Hey!

Status update from me. It's been so long; sorry about that.

I'm still writing, though mostly in Strokes (update on that in my next post). I have done some work on holiday giftfics, which are LONG OVERDUE, and I feel terrible about that. But I promise I haven't forgotten or abandoned them.

I've been struggling a lot since I lost my job last year, and I went through a few months of pretty serious depression. I went on some new medicine a couple weeks ago for it (yay) and had a really bad reaction to it (damn it), so I'm off it again. Sigh. I got my second shot, but I'm still really nervous about being with people, and my two weeks have only been up for a couple days. I'm really looking forward to being with friends and family again, because it's just been me and my two cats for a year and 3 months, I just don't know what my comfort level is yet.

I've procrastinated on cleaning all this month, so I'm trying to squeeze as much of it as I can during today and tomorrow. Oops.

I've been doing write-ins online, though mostly focusing on blog work. It's not making me much money yet, but I'm enjoying it.

That's about it, really. Just trying to hang on.

HUGS to you all.

New Strokes Book: Five Golden Rings

It's been exactly 20 years since I first started writing this series, and to celebrate I decided to create another collection of stories.

After many, many, many years of promising Sweetie and Jamie that I would write their wedding, it finally happened!

In Five Golden Rings, we see their engagement, their wedding planning, their combined bachelor party, their wedding, and their honeymoon. We also learn a lot of secrets that I've been holding in about the boys for this whole time. We find out what that room of computers in the house is for. We find out Nik's real name. And we learn more about Sweetie's and Nik's birth families. We also get: Jamie's sisters fussing over him, Ace singing karaoke, Jamie's teammates seeing where he lives, and the housemates giving them multiple surprises on their special day.

It's currently only available in paperback, but when I have more time, I'm hoping to get the eBook version in shape and published. I re-edited Seven Strokes of Sin as well (haven't republished the eBook yet) so that the cover styles and spines match for the series.

I hope that you enjoy it!

Buy the Book

And, yes, I'm publishing the collections out of order, though I do hope to have a collection of 1 to 10 one day. I'm actually working on the collection of Quarantine stories right now (set during spring and summer of 2020) and that's a collection of 30 stories. So, who knows? Maybe one day I'll have 1 through 30? I'm actually on the second round of editing of those stories and had hoped to have it done this spring, but editing is taking longer than I'd hoped after I attended a four-week editing workshop and picked up some new skills in the area. So I'm planning to get it done later this year.