It didn’t help that I lost a good third of the year to cancer issues and associated stuff. I keep telling myself that when the obnoxious part of my brain tries to lash me for only putting out one book in 2023.

But after a week or so of relaxing, watching a lot of HGTV shows, knitting, and doing some small projects around the house, I will get back to work on High Tide. After that, I finish Hurricane Warning, then pivot to To Love a Wild Swan.

Just a warning, however. We have an absolute buttload of expensive repairs that need to be made to the house, and the only way we can afford to do them is if I pick up some contract technical writing/instructional designer work. Which means book production may slow down since I’ll have to spend eight hours of the work week selling my labor to other people so that we can fix our foundation and replace the dead air handler downstairs (those two issues alone will run us about $20-25K). It’s unfortunate, but it’s what I have to do until the books start selling better.