Welcome back to business as usual… oh wait, life is throwing yet another curveball thanks to the idiocracy of the US Government shitshow. No, I will not be censoring myself this newsletter. Fair warning, it will contain swearing, government bashing, and begging you to go buy books, commission art or requests, and possibly short story writing, because as my godbrother said yesterday, “This free trip around the sun sure is expensive, isn’t it?” ~ Anthony J. Sims  (He’s an author too who was recently fired from a corporate fast food hack. Go check his books too.)

The people have spoken and for this 200th Newsletter we celebrate with a Character Takeover! The Beta readers have chosen International Preternatural Marshal Leighla Tenebrae as tribute. She is the protagonist of The Stained Angel and The Fated Angel (coming April 2027 to finish off the story arc she began).

        So many words, so many scenes, so many twists and turns. Here I thought this book would be a cozy cute romance. Apparently, I don’t write those. There’s always a twist of some kind, and a mystery to solve or some big bad to beat down.

        And she has been chatty! I swung back to writing the newest WIP, which now has an OFFICIAL title, check the “Writing Life” for that! Also, Cookies & Rage is available more places!

     I hate when my Muse decides to be a tw*twaffle who decided to give me the silent treatment for 3-4 days, and not let me write in any of the 4 WIPs I’m flipping between. It makes for a very frustrated and irritable author who goes on a lot of "virtual killing sprees" (aka I do a lot of gaming until she decides to talk to me).

     I’m still trying to recharge from the social interaction of Book Bash, and it hasn’t really worked. The new WIP is going well enough, but I’m drained still, which isn’t helping anything. I need two weeks of no social interactions.