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Sep

2025

Is This Thing On?

Tap. Taptap. Is this thing on?

I’m back. Did you miss me? Honestly, I know that the odds are good that most folks didn’t notice I was taking time off. But here we are in September, and it’s time for me to get back to work.

Sort of.

Because it took me much longer than I was planning to get The Coral Throne done, I’m not technically getting back to work yet. Not entirely, anyway. I’m working on edits for Tales from the Arena; Dead Man’s Hand. I’m blogging again, starting today, and the newsletter will come out later this week. However, I won’t actively get back to writing Tales from the Arena: King of Swords until October, after the Page and Pen Festival.

This schedule gives me one more month to catch up on Tasting History and get through my TBR pile. Of which I’ve read… well, one, and bounced off one. The one I read was For Whom The Belle Tolls, by Jaysea Lynn, which I’ve been waiting to dive into for ages — I got it on release day, but had to wait to start it. (Nope, not telling you what I bounced off.) The current read is Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis.

The pile hasn’t gotten any smaller, though.

I also got to the movies — we went to see KPop Demon Hunters for the singalong. SO much fun! Two more movies to catch before I’m back to work (three if you count seeing one from my couch.) What movies? Fantastic Four, Superman, and Sinners (that’s the couch movie.)

I’m also getting ready for the first of three shows in a row — Smut Lovers Conference is coming up starting the 17th. If you’re a Florida local. there’s a signing from 12 – 4pm on Saturday the 20th, and you can get your free ticket here. The week after Smut Lovers is Necronomicon Tampa, and then we wrap up the run with the Page and Pen Festival I mentioned already. Then I have a month to do promo for November releases (possibly two — no dates yet, but I’ll let you know once I know!), and get ready for Maker Faire!

For now, though? I’m going to get back to edits and recharging my batteries.

Promotions

Half Off Sale!

From now until they sell out, you can get the Swords of Charlemagne paperback books from me directly for half off. That’s $12.50 for each, or all four books for $37.50 when you use the code SWORDS. This includes the thumbdrive!

Why? The Swords of Charlemagne have a new home with Riverdale Avenue Books! New covers and edits will be coming soon!

Now Available!

To end the war with the Empire, all Prince Tarjiaan has to do is deny his heart and marry the Emperor’s granddaughter. Peace is assured…

Or is it?

Now Available!

Kidnapped from his home and sold as a slave in Rome, Raven-Prince Lorcan must survive in a world where entertainment is murder, diplomacy is betrayal, and love is a commodity. And where a raven who is only supposed to ever have one mate will somehow find two…

Read it before Raven’s Flight comes out!

Image of a book cover. Cover is red-orange, with an abstract design over which there is a raven in flight. Text reads Book One in the Blood of the Raven series. Raven's Fall. Wings of Blood and Desire. By Blood Betrayed. Elizabeth Schechter

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Work in Progress

The Coral Throne
(The Coral Throne, book 2)

121829 / 120000 (101.52%)

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

35962 / 90000 (39.96%)

Appearances

Smut Lovers: The Conference
September 17th – 21st, 2025
Orlando, FL

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Necronomicon
September 26th – 28th, 2025
Tampa, FL

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Page and Pen Festival
October 4th, 2025
Oviedo, FL

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Maker Faire
November 7-9th, 2025
Central Florida Fairgrounds,
Orlando, FL

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Enchanted Knights: Winter Bazaar
December 6th, 2025
Oviedo Mall
Oviedo, FL

Jun

2025

If It’s Not One Thing…

If It’s not one thing, it’s two things. Or six. Usually, it’s six. Last week? It was a doctor appointment every morning, then heading out to the writing retreat after, going right into the Renaissance Faire on Saturday.

Which, I suppose, is my way of saying I’m tired today.

The retreat was amazing, and there are some exciting things that are coming out of it that I can’t really talk about yet. Things are written in warm Jell-O right now, but are solidifying nicely, so I’ll tell you more once I can.

For the writing part of the writing retreat, I added over 6,000 words to The Coral Throne last week. Which is a fantastic number, but that leaves me with just about 39K words to finish before I have a draft. This means that I won’t be done by next week, so I’m shifting my vacation until August, and taking July to finish this manuscript. So after next week, there will be no blogs and no newsletter until September (there won’t be a newsletter next week. I think I may have forgotten to announce that.)

Things are moving on the publishing side, and I’m hearing buzz about a late fall/early winter release on two books. I don’t have an exact date, nor would I announce one this early — things might change. But I have two books projected to come out later this year (if it’s not one thing, it’s two things!)

One of those would be Raven’s Flight. The other…. is Hidden Things.

Wait, what?

Yes, Riverdale Avenue Books have optioned the Swords of Charlemagne series! At some point later this summer, the existing books are going to vanish my store, and from all online bookstores. Because of this, I’m running a sale on existing paperbacks. If you want the existing covers, get them now. When they’re gone, they’re gone! Find the sales code below.

Back to work!