New Character Reveal! 🤫👀🧣

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The results from the rematch of the Villaintine's Rematch are in:

“The Things I'll do to your heart, Valentine” is still the winner! I don’t know how to feel, because it is a really strong one (with its dark implicit threat and all), but I was quietly hoping that "If Evil, then why Hot?" might pull ahead, because I’m so very fond of it. But that is the voice of the people, and thank you so much for taking the time to vote!

Meet The New Character

I am so pleased to report that I can now go back to saying that “This newsletter is taking me away from working on Book IV, Blood Depths!” 😉

For those new to the newsletter (Hi there! 👋) my poor readers have been waiting for the next stage of Noosh’s journey through the world of the am’r for years now.

First I needed to leave my terrible old publisher and republish the books with IIP (which was a very intense and time-consuming learning experience), then my new publisher wanted some shorter works from me, so I wrote and published Blood Triad, Interview with the Vagabond King, Finding Bela Lugosi, and That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story, all of which pulled me away from Book IV. Then, getting the books into audiobook format kept me very busy with its own learning curve. Then, starting learning how to vend and the decision to try and have a very busy convention/event season last summer through Halloween was a serious pull away from the poor novel. Finally, just as I settled into making time for it, I’ve had to move in with my mom because of her health, and I lost a month of writing just taking her to doctor’s appointments and PT. (All of this while working around the limitations of my own chronic illness, which of course just makes it all so much more fun!)

But now it is February, I am a bit more settled in to life over here, and all I want to do is dive back in to Blood Depths 🌊 (Yes, pun intended.) Last week, as I was sitting around at a 2.5 hour appointment for my mother, I brought the laptop and started the work of reworking Chapter One. (Half the chapters I’ve managed to write have to be completely rewritten, which is too long a story to review here, but I promise the book will be immeasurably better for me doing this.)

This week I’m back at it, finishing up the new, improved chapter one.

I wanted the reason for all this work to be a big surprise to my readers, but that really only works if I can get a book out once a year. Once I’ve been keeping everyone waiting this long, trying to pull off that surprise no long makes sense, as by now I owe you all deeply informative updates on the process, to thank you for sticking around with me all this time 💖

So, I’m going to spill the beans! Noosh is being joined by a new character who is starting her own journey into the world of the am’r: Caaisho.

Caaisho comes from a very different background than Noosh (obviously) and thus is going to respond to the am’r in totally different ways. Also, her introduction is not going to be all “meet-cute in the library” —after all, these are vampire pirates we are dealing with in this book! This is a bumpier road we are all going down together—because, say it with me, “Vampires are actually monsters and they don’t sparkle!” 🚫✨

I hope you’ll love Caaisho as much as you do Noosh. She is also a kick-ass strong woman, who will be bringing a very fresh attitude to dealing with the am’r and their vampiric shenanigans. Bagamil had wanted the am’r world to be shaken up a bit…but none of them are expecting Caaisho! (Here’s how to pronounce it, BTW)

Stay tuned to this channel 📺 to get to know this new character better as I finally get Book IV written for you 📝

The Winners Love Their Stained Glass Bookmarks!

Thanks to the first three of you who wrote in wanting to help me figure out shipping for the bookmarks—and I’m so pleased with how much you all love them 🔖💞

Happily, I found out that with the new small bubble mailers I bought, and how light the bookmarks are, that I can request it to be sent “First Class — non-machinable” and it costs less than a dollar to ship, so I can ship these for FREE!

Which I also can do if they are included in packages with books in, obviously! So if you have a friend who needs a signed copy of any of the books in the series (or if you are filling in your library), don’t worry that throwing one of these beauties in will up your shipping costs—they won’t!

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Vampires have tails!

My Bizarreries segment is still running over in Warren Ellis’ newsletter Orbital Operations. You should go check it out, because he has really excellent recommendations for books, comics, music, and really random cool shit. I actually buy stuff based on his recs!

OK, I think that’s enough for this week—I know you’d rather I be writing the next novel, so I’ll hit “publish” and get back to my proper work! And until two weeks from now, be good or be good at it!

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