Hey, amazing people! I'm so very sorry for missing the last two weeks of our Friday emails. But I hope you’ll forgive me! I do have some big news for you both this week and next! First of all...

Long Winter is complete 😍

I have been in a mad dash to finish Long Winter—and yesterday, I finally did! The book is going to be part of a very cool event, which I’ve not had permission to share until now.

Long Winter will be part of the Winter Wonderland Story Giveaway, a MM romance event involving over 200 authors! While many of the stories in the event are short reads, Long Winter is a full-length novel at 80,000 words. I've gotten a peek at many of them, and there are some that I know I'll be grabbing when the event opens!

Undertow is still underway

I've been trying to get caught up on Undertow so I don't break my pact of bringing you updates. I have written three more chapters, but they need editing, so rather than rushing them out to you before I should, I'm going to send you a complete update next week that will include those three chapters, and hopefully another one too, to make up for lost time.

What I've been reading

I haven't been reading quite as much as I'd like because I've been so busy trying to get Long Winter completed. But today, as a reward to myself, I picked up a fabulous short read from Lisa Henry called Hellion. It’s a delightful MM regency story with an age gap and spanking, two of my favorite things. It was a delight and I encourage you to check it out!

Hearts on Fire is available

Hearts on Fire is a charity anthology that includes several full-length books as well as shorter works, including my very own novella, Breath of Roses. One hundred percent of sales benefit an extremely worthy cause: providing care to wildlife injured in the California wildfires. I know there are many organizations that you may already be supporting during this giving season, but even without the charity element, the price of the book versus the volume and quality of works it contains makes it a great value.

You can order Hearts on Fire and learn more about its cause by clicking here. (If you’re not willing or able to buy the book, but you have read Breath of Roses, you could support the anthology’s visibility by adding your review of Breath of Roses to the anthology in your store of choice.)