Happy Holidays!

Happy New Year!

Treats, Teasers, and Hurtling Toward Book Two

2024 is almost in the rearview mirror and I'm sure we're all a little relieved to leave it there. Aside from the real-world challenges and existential questions about the direction of our country, our world, and the destiny of humanity, it was a year of highs and lows for me. Releasing Traitor Son was amazing, but also stressful and expensive, and some health problems in my family cast a bit of a pall over the holidays. The sort of problems where the odds are in my loved one's favor, but they are still...the odds.

Let us all hope for better in 2025.

Best of 2024

- Movie: Deadpool & Wolverine

- Book: Theft of Fire

- TV Show: Clarkson's Farm

- Best Board Game: Wyrmspan

- Best Anime: Frieren

Worst of 2024

- Arcane: Season 1 was so great, and Season 2 was so rushed.

- Meal: The disappointing chicken dumplings of August. I make great chicken and dumplings, but apparently not in front of witnesses.

Book Business: In lighter news, the betas should be coming back with their feedback on book two so that I can make final final edits by the end of this month, which means all you ARC readers will have Stardust Child in your hands sometime this February! It will be on Book Sirens, Netgalley, and Reedsy Discovery, so look forward to an announcement when it's live! I can't wait to hear what you think of it.

In the meantime, I've finished the first chapter of Son of Sacred Earth, the tentative title of the tentative first book of Ophele's trilogy. Assume every part of that sentence is open to change. 😅 My 2025 challenge to myself is whether I can finish that book while also editing books 2, 3, and 4, along with all the attendant book business and marketing.

And finally, one of my other New Year's resolutions is to spend a little more time on my Instagram account, so if you have one, feel free to follow me there! I have some neat graphics and artwork I've been working on.

Happy New Year to all of you! Remin would wish you luck in all your resolutions.

Purpose was the gift of imperfection. The divine world was perfect, flawlessly ordered, but in a perfect world there was no purpose, no reason to learn, to work, to grow. There might be debts owed in an imperfect world, but they could be paid. An imperfect world was a work in progress. An imperfect world could be changed.

She could change it, if she was brave.

-Traitor Son