Yep, I’m well into burnout. My brain isn’t functioning properly, and I’m making mistakes I don’t usually make, breaking my usual processes by accident. It’s time to take care of myself as well as I can, step back as much as I can.

However, I got my contributor’s copies of In the Dollhouse We All Wait, and she’s beautiful! (Cover art by David Kozlovsky) I also got my proof for the paperback of A Nightmare for All Seasons. It’s glossy, and I want to check it in matte, plus I noticed alignment issues, but I’m insanely happy with this poetry collection, even if poetry is a niche area.

News:

The paperback of A Nightmare for All Seasons needs to wait for the changes and approval, but the ebook is finally available now here.

To celebrate the release of In the Dollhouse We All Wait next week, Crystal Lake is putting the ebook of Question Not My Salt on sale for 99c.

As with Dollhouse, take care of the content warnings, but if you enjoy gross and gruesome, you’ll have a blast with Question.

Works in Progress:

Since finishing the Never & Forever initial edits, I’ve been doing writing adjacent work, like finalizing A Nightmare for All Seasons on Amazon and Draft2Digital, creating promotional materials for it, doing an interview for In the Dollhouse We All Wait (of course I just have to be doing all these long-titled projects all at once). I’ll continue doing not much on the writing side until the proofreading edits come through for Never & Forever. Once that’s done, I’ll work on May Cooler Heads Prevail, but with no deadlines. I want to put it out in May or June, so there’s no hurry. I think I want to tweak the Dracula reimagining one more time, too.

When I want to write again, I won’t be able to stop. In the meantime, I’ve got plenty of edits to work on and books to read.

Books I’m Reading:

Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin
The Shining by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Singalong playlist
Billie Eilish
Megan Joy
Eurielle

Things I’m Watching:

Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
Man on Fire
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Matlock (new) series
Queer Eye series (finished)
Tracker series
Prodigal Son series
Home Town series

Poem of the Week:

carve away the splinters
but save the marrow
fashion a key from bone
the skeleton key
of suffering
of screaming pain
it’s the only way
you can ever
get out