Week 2 of 2025 brought the sickness to my household. It’s not as bad as it could be. I have a dull fever headache, nasal congestion, and a complete lack of energy. I've been treating it with lots of vitamin C, pain meds/fever reducers and rest, which means I’ve stayed off social media for the most part, wrote a staggering amount of words, and FINISHED a first draft!

       Well, that first full week of the year was a doozy. The world is a mess and so was my health, which meant I was doing a lot of avoiding the outside world and focusing on my books, promoting, and wishing I could do something about the state of the world, while knowing I’m doing all I can. 🥺

       Happy New Year! It’s the first blog of the year, and so far, it’s been a productive year! Health hasn’t been so great, but that’s to be expected when a polar vortex settles over Western New York. The word for 2025, at least for me, is Productivity! Let's see if I can keep it up. 😉

The Devil's Daughter is rated PG-13 for graphic violence, gore, vulgar language, death, crime scenes, manipulation, gaslighting, Asylum scenes, and mind control. Plus Talk of past and present traumas.

     This book is meant for an adult audience and contains graphic violence, gore, vulgar language, death/murder, crime scenes, manipulation, gaslighting, pregnancy, and mind control. Talk of past and present trauma including, but not limited to non-consensual acts of a sexual nature, parental death, cancer, mind control, self-harm, and familial abuse.

       The New Year is upon us and since it falls on Wednesday, I’m going to go over what I did this year, and the release schedule for next year, with the dates for Beta signups, ARC signups and preorders, along with the Chaos Theory Book trailer for this week’s art.

      It’s nearly Christmas, four more days, and I’ll be off to my Nana’s House. We go every year for family Christmas, games, and holiday fun. Until then, I’m going to be working on getting this next WIP finished… or closer to it. But first, an update on the Facebook party! Also, announcement and snippet from the April Release (Chaos Theory) at the end of the newsletter!

      It’s my birthday week! On Tuesday, I’ll be 32 years old AND it’s going to be 50°F and right now it’s only 3°F… Don’t ask me. The weather is Bipolar, my body is making life difficult, BUT I did a lot this week!

      It’s December, and I can’t be the only one who feels like last four months went by at 2x speed. I finished my WIP, Started another, and I’ve been brainstorming with my Manager about book covers for the Kalista books for next year (we still haven't picked one)!

      Winter has arrived here in South Western New York, and with Thanksgiving on Thursday, the week has felt off… Per the usual. BUT I have a big announcement!

       The brain has returned, and I’m hoping that I can get more words done and maybe even finish the story this week! Nothing big has happened, but The first two books are still free in eBook format!!

    This week’s newsletter is a bit late because the Flu is no respecter of persons or immune systems, nor does it care if you’ve just gotten over a cold… But before it knocked me out on Friday, I did get a lot of words written this week!