Looking Back and Forward

Happy New Years Eve. 2017 was a wonderful year as far as my writing life goes. I have a stellar following, and for that I am grateful. Without my readers, I wouldn't be able to do what I love every day. As a writer, I live in my stories. My characters are family. Once a book has reached "the end" that doesn't mean the story, the world, the people, are forgotten. They live inside my head and in my heart. I'm sure you've read books that stay with you, and you feel like the characters are your family or friends. That's how it is for a writer.

This year, I wrote 5 books and 1 Novella. The genres were all over the place, and that's because I have so many stories to tell.  Here they are in order of release - 

• Finding Me - Book 3 in The Music Within Series (MM)
• Tap Dancing with the Devil - Standalone MF Suspense
• Julian - Book 9 in The Stone Society
• Oracle - Book 1 in The Guardians of Truth - YA Fantasy
• Urijah - Book 10 in the Stone Society (MM)
• Dane - Stone Society Novella

Here are the stories I have slated for 2018 - 

• Tamian - Book 11 in the Stone Society
• The Ghost in the Water - A Samuel Dexter Story (MM)
• Finding Home - The Music Within Book 4 (MM)
• Seeker - The Guardians of Truth Book 2 - YA Fantasy
• Tap Dancing with an Angel - MF Suspense
• Deacon - Book 12 in The Stone Society

The stories are tentative and won't be released in the order shown above. I fully intended on getting to Ghost and Finding Home in 2017, but the characters were being quiet. They are whispering to me now, but until they are shoving each other out of the way to say something, I will continue writing the voices that are speaking to me. Dane wasn't supposed to happen until after Deacon, but he was pushing and shoving, so he got his story told this year.

I apologize to everyone who is waiting on a certain story to be told, but I will not push a book out just because it should be next. Believe me, nobody puts more pressure on me to get a certain book out than I do. I have sat down and tried to force the words, but all that does is make for a crappy story and take away from the stories that are supposed to be told first. I hope you can understand.
I attended several book signings and met some of you in person for the first time, and I look forward to meeting more of you next year. I have 4 book signings slated for 2018 - 

• Kinky in Kansas City - March 10th
• Rocket City Author Event (Huntsville AL) July 21st
• Naughty Nashville - October 6th
• Rebels & Readers (Huntington WV) - November 3rd 

Here's to a wonderful 2017 and an even better 2018. I wish you all nothing but the best in the coming year.