Did you think of that old rhyme when you saw the title? It just popped into my head when I sat down to write this blog. Don’t know why.

I guess I’m showing my age. Most of you probably don’t know that rhyme. A lot of things from my younger years are unknown to this generation and most of the one before. I’m not really that old but not young either however a lot of things have changed in the last few decades.

Anyway I’ve been working on my Bone Whisperer WIP. Still slow going but at least it’s moving forward. I’m at 33,781 words as of this minute. My muse is still only giving me a bit at a time so I don’t know when I’ll get finished with this story.

I’m withdrawing my books from Kindle Unlimited. Some people have had their accounts terminated because of piracy. I don’t want to take the chance so they’re coming out. My T.L. books may be going to Draft2Digital. I don’t have the files for my older books so I’m going to leave them on Amazon as well as add the rest of the series books there. But my T.L. Books I think I’ll try D2D with, starting with Bone Whisperer then adding my other books as they come off KU. I’m almost a Luddite when it comes to computer stuff but I guess I’m going to have to step up.

And for your edification the rhyme:

A Tisket, A taskit/A green and yellow Basket/wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it, dropped it

Time again for a blog post. At least this time I’m closer to the two week mark or Fortnight as the British say.

Since last we met I’ve worked a bit more on my WIP. I’m at 30,575 words now. Still crawling along. But the main villain has shown up. However the heroes don’t know yet that this is the main villain. And the caught minion isn’t talking.

The cover is done and I showed the teaser on IG two weeks ago then on my FB when it was finished. I thought I’d show it here for those who follow this blog. I really like it. I’ll do a full cover reveal after I finish the book. But I wanted to at least reveal the title.

Read a novella and put it up on my reading/review blog on Http://newnovelreads.blogspot.com I am also catching up on a few of my other series: book 10 of Jazzi Zander series and book 2 of Magebreaker series. Book 10 is read and I’m on chapter 1 of book 2 of the Magebreaker series. I try to read one new book a month and at least one of next books in one of the series I’ve already read. But there are soo many books on my TBR list. Almost as much as is in my writing queue.

We’ve got kittens! The ferals have had their babies and are slim again but that hasn’t slowed them down from eating. For those of you who don’t know, we keep feral cats around to keep mice, rats and other pests away from our places. Since we’ve had ferals (years) we haven’t had problems with chewed wires or other nastiness. We feed them and have a couple of cat house put out for them. They are somewhat tame around me since I feed them. Plus Peaches (my cat) keeps them in line a bit. So I’m the crazy cat lady you hear about. They are all my children. 🙂

Well, time is up. Got to go do a ‘project’.

Stay tuned.

I try to get to this blog every two weeks or a fortnight as the British say. But time gets away from me. I’m going to change this blog a bit, at least the writing style. Gonna add a little personal to it instead of just a status report. I like a little personal added to the blogs I read so I decided I would add more like I did with the last blog.

Since last we met I’ve written some more in my WIP, book 1 of Bone Whisperer. I’m at 28, 607 words. Slowly but surely moving along. My muse is still just doling out little by little and won’t tell me the whole story besides the original idea. I want to get it and book 3 of Ghostwolf out this year but Ghostwolf may not happen.

I did however get out another redone cover. This one for my paranormal romance/murder mystery prequel of the Mortal Voice series. The other books are unfortunately stalled in my queue until I get all of my Elemental Voice and Ghostwolf books out. I have soo many books in the queue that I need to get out that I’ll never catch up unless I clone myself and nobody wants another one of me. 🙂

Also with the warmer weather has come ‘projects’. One of which is getting ready for our Spring yard sale coinciding with Spring cleaning. We live in small places and every Spring we go through our stuff to get rid of things we ‘don’t need’. Those words mean different things to each of us. We didn’t have one in 2020, 2021 or 2022 but we need to have one this year to get rid of 3 year accumulation. And the outside chores has began. My writing time will be limited during the Spring and Summer.

For those of you who don’t know I live on my parents’ property and help them out. They’re in their 70’s and while they can move about they still have problems with some things. They were in their 20’s when I was born so I’ll leave you to guess how old I am.

So I’m good to get one book out a year, though I try to get two out. Saying that Book 4 of Elemental Voice is out and I plan to get Book 1 of Bone Whisperer out this year. It will be gravy if I get Book 3 of Ghostwolf out as well.

Time is up for now.

Stay tuned.

25,182 words so far for Bone Whisperer book 1. So either 1/3 or 1/2 done depending on what my muse is wanting to do with this story. The villain’s minion is revealed while the true villain is only hinted at so far in the book. However both are lose and free to wreck more havoc for now. Got a bit of a twist coming. Don’t think anyone will see it coming though. Just got to figure out how my muse wants me to pull it off as she’s only doling out bits and pieces. Hopefully she’ll show me the way.

Now that warmer weather has been happening I’ve been busy outside. There’s always things to do outside when the weather’s warm. Dad has ‘projects’ for us to do. So my prime writing time is winding down and I’ll have to snatch time to write. I’m fitting in time now as much as I can before that happens since I want to get Bone done before June but I’m afraid I’ll miss that deadline. But I want to at least get it out this year. I had also planned to get Ghostwolf 3 out but… I think that may not happen.

I may however get some more new covers out. However since my new covers have been on my Elemental Voice books I haven’t sold a one. Don’t know what that says–yet. I’ll give it a little while while I get new covers for my other books.

Meanwhile I keep working on Bone.

Stay tuned.

The new covers for the books of Elemental Voice are now up.

I plan to do the two novellas as well. And my other books are also up for redoing. Now that I found a reasonably priced cover designer I want to put the covers I really want on my books instead of making due. I’m not very tech savvy nor am I rich enough to do professional covers on my own. And no I can’t ‘save up’ enough for a cover costing over $100. Some of us are on fixed incomes and live paycheck to paycheck. But I’ve found one that I can afford for now if I don’t mind hard sacrifices.

On to a better subject. I am working on book 1 of Bone Whisperer. I’m about 1/3 of the way done. I want to have it done before the June conference. However my muse is fickle and plans mean nothing to her. I wrote 2,000 words last week and over 500 so far. This being book 1 I have to set everything up and that’s taking time. I’m trying to keep the pacing moving along and not add too much info dumps. First books in a series are a balancing act. I hope I’m balancing well.

Stay tuned

With as much as Ravens feature in my books you’d think they are my favorite or something. They are not, but they do come up in a lot of folklore. From Norse mythology to the most obscure folk tale I’ve found they have played a role. So I took them and bits from many old tales and put them in my Bone Whisperer and Ghostwolf series. Crows and Ravens have companied many a soothsayer/oracle/psychic in the tales I’ve found so they were a natural, even over cats. Which are my favorite by the way. I will write a series with cats, but for now it is Ravens.

My characters are not witches in these two series, though that accusation has been hurled at one. My FMC in the Elemental Voice series could be considered one or psychic depending on your point of view. But the MCs in Bone Whisperer and Ghostwolf do not use ‘magic’ per se. However you will have to read the books to find out what they do use. 🙂

So the cats will get their day or series as be of their own. But the Ravens rule for now.

Book 4 of Elemental Voice is live!

Up next is Book 1 of Bone Whisperer and Book 3 of Ghostwolf.

I am also working on a book for Vella on Amazon.

I want to have either Bone Whisperer or Ghostwolf done before June so I have two new books for the Writer’s Conference this year. So my deadline is end of March, meaning I need to get in gear. Neither book is more than a 1/3 of the way done. But my muse is fickle and she does as she pleases.

Covers for Book 1 and Book 2 of Elemental Voice should be up soon. They are done and waiting in the wings for time to be found to be put up.

Stay tuned.

Saturday June 10th you can find me at the Between the Pages Conference in Springfield Missouri. I will have a table in the Book Room and will be signing books.

It’s been sent off.

On to the next two books in the queue.

Book 3 of Ghostwolf and Book 1 of Bone Whisperer are up next for this year. Both are already started and have at least one chapter done. Winter is my prime writing time so I’m hoping to have at least one of them done by March. Both if possible. I have a novella for EV I want to do this year as well, Deadly Waters, that will complete the EV companion series.

I plan to redo the covers of the EV books and perhaps others. I want to make them more to market but keep my aesthetic. No scantily clad women in sexy action pose or half nakked men, romance or no romance.

Stay tuned

Hopefully this year is better than last year. Both in personal and professional ways.

I did make more royalties last year than I have before as well as sold quite a few books at the few in-person events I went to. I wish I could go to more in-person events as I make more at them than I do online but there are few near me and I don’t have a car. 2022 saw a few improvements like a new website and a few months where my royalties went up. This year I plan to increase them more by changing some covers so they’re more to market. And hopefully my writing coach will have more suggestions for me to help make this a more profitable year.

Book 4 of Elemental Voice is about done. One more chapter to go. The cover is done and I’ve started on the blurb. I plan to have it published by the end of January, depending on editing/proofreading. First of the three books I want to pub this year.

May this year be successful for you as well