✒︎ Winter Musings
A Newsletter
Readers,
I hope you all had a restful Holiday Season.
🐍 2025 was truly the year of the snake. It was a great time of transformation and progress. We moved from a hallway apartment to a new home. I was able to work with many authors on their books, gained new friends within the writing community, and read some amazing stories.
However, while there were incredible opportunities throughout the year; I worked harder than I ever have. It’s understandable why bears hibernate. The exhaustion of 2025 is something I cannot carry with me into the new year.
Here is to a year of slowing down, living in the moment, and writing good stories.
I did not reach my goal of publishing Tooth & Nail last year. I fully admit my attention span was fractured. Illustration work dominated my time and left little energy to write. Thus, rather than saying my book will be published this year, I am going to be kind to myself. The new goal: write at least 300 words a day. Whether that’s working on my manuscript or writing a flash fiction. I will let you all know how it goes.
In the meantime, Ellen McGinty helped me edit a small folktale. This is a story I could have worked on forever. I relate very strongly to The Weaver— sometimes it’s hard letting things go.
TOP IN FICTION- I had fun chatting with Erica Drayton about the first TIF anthology cover. I have been a huge fan of TIF for a while so this was truly a dream project!
Add Wind Child to my TBR! And I still can't get over that Eye See You cover. So good!