Category: Upcoming

Announcing Serena’s Next Volume

So Serena’s Gathered Bones just got finished being written…link coming soon. I am hoping for a February release…

Her next poetry Volume will be Titled Chasing Ghosts.

Wild Wednesday

So as of today I have been posting 95 days in a row.

That matters because tomorrow is the last Pad challenge Day. And the last Daily thing I had planned. At least until April.

I am going to be doing the pad challenge again in April.

And I am going to be doing the Mermay art challenge.

There’s an art challenge for June, but I have yet to decide if I should do it…

This is going to be a busy year for publishing for me.

Single Author books we have scheduled through August already. There’s a lot of stuff coming. Currently scheduled for eight separate books with a few more possible.

And Fae Corps Publishing is doing 3 anthologies this year. Okay I am doing 2 calls and a special Anthology for the Owl Light Network. We all know that the calls can end up being 2 or 3 anthologies by the end.

And I am still working on writing and reading and living in the meantime.

So I am going back to the normal schedule for the week starting next week. Just thought I would give you a heads up.

Announcing the Next Volume

So I just got the last one written in Uncanny Valley – release date tbd 2024.

And as usual I had asked here and on Facebook for help with the new volume. Out of the 7 options… each but two got a single vote.

Burning the Candles at both ends got zero votes. Apparently that was not the one this time.

Everything else got a single vote except for Tears of the Broken which got 2. So I am going with this.

My daughter suggested that I may have given too many choices this time. So I will try to limit it the next time.

Time to pick.

So I am at the 10 poems away mark on Uncanny Valley.

I usually wait until I am closer… but I am doing 2 separate pad challenges… so I think that I should have the next one ready.

Vacation plans and trying to make it stick

So I do a daily goal.

This weekend I was easily able to make that goal and then some.

My daily goal? 250 word count and a poem. It doesn’t sound like a lot… but I don’t often make it. Between the publication process and life being what it is… I stay busy.

I had no Internet and no computer and no access to the phone where I have been. So I was just able to draw and write.

I got a new kids book written, several poems, and Serena got quite a bit of her new story for the spring fae corps Anthology done. (It’s about half way written now). I was only gone for a weekend.

Maybe I need to plan on writing retreats. Serena needs to start putting some work in on her books. Next year this is an option for me.

But being out of contact is anxiety inducing for me. This is a wonderful thing for my writing but it is not a good thing for me personally. It is something I will have to think about.

Serena Mossgraves Poetry

It is available for preorder

This year

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I was going over the publishing calendar for the rest of the year. Whew.

2 books in September (one of My books, and one of Serena’s)

4 books in October (One of Mine, 2 Anthologies from Fae Corps, One from Raz T. Slasher)

4 books in November (One from Ashira Datya, One from NK Xero that I am still waiting on the cover and Manuscript for, One of Mine, and One of Serena’s that the link is coming soon for)

Then our Kids week has currently 3 books tentatively planned. One by me, one by Raz T. Slasher, and a third by CM Snow.

And Next year’s schedule is already filling up. January has 2. March already has one. And May has one. There are vague others that have placeholders but no defined date yet. I try to limit my calendar to four per month because sometimes even that is more than I can do.

I feel like I want to do more than I am capable of.

And I still have to squeeze my own writing and life in on the schedule too.

This year has been busier than I am used to. It wears on a person.

Busy busy blogger

So… the next couple of months are busy ones.

I am going to be doing the sketchtember, drawtober, and November pad challenges. That means that you will be seeing a daily post on here for the next few months. (I have already done a few of the drawings for sketchy tembers to make sure I can keep up. Especially since I am going to be doing the half marathon for the poetry marathon.)

With all of the other things I have going on… I am keeping the drawings posts simple. I will post the art and the prompt I used.

To my brain…

I have been doing the layout for Muse’s Masterpiece, dealing with the anthologies for Fae Corps Publishing, and I am sick. And I look around at the new poetry volume…there is only 3 poems in it so far.

My housework has fallen behind…

And everything aches…

And the squirrel brain says that I am a failure because I am not writing.

Sometimes we have to learn to tell our brains to shut up.

I am doing all that I am capable of right now.

And if anything I need to slow down, rest more because my body is still not feeling well.

So, hush you squishy ball of overworked fat. I am doing as much as I can do.

Cover Reveal

The link for Day. The link for Night.