Book Bash 2026 (Prep week)
It’s Book Bash Day! But for this newsletter, you get the lead up, the preparation, if you will, for the big day as I'll be leaving at 9:30 am (EST) for the New Leaf Event Center. So, read on McDuff!
The Cover of Deadly Sirens! Featuring Midge to the left and Max with the Deadly Sirens (Discord, Havoc, and Chaos) on the right
Author's Life:
Packages, cleaning, more packages, and friend!! This week has been all about gathering the last-minute items, completing last minute tasks, & waiting on the packages to come in with more books and table items… I had to get a few more rubber ducks. If you follow me on TikTok, you probably know what I’m talking about, but for those who don’t, you’ll see next week 😉
- Monday: edits, cleaning, writing, and website clean up.
- Tuesday: more writing, testing my table set up (see pic below), and art.
- Wednesday: more cleaning, a bit of writing, art, and the BOX OF BOOKS arrived!!
- Thursday: my normal Friday errands, prepped this newsletter, and did one last piece of art. Also, my stickers arrived!
- Friday: the last of my cleaning list, prepped the last things, then, shout out to my Mom, who drove me down to get the rental car for the weekend, because I wasn’t trusting our current car to get that far after the last fiasco that made us miss my sister-in-law’s wedding. AND I drove to get my emotional support extrovert, SLADE from the airport, then we picked Dale up from work, grabbed dinner, and came home. Before we all crashed for the night, we packed the car, so we wouldn’t have to rush in the morning.
- Saturday: Slade and I are off to Conneaut, OH at 9:30! If you see this and are in the area between 1-7pm you should stop by to see us, maybe grab a book too! I’ll have all of my books with me, Including the scratch and dents in case anyone wants to save a bit more.
my test set up for the convention with blurred out background.
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Editor Update:
Matt, my emotional support Australian and Manager, is getting better all the time, and we’ve even gotten back to playing Star Wars together to destress after the day. He’s a little bummed this weekend though, cause I’m going to be very hit and miss for communication due to con and then Sunday outing on my little tour of Buffalo. I’ll have to make it up to him.
The work Life:
Writing:
Well… I accidentally started a new book… again. This one doesn’t have a name yet, but it’s going to delve more into the Court of Fae in the Born Angel Universe, and is now 10,325 words, which were all written in one sitting. Then I finished editing Dirge of the Betrayed and wrote another 6k into it. It now has 22,211 words.
Total word count for the week: 17,448 words
Editing:
Again, I’ve not added any red pen edits of Fated Angel… I was a bit busy with other books, cleaning, and so forth. Matt and I have gotten through 5 chapters of A DANGEROUS GAME, and I now have the hard copy of Death, Desires, & Inner Demons (Miseria’s book). I did edit all of Dirge of the Betrayed though, so there is that.
Publishing:
Out Now!
DEADLY SIRENS is now available EVERYWHERE!
Amazon has the paperback and hardcover, but if you’re looking for eBooks, you’ll have to visit Kobo plus, Smashwords, itch.io, Bookshop.org, Libby, Barnes & Noble, and all those on the header image.
𓆩⚝𓆪 Looking for Beta Readers 𓆩⚝𓆪
for An Angel Enraged starts in a little over 2months! If you’ve read books 1-6 of the Kalista Chronicles or at least book 6 and you’d like to beta read for book 7, head on over to the page and sign up! Those in the Beta Club on Root, just at let me know you want to read it, and I’ll add you to the Enraged Role. READING WILL BE June 12 - July24th! Sign ups close May 30th.
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Disclaimer: This book is intended for an adult audience (17 years and older) due to graphic violence, vulgar language, drinking, smoking, drugging, consensual relations between adults (Fade to Black), past trauma such as gaslighting, emotional manipulation, death of friends, self-harm, and familial abuse.
Art Feature:
Given that all but one picture I made this week was not safe for sharing on the newsletter, this week, we have this picture from the newest book. Some of you may recognize the giantess to the left, Frida Victory MacBeth, Luke MacBeth's "little" sister from Cry Havoc or Deadly Sirens where she cameos... I have written about 46,000 words of a story for her but got stuck. I'm hoping to finish that this year too.
Anyhow, to the right is the FMC of the new book (that has no title yet), who was briefly seen, though not named, in Cry Havoc as well. Her name is Sapphire, due to her naturally blue hair. Yes, that is her natural hair color as she is technically a Fae of the Unseleighe Court. More on that later, but this a depiction of their first meeting, which has been written.
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Thanks for reading!
~Jenn (aka Born Angel Author)
Mark Your 2026 Calendar: 4 books!
~ January 1st: C🍪🍪KIES & R🤬GE Cover Reveal!
~ January 24th: DEADLY SIRENS Preorder drops here and across all platforms!
~ February 13th to March 20th: Beta Reading for C🍪🍪KIES & R🤬GE
🚫March 1: ARCs for DEADLY SIRENS go out.
~ April 9 & 11th: DEADLY SIRENS Release day!
👉🏻 April 25th, 1 p.m. - 7 p.m.: Book Bash 2026
~ May 1st: ARC Signups for C🍪🍪KIES & R🤬GE begins!
~ May 8th: Beta Signups for AN ANGEL ENRAGED (Kali book 7) drop
~ June 1st: ARC's for C🍪🍪KIES & R🤬GE go out!
~ June 12th to July 17th: Beta reading AN ANGEL ENRAGED.
~ July 20th: C🍪🍪KIES & R🤬GE RELEASE DAY!
~ August 1st: AN ANGEL ENRAGED Arc Signups open and THE FATED ANGEL beta reading sign ups.
~ August 15th: Preorder for AN ANGEL ENRAGED begins!
~ September 4th: AN ANGEL ENRAGED ARCS go out!
~ September 11th - October 23rd: Beta Reading THE FATED ANGEL!
~ October 31st: AN ANGEL ENRAGED Release Day!
~ November 13th: Cover Reveal THE FATED ANGEL!
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Have fun this weekend! And great work this week!