Here Comes 2019

Is it too late for me to say happy New Year? I’ll be the first to admit I’m on the slow train here. This is usually the time where I’ve already recapped what happened last year and am telling you what’s on tap for the upcoming year. Normally, I have one post devoted to each, and I thought about doing it this year. Then I realized it might make more sense to combine both.

So, here we go.

I started a new book series in 2018. The New Beginnings series is a six book contemporary romance series. Each book is a standalone new adult novel, though the characters do crossover into each other’s books. Last year saw the release of The Truth Inside, which features a transgender character. 

The second book, Standing on His Own, came out a few months later and told the story of an amputee war veteran finding a new love.

In addition to release the first two New Beginnings books, I re-released my two Sapphire Falls novellas; Going for Wilder and Going Even Wilder. These books were part of the now defunct Kindle Worlds. When KW fell by the wayside, Sapphire Falls author Erin Nicholas was kind enough to offer all KW authors the option to re-release our books. With as much fun as those books were to write, there was no way I was going to pass that up. These novellas are back and still available for the low price of $1.99 each.

New Beginnings wasn’t the only series I started last year. I also released the first book in the Nice Ink series entitled Going Inksane. Nice Ink is a five book male/male romance series featuring five tattoo artists and the brothers they fall for. While Going Inksane isn’t my first foray into the world of m/m romance, it’s my most successful. Thanks to some generous promotion from peer authors, Going Inskane became an Amazon best seller in the m/m romance category. I can tell you that I about fell out of my chair when I saw that. I’m still smiling about it three months later.

Last year, I submitted The Truth Inside for consideration in the Lambda Literary Awards. Results won’t be announced until March 2019, so I’ll keep you posted.

Now that 2018 is out of the way, what’s in store for 2019?

More writing of course and more books being released. I’ve already finished, Coming Back Broken, the third book in the New Beginnings series. It’s with the proofreader now. Once I have it back, I’ll make the corrections and send it off for formatting. I’m shooting for a 1/29/18 release date.

After that, I’ll be working on Never Again, the second book in the Nice Ink series. For those of you Nice Ink fans, Never Again will tell Derek and Flynn’s story and I can’t wait. Flynn has several secrets to share.

In the coming year, I’ve committed to alternating the books released in each series. Normally, I’m not a fan of authors having multiple series at once, but the Nice Ink guys did not want to wait to be heard.

In addition to writing, I’m hoping I can do at least one author event. While I’d love to do GRL or Coastal Magic, I may have to think smaller. I’m still not as well known, so I have to consider the cost. I want to meet everyone though, readers and fellow authors alike.

So, there you have it. 2018 is behind me. Bring on 2019 and let’s see what happens!