I’m doing several things right now, as far as author’ing goes.  I’m finishing up book five.  The finish line is rapidly approaching.  I have to say it is taking a serious emotional toll on me.  I’ve known what was going to happen to these characters from the first word of The Awakening, but it doesn’t make it any easier for me to draw this series to a close.  However a part of me feels some tiny, itty bitty baby sense of relief.

I love this series, I do.  But I’m ready to move on to other things.

I’m currently ramping up for a 2 day appearance at the Tucson Festival of Books with the BookGoodies blog.  I’ve been a long-time follower and frequent subscriber to their advertising services with great results.  Today I found a massive stack of bookmarks which excited me because it saved me a metric ton on re-printing (and by metric-ton I mean like fifty bucks, which is not small change here).  One of my kids pointed out I had a bag of them in my sea of junk that is my garage.

I’ve also struggled with a decision and have finally made it, which may disappoint some of you, but I think it’s for the best.  Come mid-March, I will be unpublishing the Alexandra Fry series.  The truth is, for all the hundreds of dollars in marketing I’ve put into this book the last three months, my sales are dismal.  I mean I can count them on two hands dismal.  Because I’m an indie author, my main source of income stems from ebooks.  I can utilize amazon sales and marketing techniques which really gets the book going.  However even with some high-traffic blogs and websites and advertising, I just cannot get this series off the ground.  The sad part is, it’s very well received.  Better than any of my other books.  I’ve had emails and queries about the series and people excited for more.

But not enough.

I’m not abandoning the series, but I think it’s time to pursue an agent and see about getting the book aligned with a publisher who may be able to do it justice in print form.  I’m sad to put it on hold, but I’m confident I can find a home for this series where it will find its way into the hands of interested young readers.

Lastly I just wanted to give an update on some of my upcoming projects, since I have several.

Right now I’m fleshing out two new series.  The first is a mystical, supernatural series called Cirque Mystique featuring a variety of my favorite supernatural beasties.  I’m not sure how many books, but it will have a central story arc.  So far I have outlines for three books, and I’m working on character bio-sheets and bullet-point plot lists for the first book.

The second is a supernatural satire (noticing a theme here?  hah) called the Daniel Webster chronicles.  It details out the life of a young man who, as it turns out, happens to be the half-human son of the Devil.  The series will follow Daniel though his adventures in Law School as he prepares to take over Hell’s law firm.  My notes for this series are still small, but they are so far very fun, and the small samples I’ve written out to share with a few people in my writing circle have been very well received.

Lastly (for the moment) I’m working on a coffee-table memoir style book called Single Mom Dating.  A lot of times I’ll get caught up sharing stories about my adventures dating just after my divorce, and I realize most of my stories are anecdotal.  Some unintentionally hilarious, many with a decent lesson I’d like to share, and all of them I know other single moms will understand and the rest of the world will enjoy laughing at.  I think this one will probably be my next book out, and there will be a massive disclaimer for any of my family members to take caution, lest they want to find out more information about my dating life than they ever wanted to know.  Ha!

So I’m off to work again, using this beautiful Saturday curled up at my computer trying to get through these last pages.  Thanks for sticking with me so far.  And since it’s a thing– Happy Valentine’s Day.  And Happy Belated Galentine’s Day from yesterday.

Edit:  The other day I had an email asking me about other social media I use.  And apart from my Facebook page, the only other thing I use is Instagram.  Which you can find me on @btchsprinkles .  It’s mostly just random photos of really random stuff, and a lot of kid stuff.  And Ipsy bags and crochet and knitted stuff.  But if you want a very haphazard peek into my day, feel free to follow me :)