Last newsletter, I announced I was going to bang out a quick short story for a reader magnet. I'm still working on it, but I'm hoping by May, I'll have it written, edited, and available for reading. Between my trip to Toronto last month, focusing on school work, and editing Outside The Game, I haven't been able to really focus on it. I've also been outlining two stories simultaneously while watching House, so clearly as you can see, I am once again doing the most while doing the least. I'm hoping to get meds for it.

Outside The Game should be completely edited by the end of this month. Freeing me up to start work on Grisly Politics, book 2 in the Detective Miller series. Super excited to finally reach the end of this round of editing with Outside The Game because motivating myself to get to this point has certainly felt like pulling teeth. However, the real celebration comes once it's released. I might even do a video for it because that's how excited I am about it lol. Oh, if you missed the sneak peek of Outside The Game from the last newsletter, it's now available publicly until the end of the month. Go take a read!

While I'm editing Grisly Politics, I plan to finish writing the second book in the IFL Tales series, which will focus on another player of the Fleur Di Lis, Kalisha Wright. She gets introduced in the first book and some of her trials and tribulations get mentioned during it, so of course I was like, "Ooh! A second book!" To be quiet honest, Kalisha's story is going to be tense and emotional, which sort of deviates from the mild angst in Outside The Game. As you can tell, I am quite eager to finish that story because other than making my readers cry, I love making myself emotional.

*breaks out chair and sits on the edge of it*

As you can tell, I've mentioned a busy schedule up top. Some of you are probably wondering, and having been waiting since 2018, where the fuck is the second Avery Lawson book?!? I understand the frustration and aggravation because I too would like the 2nd Avery Lawson book to come out. I need to outline the 3rd one. I mean I can outline it with what I have, but I'm a stickler about consistency. Anyway, once I have Grisly Politics under my belt and with my editor, that will be my primary focus until it's finished. 2025 will be the year of Avery Lawson come hell or high water.

Last year, I attended my first Golden Crown Literary Society, also known as GCLS, conference. GCLS is an organization that promotes, celebrates, and cultivates a community for readers, writers, and supporters of Sapphic fiction. All are encouraged to attend the conference, when I went last year, I had a great time. The panels were great, and meeting fellow authors, editors, and readers was such a wonderful time that when my friend asked if I wanted to go this year, I was like hell yeah. Then a fellow writer and a new acquaintance of mine, Luc Dreamer, asked if I wanted to be on a panel that discussed what it's like being a trans and/or non-binary author in the sapphic literary community. Luc, like myself, is someone who transitioned to the masculine end of the gender spectrum and still writes sapphic fiction. Of course I said yes, and last week Luc told me his panel got chosen, and he recommended me to be on it. We're now waiting to see what GCLS's panel committee says before they move forward.

So, if you happen to be in Minneapolis for GCLS in July, I will be there and I will possibly be on a panel.

My sightings are few and far in-between because I enjoy being a recluse, but I do like being a part of things that drive topics I'm really passionate about. Like women's hockey and sapphic fiction lol.

Last month I put out that I was going to start answering questions from my readers and those curious to know a little more about. Seems people were a little shy to ask me some, so I picked two questions from this random website and decided to answer. If you've got a question for me, you can reply to this newsletter or you can fill out the form on my contact page.