NEWSLETTER SNIPPETS; Issue #4

I’ve written four of these now and it doesn’t seem to be getting any easier. These blog intros, not the newsletters. Those are surprisingly easy, even if I don’t always remember how the entire quarter of the year has passed. This last issue went out with a free short story download and I hope that readers enjoy it. It’s one of my favourite things I’ve written.

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My husband and I took our first long childfree vacation in April too. We went to Japan – largely because this year’s Star Wars Celebration was held there and I really wanted to go, but also because his grandmother and uncle and his family live there and we wanted to visit. Our aunt who lost her husband was there as well, and one of her daughters visited with her daughter while we were there too, so it was a nice trip overall.

And then for the first time in about a decade, some of our extended family came down to Malaysia to visit! That was a busy few days, but so, so nice. My sister’s sons visited for the very first time, and I think they had a good visit? Hoping the next visit they make won’t be in another decade!

I’ve also picked The Wounds Of Wisdom by Alexandra Roma back up for this reading club of sorts that my 8 year old and I drop in on. It’s a open invite Sunday park visit near home, just a bunch of readers, their chairs or mats and their books in the morning air. We’ve gone a couple of times, and it’s been a nice way to spend some quality time with my daughter while also just, chilling.

Besides books, two of my new favourite shows aired! Or in the case of The Librarians: The Next Chapter, have just started. The Librarians was one of my favourite shows, and the new series has writers I’m familiar with at the table – the Persaud siblings of Shipwrecked Comedy, whose webseries’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party and Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story I highly recommend as well as their noir film The Case Of The Gilded Lily and the podcast sequel The Case Of The Greater Gatsby.

And then we have Leverage Redemption, another Dean Devlin production. Season 3 has been a fun romp of familiar faces and growing pains and just – everything I’ve always loved about the characters, the relationships and the cons. I’m already hoping for a season 4 with even more cameos. Bring back Malese Jow and Aarti Mann’s characters!

I mentioned in the last newsletter that I was considering publishing my Pride And Prejudice story – and almost immediately began the process of figuring out how. I took it down from AO3 and AHA, printed it to make more edit notes even while I’ve sent it out to a beta reader, and I’ve started a little bit of formatting for it. I have an idea on how I want to make the cover, but I haven’t started working on it yet.

FS WIP has officially hit 10k words, which was my aim for the first draft. I’m letting it simmer for a bit while I focus on Kind Regards And Warm Wishes, and of course, the Author Avenger prompts and Ko-fi member exclusives. I’ve also been in contact with a couple of illustrators because that’s a book I have a specific cover imagined for that I think I’ll only be able to get if I commission it. I’ve been posting some snippets from the novella as it stands over on Ko-fi, and I’m hoping to maybe send this version out to get some immediate thoughts on the vibes.

Did I realise in the last month that the other story in the poll – Lasting Impressions – is going to be in Facets so I shouldn’t have been offering to share it first here? Yes, yes, I did. It’s a good thing The Ferryman’s Wife And The Black Fox won the poll, isn’t it?

And guess what? What Happened In Vegas is available as part of a promotion on Smashwords for the month of July as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! This is a chance to get my book, along with books from many other great authors, at a discount so you can get right to reading. You will find the promo here starting on July 1, so save the link: https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/​

The sale will be on throughout the month of July. I appreciate all your help and support!

I surprised my sister for her birthday earlier this month as well. I haven’t spent her birthday with her in years, but this year I spent both my sisters’ birthdays with them and it was just really nice to do so. 

I’m not making any plans for my own birthday though because they always seem to fall through – RIP 30th birthday plans, COVID ruined you thoroughly – but I am hoping to maybe do what I did last year and buy myself a box of books on sale. Fingers crossed for me, please!

Until September, my friends.

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