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).

The Cover of Cookies & Rage! Featuring Midge to the right and The Jolly Ginger Giant to the left.

Announcement!

    Before I get into the news, The 200th newsletter drops on June 6th, and I’d like to do something interesting and fun. I have 4 ideas, and I’ve put them to my beta readers, but I’ll also have them right before the comment section (at the end of this newsletter) so you can vote on what I do for it. So far, number 3 is in the lead.

Author's Life:

     Because my muse decided to give me the silent treatment, and I had nothing planned for the week, besides getting back into the swing of writing and editing again… But because my muse was being a tw*twaffle, I ended up editing then gaming until Thursday when she finally started talking again.

      I played through Minerva’s Den (BioShock 2 expansion), finally finished off the Star Wars: the Old Republic Inquisitor Storyline, and earned Hero standing in Kessan’s Landing. I know that won’t mean a lot to some of you, but to others they’ll get the achievement here.

     I did have a good time spending time with family last weekend, but I was “peopled out” and ready to have a few days rest. Which I didn’t get until Tuesday, because Monday I had to do errands and pick up my migraine meds. 😅 So, maybe that’s why my Muse was silent and angry for a few days. ANYHOW! I did get some work done this week.

The work Life:

Writing:

     I didn’t get to work in the New WIP at all. Instead, I made some rewrites of Dangerous Game added about 1,800 words. Then I wrote 9,841 words into Dirge of the Betrayed from Thursday into Friday. It was nice to get back into that and it’s flowing again. Muse didn’t want to let me get to bed Friday morning, but I’m not complaining. I’m just glad she was talking to me again.

     Total word count for the week: 11,609 words

May Word Count Goal: 55,000 current progress 57.2%

Editing:

      I read through all of Cookies & Rage and sent that to Matt for eBook formatting. Then I finished the inputs for Fated Angel. It will go to Matt for edits next, soon as he gets Cookies & Rage finished

Publishing:

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order before June 8th to get the pdf of "Snacks & Revenge" the short story that featured in the back of Cry Havoc!

Art Feature:

     Not so fun story. I spent a couple days working on art for this week, and it’s been rendering all week. Didn’t help that when it was nearly done the computer updated and restarted so I had to restart the render. It’s only 75% done… So, that will be next weeks picture. This week, I had to pull from things I haven’t shown here.

      It was a hard choice, but I’ve decided to show off this picture I made of Danette "On the job". Danette is Chaos’s Heir and one of Max’s many daughters who becomes his second shadow after Midge moves back to the US.

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It's beyond the Sign off, Mark Your Calendar, and all the social posts that few people see... 

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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

 ~ 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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The 200th Newsletter Ideas:

1. A Main Character Questionnaire:
   You (the readers) get to ask any currently published main character a question.

2. Author Questionnaire.
   Have a book, writing, editing, or art related Q & A. Yes, you'll have to submit questions.

3. A Character Takeover.
   One character, chosen by you the beta readers, will "Take Over" the newsletter and we'll get a little ramble/short story from/about them.

4. A Snippet dump:
   Snippets from past books only. Quotes, scenes, or other things I’ve loved and hated as a "Through the years" or “through the books” newsletter...

Leave me a comment below the header/ender banner with what you’d like to see for that!