I'm Still Alive!

Hello, All You Glorious Readers!

Yes, I'm still alive! Since DH and I returned from our trip to Georgia to see Genius Kid's promotion ceremony, I've been essentially glued to my laptop. So, here are the updates!

1) My lovely formatter is currently back to work, and she delivered the proof copy of A Barrel of Vintner (Justice #11)! I'm slowly going through it, but hopefully, the trade paperback version will be available at the end of June.

2) Death Goddess Fighting (The Books of Apep #2) is finished and sitting in the proverbial drawer. After its cooling-off period, I plan to start edits a week from today.

3) I'm currently writing Death Goddess Redeeming (The  Books of Apep #3), and it's currently at the 20% mark.

4) As a palate cleanser, I work on A Sprout of Wild (Justice #12) in the evening. It is also closing in on the 20% mark.

I hope to give you more frequent updates as the summer rolls on!

Rise in Prices

The current economic chaos is gouging everyone these days. Shelter, food, and gasoline are necessities. Without those, people cannot obtain work and travel to their jobs in a large part of the U.S.

Unfortunately, I'm in the same position as everyone else in the country. I find it necessary to raise prices on e-books. I've been resisting it for the last ten years.

Any e-books currently released will remain at their current prices. Any unfinished series, like Justice and Millersburg Magick Mysteries, will remain at their current price levels.

Any NEW novels or series, i.e.  any work where Book #1 or a new single title, is released on retailers after May 15, 2026, will be priced at $5.99. Novellas will be priced at $3.99.

It sucks to raise prices when we're all just trying to get by.

Release Day!

A Barrel of Vintner is out in the universe!

Well, the ebook version is. The trade paperback version will have to wait.

My formatter obtained a new bionic knee two weeks ago. She and her torturer physical therapist are still working out the kinks, and she can't sit at her desk for longer than a few minutes.

Trust me. It'll be worth the wait for her to properly format a paperback. I can do an ebook, but I know when I'm out of my depth.

For those of you who have already ripped through A Barrel of Vintner (and you know who you are), I have started on A Sprout of Wild, but

a) It's gonna to be in the 100K-word range, just like the last two Justice novels, which means it takes TIME to write!

b) I'm finishing Death Goddess Fighting first for various reasons, most importantly I'm at roughly the 75% mark and I need a palette-cleanser before going back to the Justice universe.

Seriously, my darling readers, I am not George R.R. Martin. I won't leave you hanging for a decade or three. I just need a break because the last two volumes of Justice are going to be INTENSE!

Anyway, I hope those of you who have your copies can sit outside and enjoy some lovely weather. Because those of us in Northwest Ohio have already had a couple of tornado warnings over the last twenty hours.

IT'S COMING!

I spent the weekend formatting and uploading the ebook version of A Barrel of Vintner (Justice #11). The file has been uploaded to all retailers. All the preorder links on this website have been populated. And many thanks to those readers who had their preorders in before I even announced it!

For those wanting a paperback version, the trade paperback will be delayed a few weeks. My regular formatter recently had a bionic knee installed, so she's working out the kinks. So I'm patiently waiting since she does a much better job with paperbacks than I do!

And now, I'm back to writing! Which is really the best part of this whole career. Meeting new characters. Revisiting old favorites. It doesn't matter. Writing is an act of creation, and it fits with this time of year.

Outside my window, a bumblebee is collecting dinner from blooming daffodils and dandelions. Yes, I let dandelions bloom in my surburban yard. The bumblebee and her pollinating sisterhood need to replenish their stores after a particular rough winter. I'm not going to starve the poor critters. We need them to keep this planet going.

Hopefully, I'll have a little time here and there through the rest of the growing season to spruce up the flower beds and plant some new blooming beauties. That way, the bumblebee and her kindred will have a little more variety for their hives' palette.

When the Sh** Hits the Fan Like a Big Ole' Crazy Man

UGH! I got slammed with a bunch of non-writing, non-publishing stuff. It's been a juggling week to make sure everything gets done.

On the other hand, I've had some good laughs from the junk e-mails I'm receiving. Lots of alleged girls want to sent me naked pics. Ummm, sorry, scammers! I don't swing that way. *delete*

Or there's the scammer who claims he controls the camera on my laptop, and he's recorded me masturbating. *HAHAHAHA!* Oh, and he only wanted $600 to not release the videos. My guess is the AI-generated clip will not have an accurate representation of my current physical state. Like my surgical scars.

There's the credit offers allegedly from my former bank. Which no longer exists because a bank from another state bought it out in 2024.

To top things off, there's another scammer trying to collect on the virus protector I use (bill's already paid two years ahead, doofus), PayPal, and FedEx. Seriously? Three different companies will NOT be going through one individual to collect ny outstanding fees due. *shaking my head*

After some good and much needed chuckles, I've finishing up the final touches for the release of A Barrel of Vintner. I hope you all have a lovely spring weekend! 

Preorders Are Coming!

The preorders are starting to go live for A Barrel of Vintner (Justice #11)!

I managed to get a couple of them uploaded prior to DH and I leaving last week for Georgia to see our son. Upon our return, I was shocked to see people have already pre-ordered this novel before I made any announcement!

Thank you to those readers who can't wait to read this novel!

Below are the links to various retailers. I'll populate the rest of the links as they go live.

Thank you again to everyone who loves and supports the Justice series! I has been a lot of fun to write!

Amazon
Apple
Barnes & Noble
Google Play
Kobo
Smashwords

Dancing through the Fields of Editing

I completed the first draft of A Barrel of Vintner on Sunday. I shifted to editing Death Goddess Walking on Monday. And it's taking a little longer than I'd planned because I made a boo-boo.

My alpha reader finished consuming DGW nearly two years ago. Life matters became so crazy that I accidentally had corrections from the read-thru in two different files. *facepalm*

So I'm picking through the two files in order to integrate all the changes. Plus, I'm finding some typos I missed during the first two rounds of edits.

Hopefully, I should have things wrapped up on DGW today. Tomorrow, I need to finished writing the first chapter of A Sprout of Wild to be included as a teaser at the end of A Barrel of Vintner. Then I can go full-out on the edits for ABoV.

Soon, my gentle readers, you will have some new things to read!