I haven’t blogged in SO LONG, but I’ve had some ideas lately, and I want to use this space more in the upcoming year (and I need to completely overhaul my website!), so I figured I would start with a gigantic update most of which already came out in my newsletter.
Table of Contents for this post:
- Villains & Virtues News – Paperback Rerelease with Sourcebooks
- Shop Updates – Book Boxes Restock April 2nd
- New Joint Project Announcement – Falling for Demons with Laura Winter
- Faeted to Fall Releases – Coming June 10th in All Formats
- Other Projects???
Villains & Virtues
Paperback Rerelease with Sourcebooks
I’m so excited to announce that Sourcebooks has picked up Villains & Virtues, and brand new paperbacks will be released starting this November with Throne in the Dark!
You can preorder it now from any of your favorite retailers, but here’s the Barnes & Noble link for posterity (new cover coming soon).
The audio and ebooks will remain as is, but my paperbacks will be going away at the end of July (more on that later). While I still love my original covers, these new paperbacks will have the text cleaned up (no major changes) and some juicy bonus content! While I can’t tell you every detail quite yet, believe me when I say you’re going to be stunned at how beautiful it is. I have happy sobbed countless times over so many things during this process, not least of all the fact someone wanted to pick up my silly little love stories.
I’m so thrilled that V&V will reach even more wonderful readers!
Shop Update
Book Box Restock 4/2/2025
I told a few people I would restock my shop mid March, but that was very poor planning on my part both because I’ve been doing a lot of medical things which has eaten up a good chunk of my time and because at the end of this month I get to go on a writing retreat with my bestie which means I won’t be home to pack orders! So I’m pushing the date to April 2nd, but I’m also going to keep the book boxes indefinitely in stock until July 31st, 2025, so no worries about grabbing them before they’re gone!
That’s right: my plan is to just keep the listing open for orders (sort of like a preorder), and I will fill them as soon as possible.
Keeping books in perpetual stock, however, means much longer shipping times. I’m updating the listing to advise orders may take up to 3 weeks before they ship out. My hope is to send them sooner than that, but it could take up to that long as I have to wait for the books to come to me.
The books I’m selling in my store are the original paperbacks with art by Anna-Mariya Georgieva. My store and Amazon are the only places this version will be available now through July 31st when I take them down in preparation for the Sourcebooks release in November. So if you want the original covers, you have four months to get them!
Also, I know many people are boycotting Amazon right now, so I want to be completely transparent: the copies in my shop do come from Amazon’s print on demand service. I purchase the books at cost and sell them directly to readers, so theoretically Amazon isn’t making any money on them (so they say), but I want to be super clear with everyone so you know exactly what you’re buying!
Duds will also be stocked as I receive them. I can’t guarantee a number for those, but I most certainly will have some at various times over the next four months.
I’ll continue to sell prints of the original art of V&V after the books are gone as well as boxes for Vacancy, The Elven Days of Christmas, and future projects, which brings me to my next topic…
New Project Announcement:
Falling for Demons
with Laura Winter
Laura Winter and I collaborated on the Foes to Flames anthology, and that went so well that we decided to craft an entire world together!
Falling For Demons will be a six book series of cozy monster romances, three books written by each of us, and each book following a different set of characters. The stories will have some crossover content and will happen simultaneously, but each book will be able to be read as a standalone: also known as interconnected standalones.
The first two books feature the pairs in the above image (art by the wonderful SatMolls), and they’re both just so freaking adorable I can barely contain my cute aggression when I think about them!
This series has been an utter joy to plan and write with Laura. It’s amazing to work with someone who just gets you, who can hype you up, and offer sage advice. The last few months especially have just reinvigorated my passion for writing.
We’ve taken a slightly more laid back approach to this series both because when you share a world you need to keep things a little looser to fit everything in, but also because we were both really searching for joy in our writing processes. We wanted to create something fun and lighthearted, and I really think we’ve done just that.
Admittedly, the premise of the series is a little dark, and we both introduce heavy themes throughout the books, but the romances are fluffy and steamy and the conflicts are pretty low stakes. You’ll get a lot of banter and coziness as well as a pretty high amount of spice. Remember, these are monster romances, after all. Look for books one and two coming this summer!
Also, Laura’s book The Crown of Fractured Darkness releases tomorrow which means the Smoke & Shadow series is complete! The trilogy plus a prequel and a novella spinoff depict a rich fantasy world full of utterly badass characters, steamy love scenes, moments where I laughed out loud and scared my cat (Oni’s introduction especially), and a few scenes that made me almost throw the book (I have a rage reaction to things that I love sometimes, it’s weird, I know) but I couldn’t throw it without risking a hole in the wall because it’s so damn chonky!
Go check out her content guide and start with The Curse of Broken Shadows, you will not regret it!
Faeted to Fall
Novella Rerelease 6/10/2025
Originally published in the limited-time anthology Foes to Flames, Faeted to Fall will be rereleasing as a standalone novella this summer with about 5k words of bonus content.
You can preorder the ebook now, but on June 10th you’ll be able to get it in paperback, ebook, Kindle Unlimited, and audio!
And of course the wonderful Anna-Mariya Georgieva illustrated this beautiful cover for me and Laura Winter did that lovely typography!
She spoke into the empty wood, a question meant for no one, but the wood was never empty, and there was never no one listening…
Maewyn’s fate is sealed when she is chosen to walk the Harvest Way as a sacrifice to the Autumn Court, but this human doesn’t intend to be any fae’s bride, and she’ll kill if need be. Her attempt to slay her betrothed only creates a far worse predicament, though: a magical tether that bonds her to her target instantly.
How unfortunate the fae she’s stuck with is such an obnoxious brat.
Roan, the Autumn Court’s prince, never intended to be wed either, never mind tethered, but now that this human has spoiled his grandiose plans, he’ll have to find another use for her. But perhaps Maewyn is not worthless. Perhaps Maewyn’s brusque perspective and vitriolic name-calling are exactly what the Autumn Prince needs.
But worse than unintended tethers and foul-mouth fiances is a dark presence that lurks the autumn wood. Only together can Maewyn and Roan defeat it, if first they can put their passionate hatred aside and embrace the bond meant to unite them.
Other Projects???
Oh, boy, isn’t that enough???
No, of course not! I’m working on something that I’m lovingly calling “Secret Project B,” but you probably won’t know much more for a long, long time. Hint: fairytales.
I’ve also always got Taming Wyverns on my mind. Someday she’ll see the light, I just don’t know when! I have some winter holiday themed pieces in the draft folder too and a couple extra stories in the Faeted to Fall world I’d like to get out. Oh, and I wrote 2500 words in a brand new piece this week because inspiration hit me like a wrecking ball. That will get filed away alongside the Cupid Project and Dragon Race, both of which peck at the back of my skull like an arcane raven begging for treats.
That’s all I have to share for now. If you’ve stuck around this long, here’s a teeny tiny unedited excerpt from that thing I wrote this week (and also may have begun commissioning art for):
“The thing is,” Fiorella went on as embarrassment crept in at what she had to admit. “I think I might need all of you.”
Drex’s grin cracked wide as he caught the elf’s gaze. “At the same time?”
“Yes, I believe so.” She blew out a breath and tried to explain as delicately as possible. “I need my basement cleaned out.”
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