“When’s That Book Coming?” Summer 2020 Edition

The heat in my part of the world has been up around 40C every day for a week with the humidex, and the layout of my apartment is such that even with an a/c, I get very little cool air in my room. I sleep poorly anyway but this has made everything much worse; currently I’m on about four hours and can barely function, so thought I’d make it an admin day and do all those finicky things (website updates, emails, etc).

Then I stared at this draft screen for about twenty minutes and this ultimately took two hours to write, so…let’s hope I’ve remembered what I intended to post for this.

What’s New

Blood Ties released!

After serializing weekly at Patreon from January – April, it’s now available everything (except B&N) in ebook and paperback. So far folks who’ve read seem it dig it! I did a quick post with some Q&A for Oblivion readers who have checked out the spinoff.

Kindle | Kobo | iBooks | Smashwords | Payhip | Paperback

Also, last week, there was a SURPRISE THING at Patreon–a West-POV short set several books from now in the Livi series. It’s West of Best Club only and SUPER spoilery, so that’s all I’ll say–those who are subscribers can decide whether they want to read it or not.

Finally, my standalone rural fantasy novel Soulless is part of StoryBundle’s Crossing the Veil collection, which is only available for three more days.

What’s Upcoming

I don’t have any defined release dates for anything set yet.

Next month there’ll be a new short for the West Is Best Club about what West was doing during Emperor’s Tomb. It ties into the upcoming fifth book as well as all the way back to Tiger’s Memory.

Speaking of, Yampellec’s Idol will probably be out by the end of the year. Earliest by my math is late November but nothing is being set until I know what kind of work awaits me and what the copyeditor’s schedule will be.

It will be widely available in ebook and paperback as the others have been. I’m unsure after that what things will look like; I intend to keep writing the series, but I’m exploring what possible other models will allow me to do so while keeping the rent paid and minimizing theft–this current model just isn’t doing it.

I have a couple of other things in progress–one I won’t talk about yet, but the other is…

We’re in a global pandemic so god knows how the next while will go, but Witch Hunt is in progress and will be a 2021 thing. I’ll likely serialize the first draft at Patreon again as I did this year.

Abducted and dropped in a dense forest in the middle of nowhere, serial killer and witch Elis O’Connor is being hunted for sport. Her magic is restricted, her resources are few, and it’s a night no one ever survives with human religious extremists in pursuit.

But she’s not trapped in the forest with them: they’re trapped with her.

And they’re about to regret a whole lot of their life choices.

Time is weird, I feel like it’s been ten years since I had a new release when in reality Blood Ties came out like six weeks ago, so I’ve been irrationally anxious about not having something else lined up. But there are things in the pipeline and, as always, I’ll announce when I have something to say.

I’m going to spend what little extra time I have for the summer focusing on some zero drafts and look again in the fall at what I can schedule for when.

I’m also looking at areas where I can cut out time I’m spending with little to no returns. I very nearly deleted my newsletters, though I recognize that would be short sighted, but I’m definitely considering deleting my Facebook page and group after the summer–they’re underused by me with very little in the way of engagement by others (is that a chicken/egg scenario? Probably). Twitter’s the one place I blow off steam still, and otherwise I think Patreon is the best focus for my time. We’ll see!