April 2025

A little late with these posts this month. Yesterday we lay chad on our driveway so I was outside all day, except for mealtimes. We finished an hour before dark. I didn’t feel like writing any thing yesterday evening so I watched a video after checking all my emails.

Now that the weather is getting nicer I’ll be doing ‘projects’ with my Dad and most of the time not being indoors long until suppertime. Not all the time but usually at least once a week or other week. That’s what I’m here for according to my parents, to help so they get what work they can from me. 🙂

I’m still working on the two WIPs. I only got a few days left til the deadline.

My book, A Playground of Bones, is up this month in the Book Club.

Want a walk-on role in one of my Elemental Voice books? In book 4, Wind Whisper, one of my past co-workers, gave me permission to use her maiden name, and she became the M.E. because she was good at cutting up the stuff for the salad bar. She thought I was joking about making her the M.E. because of her knife skills. But there she is in Wind. Message me the name and occupation/skill and you’ll be slipped in.

I’ll see about doing another book cover this month. I want to try and do at least one a month, to keep way ahead of my books incase my book cover company stops being able to do them. As I’ve said they’re in Ukraine.

The ferals are doing fine. A few of the females have shown up pregs. So kittens will be coming. There are ten cats that show up regular, other not so much. The count is fluid and some like to hang around incase we put out food between feedings. Which we do, some leftovers from our meals. The more that stick around the less pests we have hanging around.

Clock says it’s almost lunch time and I’m eating with my parents today so I best be going. Stay tune for the next installment.

April 2, 2025 0

March 2

I’m hanging on. But I’m scared and angry with the way things are going. And that’s not a good combination. However Karma has struck a deserving blow. Now if we can do it to the rest of his tripes.

I’ve been doubling down on my writing. Working on two different WIPs. I gotta deadline to keep. One’s a werewolf clan novel, and the other is a contemporary dragon book. Can’t really say they’re shifter books as they’re not total romance. The werewolf clan novel is set in a contemporary alternative timeline where werewolves hide among humans and have a pact with a group of humans for mutual protection, while the dragon book is also set in a contemporary alternative timeline, but the alternative was in the past. Dragons and Fae-like beings were real but died out, leaving only legends and a remnant. A remnant that survived and thrived in the new world. I hadn’t planned to write these two books, but my muse decided to work on them. So I’ll finish them and then get back to the book I’m supposed to be working on.

I did do two covers this month.

The weather’s been nice and the female ferals have been frisky. Been spending some time outside in the afternoon watching the ferals. The younger ferals have been play fighting with each other and chasing each other while the older ones lie in the shade watching the young ones.

Gotta take my evening meds and get some sleep. Morning comes early. Stay tune for the next installment.

March 22, 2025 0

March

Three months into 2025, and it’s chaos. Not locally yet, but it’s only a matter of time. I have always used my writing as an escape of sorts and it’s more so now. The problems there are easier to solve, and the hero or heroine rides to the rescue. But no one is stepping up; people are looking the other way in the real world, and I don’t know if we’re going to make it another few months, much less the four years. I’m not usually political, but I just don’t know any more.

Enough of the gloom & doom. Possitivity. I’ve managed to get some writing done on my WIPs. I got a deadline of the end of this month, and I think one book will be done. Not the one I planned though, but one done. My muse has been working little by little on the three WIPs and not being too fickle.

I’m gonna try and do two covers this month, funds willing. Ukraine may boycott the US the way things are going and I may not be able to get any more covers. Anyway, I’m gonna try to get the next two in my queue.

My book A Playground of Bones is scheduled for April in the book club I belong to. Some of the books scheduled are not my cup of tea, but I’ll read them. Maybe they’ll expand my horizons. I’m almost done with the March one, which is a Christian book. It’s not really preachy, so I’ve enjoyed it so far. I like subtlety, not in your face.

The ferals are getting frisky. We got a bunch of males hanging around now since most of our ferals here are female. We would TNR most of them if we could (a) catch them in a trap and (b) have a place that would do that for us. Our ferals know what traps are as we have them out a lot to keep the racoon population down. Racoons may look cute but they aren’t nice neighbors especially to small cats/kittens. The ferals that hang around our place are only a drop in the bucket of the ferals that are around here.

Well, my tea is gone and I have some sour milk I’m gonna put out in bowls for the cats/possum. If the cats don’t drink it, the old possum will tonight. Stay tuned for the next installment.

March 1, 2025 0

February 2

Another week and this month will be gone. Didn’t get as much accomplished as I wanted, but that’s normal for me. Between my muse and my ADD I rarely get things done on a schedule. With the snow you’d think I’d get a lot of writing done since I was somewhat shut-in. But no. I did more reading. And of fanfiction not a book. I see a pretty fan pic of a story and I just have to see what it’s about. I’m hopeless. 🙂

I did get some writing done. One WIP will be finished by the April deadline. Might not be the one you’re waiting for or wanting but I will have one book out by May.

For the cover this month I did the werewolf clan one. In case it’s the one that gets finished. It’s a bit of a shifter romance so the cover has that type of look. With what is going on with Ukraine I may be out a designer. Next month I’m going to try and get 2 covers done. Or more if I can squeeze out some money. If I get my money. Things are up in the air right now with everything.

Anyone have good vampire names? Still lookin’.

The ferals were upset with the snow we had this week. It was deep enough that they were sinkin’ and draggin’ through it. After we make some tracks they did their business in the tracks and we had to be careful where we stepped. But the disgusted look on their faces when they had to plow through the snow was hilarious.

Well, my tea is gone and I have to check on the ferals before nightfall, put a little food out. Stay tune for the next installment.

February 21, 2025 0

February 2025

It’s my birth month already. Seems like 2024 just zoomed right on by. But I’m havin’ the feeling these next few years are going to seem endless. I just hope we see the other end.

My muse jumped ship again. She’s working on a WIP that’s way down the list like the Fallborn story. She’s just hopping around right now. I will get one of my WIPs done by April’s deadline. But which one? I don’t know. I have 5 of them open, two of which are novellas. So one will be finished by the deadline.

The five are by the way The Dragon Mistress–a Fallborn book, Deadly Sea–Elemental Voice Companion book, Remnant–book 3 of Ghostwolf, Blood Singer–a werewolf clan book, and A Field of Bones–book 2 of Bone Whisperer. Sea, Remnant, and Field are in the top five of my queue but Singer and Mistress were in the bottom ranks. However my muse decided it wanted to work on them soo…

The werewolf clan books by the way are stand-alones like the Fallborn but set in the same place with some of the same people showing up. They are way down the list below the Fallborn books. They are not related to the Ghostwolf books at all. Completely different ‘universe’.

I plan to do at least one cover this month. I just have to decide which one. It will be one of the WIPs I have open I’m sure. Only two of them have covers so I have 3 to chose from. Better than randomly choosing one from the queue.

The younger ferals don’t like the rain we’ve been having, and they definitely didn’t like the snow we had last month. But the older ones were blahzy about the snow, however they don’t like the rain either. I don’t blame them about the rain as it messes up their fur. The snow though that was funny watching the younger ones. The looks they had and the way they pawed around trying not to sink. Hillarious. By the way we only had six inches so no hazard to them.

I’m still looking for vampire names. I have 2 novellas and 1 main book to get out in the Elemental Voice serieses. The Wedding is coming up soon and we will meet and greet a number of Orro clan vampires. So if you want to name a vampire leave a comment, email, dm, whatever. Names always give me trouble. Some of my characters come with names and full personalities, but others have no names and just a basic personality until I figure out the name, then Bam…Suddenly everything comes together on that character.

Just drank the last bit of tea. I got a bit more to do online then I’ll eat lunch. Stay tuned for the next installment.

February 1, 2025 0

January 2

Middle of the month and I’m not as far along as I wanted with my WIP. And my muse is cheating with another story. I had three stories open but she didn’t want to work on any of them. She hopped to a story that’s way down the list, scheduled for like 2028 or so. One of my Fallborn dragon stories to be precise. Since my WIP and the Fallborn story are both novellas maybe I can get them both done by April. I’ll see if I can corral my muse enough to do so.

I’m not doing a cover. I didn’t manage my money well this month and I haven’t decided which cover to do anyway. I have soo many books in my queue. What’s in my queue is only like 1/1000th of what I have ideas written down for. Then there’s the ones still in my head that are just snippets. That’s why I don’t understand when a writer says they don’t know what to write or haven’t an idea. I have thousands.

My book A Playground of Bones is scheduled for April in the book club I belong to. Some of the books scheduled are not my cup of tea but I’ll read them. Maybe they’ll expand my horizon.

My half glass of tea is done so I think I’ll end here. Got a bit of email to catch up on then I’ll go check on the Ferals. I might have to give them a bit more dry food since it’s been cold today. Stay tuned for the next installment.

January 21, 2025 0

January 2025

It’s the new year already. 2024 seemed to fly on by. Now we get to see what the new year brings.

The Time-Lost book is out on Amazon. I’m moving on to the next book in the queue, novella 3 of the Elemental Voice Companion series. Book 3 of Ghostwolf is the writer’s block book this time instead of Bone Whisperer 2. I need to get Ghostwolf out as well. I have a feeling though that I’ll be working on all three of them. My muse never does exactly what I want.

When I say writer’s block book, I mean a book I work on when I get stuck on the main book. If my muse decides she doesn’t want to work on the main book I open the block book and see if she’ll work on it. Usually she does, at least a bit.

I only did the one cover this last month. I wasn’t settled on which cover I wanted to do next. I need to figure that out and get it done this month. Staying ahead is nice. Hopefully the company that does them for me will still be there in the new year. Ukraine is still up in the air.

The evenings and mornings have been chilly and the ferals have been cuddling in cat piles, either in a leaf pile or in a cat house. I’ve been feeding them extra on the boards in the mornings and evenings. During the day the young ones romp around while the older ones lay in the sun.

Joined a book club. My book is slated for either March or April. I can’t remember. I’ll look up the schedule later. Already started on this month’s book, a coming of age set in the 1960’s. Has a soda fountain area mentioned in it. Our local pharmacy had an old time soda fountain in it when I was a kid and this book brought about some good memories of ice cream and chats at the counter. I was sad when they reneuvated the pharmacy and took out the foutain when I was a teen. Not many places to go in a small town to hang out. But that was probably why they took it, too many kids hanging around. And it probably wasn’t profitable enough.

Just finished my glass of tea so I think I’ll wrap this up here. One more check of my email then I think I’ll go outside and check on the ferals, about time for a feeding since I feed them early. Stay tuned for the next installment

January 1, 2025 0

December 2

Christmas is 11 days away then comes the new year a week after. 19 days after that comes the incoming pres. I just hope everyone is ready for what’s going to happen. Gonna be a surprise to a lot of people.

Got one book cover done. Now I just got to decide which cover I want to do next. I have enough funds to do an easy cover, one with only 2 to 3 images. Or I can use that small fund elsewhere. I have 5 covers done so far. The company I use as I have said is in the Ukraine and I don’t know what the new year will bring for them.

The Time-Lost book proof arrived. It looks good. Hopefully the book will be out this month and I will have met my goal of at least 2 books a year pubbed. As soon as it’s published I can crack down on writing book 3 of the Elemental Voice companion series.

Newsletter went out. Already working on the next. Diggin’ up bones for it as it were. Gotta few pics of the ferals rompin’ around. Most oranges are male but most of the ones we have here are female and we have a few brindles as well. I’ll snap some more pics of course. The ferals are just so dang cute.

Just finished my glass of tea so I think I’ll wrap this up here. One more check of my email then I think I’ll go outside and check on the ferals, about time for afternoon feeding. Stay tuned for the next installment

December 14, 2024 0

December 2024

December is here already and Christmas just 24 days away. Then 7 days after that the new year. A lot changes are going to be happening after that. I just hope I stay afloat.

Anyway it’s been cool and damp in the mornings and the ferals have been scarfing down food. At least the older ones have been. The younger ones have been scamping around, playing a lot. Once it gets colder I’m sure the younger ones will be scarging down with the older ones. And they’ve all been sleeping in cat piles. The younger ones stir when I dish out the food, the older ones are usually waiting by the boards. But they all got that ‘just woke up’ look. So adorable.

My budget is looking like I can do 2 covers this month, maybe 3, depending on the price per cover. That will be up to 6 covers in my cover queue. As I said the company that does my covers is in Ukraine so I don’t know what’s going to happen with them in the new year.

I’ve been writing a bit but haven’t knuckled down. Book 3 of Elemental Voice Companion is next and I’ll get serious with it once the Time-Lost book is out. It’s with my publishing coordinator. I’d like it to be out this month but she’s very busy. I’m messing around with EV book bibles as well to refresh my memory on who is who with the secondary characters. It’s easy to forget things when you’ve been writing in other serieses for a while. But sometimes you need a break and time to think things over. Not to mention my muse is fickle. She works on her schedule not mine most of the time.

I’m working on the next newsletter. It’s going to come out earlier than the others as that would be too close to Christmas. I have an in-person event on the 6th and will include a snapshot of it in this next newsletter. And that will be the last event of the year. Next year I don’t have one until April or May I think, if I’m accepted.

Had a glass of tea while I wrote this. Now I’m going to surf the web a bit and check out FB and IG. Stay tuned for the next installment.

December 1, 2024 0

November 2

Well, the month is almost over. December is just around the corner and Christmas will be upon us. The new year is coming whether we like it or not. And there’s gonna be big changes. People wanted change, well they’re gonna get it though not in the way they’re gonna really like it.

Enough doomsaying.

It’s been windy and cool for the month and the younger ferals are still being frisky while the older ones are taking advantage of the laying in the sun. Once Winter fully gets here the older ones will be hibernating between feedings unless we have a balmy 40 degree sunny day.

The cover of book 3 of the Elemental Voice Companion series is done. So I have a total of 4 covers done for the next 5 books I’m working on. Next month I’ll do some more covers. ’cause you never know what’s gonna happen in the new year with the company I’m using. They’re based in Ukraine.

I rearranged my writing queue a bit as I said I would. However I didn’t change too much. Book 3 of EVC series is first on the list to get done, then book 2 of Bone Whisperer, book 1 Of Gods and Curses, book 3 of Ghostwolf, and finally book 5 of Elemental Voice. They are subject to more rearranging, but those are the next 5 in the queue. Then I have arranged the next 5 after them, but left the rest. I try to do one T.L. book, then one Tina book so whichever series you follow you don’t have to wait too long. My muse however is fickle.

My newsletter went out this month. This is my second newsletter. Hopefully I get good stats with this one like I did last month.

Not quite cold enough for a cuppa so I’ll pour myself a glass of ice tea and surf the web a bit. Maybe check out a few of my fellow writers’ blogs or a couple of YouTube videos. Stay tuned for the next installment.