Current status and updates for all my active projects, both on and offline. For quick synopses of each of these books, check out my Wattpad info doc: it's linked in my profile bio and in the intro chapter of this book.

As the Crow Falls: Nothing to report. Complete offline, posting weekly.

City of Coral: Posting weekly as per usual. Sacrificing November to my other epic series is a move I don't regret, but that book continued to eat my brain though December and January, sooooo I'm now out of buffer chapters on this one. Whoops. The upside is, this book is almost completely plotted, so all I have to do is write.

Red Rover: This book is down to its last four chapters! It will begin speed-posting next Monday, 3x a week until completion. Buckle up ✨

Can You Cook a Dragon (Flash Fiction Collection): On hold until my life schedule stabilizes.

Rocks Can Dance: Hoping to finally finish this sucker in 2023, but right now, nothing to report. I haven't touched it in months. Life do be like that sometimes.

Super Secret Mystery Project™ That Will Remain A Mystery Until Launch: On pause. This one has always been a side project, and it's definitely a book I plan to bring to completion. It's also been a casualty of my juggling two epic series, which take up so much wordcount that they leave limited room for everything else. I'd love to have this book done in 2023. It's sprintable, so there's a chance I'll get hit with a writing bug one month and write it as a break from other things. On the other hand, my current wordcount budget for 2023 is pretty tight, so I'm assuming this will be a 2024 project. Time will tell!

The Wall of Imanti: I did not, in fact, finish this book by the end of the year. It grew past my anticipated wordcount and then ate my brain for all of January. It is less than 10k from completion, where it will clock in at a hefty 260-265k. I would love to have it done asap, but have run critically low on buffer chapters for my Kels series, as mentioned above. Two-simultaneous-epics problems. Gah! I love them both, but sparing wordcount for each feels a little like trying to water two gardens with the same hose sometimes. 

Hattu Empire Series (aka Desert Epic): Plotting on Book II is well underway. It can be hard to maintain momentum on a project this size, so I'm hoping not to drop it for more than a month or two at a time going forward. Will I accomplish that in reality? We'll find out.

Water Will Rise: Chilling in a corner with a drink and popcorn as I fight with City of Coral and The Wall of Imanti over wordcount problems.

The Legend of the June Beetle: With contractual possibilities on the horizon, I want to have this book's plot under my belt so I can whip it off as needed in 2023. I haven't started serious plotting on it yet, but I'm definitely toying with ideas more than I was a month ago.

Way too many ONC ideas; help  😂

I GRADUATED!

Wow, it feels good to be out of school and back to the world of getting paid to do work instead of paying to do work. I have secured a Masters degree and am currently job hunting... the hamster wheel is never-ending. On the upside, it means I've got more free time again! Y'know, after I finish moving and then fall headfirst into house renovations. Adulting is fun, guys.

I feel like I'm slowly finding my rhythm as a pro author, though, a direction I'll keep moving in this year whether it pays me or not. This shift has included more regular writing, better yearly wordcount budgeting so I don't bite off more than I can chew, and (excitingly) a potential upgrade to my per-minute writing speed. I realized that last one just last month, when I began sprinting my Kels series again after a three-month break. Turns out writing most of 200k in November worked wonders for my ability to tippy-tappy all those words.

Looking ahead to 2023, I feel like my biggest challenge (other than the yearly wordcount I'm trying to meet) will be holding to my goals and requirements without doing away with spontaneity. Some of my most fun and rewarding projects in 2022 hit me out of the blue, and I'd hate to get so locked in that I can't make space for that to happen in the future. Problems I never thought I'd find myself dealing with, but that's what character development is all about, isn't it? 😆

Onward to a new year!

I felt like posting kittens, so here are some kittens.