“When’s That Book Coming?” Fall 2025 Edition

Okay, I haven’t formally done one of these since…*checks notes*…January?

To be fair, I’d planned in April to have one mentioning the audiobooks and then all that happened and I kept waiting for some resolution to the situation (which I now have!). I was also hoping to have another horror book done and up for preorder but everything’s just been chaos–not sleeping most of the summer, fuckery in publishing, Shawn being sick, etc. But it’s the end of the start of Q4 and it’s time for a summary.

What’s New

Whew. Okay. So…

Waverly New Stuff

1. Waverly Jones Mysteries Vol I boxset released! Kobo | iBooks | Payhip
2. The Official Waverly Jones Murder Journal is in paperback at at Amazon
3. Waverly 4 released in print and eBook! Payhip | Kobo | Apple Books | Smashwords | Paperback | Special Edition Hardcover

Audiobooks

4. Dweller on the Threshold released! Payhip | Kobo | Apple Books | GooglePlay | Libro.FM | Audiobooks Now 
5. Watcher of the Woods released! Payhip | Kobo | Apple Books | GooglePlay | Libro.FM | Audiobooks Now 
6. Solomon’s Seal released! Payhip | Kobo | Apple Books | GooglePlay | Libro.FM | Audiobooks Now 
7. Odin’s Spear released! Payhip | Kobo | Apple Books | Google Play | Libro.FM | Audiobooks Now 

But wait, there’s more!

Large-Print Editions

8. Dweller on the Threshold at Amazon
9. The Silent Places at Amazon
10. Solomon’s Seal at Amazon

Also, Demon Fall launched at Patreon.

Yeah, that’s a lot.

I’m still having my worst sales month all year, but then everyone is broke and freaking out right now so it’s to be expected.

What’s Upcoming

No preorder, but The Killing Beach will be out in large-print edition on November 25.

It’s not loaded yet but I’ve assigned an ISBN and Watcher of the Woods will also go up in large print, likely sometime in January. From there I’ll see, Odin’s Spear is probably fine but A Wild Kind of Darkness might need to split into two volumes.

The fifth Waverly book is up for preorder:

It will also be in paperback and hardcover, of course, as well as in eBook at Payhip, but I can’t do preorder yet there.

Then I needed the dopamine hit so I popped up the sixth because whatever, it’s drafted.

It’s taken tremendous restraint to not also put #7 up for 2028.

I still do not have Hell Fire (Elis #4) set for print–I have to do another round of revision, it needs to go for editing, and I think I want to get Demon Fall into better shape first and ensure everything’s set up. Those books sell very few in print–Soul Spell has sold under ten copies–so it’s usually the bottom of my priority list (with apologies to those who prefer print).

Speaking of, Demon Fall is concluding at Patreon next month.

What I’m Working On

I really need to finish this current round of revisions on A Dark and Distant Home but that’s gonna require maybe two weeks of dedicated time, which I don’t have at the moment. When I get some freelance work off my plate and stop having vet visits, we’ll see if I can grab the time then.

I’m 45K into These Haunted Woods, Waverly 8, which is not entirely accurate because there’s a chunk I’m going to cut from the beginning (and make it a Patreon short) and another chunk from the beginning I’m going to move to later. I can’t judge how much there is left to write, the structure’s a little weird but there’s so much in it I love and I got to write a scene a few weeks ago that I’ve looked forward to for years.

I got a little farther into Stranger in the Halls but it’s not grabbing me yet.

I would love to unofficially do NaNo next month, which is not really a thing anymore but I can still start a new book November 1. There are four horror novels I’ve got rough premises of in my head and I think I know which I’d like to write, but I’ll see. I’m tired and stressed and it’ll depend on what next week’s vet visits bring.

As I’ve told patrons, I think I’m hitting pause on writing the sixth and final Elis book–there’s something I might do next year as a serial instead, if I get it written, and I’d like a bit more time for Elis’s finale, Dark Fates, to come together in my head.

My hope in December is to go through the Livi files and clean things up and redo the paperbacks with the new covers–so if you want any of the current ones in the existing covers, grab them now.

I also need to go through all the Demons books again, just more proofing/fixing for anything bugging me, and then I’ll redo those interiors with the upcoming cover refreshes as well (I’ll reveal those later–the others are like thirteen years old, it’s time for another change).

There is also the potential Kickstarter for the third Livi Talbot book in audio.

To crowdfund, there must be a crowd. With the unsteadiness in the US, which is bleeding everywhere else, it’s a very hard time for crowdfunding things or even, apparently, selling books at all. I would love to see this one out there, as Kristi Burns does a great job with Livi. I would love to see The Silent Places and The Taiga Ridge Murders in audio one day. But again…crowd!

As of right now, Solomon’s Seal and Odin’s Spear have sold five (5) copies each. Third party sales can take some time to trickle in, but so far that is not a crowd. So follow the campaign and of course pick the first two up in audio if inclined. I’m going to check the numbers in January to see if it’s viable yet, and if not I’ll check again in June.