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Upcoming Books Update

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Hello all you lovely readers,

I am excited to finally say that Golon’s book, His Mate, is coming! I set a preorder date a few months ago because I work so much better on a deadline. I am through first edits and now I am working on one last run through and then I’ll be sending it out to my editor. Everything is on track for the January release date! Exciting! It’s a beast of a book so editing is a lengthy process.

On a related note, Amazon has decided to close down their Kindle Vella platform. I had been using this as a sneak peak of all my works for the last year or so which had been fairly successful. Since I had some dedicated readers who enjoyed the early release style of getting it as I write it, I am trialing a Ream account, where you can subscribe and get access to my early work. I release two chapters per week on the two projects I am focusing on right now.

Golon’s book, His Mate

and

My Bound by Obsession series, a dark romance four book series.

Included in the lowest tiered subscription is a free ebook of all my upcoming releases, about week before it goes live on retailers, along with some other perks.

Eventually, all my works will be uploaded on here if enough readers go for it to make it worth the time it takes to upload. I am giving it a few weeks to see if it becomes worth it but if it does, you can expect to see then entire Gelder Universe books on there which include the beginnings of Kowan’s, Arsenio’s, and Nix’s books all of which I have started since their books are all happening along the same timeline.

If you are waiting on Golon’s book, I have the beginning two chapters ready and available on Ream, with a schedule of Mondays and Wednesday updates. You can click here to join and start reading.

Other than that, I have had to cancel my release of my Christmas rom com book, and will be pushing back to next year, so sorry to those who were excited for it, but I had to make some hard choices and His Mate has been in the works for far too long to face another delay.

With the loss of Kindle Vella, I am also shifting some of those works into ebook faster than originally allowed to (Amazon has gotten rid of the waiting period) and I should have Blackmailed Marriage, a new dark romance book coming out later this month.

Crowned by Fate, a fated mates fae book that I wrote for Amazon’s writing contest earlier this year, is also ready for final edits. So you can keep your eye out for its release within the next few months.

Thank you all for reading! You mean the world to me.

Happy Reading!

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Yet Another Book and Life Update…

emjaye11

Hello All,

I am here writing once again on the updates for my books and life. Life threw me some big curveballs recently. I currently have two full manuscripts waiting for final edits, and have not been able to get them done. For those of you waiting I am so sorry. Golon’s story, which turned into a beast of a book, is ready to get going for the final legs of publishing but… life man.

So, as I said five years ago, I like to let you see the writer behind the words so get ready for a long explanation of the last year of my life. I have spoken about my high-risk pregnancies in past posts, and the struggles those presented. Well… after my final baby came into this world, I thought those troubles were behind me. I picked up the writing mantle hard in Jan of 2023 once my youngest was old enough to allow me some free time. I had lofty publishing goals. I labeled 2023 as ‘My Year’ and vowed to focus on my writing again.

It was a wonderful idea in an ideal world. But life had other plans for me.

My final pregnancy triggered an auto-immune disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This means, my immune system attacks my joints, slowly breaking them down. This causes extreme pain. It all began in May of 23, when I first went to the doctor to have them looked at. By the end of 2023, my wrists were becoming almost unbearable. It took about 8 months to finally get the diagnosis all figured out, and writing was very painful, near impossible. So just before Christmas 2023, I was given the news. And it hit me… hard. It’s incurable and I’m in my early 30’s. I wasn’t expecting it, to be honest. I’m a healthy person overall. But once I got the diagnosis, I started medication. Which took four months to begin working on limiting the pain.

Which led me into the spring, when the pain was dialed down and I started hitting editing and writing hard. Preparing for my book releases. When… my eyes went.

I ended up needed emergency retina surgery on both eyes this past spring. It was… insane and completely unexpected. I had weeks of required downtime where I could not even roll over. Then, still, another month of no computer screens. And still today, even 2.5 months out after the final surgery, I am not fully back up to my norm. Vision is not fully stabilized and migraines are my biggest enemies now. Long story short, they had to place something around my eye to anchor my retina in place and I had some complications in the healing process, most likely due to my autoimmune disease.

But, I am getting back into it now. I write because I love it, not strictly as a job. I love this because not only do I find writing therapeutic; it allows me to stay home with my children while they are little. But it does mean I need to get my butt in gear if I plan to start hitting my self set deadlines.

So, plan for the rest of 2024! I am going to work my tail off for three new releases this year. And pray no more curveballs are sent my way.

I really want to get Golon’s Book, His Mate, published. I have had some questions about if there will ever be more of this series and I promise it’s coming. Golon’s book picks up where The Mated Queen left off and follows Marilee and Golon as they tackle the problem of the finite supply of tatio. Last year, I began posting all my backlog onto Kindle Vella as a means to motivate myself, and it worked! But, that is not the final draft. But it is available on that platform as a completed story. New scenes and additional edits will be made before it goes to long form, but all the same. I know many readers have probably abandoned this ship, and that’s alright. I get it. But it’s coming. Editing is a long process, especially when the book turned out as long as His Mate has. So I’m not sure when to even promise this book. But my goal is by the end of the year. I will update when I know more.

Blackmailed Marriage, my first dark billionaire romance, is complete and ready for editing and to be pushed to long form. It is a genre I became obsessed with, began releasing on Kindle Vella, and it had quite a large response. So it moved up on the chopping block. I am not going very ‘dark’ here, more ‘grey’ but still… read only if this genre is something you like. I would be surprised if I don’t get this one published within the next handful of months. It’s finished, just needs to go off to the editor for polishing.

Last year, when everything was running smoothly, I foolishly agreed to join a ‘Snowed In’ multi author book release for November of this year. So I have a Christmas romance book planned for a November release. I really don’t want to end up backing out of this, so I am working hard to get that one done. Manuscript is close, but it will be a lot of work to get it finished. It’s my goal though.

Well, there you have it. All my plans and best intentions. I am still here, writing away, I always endeavor to update on here, my email subscribers, and my socials whenever there is a new book ready. But, writing is my therapy, so sometimes I just write…

Anyways, thank you all for still being here. Indie Author Life means I wear many hats… and they fall off sometimes.

Happy Reading!

New Outlook On Fiction

Book Updates and Life

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Hello readers!

I’m excited to announce I have two manuscript’s first drafts completed and ready for edits! Etan’s story and my new contemporary romance Hate at First Sight.

But even more exciting news… Golon’s story is coming along nicely. After a long stretch of starting and stopping this book for various health and family related reasons, it became so hard to immerse myself back into the story. It became this seemingly insurmountable beast in my mind.

But I challenged myself to get back into my passion, writing, and do it! I had a small niggle of a muse for just a rom com book so last fall I started writing it and slowly fell in love with writing all over again. Thus, Hate at First Sight was born. Then I was told about Kindle Vella by an author friend and I decided to put myself on a deadline by publishing the books as I write them. I do my best work with a deadline, and it sure has worked.

Golon’s book is longer than I ever expected or planned but I am blowing through the manuscript right now. I tend to stay immersed in one story for several days and then my brain jumps to another. I’m not sure why, but it’s always worked this way. In Danion and Eleanor’s books that was fine because the other books I jumped to was just the next ones in the series. Not so much now.

The book versions of these stories will have new scenes and added content that was not released in the vella version as the vella’s are early drafts of my writing process and I airways add several scenes later on in the process. I do add notes after a lot of the chapters with behind the scenes tid bits of my writing process as well.

I’ve figured out a system that works, I wrote a lot the past few years but never strung them all together in a cohesive book and then sent it off for editing. But it’s happening now, my hope is to start bringing new books online multiple times a year like I used to do when I was writing The True Immortals Series.

I’m prioritizing Golon’s story, but due to the fact the other ones I’m writing are about half the length, they are finishing up quicker. I’m pushing hard to have Golon released this year. And barring unforeseen massive editing delays, I see no reason it shouldn’t be. Etan’s short story is with an editor now and Kowan’s will be next in the Gelder universe as his is a short as well.

Nix and Arsenio’s stories are going to be started once Golon’s is complete but they do have rough outlines already has they have many overlapping scenes with Golon’s book. Exciting times are ahead.

Anyway, thanks for sticking with me.

As Always,

Happy Reading

New Outlook On Fiction

Update in 2023

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Hi Everyone,

This has been a crazy few years for me, and sadly writing just was not able to be at the forefront for much too long. I’ve spent most of the last 3 years either pregnant or deep in the infant stage. Which is lovely and wonderful but very time-consuming. But my family is now complete and I am slowly emersing myself back into my fictional worlds. Writing is still something I am doing more part-time, however, I have been writing diligently for months and I am excited to have new works coming out this year!

Golon’s book, name TBD, has some real shape to it but is not finished. Realistically, his book will not be finished for several months to a year. BUT, since it has been so long from when I originally wanted to release it. I am going to be releasing his book early, chapter by chapter, as I write it this year onto Amazon’s new platform Kindle Vella.

His book has been a monster to write because so much of his book is retelling scenes from the first series in his own perspective and keeping timelines straight with both Arsenio’s and Nix’s books. And so I have written it in chunks and sections and then had to leave it and then jump back to it.

I want his story told, so I am going to let it be open on Vella first. Once the draft is complete, I plan to do a final edit myself, then send it off to my editor for professional edits, and then make my final tweaks and then release the book on Kindle as a full copy as well. If you are interested in reading it more in a Vella style, keep an eye out for the first chapter in February when it goes live. I will send an email when it is available both on Vella and when the full novel is available.

In other news, I have rewritten Kowan’s and Etan’s short stories into complete stories and they are being released to Kindle Vella now. Etan’s story has 4 chapters available right now, with two more coming next week and then one more every week until finished. Kowan’s goes live next week and then will follow a 1 chapter per week format until his story is finished. The first 5 chapters of both of them are very similar to what used to be on the blog, but chapters 6 and on are all completely new and will wrap up each of their stories.

And finally, a completely new book- Hate at First Sight- was written and designed for the Kindle Vella platform and is just about ready to be released. I am just waiting on the artwork to be finalized. It is a new stand-alone contemporary romance book. I am excited about it, and I hope anyone who is interested in it will give it a read!

Thanks for listening to my ramble.

As always,

Happy Reading!

New Outlook On Fiction

Life and Book Update

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So… I’m back! I have been writing. I swear. Quietly. In a corner. But I did disappear for a bit and there were reasons for that hiatus.

So the cute one of those reasons… I had a baby! And unfortunately the complications that I had with my first were not a one off thing (detailed in another Blog post) . It was a “going to be every pregnancy and escalate with each one” kinda thing.

Now I knew there was that risk, I was prepared for that. Or at least I thought I was. But there were some things I just didn’t know about, like permament organ damage, maybe not going to full term kinda things, and it turns out I was really, really, REALLY not prepared.

But, thanks to an outstanding doctor my second baby girl (and sadly most likely my last) was born earlier this year and we are both doing great now.

The trauma of my personal 2020 not to mention the massive elephant in the room we all know about that ALSO derailed 2020 means Golon’s book is way behind any schedule I once had. I currently have the story fully outlined and about half of the manuscript drafted. I am making progress but it’s still slow going.

This was just something to let you all know about the delay, and that I honestly don’t have a time frame. I refuse to just spit out words to finish the book, Golon and Marilee deserve better.

I have some ideas to help bridge the long wait between books but haven’t committed to anything yet. Giving some thought to creating a patreon and sharing what I have written as a sneak peak for subscribers along with a few other added bonuses and perks, such as being in the acknowledgements, having a say in the story development by telling me what you are hoping to see, etc. But not fully committed to that yet. Would depend on interest really.

Another idea is posting just the first chapter to the blog, similar to the sneak peaks given in each of the other books.

Or both.

If you have a preference let me know! I am currently posting more things on IG, FB, and Twitter but most of that is just day to day life and writing updates. No spoilers or anything juicy. And I’m notorious for spacing and abandoning social media for months once writing really gets going. But, I’m going to try to be forth coming.

That’s all I’ve got for you wonderful people, thank you for reading my words and as always Happy Reading!