester started August 19th, and has been in full swing. I have about 170 students, teaching 4 face to face classes, 4 online, and another starts in October. With all the other things I do, and going up for promotion, I’ve got a full plate. It’s also meant the past two weeks I’ve been so exhausted, I’ve barely done any writing/editing at all.

In cat news, IT WORKED! Toph has been great. The cat food worked miracles, and I still need to get a couple more cat trees, just because they love them. In bad news, one of cats (Willie) started scratching the corner of a wall when he wants someone to feed him (it’s by the pantry door), and since that room was wallpaper, Toph was caught peeling it off the wall trying to eat it. -sighs- They are lucky they are cute.

We also started feeding a stray that hangs around outside - we named him Zuko. Pretty sure he’s a half-sibling to our 2 inside cats - and he was fixed last year when we did TNR. He’s our friend - not our cat (if the neighbor asks).

So what is happening in my author world now?

• Editing Deals & Dalliances

  • Hope to have this out to Alpha Readers before the end of September

  • Then to Betas by end of October

  • And to my editor in November

  • ARC Readers will get it in January (Happy Birthday to me!)

  • Publish in March!

• Wrote a short story about Tess meeting Willow & Piper, titled “Chances & Changes” - if you signed up for this newsletter before it was in the welcome email, let me know and I’ll send it to you!

• Working on a YA (maybe Adult) novel with magic, dragons, nobles, and secret plots!

I love to read- I’ve written book reviews for years! So here are some of my new favorites: