2022. Voids, starfires and broken dreams, 2022. I'm not going to go into great detail, but 2022 was only not the worst year of the pandemic for us because all of it was carried forward from 2021. Still dealing with the house crisis and my mom's passing. Work wise, I continued to write. My team and I put out eight books this year: Admiral’s Oath, the first book in the Dakotan Confederacy trilogy, continuing in the Castle Federation Universe Balefire, the dark fantasy novella ... Read more »
Year End Round Up
2021
This won't be a full length wrap-up. Like I said last year, my partner and I are both particularly vulnerable to covid so we've hunkered down as best as we can. We lost my mother this year. Not directly to covid, but the overload of hospitals in her region due to people refusing to take it seriously was a huge factor. My sympathy and tolerance for covidiots is now less than zero. Be warned. And as a final capstone to the year, we've discovered that our house has serious water damage and ... Read more »
What to even say about 2020
A round-up post, huh. Gods. What to even say about 2020. I have heart issues. My partner has asthma. So along comes a pandemic that we are both specifically vulnerable to. I jokingly say a lot that we haven't left our house since February. It's an exaggeration, but not much of one. Thankfully, with the way we've structured Faolan's Pen and what we do, that's entirely doable for us - entirely thanks to the readers who keep buying my books. Despite all of 2020, we were lucky enough to ... Read more »
2019 Roundup – I DIDN’T DIE
That headline is necessary after last year :D No cardiac incidents at all, in fact. (The follow up to my supraventricular tachycardia incident last year was "yup, you'll eventually have this recur and we'll deal with it then"). On the other hand, I tore my Achilles tendon in June and spent three months in a cast, including WorldCon 2019. I don't recommend conventions in an aircast and I most definitely do not recommend relying on Heathrow airport's disability services to get you to a ... Read more »
2018 Retrospective and 2019 Plans
2018 was the longest year that ever was a year. That was the repeated description from one of the handful of Youtube personalities I follow and I can't help but agree. I have to actually look at the spreadsheets to see what the first book we launched in 2018 was (ONSET: Stay of Execution, apparently. Wow.) Seems like we wrapped up ONSET longer ago than that. 2018 was a year of missteps for us. We ended up shifting our mix more towards Urban Fantasy than we meant to, which hurt our ... Read more »
2017: A Look Back
So, to start, it's still technically 2017 awards season so here's the list of stuff I put out this year that is at least technically eligible for awards. *deep breath* February 2017: Duchess of Terra March 2017: Judgment of Mars May 2017: Rimward Stars August 2017: ONSET: Blood of the Innocent August 2017: Heart of Vengeance September 2017: Terra & Imperium October 2017: Interstellar Mage November 2017: Changeling's Fealty November 2017: ... Read more »