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Aug

2026

How Do I Do This Again?

This past week has been interesting. I spent quite a lot of time silently wondering “How do I do this again?” Okay, that’s not entirely true. I did spent a bit of time catching up on what I’d already written. Sometimes, I can’t remember what I’ve written from day to day, so remembering after two months was asking a lot.

I’m focusing more on Six More Weeks of Witches at the moment, because that’s the one that is closer to being done — I have two more chapters after this one. Which means it will come in at somewhere in the range of 22K words. Then I’ll get back to King of Swords (which has more for me to catch up on.) I’m also doing research for an academic paper I was asked to contribute, research on a different topic for a future Coven Tree book, and I’m reading for the Ruthven Literary Bulletin. So there’s a lot going on, and only so many hours in the day. (Or functional brain cells.)

Baby steps. Finish the novella first. That’s the plan.

There are two shows coming up later this month — back to back shows in Daytona Beach. The first one in Tanoshii Con, which will be at the Ocean Center on August 22nd and 23rd. You can find me in Artisan Alley.

The following week, we’ll be at the Volusia Mall for Enchanted Knights: Medieval Magic. This is the same crew that put on the Renaissance Faires at the Oviedo Mall, and we have a two day Faire to celebrate their second anniversary. I don’t know where we’ll be in the mall yet, but as soon as I know (and am clear to tell you), I’ll share!

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When Delan stumbled into the Temple, he wasn’t expecting to be welcomed as a Temple servant. He wasn’t expecting his only duty to be to serve Lyander, cloistered son of the High Priestess. He wasn’t expecting to fall in love.

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Work in Progress

Tales from the Arena: King of Swords
(Tales from the Arena, book 4)

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Six More Weeks of Witches
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Appearances

Tanoshii Con
August 22nd – 23rd, 2026
Ocean Center Arena, Daytona Beach.

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Enchanted Knights Medieval Magic Renaissance Faire
August 29-30, 2026
12PM – 6PM
Volusia Mall
Daytona Beach, FL

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CANCELED
Florida Authors Book Fest
September 11-13, 2026
Brannon Center
New Smyrna Beach, FL

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Smut Lovers Conference
September 16th – 20th, 2026
Orlando, FL

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Page and Pen Festival
October 3rd, 2026
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Oviedo, FL

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Maker Faire Orlando
November 7-8th, 2026
Orlando, FL

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Deck the Mall
Saturday, December 5, 2026
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Aug

2026

Back to Work… Almost.

Vacation is over, it’s time to get back to work… almost. I’m actually getting back to work on writing on Wednesday. I’m currently working on revising the metadata and keywords for all of my books. It’s been a minute since I last updated mine, so it’s well and truly past time.

Yes, I’m updating all of them.

Now, this sort of requires a lot of thinking about what the average reader plugs into the search engine when they’re looking for something new. Once you have something you think is going to work, you plug that in as a keyword string, and hopefully your books will start selling.

Hopefully.

There’s more to it than that, but all you can really control is what’s in the keyword field in your metadata. There are services that say they’ll tell you exactly what your keywords need to be in order to sell, but those are all subscription services, and with me being on the shelf for a couple of months? Well, I’m not subscribing to anything this year.

So I’m brainstorming keywords and we’ll see what happens.

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All right. Back to work.