Hello dear reader.

For this Thoughtful Thursday, I feel it’s only right to share my commitment to another year with you.

2025 I committed to coming back, to coming out of the bad life changing years and finding my way back to myself and my joy of writing.

2026 is the year you guys will get books come hell or high water. Not just the occasional query when I think it’s good enough. The Red Letters series will get real attention and professional help too. There’s enough books in that series to hit the ground running and be ready for readers. Plus, the short stories featured on Fridays is currently from that WIP World.

But it is not the only series I have. Last January, before I came back here completely, I had what can only be described as a 3 week possession to write a book that burned suddenly in my soul. Like I wrote start to finish until I fell asleep under my laptop, while working the day jobs and everything. I don’t know how I survived it, but I also don’t know how I couldn’t just do it. That month of February got a new book out of me, the start of another book set up, and ultimately became something of a series I am calling a dark romance fairy-tale retelling.

If Red Letters is a bar world women’s fiction type story with musical elements and a little rock star romance, this dark romance series is different. I am calling it Fractured Ever After. It’s not a series as connected as the Red Letters books are, but it is a theme of books to be written. And the book that started it all by holding me hostage in inspiration? Tentatively titled Devour Thee Slowly. What does that title mean to you?

Because to me, it was a wild ride of an idea that felt too smart for me. Ouroboros is not something I think about much, and yet the idea of the snake eating it’s tail became a theme in the story. Sort of like a meta spiral that I couldn’t stop and had a hard time following. But it exists, and the depth of that book made me create outlines for all the other books in the series, somewhere between 8-10 books committed. That series will get both written and worked on being published this year too.

And, because series brain can be too much sometimes, there’s still a lot of half projects too. My favorite one is actually a memory love letter to a friend who’s sudden passing left me lost for a while. There’s also a motorcycle book in the draft form, and some sci fi and even some comic book angled ideas. Oh and some scripts for comedy things too.

I am never without an idea or an emotionally deep character that I fall in love with enough to put on paper. This year I will share that all with you, instead of just building towards it for years. 2026 is the year my writing meets my future audience. That’s the goal and the dream and even some of the payoff too. So stay tuned.