General News: Nov 2025
Online Shop Launch + Life UpdatesHello, my critterkin!
The summer was LONG and full of trials as my narc ex-cop dad had hip replacement surgery, recovered very well, I packed up all of my things and Mom's things, we moved 2k miles away from Dad, and started our new quiet life. Only to find out Mom has cancer. So, Mom and I made the journey back, are staying somewhere safe that is NOT with Dad, have been taking Mom to appointments and tests, and have been trying to finish a few books while we hurry up and wait. Mom's BIG biopsy is this month, and we'll also be finding out what kind of treatment they're going to go with. We miss home and our cats, and we just wanna go home. So fingers crossed the treatment is swift! I'm also facing getting Dad diagnosed with Dementia so we can place him in a home, which will come with its own drama and stress, especially with my half-siblings. All of this on top of the insanity that is our country and world right now. Unsurprisingly, my depression has reared its ugly head, and I've been beating it back with a stick the best I can. In good news, Book Harvest Book Con was a BLAST! I'm probably only doing 1 or 2 events next year. Also, despite everything, I'm making good progress on several books! Right now, I'm in the last stretch of writing When You Leashed Expect It and have started fleshing out Mari Lwydmas as I've been deep-diving into research on Mari Lwyds. ALSO! I have soft-launched my shop! Right now, you can purchase and pre-order e-books, and I'm working to get proof samples of paperbacks and hardbacks for purchase! E-book delivery will be through BookFunnel, and physical book delivery will be through BookVault (a print-on-demand drop-ship service). I'll have signed bookplates available in my shop soon, too! |
My Gen-AI Policy Regarding My Work:
My policy is simple: NO Generative AI.
I don't use it in my art and I don't use it in my writing. It's exploitative of creatives and just ethically unsound. All of my books are human made. I design the covers (using a mix of compositing, paint over, and from scratch techniques), all of the writing and even the formatting is done by me. I'm planning on adding this stamp on my book covers moving forward! Autism & Progressive Space:If you're not aware, I am diagnosed autistic and ADHD. I've also got MDD, Anxiety, PTSD, C-PTSD, Delayed Auditory Processing, and more.
I realized, going over my old manuscripts for a book I wrote a decade ago, that I tend to write autistic FMCs. Amelia from the Rhuger books in my Orc Matched series is autistic and I've written my experiences into her character. My primary aim, outside of writing fun stories, is to cultivate a multiverse that is a progressive, inclusive, and supportive space. Where experiences that aren't mine are written sensitively with honor, respect, dignity, and compassion. I want to showcase the spectrum of humanity as best I can! |
Book News:
Orc Matched: To Be Revisited
Is Orc Matched On Hiatus?
YES. But only temporarily. There are a lot of factors and reasons why this is so, but it mainly boils down to - I need to put more good memories between the drama and BS I endured in relation to (NOT because of) the series and right now. Once I finish and publish something else, I'll likely be back in the Orc Matched cuddle pile! Orc Matched is already planned out and partially written as a series and it's going to be a LONG one. I mean, I've got 22 stories on the docket and plenty more I can write for it. Am I insane? Yes.
In the meantime, you can read chapters of Sharn's Honeybee each week over on my Patreon!
YES. But only temporarily. There are a lot of factors and reasons why this is so, but it mainly boils down to - I need to put more good memories between the drama and BS I endured in relation to (NOT because of) the series and right now. Once I finish and publish something else, I'll likely be back in the Orc Matched cuddle pile! Orc Matched is already planned out and partially written as a series and it's going to be a LONG one. I mean, I've got 22 stories on the docket and plenty more I can write for it. Am I insane? Yes.
In the meantime, you can read chapters of Sharn's Honeybee each week over on my Patreon!
Frostvale Holiday Tales: Spicy Holiday Monster Romances
Insta-everything.
Part of my forray beyond Orc Matched and longer stories, is Frostvale Holiday Tales, an ongoing series of cozy, small-town, monster romances set in a fictional idyllic Colorado mountain town that is the premier Christmas romantic retreat.
Mari Lwydmas is between Ella, an autistic woman who had set up a romantic getaway for her and her boyfriend (only to find out he's cheating on her) and Lwyd, a... Mari Lwyd, who drunkenly leaves a festival next door to go caroling at Ella's rental. Ella, thinking it's her boyfriend and pissed, opens the door in nothing but her lingerie to see a drunken man with a horse skull head singing slightly off key. When Lwyd finally notices Ella, he's floored and asks her to enter a pwnco (or lyrical battle) with him. If she wins, he'll hamstring her stupid ex-boyfriend. If he wins... he'll "pillage her pantry" and help her forget him. Guess who wins?
Coming Soon Winter 2025
Part of my forray beyond Orc Matched and longer stories, is Frostvale Holiday Tales, an ongoing series of cozy, small-town, monster romances set in a fictional idyllic Colorado mountain town that is the premier Christmas romantic retreat.
Mari Lwydmas is between Ella, an autistic woman who had set up a romantic getaway for her and her boyfriend (only to find out he's cheating on her) and Lwyd, a... Mari Lwyd, who drunkenly leaves a festival next door to go caroling at Ella's rental. Ella, thinking it's her boyfriend and pissed, opens the door in nothing but her lingerie to see a drunken man with a horse skull head singing slightly off key. When Lwyd finally notices Ella, he's floored and asks her to enter a pwnco (or lyrical battle) with him. If she wins, he'll hamstring her stupid ex-boyfriend. If he wins... he'll "pillage her pantry" and help her forget him. Guess who wins?
Coming Soon Winter 2025
The Moss King & the Briar Crown: A Forray Into Appalachian Horror Dark Fantasy
Book Harvest Anthology Short to Novella
Book Harvest is having an exclusive Anthology and I've submitted The Moss King & the Briar Crown (TMK+TBC) as my entry. It's a short Dark Fantasy monster romance with heavy Appalachian Horror influences. It's got Trans/Nbi rep in the NbMC Briar who plays the banjo, lives up in a holler with their kin, keeps dreaming about banging a super hot cervitaur (deer or elk-like faun or centaur), discovers that they're a cunning folk (type of witch) and comes face to face with an ancient eldritch horror called the Ravening. It's a VERY gory story (heh) but also one filled with hope, found family, fireflies, moss, summoning songs, and a sweet opossum familiar Posy who struggles to eat grapes due to her missing teeth.
The short will be published in the Book Harvest Anthology Fall 2025, and I'm already expanding it to be a novella which will be published when the rights revert.
Coming Soon January 2026
Book Harvest is having an exclusive Anthology and I've submitted The Moss King & the Briar Crown (TMK+TBC) as my entry. It's a short Dark Fantasy monster romance with heavy Appalachian Horror influences. It's got Trans/Nbi rep in the NbMC Briar who plays the banjo, lives up in a holler with their kin, keeps dreaming about banging a super hot cervitaur (deer or elk-like faun or centaur), discovers that they're a cunning folk (type of witch) and comes face to face with an ancient eldritch horror called the Ravening. It's a VERY gory story (heh) but also one filled with hope, found family, fireflies, moss, summoning songs, and a sweet opossum familiar Posy who struggles to eat grapes due to her missing teeth.
The short will be published in the Book Harvest Anthology Fall 2025, and I'm already expanding it to be a novella which will be published when the rights revert.
Coming Soon January 2026
The Holly King & the Frost Crown: A Forray Into Winter Horror Dark Fantasy
Not Your Cherry Holiday Tale
A M/F dark fantasy fae romance between a hyper-independent, self-reliant homesteader in the Sierra Nevadas and an ancient slumbering fae king of winter and their battle against the elements wielded by a scorned lover as hungry as the ravenous cold.
Coming Soon
A M/F dark fantasy fae romance between a hyper-independent, self-reliant homesteader in the Sierra Nevadas and an ancient slumbering fae king of winter and their battle against the elements wielded by a scorned lover as hungry as the ravenous cold.
Coming Soon
When You Leashed Expect It: Slapstick Genre-Bending RomCom W/ A Side of Beans
A Shared World Called Pillar City - The Hub Of The Universe (House of Malachite)
A M/FNbi monster romance between a disabled, chronically ill druid looking for help to get her heirloom back from her unicorn shifter ex-husband and an escaped hellhound looking for freedom and his fated mate. Both end up at Maison Arnis, the universe's most eclectic shop, where you can buy anything you want - but you might have to pay with the unexpected.
Coming Soon
A M/FNbi monster romance between a disabled, chronically ill druid looking for help to get her heirloom back from her unicorn shifter ex-husband and an escaped hellhound looking for freedom and his fated mate. Both end up at Maison Arnis, the universe's most eclectic shop, where you can buy anything you want - but you might have to pay with the unexpected.
Coming Soon
De-coffin-ated Grounds: A Heart Warming Rivals To Lovers & The Book They Hate
A Shared World Called Pillar City - The Hub Of The Universe (House of Garnet)
A M/F monster romance between a curvy vampire librarian who wants to stop a thief who keeps stealing a recently donated copy of The Purple Cloud and a big boy satyr coffee shop owner who keeps trying to get back the heirloom copy of The Purple Cloud that was accidentally donated as he fights to keep his grandparent's memory and coffee shop alive. Both end up at Maison Arnis, the universe's most eclectic shop, where you can buy anything you want - but you might have to pay with the unexpected.
Coming Soon
A M/F monster romance between a curvy vampire librarian who wants to stop a thief who keeps stealing a recently donated copy of The Purple Cloud and a big boy satyr coffee shop owner who keeps trying to get back the heirloom copy of The Purple Cloud that was accidentally donated as he fights to keep his grandparent's memory and coffee shop alive. Both end up at Maison Arnis, the universe's most eclectic shop, where you can buy anything you want - but you might have to pay with the unexpected.
Coming Soon
Art Commissions:
CLOSED!
The only commissions I am taking are in trade for equivalent services from other authors and it is extremely limited.
The only commissions I am taking are in trade for equivalent services from other authors and it is extremely limited.