Yearly Wrap Up and Update

Find out about the upcoming release and what I've been up to.

I am running a little behind already! 2024 was a year of adjustment, but I did manage some milestones last year.

The big thing I accomplished was finally finishing Signs & Wonders. That book has been more than five years in the making, and I can happily report it is nearly here! Release date is 1/15/25, so keep a look out for the book.

Paperbacks will be available, too.  And, if you want a signed copy, contact me, and we'll make it happen. 

This new book will release first in Kindle Unlimited, and I am putting my two other standalone novels Elegant Freefall and Homecoming back in KU as well. With the release, I wanted to give KU readers a shot and because I am offering Homecoming as a freebie on 2/26, Fill Your Kindle Day (with Sapphic reads), I decided to reenlist those two books in KU.

In related news, I went wide earlier this year and have been thrilled to get some library borrows on Hoopla. I would love to see more borrows and to see how Signs & Wonders does in the library scene later in the year. 

The other big accomplishment was the completion of my editing certificate with the University of Chicago's Graham School. I finished that certification up in the summer, and the program was a lot of fun and very enlightening. The only sad bit was that my certificate is in the form of electronic badges. I was hoping for a physical certificate and the thrill of getting a completion packet. Badges will have to do, I guess. 

We said goodbye to our best girl Sophie in late August before we went to Oaxaca. She had two prior surgeries to remove Mast Cell Tumors, and they were beginning to crop up faster than we could manage them. She had a scary growth in her abdomen that was nearly critical stage and we made the very difficult decision to say goodbye. I still am lost without her, but Lucy, Harry, and Chester are all working to fill the space she left. 

That's about it, other than travel (Hawaii in March, Oaxaca in August, Arkansas in November and a few day trips here and there). We managed to survive the summer, even with an AC issue that kept us guessing. All I have to say about that is thank goodness for solar panels and that the fix was a fairly easy one once we got the HVAC guys to go in the attic.

My tips for you as we start a new year include:
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1. If you're going to eat roasted agave from a pile of pina on a working farm that also makes artisinal mezcal, be aware that you might be in for a couple of weeks of adventures after. Next time, I'll start using Travelan before we partake in food that is likely inhabited by new-to-me gut bacteria.
2. Love your people and your animals like you might not get a chance to do so tomorrow. Because you might not.
3. Fnish that thing that is keeping you from moving on to the next thing. You'll be glad you did.