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December 2025

Well, December is here. I’ve been a little depressed this last week so I didn’t write here as I normally would during the first week of the month. Seasonal Disorder has been a bummer for me. I hate that it gets dark so early. Normally I would be writing but my muse has been absenteeing. She’s been ignoring the story voices. That’s rare thing for her, yet she’s been doing it for the last month. However the voices don’t like to be ignored and I am getting restless. Come the new year I’m going to sit down and we are all going to have a chat.

It’s been colder here this month, below 40. Couple of times there’s been ice in the water pans. I’ve been putting out a bit more food for the ferals. We keep an extra bag of dry in case we can’t get out right away. Most of the older cats hunt but the younger ones, I’m not sure about. I’ve never seen them with anything. The squirrels and birds are fast around here and the older ones rarely catch them either but I have seen them with rabbits and field mice from the field behind our lot. A few of the young ferals sit on my parent’s back porch and watch the bird feeders, such intensity. Some even twitch.

I read and reviewed the two book club books I was behind on. However I still have to read the last book. I still don’t have any gumption for doing anything right now. But I’ll get that last book read and reviewed before the end of month. As I said Seasonal Disorder is kicking my butt. I’llget over it though. I usually do once the holidays are over and the new year has begun. Something about starting fresh jolts those blues away.

I’m organizing my goals for next year. I have plans, things I want to get done. Whether my muse cooperates is another thing.

Gotta go. Catch you on the flip side. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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November 2025

A bit behind on things. Seasonal Disorder is kicking my butt. It gets dark too early for my rhythms.

I haven’t winterized my trailer completely yet. I just don’t have the gumption. And to me it’s not that cold right now. It’s dipped into the 30’s but with just a long-sleeved shirt I feel fine. Spring and Fall are my seasons. Well, except for the sinus problems they bring. I hate that.

My muse has not been very busy. I’ve only written about 200 words in all of October. And I am now two books behind in my book club. No gumption at all.

Mama cat has only two kittens with her now. She’s moved to the wood pile by the old chicken house with them. An older kitten has moved into the chicken house itself. I think it is one of the summer bunch that had stopped showing up. It looks like one of them any way. The kitten’s a scaredy cat though. You even look at it the wrong way and it runs off a little ways. If it spends enough time around here it will calm down some. They all do once they realize we ain’t gonna hurt them.

Been watching a few YouTube videos. Well more than some. But I’m starting to get tired of them. Maybe I’ll be forced to go back to reading when I get bored of YouTube.

November is a between month for me. Halloween and Christmas. Thanksgiving doesn’t mean much when most of your family is gone and you don’t have a lot of friends. Christmas isn’t the same either. But Halloween and Christmas the whole world celebrates publicly and it’s nice to watch the children enjoy the holidays. Tis the season as they say.

Gotta go. Catch you on the flip side. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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October 2025

Halloween is just around the corner!

Halloween is my favorite holiday though I do not really celebrate it. There are not many social events here, small town. We have a yearly craft festival and put up holiday decorations around the square but rarely does that translate into social events even at the local senior center. However I still have that wonder towards Halloween that I had as a child. I love dressing up as a character and being that inner child/person even if only for a few hours. If I ever win the lottery I plan to make a yearly Halloween event wherever I land in October.

Speaking of the craft festival, I didn’t sell much. I did talk to quite a few people, but it didn’t translate into sales. I have an in-person event on the 11th so I’ll see how that does.

Still haven’t been reading or writing much. In fact I haven’t read the September book club book and reviewed it yet. I just haven’t been very ambitious. My muse is being very fickle, playing hide and seek. It hides while I seek it. So nothing got done last month except procrastination.

Mama cat moved her kittens from under the trailer. She only has four now with her. Makes me smile to see them try to eat the cat food with their tiny teeth. They are so cute.

I’ll be putting up the skirting around the trailer this month. The cold weather will be here before we know it and I want to make sure the cold wind stays out from underneath my trailer. Now that the kittens are out I don’t have to worry about them and can seal it the best I can. Duck tape added to my shopping list. It’s a good sealant.

Time to publish this. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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September 2025

Greetings!

September is here meaning Hootin An Hollarin. The craft fair starts the third Thursday of the month at 530 p.m. with music and pageantry that night and full on fair Friday and Saturday. There will be demonstrations and games as well as the craft displays. I have the same booth as I’ve had since I’ve started doing the fair. It’s convenient to both food and the necessity(porta potty). I have pubbed two books since the last fair so perhaps I may get a sale or two from that. There will also be keychains and bookmarks I’ve done. Hopefully we will have a good turnout.

One of our female ferals had a litter of kittens under my trailer where a pipe is closed in with insulation. I think that she was there when she had went into labor and decided to keep them there, at least until she can scout a better location near by. 5 little shrimps. They’ve been there for about two weeks now, maybe longer as I wouldn’t have noticed them except that they cried that day. Looks to be 3 tabbies and 2 greys as far as I can tell. I’ll try to snag a pic of them when mama leaves.

New month, new book club book. This one is a paranormal romance I think so it shouldn’t be too much of a struggle for me to read as I like that kind of book.

I’ve been following a youtube channel guy who’s renovating a house in the middle of a forest overseas and a woman in the UK who bought a rundown house at auction to renovate. So I haven’t really been writing or reading much. My muse is just not in a hurry right now since I’ve finished writing that book. I think the intensity it pushed tired it out. But I plan to get two novellas done before the end of the year.

This one’s gonna be short. The ferals are waiting for their lunch outside in the shade between my door and where the food bin is. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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August 2025

Already 8 months into this year. Time seems to be going both fast and slow. The months seem to be coming fast but during the month it seems slow.

Been reading more than writing. My muse is being somewhat quiet this month which is nice in a way after the way she was, however I need her to get into gear and get this WIP done so I have something new for Hootin An Hollarin. But my muse is fickle, and other muses can hop in and take over. As I said last month herding plot bunnies is hard; those hind legs really pack a oomp when they hit, and they can be vicious and tenacious. The quiet ones get overwhelmed if I don’t keep at it. Sometimes even if I do.

Started on the book club book for this month. I just can’t seem to get into it though. I’ll get it read & reviewed but it ain’t gonna be easy. It might just be because I’ve been reading cozy mysteries and this definitely ain’t. It’s a suspense. Which I normally like. However I just can’t relate to this book. I don’t know.

The ferals have been lying in the shade all passed out this last week since the heat index has been around 105* on the ‘cool’ days and the humidity has been around 85%. There’s plenty of water. Even the kittens have been napping. Our weather lady said it will be cooler this coming week and we may even have some rain. We’ll all have some relief. Still haven’t named any of the kittens. Only 7 of them show up consistently.

Breaktime is over and I have to go outside and check the water pans before I do anything else. AS I said there’ plenty of water but I like to keep them full as possible. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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July 2025

July is here. Over half the year is gone already. The summer heat has started, and it’s been alternating with rain or blazing sun. With all the rain we’re getting, I think August and September may be ‘dry’ months. I just hope September is fairly cool for Hootin An Hollarin. I don’t want to cook while I attend my booth.

As my last post said, I finished my WIP Dragon’s Heart. My Mary-Sue muse was harsh. She wouldn’t do more than a page a day and wouldn’t let me work on any of the other WIPs. Almost OCD. But it’s done. Not my greatest work, but then forced work never is.

Novella 3 of the Elemental Voice Companion series is moving along. I hope to get it out by September. Book 5 of EV and Novella 4 of EVC will be next on the agenda after. Unless my muse switches up. Which, you never know, they might. I want to get the Elemental Voice series done, though. I have over 15 books out and not one series finished. My muse is fickle, and other muses hop in and take over. Herding plot bunnies is hard; those hind legs really pack a oomp when they hit, and they can be vicious and tenacious.

Already read this month’s book club book and did the review last month. So that’s done, and I’ve been reading cozy mysteries. Some of them are okay, but a few are not my cup of tea. They sound interesting, yet they don’t go the way I like. Quick, easy reads, though.

The ferals have been lounging in the shade, watching the kittens run around. None of the kittens let me get near them yet. They’re still wild. The mamas rub up against me when I feed them. Hurry up, they’re no doubt saying. Haven’t named the kittens yet. Not really anyway. I’ve been calling them little grey or orangy. But no real names.

My clock says it’s lunch time for me. The ferals already had their lunch. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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June 2

My Mary-Sue muse has stopped chasing the other muses/plot bunnies away. I’m done with the WIP I’ve been working on. It ends rather abruptly but that’s the way the muse left it. I sent it out to my publishing coordinator and see if she’ll pub it. I’m not touching it again. It consumed me for months a trickle at a time. And I don’t know why cause it was just a little snippet of a dream I had years ago. But the muse wanted it done. But on her terms.

Maybe it was taking up valuable real estate in my mind that needed to be cleared out. I don’t know. Anyway it’s done now and I’m moving on finally.

My next two WIPs are novella 3 of Elemental Voice companion series and one of the dragon fantasy Fallborn books. I hope to get at least one of them out before September. The other I hope by November.

Read this month’s book club book and did the review. It was a Christian romance. I usually don’t read them cause some get real preachy but this one was fair. Only got a little preachy towards the end but still was a good clean book. She had changed the title but I prefer the older title. I think the older title suits the book better. But the new title does grab attention.

I ordered and got a few books for inventory. I was out of a couple. Since they are older I didn’t get many. I’m hoping to get my WIPs out and ordered before Hootin An Hollarin so I have new books to sell. That’s the thing about writing you always have to have new inventory to put out or you don’t sell as well.

Gonna relax tonight, watch a DVD. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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June 2025

Halfway through the year already, and I haven’t published a book yet. I’m still working on my WIP. I have two more books I want to get out, but I can’t work on them until I get this thing done. My muse is being so fickle about it. She won’t let me work on anything else til I get this done. It’s irritating me. But my muse wants this written now. It was at the bottom of my queue, but she shoved it in front and said, ‘Do this’. Like I don’t have thousands of books to write in my queue.

Anyway, Summer’s here officially now. Mornings we do a little bit outside, then have lunch and sit in a/c for a few hours after. Evenings we go outside for a while as well, once the sun has moved a bit. The ferals are haunting the shade, and the little babies aren’t so little anymore. They’re growing a little bit and playing around with mamas keeping an eye on ’em. There are three water bowls for them near the feeding boards and a metal container full of rainwater that they like to use, so they’ve got plenty of water. All the kittens have started to eat the dry cat food so I’ve increased the amount a bit in the three main feedings. Before I go in at night I put a little out. I figure that mamas need a little extra. 🙂

Did last month’s book club book. It was actually good. At first I thought it was going to be a retelling of David and Goliath but it wasn’t. It did have giants and battles but most of it was a coming of age tale of a slave who became a champion of his people. Slayer of Nephilim by Daniel Moots. This month’s a romance and one I normally wouldn’t read as it’s not paranormal. We’ll see how it goes.

My in-person TTMP event last month was okay. I didn’t sell much. Of course I didn’t have anything new. Hootin An Hollarin is up next in September and then another TTMP event in October. I’m hoping to have new books for both.

I didn’t do a cover last month. I’ll see about doing it this month. I need to build up my covers. They keep me on track with what I’m writing. If I have the cover I have to do the book.

Time to feed the ferals their last main feeding. Stay tune for the next installment.

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May 2025

Almost half way through the year. April indeed was wet but the flowers have already bloomed and some have come and gone.

We’ve been sitting outside on the porch in the evenings for a bit and doing odd ‘projects’ here and there before dark. Now that it doesn’t get dark until after 8p.m. The ferals have been hanging around napping while we sit on the porch and some of the females seem to have had their kittens. Now that it’s warm the cats don’t eat as much. There’s leftovers after they go through and I’ve cut down to 3 feedings a day.

Time to start reading the next book club book. The other members read mine and gave me fair reviews. I can’t afford an editor and I usually go for a proofreader but sometimes even they miss things. However I think I didn’t have either for Bone, just spellchecker. So I agree about the grammar errors. When I read a book if I get immersed in it I don’t even see the typos.

I have not finished my main WIP. My muse is adding things in, fleshing out some more. It’s gonna be published this month one way or another. I have two novellas I want to get out by September. This WIP is a little different than my other books. Probably why my muse is being so fickle with it.

I have an in-person event this first Saturday of the month at Hardenville, MO. Triple Treasures Market Place. I also signed up for Hootin An Hollarin at Gainesville, MO in the third week of September. These are probably the only 2 I will be going to as funds are short. Unless I get a lot of sales this month. And I do mean a lot. 🙂

I have picked a cover to do this month. The cover for book 3 of the Bone Whisperer series. That is if I can. Money isn’t a sure thing right now.

The clock says it’s lunchtime and so does my stomach. Stay tune for the next installment.

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April 2

Been spending more time outside, sitting on the porch. The ferals lay nearby and Pie climbs me like I’m a ladder to sit on my shoulder. He likes to sit across my shoulders and rub his head against my cheek. I guess I’m a big cat tree for him. His nails are sharp but he’s quick about it and is usually on my shoulders before I register the pain of his claws. Some of the younger ones let me run a hand down their backs and rub their ears. Privileges of feeding them.

I didn’t do a cover this month. I’m a bit short of cash. And I didn’t know what one I want to do anyway. I have three on my mind.

Still working on my WIPs. Passed my deadline so the book will be late getting out. Hopefully by September I can have 2 out. I want a new book by Hootin An Hollarin at least. The contemporary dragon book is almost done and I’ve got a chapter or two of novella 3 of the Elemental Voice Companion series written. I want to have these two out for H-N-H. Then Book 3 of Ghostwolf and Book 2 of Bone Whisperer will be up.

I already downloaded the next book in the book club. Mine is this month and I already got 3 reviews. I need to finish the book I’m reading now and get to reading the next book club book. Since I only read an hour in the evening it may take me a while. During the winter I read more but summer is spent doing other things.

It’s lunchtime already. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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