Solstice!

The shortest day of the year! I posted some pictures at my realname blog.

New cards from goss, oracne, and silverflight8 (sealed with real sealing wax!!). They're lovely; thank you so much! ♥

WE STILL HAVE NOT DECORATED THE TREE. We set it up on Thursday. This is becoming a travesty. I plan to get some ornaments hung tonight. On the other hand, having a bare spruce tree obtained from our own place is kind of pleasantly pagan for the solstice, I guess?

Speaking of such things, I accidentally plotbunnied myself with the idea of Zemo as a Sokovian genius loci/spirit-of-place. It's just such an interestingly fitting idea and full of angsty possibilities having to do with the destruction of the country.

I also posted a TFATWS Christmas story featuring the usual suspects.

Further posts coming with end-of-year book roundups and the like!

2021 publications

Several of these are reprints, but here's what I had out in 2021:



I don't actually think this is sane, sensible, or recommended, but once I realized I was putting out roughly a book a month this year, I decided to see how long I could keep it going, just as a personal challenge to myself. As it turned out, I had something out every month this year except for March. (And I literally just noticed I used the exact same type treatment on the Horses and Wolf Country covers. Oops.)

I'm cheating a bit with the last one, because it's just a free Lauren story that's been on my Lauren Esker website forever and I finally got around to putting up on Amazon, but I made a new cover for it, so I'm counting it. Free version downloadable here.

Things to do for the rest of the year:

- Edits for Tor (my next Zoe) & ARCs.
- Much-needed website cleanup/update.
- Mailing list maintenance and redoing the onboarding sequence. (Or at least make a plan for it.)
- Color some Kismet pages with the hopes of restarting it in January.
- My annual New Year's Eve story.

Any of this that doesn't get done this month (well, except the last one) can be pushed into January; I'm planning on taking it easy between now and the end of the year.

Next year's primary goal is consistency. I can write fast, but what I'm not very good at is planning to work on specific projects and then sticking with those rather than bouncing to new things. I'm not entirely abandoning my usual "mayfly on crack" working process because it's just part of how my brain works, but in general I want to get better at reliably delivering books in a series by a particular deadline.