Here we go!

In 2024, I finished drafting Wooing the Witch Queen (the first book in my Queens of Villainy trilogy) and then edited it under the guidance of my wonderful editor, Erika Tsang. I wrote two fun little ‘extras’ for it, too, one for its upcoming Bookish Box edition (coming in March 2025!) and one for…something I can’t tell you yet! (But I WILL tell you in 2025, I swear.)

I also wrote a flash fiction story, “So, Your Child Turned Out to Be a Phoenix,” which was published this June in the online magazine Worlds of Possibility (and then republished as an ebook for my Patreon Dragon Ruler subscribers this month).

I wrote a new spooky-cozy rom-com novella, A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience, which came out in August – and my patrons on Patreon have voted for it to become the first in a series: the Unexpected Adventures of Lady and Lord Riven!

I’m midway through writing a new short story on commission for a really cool magazine, and I’m hoping to see that published in not too long…

And I am SO CLOSE to finishing the first draft of Enchanting the Fae Queen, book 2 in my Queens of Villainy trilogy. Only 9,000 words to go! I’m planning to submit this to Erika in January, and I can’t wait to write the joyful ending.

(Insert the “avert!” sign here, please, to hold off all rounds of family illness, crises, etc. I loooooove these characters and their story, and I can’t wait to share!)

Coming up to 2025, I can’t wait to finally bring my wicked witch queen and her sweet, cinnamon roll librarian (slash secret Archduke in disguise) into the world in February. (You can preorder Wooing the Witch Queen now!)

I’ll be editing Enchanting the Fae Queen once it’s finished and also writing most of Melting the Ice Queen (Book 3 in the trilogy!) across the year for my January 31st, 2026 deadline.

And I’ll be writing the second novella in the Lady and Lord Riven series of scholarly & supernatural adventures, too: A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence is available to preorder! (But please ignore the pub date on its retailer page. I truly doubt that it will actually take that long to put it out!)

Here’s to a 2025 full of good stories and characters we love.

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