Big plans ahead (Patreon)

Hello friends!

If you have been following me in any way on social media, you will know that the last year and half has been a bit overwhelming! My father-in-law left us his possessions, and almost every last thing he owned was some sort of specialty collectible. So far we’ve sold 900+ things and we’re past the halfway mark, but…there have to be at least 500 to go.

I’ve been trying to juggle writing AND the estate at the same time. I’ve finally had to admit this just isn’t working. I can write books, but finding time to market them is another matter. Marketing is way too similar to our massive estate Ebay operation, in all of its internet fussiness and organization. My brain just can’t handle both of these things at once. All the books I release have been dead in the water and I’ve been dropping a lot of balls on the side. I don’t even have a paperback up for several recent books. It really feels like a disservice to the books. My writing has also slowed down, and I really don’t want a huge delay between books in the Dragon Queen series!

Plus, trying to divide my time means my house is overtaken by junk for a LONG time. We finally had friends over for the first time in a year and a half, and it was still like, “Sorry about all the #$%# Legos.” Mind you, we bought this house in part because it had a great entertaining space and we wanted to have parties. So losing that space for like, two years? I am so over it.

With that said, I’ve had a lot of time to plan and dream and save money. I’ve been working on my big, exciting, slightly scary plan to reboot myself when I come out of this. Despite the inconvenience, I have seen this time as a blessing. I was getting burned out and I had a few shocks to the system, such as two friends my age getting cancer over the last couple years, that made me feel like I needed to tend to my heart and soul more. I’ve had all this time to think about how I could evolve my creative life, but for many months I just felt stuck. I couldn’t figure out how to do it in a way that felt both practical and engaging.

It’s starting to take shape in my mind now, and of course part of it will be finishing The Last Dragon Queen, along with many other projects that have me absolutely itching to get to work.

With that said, I am pausing my Patreon subscriptions since I’ve decided to focus on just busting out the collectibles as quickly as I possibly can. It is obviously not fair to charge anyone when I am not writing! My Patreon is definitely still part of the plan and I intend to get back to having more and varied content as well. I’m doing a lot of work behind the scenes, but I don’t want to launch anything until I have time to really go big and devote myself to it. I WILL see you all soon!