Moving Forward – A Mid-2026 Update

You may have noticed that while I have been regularly putting out one non-fiction book a year, my fiction has slowed to a crawl. The past few years have been a bit of a challenge. Life has been life-ing and I’ve been dealing with a few life transitions as of late. Some of it good, some of it annoying, and some of it inevitable. I began spending my writing Thursdays going in for my own health appointments and looking in on my parents, both whose health has been up and down the past few years. That was inevitable. Earlier this year, we finally sold the family business, which meant my part-time work there (as well as health insurance and that extra income we needed for our one income household) ended in mid-April. This was simultaneously good, inevitable, and annoying because it meant I had to make some changes and set my husband and I up for 100% self-employment. The big thing there was I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to be stuck at home 24/7 or if I’d be crawling up the walls in two weeks. Turns out, it’s not too bad.

The great news is that even though I’ve been a full-time writer through all of this (usually in the late evening, weekends, every other Tuesday, or stolen moments at the office) – I no longer have to split my attention nearly as much as I was splitting it. I have actual recreation time now. I have time to spend with my husband, cats, and family. The bad news is that while I was still writing through all of it, I didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to revise or edit any of the first drafts I’d written. This means I have a backlog of novels, novellas, and NF books just hanging out waiting for me to complete them. All Djinn the Family, Blood Ink, Beautifully Wicked, Blackwood, and Intuitive Tarot for Spirit Communication are those books just sitting there — waiting. I also have other projects in the works, like a Daemonolatry based planner, and other books sitting on my hard drive partly written but not finished.

So, I used the second half of April to let my nervous system recalibrate and focus on getting my writing and marketing plans in order. I spent most of May updating metadata on old books and finishing that second half rewrite of All Djinn the Family. The last half of the book, frankly, sucked. I also got it marked it up and am now undertaking the task of rewriting sections of the first half to match the much better second half. When I’m done there, I will go through the book again one last time and make any changes before sending it to my editor. I should have it off to the editor by the end of June. Then I’m going to attack Intuitive Tarot, and my heart is leaning toward Blood Ink as July’s fiction project, which might need a rewrite of the beginning. All the while, I’m still doing readings and consults (Fridays), and running classes on Patreon. The current Patreon class: Introduction to Daemonolatry, will eventually be turned into a self-guided workbook I’m calling “Lessons in Daemonolatry.” Yes, I did have a book called that years ago, but it was merged with Modern Demonolatry into The Complete Book of Demonolatry.

Anyway, that is where I’m at. Transitioning fully into writing without distractions (except for Thursday, which is still my appointments and parents day), while a good thing, has made me realize how burnt out I was trying to juggle a mentally taxing part-time day job with everything else, and how many writing tasks I’d been putting off because I either didn’t have the time or emotional wherewithal to deal with them. I am settling into this new life – one I’ve been working toward since I was 19 – slowly but much happier than I was. I am truly thankful for all of my readers who have followed me on this journey and have supported my work. You guys are amazing!

I am hoping to release All Djinn the Family later this summer (August hopefully) and I’m also hoping I can get through this backlog of first draft books this year. That way I can get back to Path of the Seere (which has been started), and Her Demon Master (which is outlined and partly drafted), and finish up the last four Thirteen Covens novellas that will make up Bloodlines Part II. So, while you won’t see me releasing at breakneck speeds (I’ve always been a 2-4 novel/book a year writer on average), and you likely won’t see all the books mentioned above released this year, you will start seeing releases more regularly soon.

Sending love to all of you!