Happy December! I hope everyone is doing well this month. For those who celebrate, happy holidays! And for those of you struggling through a rough time, hugs. I know this has been a difficult year for more than a few of you.
For me, it’s been all about juggling the stress of family, work, and travel. And I’m looking forward to a restful New Years’ weekend. Though, if my kids have their way, it will be a whole lot of video games.
This month Read Around the Rainbow has decided to talk about our writing plans for 2023. I didn’t always make a writing plan. Or at least nothing much more than I want to write something this year. But you can’t be friends with Ofelia Gränd (aka Holly Day) without eventually feeling the need to get your shit together.
My first real plan was for 2021—submit to JMS Books for the first time and hopefully be accepted, start self-publishing my dreamed-of paranormal witch series, re-release my Cold Fingers series, and end the year with a total of five brand-new stories—and it went exactly as planned.
This year didn’t go nearly as well. I went in hoping to publish a story as part of a naked gardening group project—like revisiting Ofelia and my Buried Desires days!—and release books three and four in my House of Witches series, as well as having two additional releases. Again, totaling five new stories for 2022.
And while I did release The Death of Digby Catch for my group project, Smoke, and The Twelve Coffins of Dr. Coffin, there wasn’t a witch to be seen! *sob* So, though technically I hit five books—if you count the Naked Gardening anthology release and making it into JMS Books’ 2022 Top Ten Gay Romance anthology—it’s hardly the same.
But I’ve committed myself to make this next year different!
For 2023, I am again planning the release of five new stories. But which stories? That’s harder to say. I currently have several books in progress—never a good idea—including a completed first draft for a totally unplanned follow-up to Findley Black and the Ghosts of Printer’s Devil and books three, four, and five in the House of Witches series. And today I’ve added a novella to this year’s to-do list for a group project with the naked gardening gang—Holly Day, Nell Iris, A.L. Lester, and K.L. Noone.
So, what can you expect from me?
Well, besides the new Findley Black—Findley Black and the Reaper of Shivelly Park—it’s looking more and more like there will be two paranormal, a supernal and a contemporary romance. Will I be more specific? Best not to jinx it!
Make sure to check out what the other Read Around the Rainbow authors have planned for next year! Joining this group has introduced me to some excellent, new-to-me authors, and I’m excited for more books to read!
You can check out the other Read Around the Rainbow authors by clicking their names below!
Addison Albright • Holly Day • Lillian Francis • Fiona Glass • Ofelia Gränd • Nell Iris
Happy New Year!
Coming in 2023
Findley Black and the Reaper of Shivelly Park
Findley Black knows a little something about serial killers. What he doesn’t know is why someone would want to reenact a series of murders that took place more than ninety years ago, one he’s studied a great deal about as part of his annual Halloween ghost tours. Unless, of course, it’s not a copycat at all, and the Reaper of Shivelly Park is back for vengeance.
Owen Key never considered himself much for domesticity, but the last two years with his boyfriend Findley have him reevaluating his priorities. His family at The Printer’s Devil is growing, he has a new book on the way, and he wants nothing more than to make Findley an honest man. And what better time to pop the question than on Halloween, the second anniversary of their sort of first date?
But the night has other plans, and Findley and Owen find themselves with something more pressing than a romantic evening. The ghost of the Shivelly Park Reaper is on the loose. But when no one believes them, they have no choice but to take matters into their own hands. Because, well, The Reaper might just get away with it if not for Findley, Owen, and the kids of Printer’s Devil. And Bella. You can’t forget the cat.
