Rebuild, Refocus, Restart
Rebuilding took longer than I expected. But at this time all releases previously put out by Dreamspinner Press, Torquere Press and Purple Horn Press have been rereleased. The Stouten Duet series is out in kindle e-book and paperback—a bookend set for the Sam’s Cafe Romances.
Rebuilding is hard. I've spent over three years rebuilding my health from my injury, and it's still only a partial recovery. I use most of my ability to sit and work at a computer every day for my day job. Writing is a struggle. Difficulty getting started, once only discouraging, now means often abandoning writing for the night, since I must dole out finite periods of sitting and writing or my back can rebel for hours... or days... or weeks. It means writing more rigidly, less fluidly, and under constraints that I find myself unprepared for.
Nonetheless, I intend to have at least one release this year. Hopefully two. I have yet to decide exactly what those releases will be. I have a werewolf romance that needs polishing and that may well be what comes out. We'll see. In the meantime, I’ve retooled the website on a new host, and I'll be trying to give both it, and my newsletter, more attention.
Fortune’s Price is out now!
And now for Fortune’s Pawn...
Time to rebuild
But I have pushed out The Tendire Gate and American Pride to Amazon under the imprint of Ashavan Doyon Books.
Why these books? They were short, easy, and written only for the Purple Horn Press, so there's less to clean up. They represent both the hurt/comfort/angst romance I was known for and the weird sci-fi/fantasy romance vibe I liked to tread every once in a while... and since a lot of what I've written more recently, what little there is, has been more in that area, I wanted it represented early.
I am going to try to get one more out this weekend (probably The Byte of Betrayal - it was the final release from Purple Horn, so its files are pretty clean).
I'm sure that seems like a lot. It does to me! But I'm still terrified. These three represent my three shortest works!
For novellas that still leaves the three Sam's cafe books, A Christmas Vision, The Colors of Romance, and I Almost Let You.
And there's still Gerry's Lion (print and e-book!) and the four College Rose Romance books (not including the unpublished fifth, which is done, but can't come out until those four are out in print and e-book.
So, yeah. Even releasing three this weekend still leaves six novellas and five novels (six if you count Forgiving James) to get out into the world.
Definitely whelmed.
And everything is gone
So, a reimagined rerelease schedule, if I can pull myself together will start with The Tendire Gate, because it's easiest, and possibly The Byte of Betrayal. Both are ebook only releases, and so the changes to the files would be minimal. The Tendire Gate worries me, because on its original release it got tossed for no apparent reason into the adult dungeon. It's probably my least explicit story. So I need to figure that out.
I know. These books are my babies, why am I not willing to spend that time? It comes down to health, and that fall that I've talked about last March. It wasn't just any injury, it was a broken back. The recovery is glacially slow. I did complete Nano, as is my tradition, in November, so there is improvement, but I will say, it was hard—as hard as when I lost Piggy, or the year I tried to write when dumpster fire came into office. But I feel desperately in need of getting some of these back into the world, so we'll see if I can manage it.