Another Memorial Day is in the past—and I hope everyone had a great weekend with their families and friends while they commemorated our fallen military servicemembers. I actually spent most of my Memorial Day working on some book admin type things, primarily outlining and tinkering with stuff for future books!

That said, I do have a few really great updates this week, so keep reading for the latest news! I don’t predict this one will be particularly long, either.

Notes to Readers/A Few Quick Things

Just a few little reminders, plus some new things:

Bloodlines is, as it’s been for about a month now, available in e-book format. The paperback is coming shortly—I’m currently waiting on the paperback’s proof to arrive at my house so I can check it over before hitting the publish button. You can buy your e-book copy of the book by visiting its page right here on my website! (And maybe think about buying it from my shop rather than a big retailer? It’s the same price, but it supports me more, and it has super easy, step-by-step instructions on how to load the book on your e-reader of choice, too!)Speaking of Bloodlines, I’ve got the paperback page set up here on my shop for those of you who prefer to buy directly from me. It’s currently listed as a “backorder,” but you’re still able to go ahead and purchase it through my site if you want an autographed copy; I’m placing an order for paperbacks just as soon as I check over the proof copy, so if you order now, I’ll be able to throw yours into my order for regular book stock once I’m at the ordering stage of the process (which should likely be next week)!A friendly reminder: the audiobook edition of Revelations, the third book in The Becoming Series, is currently 60% off for a very limited time—as in, the sale ends next Monday! So if you haven’t gotten your audiobook copy of Revelations, I’d highly recommend grabbing your copy while it’s on sale!As a sort of aside, I’m aiming to start building up my YouTube channel here shortly, but I’d like to get more subscribers over there before I start doing so in earnest. If you’re so inclined, I’d appreciate a sub!And lastly, here on my shop, there are new payment options for purchasing books…including the ability to now pay for your purchases using Klarna and Afterpay! This even includes the e-books, in case you’re dying to buy, say, all of my e-books from me but don’t want to shell out all the cost up front all at once! So if you haven’t bought your books yet and want to support me without breaking the bank, that’s a great way to stretch out the total so you don’t have to shell out so much all at once!A Bit About My Writing

Most of my writing over the past week or so has primarily been focused on “administrative” stuff—as in, the fiddly things writers do behind the scenes that readers don’t normally see. In this case, I hit pause on the drafting of Retribution in order to take some time to better outline the book. I’m not quite done with the outline—I’m still tinkering with some stuff that I haven’t 100% sold myself on yet—but things will proceed as soon as I make up my mind with all of that.

I’ve also been working on the outline for the next book in The Unnaturals Series, Demon Marked. It’s going reasonably smoothly, though I’m having to backtrack and re-read a lot of the four books that are already out just to refresh my memory on what happened and what I’d planned to set up for the next book. That should hopefully be wrapped up over this next week, since I think I know what I’m going to do with it.

And then there’s the series that shall not be named yet (mainly because I haven’t actually settled on a name quite yet). I’ve mostly been working on the worldbuilding; I like my concept a lot, but it obviously needs a great deal of fleshing out before I can proceed with the actual drafting of that series, though I’m genuinely looking forward to getting started on that series, since it’s something a little different.

A Note to Authors

I don’t normally post about my editing work too much over here, but I know I have a lot of authors who follow me, too, so I thought it was worth mentioning something over here about it. For those of you who are in need of a line editor, copy editor, or proofreader (or maybe even a developmental editor, assuming the book fits in with the sort of thing that I’m always on the lookout for), I’m now taking new clients over at my editing business editsbyjessica.com. I’m also still offering monthly payment plans if you need to stretch out the costs of editing, plus my invoicing software is now allowing me to accept payments using Klarna, so there’s now that option, too.

So if you are an author (or you know an author) who is looking for an editor with reasonable pricing and would prefer a human being edit your books rather than an AI program that risks stripping out your voice from your book or introducing further errors into it, definitely get in touch with me and let me see what I can do for you!

Before I dip out for the week, I did want to take a second to thank everyone who has purchased copies of Bloodlines (and, for that matter, all my other books), has left reviews, and has recommended them to friends, family, and others that might be interested. Your continuing support genuinely means the world to me!