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Updates, Covers and Audio!??

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As usual let’s start with the week’s updates:

Secrets and Skin has two new chapters out, you can find them here:

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

In case you missed it last week, there were also two short story updates:

Good Girl (previously published on The Purple Fig)

Fairy Story

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Next: I’m getting some feedback that the current cover for Secrets is a bit racy, suggesting that it is in fact an erotic novel or heavily romantic… which if you’re reading it… you know is not at all the case. So I’m looking into updating it. If you have any suggestions for imagery please let me know – I’m struggling to find something appropriately urban-fantasy-ish  while still staying true to its tone.

Finally… it turns out I may have access to a recording studio. For a while now I’ve been playing with the idea of recording Secrets and Skin and basically releasing the audio chapters along with the written ones. Would anyone be interested in this? Obviously this would take some time and resources so I’d like to have an idea of interest before I begin.

Let me know what you think in the comments and maybe I can put together a sample audio chapter in a couple weeks!

Children’s Book and Chapter Updates

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News!

First of all Secrets and Skin: Chapter 13 came out last Friday and Chapter 14 is out now!

You can also read them on Wattpad.

There should be a couple short story additions over the course of the week. I’ll include links to them in next week’s blog post but in theory one should be up today and another Friday. (EDIT: Oh, look…. I got one up already. You can check out my previously published story, Good Girl now.)

Finally… drum roll please…

winters-child

Over the past year or so I have been collaborating with my husband’s mother (an artist from Paris, Ontario… you can check out her Facebook page HERE) on a children’s Christmas book.

And voila!

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The books will be sold at the Christmas in Paris art event (again Paris, Ontario) and I will post the details for that as it gets closer. They will also be available on Amazon and I will share those details as well.

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As you can see it features some absolutely stunning artwork and a whimsical story of the magical, but brief, life of a snowflake born on Christmas Eve.

So yes, very exciting stuff!

If anyone is curious about the self-publishing process (we used CreateSpace) and what we learned as complete newbies navigating it, I would be happy to dedicate a blog post to it. I am definitely not an expert, but I learned A LOT fumbling my way through it the first time.

Until next time, hope you are all enjoying the last few weeks of summer and good luck to those just beginning the school year!

Secrets and Skin Update – Chapter 12

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Chapter 12 of Secrets and Skin is out today!

For those who haven’t read it yet, Secrets and Skin tells the story of Selene Kondo, a university drop out who finds herself caught in a supernatural conflict after a deadly attack at her friend’s going away party. It’s story about the implications of modern magic, but also of mental health, trust and the importance of choice. Of having agency over one’s life when everyone else would use it for their own goals – both mundane and magical.

You can also read it over at Wattpad.

Chapter 13 will be out on Friday and hopefully it will be accompanied by an updated short story.

I’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to leave a comment or some feedback below or on my work. Thanks for reading!