The cover of book 4, out now for winter solstice! Find it here.
To quote our back-of-book copy:
Fantasy, Erotica, Horror
Category: Fourth book
I love this time of year, the soft edge of winter, with its milky blue skies. I’m reviewing proof for the next book, to be called Arise, You Rebel Angels.
The first full day of autumn falls today, in the Northern Hemisphere, with implications of harvest, of a fruitful end.
The fourth book, Arise, You Rebel Angels, is in its second draft, with my publisher for revisions.
Despite the plague times, life feels pretty good, though I feel at a crossroads—which means, I hope, adventure is coming.
Inbox cat says spend your time napping when you can.
I’ve been pondering the fact that life usually doesn’t go as planned. In my twenties and thirties, I sold stories—I had an agent for a while. The agent proved a bit shady, so I dropped her. I wasn’t overwhelmed by offers of publication.
This bench in Pompeii, in a picture taken several years ago, sits in between visitors, waiting. I’ve finished a draft of book 4 of the series, working title Arise, You Rebel Angels, and it’s with beta readers. I’m giving myself a brief break between periods of writing.
I’ve always been fond of in-between time—when I was in college, going to my parents’ house and back on the bus, the passage looking out the window, watching the dark landscape go by, was one of my favorite times. No responsibilities, no set location. I’m in between also on vaccine status—two shots down, waiting for full immunity in June.
The eddy of time before a new current takes hold.
Bealtaine traditionally was a season, and as part of that fey and amorous season I’ve sent the fourth book of my series to beta readers. And huzzah for that.
If all goes to plan, it should be out by the end of the year.
I’ve turned the corner, y’all. I’m almost done with a draft.
Fair warning—this one is going to be full of a lot of angels. Witch-friendly angels, witch-father angels, but angels.
In this book, my incubus-succubus changes gender nearly every short section. A copy editor’s nightmare! Oh well.
There’s ice on the puddles, but still it’s early spring.
It’s been a long winter for most of us. I haven’t had the plague hit my family, thank the gods, but I think everyone’s been touched by that and the US political upheavals of the turn of the year.
But I’m halfway through a draft of the fourth book of my series, and this one’s going to have an angel in it.
You know the old adage that you need to get your characters in trouble as fast as possible, in a book? Since I identify with my characters, it often feels as if I’m getting in trouble as fast as I can. Luckily writing a book is good trouble to be in.
Yesterday I sat down with a dear friend who is vastly knowledgeable in cosmologies and got a brain dump, and the Garden of Eden (as seen through a gnostic lens) came up. Emphasis on snake.
This is the reading from two of my favorite decks this morning. (The decks are Laura Tempest Zakroff’s Liminal Spirits Oracle and the Secret Dakini Oracle.)
Trouble is brewing…