In addition, after a long struggle maintaining a social media presence, I've decided to remove myself entirely from all platforms. I will miss the interactions and other fun and interesting moments, but I've never been very good at such things, being more of a solitary type who prefers to listen and watch from a distance. My "last stand" was on Mastodon, which has been a true eye-opener, a platform that showed me it's still very much possible to be online without the baggage of a centralized space. It's also from Mastodon where I rediscovered my affection for DIY site-building using some good old self-taught HTML, which eventually led to the creation of my recent static site, which I also unfortunately had to give up.
So for those of you who've kept up with me all these years since 2008, thank you so, so much for your dedication and especially your patience, slogging through my back list with all the highs and lows of my writing. It's absolutely humbling knowing someone out there is willing to take a chance on me, and I'll forever be grateful to all of you. Thank you.
NEWEST RELEASE
The Perfect Rochester is a contemporary fantasy and gay rom-com that involves Greek mythology with a lot of tweaking on my part (details of which you'll be able to read in the book's introduction). The events are concurrent with those in Nightshade's Emporium, and while this book doesn't rehash the previous book's plot, it does make a number of references to them. It's a long novella of 50,000 words just like all the other books under the Grotesqueries umbrella. The e-book is priced at 99 cents while the print book is $9.00 USD.
RECENT RELEASE
Voices in the Briars is a gothic horror and gay romance retelling of the "Bluebeard" fairy tale, and it clocks in at 50,000 words. The e-book is priced at 99 cents, and the print book is $9.00 USD.
And as always, thank you for your support, and I sincerely hope you enjoy the book.
PUBLISHING CALENDAR
The image below showcases my planned releases for 2025:
The books now have set dates (or target dates, anyway), which I'm determined to meet (huzzah, a challenge!). The four-month interval plan is still in place, and it's by far the most manageable calendar I can work with. Of course, given my current pace of writing and energy levels fueling it, the dates can still be moved forward for an earlier release though I'm still pretty determined to keep to a three-book yearly calendar.
For 2026, this is what I'm looking at. Any changes for anything (date or sequence or even cancellation of a project), naturally, will be shared on my main blog:
2027 is too far ahead to post anything of substance, but I do have one tentative book idea that might see the light of day so far. As it tends to happen, though, some future book ideas ended up getting worked into a current WiP if the shoe fits on occasion. At any rate, I'll talk more about that on my blog as we go.
