News:

Nothing this week.

Works in Progress:

Proofreading Crooked House (Thorns 5) took longer than anticipated, because for the life of me, I could not focus for long stretches of time. However, I got it done, and it’s now with my formatter. I’ll have to get the cover updated after that, but then it should be good to go.

It’s a soft ending for the series, with more books to come, but it’s wild that I’ve managed to get this far and that scenes that have been with me since the beginning have been put to the page. I’ve spent so much time with these characters that they’ve become like friends, and I’m looking forward to having more adventures with them.

I also just finished a first-chapter edit for Book & Candle (Meridian 5) so it can be included as a preview in Avarice & Creed (Meridian 4), coming out in October. (Preorder here.)

I’m going to take a short break to wallow in self-pity and get through the worst of my period. On the other side of it, I’ll work on a body horror novelette that I’ve had on my to-write list for over ten years, tentatively titled Ooze for now.

Things I’m Reading:

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Why Didn’t You Just Leave edited by Nadia Bulkin and Julia Rios

Things I’m Listening To:

Thorns playlists
Snow White & the Huntsman soundtrack
The Huntsman: Winter’s War soundtrack
The Village soundtrack

Things I’m Watching:

Truth or Die
Supercell
Not Dead Yet series (finished)
Abbott Elementary series
Resident Alien series (seriously, some of the best comedy on TV right now)
S.W.A.T. series
Grey’s Anatomy series
Kitchen Nightmares series
America’s Got Talent series
Murder, She Wrote series

Poem of the Week:

if it does not
consume me
from toes
to teeth

let it starve
beneath my
bed sheets

we will not
be alone
at least