Dear humans,

If you follow our blog, you have already seen this notice. We'd be sorry this isn't really all that new (and the female shamelessly copy-pasted the stuff below this note) but she's tired and needs to get back to work on Outfoxed, which is being an absolute rabid JERK to the female.

She's having coffee, it's that bad. (Okay, she's having coffee because of the smoke and her flagging ability to cope with life, but it's better than like... other drugs, right? Note: the entire weekend will be dedicated to all things tea.)

We are pleased to announce the next Vigilante Magical Librarians book will be titled Booked for Kidnapping, and it will be available at all major retailers for $5.99 on September 7, 2021.

You can preorder now at Amazon. Other vendors will be available soon. (Within the next 72 hours.)

Before there is any panic that this is a preorder, the female felt it necessary to make sure her extended vacation (taken between May 2021 and August 2021) actually comes to an end. Basically, the female would totally lack any motivation to return to work after such a long time not working, so she has set up an insurance policy to make certain she returns to work.

Please note that preorder counts are how the female schedules what books are written when. She has no way of predicting how a book will behave once released. The preorders give her a good idea how many people are interested in the title/series, and she schedules based on those figures. Here is how the female will be handling the third book in the series, title withheld for the moment:

2,999 or below preorders will be the standard 12-18 month cycle for book three to come out.

3,000+ preorders will be 8-12 months for book three to come out.

Should the book list on USA Today, (roughly 5,500 US sales required opening week for a chance to list) the female will juggle her tentative schedule and complete book three in 6-8 months. (Honestly, if the book hits 5,000+ US sales in opening week, she'll juggle the schedule and begin work on the third book immediately anyway. Cuz that sort of love deserves immediate reward.)

Why the 6 months minimum?

That's how long these books take to write. Sorry. They can't be magically produced faster than that. The female is experienced enough with how she writes books to be able to (generally) judge how long it will take, and the Vigilante Magical Librarians series just takes more time for her to write. Booked for Murder took six months, and she has no doubt Booked for Kidnapping will take equally long.

She's already started Booked for Kidnapping, so she'll be comfortably done with it by the start of her vacation unless she has epic brain farts. 2020 has been full of epic brain farts, so who knows. That's her goal. She wants to be done with Booked for Kidnapping before vacation specifically so she can leisurely do whatever the heck she wants while on vacation. But if she's not, she'll be writing 200ish words a day on SOMETHING because if she doesn't write during her vacation she will go MAD.

Note: this is basically 15 minutes a day just to keep into the habit of writing daily. Roll with it. It's necessary.

No writing in a day makes the female bitchy. She needs to write. She just doesn't need to write under pressure. But she needs to write. NEEDS to write. Needs it, precious.

After Booked for Kidnapping, preorders will be roughly three months long and set up when the book is completely finished. (There are a lot of background reasons this is necessary, including attempting to get audio and print production to fall in line with ebook release dates.)

Not all books will have audio versions. Basically... if the ebook version can't pay for the audiobook version's bills and still leave money for the rent, the book isn't being produced in audio. We're sorry, humans, but the bills must be paid, and she's still carrying too much debt from previous audiobooks.

It is still smokey in Cupertino. The humidity is at 93%. Our normal humidity is 30-50%. Judging from the vast whining from the female, who abhors humidity, the world is ending, she is on the verge of death, and we are not impressed with her.

We aren't discussing the coffee problem. She'd had two cups this week, both due to high amounts of pain and breathing difficulties due to smoke.

The coffee helps mitigate some of the smoke problems. It helps keep the airways open, a little like an inhaler but without the extra nasty blood pressure spike. The female can't win. But at least this defeat involves indulgence.

The formerly white house next door needs a bath due to the smoke. If the female could fly, she would draw unicorns in the soot on the building's walls.

We aren't even lying.

Here is the description for Booked for Kidnapping, now that we are done our tangent:

Following the assassination of Senator Maybelle, widespread rioting and unrest transform the presidential campaign into a lethal circus. With protests raging over the new bill, the government scrambles to restore peace and order.

Armed with a probationary private investigation license, Janette and her friends race against time to prevent the next murder. On the surface, the motive for the killings seems simple enough: the senate bill, if passed, would transform the United States into a militant dictatorship.

As hostilities around the nation intensify and the pressure of the investigation strains Janette’s relationships with her family and friends, she learns loyalty only goes so far, friendships are as easily forged as they are broken, and justice means little to those determined to preserve their personal liberties.

But when a murder attempt turns into a kidnapping, she’s left with one choice:

Uncover the truth, or die trying.

But hooray! Amazon won the preorder race this time, so if you like reading on your kindle, you can preorder now.