Vellichor Ink

Somehow it is September. The last time I even opened this website was March… it has, obviously, been a year.

The house is (mostly) settled. There are things here and there that need to be done (looking at you primary bathroom, entry way floors, and back deck…), but paint has been painted, shutters have been removed, boxes have been unpacked, and we are… here.

I told my writer’s group the other day that I feel behind. I haven’t drafted anything new in over a year–my whole focus has been on editing already-existing stories. So, while I know it sounds ridiculous, I feel behind. I think I just had so much momentum when we were in England. I had carved out a really great routine for writing and it was easy to stick to. I have not found my routine here yet.

There are days it feels as though I never will.

On the actual-updating you front, I am almost finished with my last pass of edits on The Bone Cottage. It is…wonderful. I really, truly love this story more than any other I’ve written or dreamed up and I cant wait to put it out into the world.

It’s due in the hands of the proofreader next month and I’m nervous she’s going to take one look at it and say–“This is awful and needs more than just a proofread. Hell, more than even a copy edit!” So, let’s all cross our fingers that doesn’t happen.

A little God’s Wife update: I went to Barnes and Noble the other day to buy Stella a book she’d been wanting and I was having a bit of a day. You know those days where everything feels a bit heavy and you wonder what’s it all for and what the point is, exactly. I was thinking I’d find all 9 copies I’d consigned with them collecting dust and I’d pull them from the shelves and hope I could sell them at some upcoming markets. You can imagine my surprise when I crouched down to the shelf and saw this:

Yep–all but 1 Pathfinder and 2 God’s Wife sold! the manager happened to be there and had some free time (and I happened to have books in my car from where I’d not unpacked from Pride) so we drafted another contract and I consigned more books to go on their shelves!!! It was a wonderful little boost on a day when I desperately needed it.

I’m still really struggling with marketing this series. It’s not that I don’t absolutely love it–I do. But the marketing stuff is overwhelming. It’s a lot of work that doesn’t feel like it’s always fruitful or worth it-I KNOW that sounds bad, but it’s how I feel. I just want to write, publish, and go back into my writing cave to keep writing…lol.

The one thing I am doing to market the series is a lot of in-person events this fall. I’m sharing a booth with some other writer friends and so far we’ve done our first event–Pride! It was so, so much fun and was a great way to kick off this autumn market season. I think we did three last autumn and we’ve got something like eight on the books for this year! So, hopefully it will be fruitful and we’ll get our stories into the hands of readers!