Looking Ahead At 2026

Here we are at the dawn of another year.

At least this time around I’m in a MUCH better headspace. Which is good, because I’m in kind of an annoying situation as a writer.

2025 was…a lot of things. Some good, some bad. Some really good, some really bad. But from where I stand right now, at least, I’m mostly doing okay. It’s a nice place to be. It won’t last, but it’s good to be here now, and it will come around again. (On a side note, I think that might be one of depression’s worst powers: it eclipses perspective. When you’re depressed, it feels like you always have been, and you always will be. And not in some grand melodramatic way, but it actually feels like that.)

This one is going to be divided into three parts. Part One will be what I accomplished in 2025. Part Two will be what I intend to do in 2026. Part Three will be hazardous and should be avoided, it will be me talking about ideas I want to write. I…will get into why Part Three should be avoided, but it isn’t a complicated subject. Creators love to talk about their ideas, and fans tend to, to varying degrees, enjoy hearing about these ideas and getting hyped. I know I do. The problem lies in the fact that I’ve been talking about some of the ideas for literally years. I still fully intend to do them, it’s just that my brain is Swiss cheese and even medicated, I’m still dealing with the maladaptive fallout of living with untreated ADHD for my entire life. Anyway, let’s begin!

And that was 2025! I managed to write a grand total of 9 novels and 8 short stories (technically 9 but one won’t see the light of day until this year), or 905,000 words altogether. It was pretty tumultuous but, overall, a good year for me personally. Mostly.

For 2026, I’m hoping to make some changes. Mostly to my real life. Being an average American, I don’t lead a healthy lifestyle. I don’t have any serious health problems (beyond the mental health issues) and I’m still basically intact. But I’m finally getting to that age where I need to get more serious, eat less crap, sleep better, exercise more, all that shit. Now that I’m actually on ADHD meds, it finally feels within my grasp. Because believe me, I’ve spent basically my entire adult life trying to ‘get my shit together’. And while I definitely made some progress overall, I’m not where I should be. So that’s going to be factoring into my writing productivity. I’m hoping that it will result in more writing overall, but also I have to acknowledge that making these changes are…a fucking a bitch. And there’s going to be a certain amount of misery involved, and that always fucks things up.

Now, if you’ll allow me to rant a little bit about my current situation, it will allow me to explain why 2026 is going to be like how it’s going to be.

Back in mid-2023, Amazon made a change to how they operate. It caused mass panic, because they expended literally zero effort to explain the policy in any capacity. In short, one thing had been added to the publication process: a question. Does your title contain adult content? Yes or no. If you want a more in-depth explanation of this, I can provide one, but in short, this caused lots of problems and caused a lot of us to suddenly consider making new decisions. Given the fact that I have anxiety problems, I…may have panicked. But it was a very reasonable thing to panic over, given this is literally my lifeline.

The result of that panicking was that I decided to hop on the bandwagon at the time, which was goblin girls. The new meta had been kicked off thanks to the success of Dalton’s Goblin Apocalypse. As everyone else toyed around with ideas of goblin girls, I did, too, but ultimately decided it wasn’t for me. And then the policy change happened. And so I decided I’d take a swing at doing the same thing. The second decision I made was that I had been thinking of using Royal Guard to publish a trilogy of haremlit novels ever since the audiobooks had gone so well. I wanted to see if offloading the publishing process and utilizing whatever advertising practices, better keywords, etc. they had access to was worth the cost of doing business. Because, in truth, I just like the writing. I don’t really care for the rest, the business side. The specific question of: could they sell my work better than I can? suddenly was more relevant. So I also pulled the trigger on Beneath the Ashes. (Side note: Royal Guard did a great job with BtA, but I ultimately decided I’m a little too much of a control freak to give up control.)

Well, this had unfortunate side effects. Like, for example, I was working on Our Own Way 2 when this crap hit, so this resulted in a far more staggered release schedule. It came out in September, then I managed to get OOW3 out in December, but then OOW4 didn’t hit until April the following year. And then of course OOW5 didn’t hit until April of the YEAR AFTER THAT. This year. And, for example, I had been working on Lakeside Cougars for months off and on at that point. And I had been gearing up to really take it on and get it out there, but that absolutely got put off the table once this happened.

Back in 2022, I decided I was going to do a Project A/Project B schedule. Write one book in one series, then switch and write one book in another series, then switch back. Back and forth until they were done. The idea was that it would help me stay sane. Well, by 2023, I realized that I was seriously fucking myself over by doing this. By not releasing sequels as fast as possible to each other, I was letting the momentum of each book die every time. So, I decided I wanted to get to a point where I wanted to just do one project at a time.

Well…things kept sort of cropping up to prevent that. I was going a little crazy in Spring 2024, so I decided to take a stab at writing some bleak survival/horror with Lara in the form of Dead Freeze as a side project. I wrapped up Beneath the Ashes and Goblin Girls, and then immediately dove into Lakeside Cougars, because I had been promising that for like a year by that point. So then it became: okay, lemme just wrap up Dead Freeze and Lakeside Cougars, and then I can get back to Our Own Way and wrap that up, and finally the table will be cleared!

Well…that took longer than I thought. As 2024 was coming to a close, my mental health was declining. I also wanted to test this theory about how if I had a monthly novella release, the algo would treat me better and I’d make more money. So I chose Down the Rabbit Hole, which was yet another panic decision from Summer 2023, only it ended up getting abandoned about 6,000 words in. So now it’s 2025 and I still haven’t finished ‘wrapping up’, and now I’ve got a monthly serial on my plate. And then my depressive breakdown happened in January and February, and then all the shit with ADHD hit in March. I wrapped up Lakeside Cougars and Dead Freeze, and then decided to take a detour and do Desperate Love with Lara to sort of test the waters of mono romance.

And then, well, with those two trilogies finished and then once I managed to get Desperate Love squared away, I finally turned my attention to Primal Love, which I had also been promising for a while by then, and also got delayed several times in all this mess. So now, here I am, at the dawn of 2026, another year later, and I’m still not ‘caught up’.

That’s why 2026 is going to be about finally, finally catching up. I won’t say that the end is in sight, but I at least know where it is and roughly how far away. As a consequence of…all this, I have decided that I am only going to list (in this section) what I am sure I’m going to do. Or, in other words, I’m going to list everything that I need to write in order to finally be caught up.

And then, in order to help my mental health, I’ll have the third section below where I blather on about cool ideas.

Let’s begin!

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE.

    • This is basically done.

    • The Complete Series omnibus will be up for pre-order very soon! It will come out January 15th, and it will contain a bonus epilogue entitled UNCHARTED TERRITORIES attached to it, exclusive to that omnibus collection. I think it’s the epilogue everyone is looking for.

    • If you’re curious about what happened to the four-pack collections, I had to take them down to make room for the Complete Series omnibus. Paperback and audiobook versions are still available and will remain up.

    • With the release of the omnibus, this series will be finished. The audiobook for Collection Three should be out in (this is an estimate) February. Not sure when the complete omnibus will be out, but I can’t imagine it’s that far down the line. The very last thing I’m going to do is to get a wallpaper of all the girls. That’s right, all the girls. All ten of them. Not sure when that one will come out, but it is coming.

  • OUR OWN WAY.

    • This is getting finished soon. This presently has my full attention.

    • Our Own Way 7, the final novel in the series, should come out in February.

    • Right now, there’s 4 more After Dark shorts planned. I’ll be trying to get these written over the next few months, too.

    • I don’t know if there are going to be any other bonus shorts, with one exception.

    • The Complete Series omnibus is coming, probably in March. Maybe April. Not sure yet. It’s going to have an exclusive epilogue paired with it. I’m pretty sure I’m going to start making this standard procedure for finishing a series going forward.

    • Also, there’s one more wallpaper coming, this one is of all the girls gothed out. Because of course I have to commission that. And there’s going to be one other drawing of Emily and Abby.

  • PRIMAL LOVE.

    • As soon as Our Own Way is done in terms of writing, I’ll immediately shift focus to this.

    • Primal Love II will hopefully be out in March.

    • Primal Love III, the final novel, will hopefully be out in April.

    • The Complete Trilogy, which will feature a bonus epilogue, should be out in May, possibly June.

    • Unless inspiration strikes, I likely won’t be writing any bonus shorts for this one (besides the epilogue).

  • SHELTER FROM THE STORM.

    • This one is (almost) the last thing I need to finish before I’m officially caught up.

    • For those of you who are not familiar, Shelter From the Storm was kind of the opposite of Goblin Girls or Monster Girl Inn. It was begun in September 2023, and it was begun with the needle thrown all the way over to ‘what I want to write’. It felt…necessary to write. Important. Crucial, to me. It still does. In short, it’s a post-apocalyptic, post-dystopian story that mixes slice of life and action/survival. What truly sets this story apart, and what makes it such a risky venture, is that the protagonist is suicidal. I sort of wrote it on a whim, and came up with a bunch of shit really quickly. I wrote seven chapters, and then I had to stop. It, like other projects, got set aside to ensure my panic projects got finished. I kept trying to come back to it, but by 2025, I admitted to myself that it was just going to have to stay on the back burner and wait.

    • For a time, I wasn’t sure if I was actually going to finish it or just toss it back in the trunk to perhaps be exhumed one day years from now. I’ve opted to finish it. It still feels…vital. Necessary to write. As it stands right now, Shelter From the Storm exists in the form of one cover, seven chapters, and a synopsis on my Patreon. Once I have finished Our Own Way and Primal Love, I will turn my attention to this series.

    • Right now, the only thing I can guarantee is that it will be a trilogy. This one is pretty unstable, though. It’s obvious by now to anyone who’s read a couple of my series that misery in my DNA, and there’s no way to completely separate it from my work. I usually try to keep a hold on it, but it bleeds through. With this series…I won’t be trying to hold back as much. It’ll get pretty dark. There’s not going to be any rule breaks or anything, and ultimately this will take the shape of the fiction you’ve all come to expect from me. I’m not looking to throw any serious curveballs with this one. But the exploration of the human condition and the frankly profound depths of suffering that are possible for one person to feel within their own mind is going to be intense at times.

    • If I’m very lucky, and things are going the way they are supposed to, then I’ll be able to get this first one out in May, then the next one in June, and the third in July. It’s always hard to tell how long a series is going to last. I won’t know if there’s going to be a four until, at the very least, I’ve published the first novel, but even then I doubt I’ll have an answer until I’m actually writing the third novel. I would say, on a gut feeling from where I’m standing right now…it’ll probably be a trilogy.

  • SECRET PROJECT

    • Okay, in direct contradiction to my complaining about not being caught up, this is the one new project I will be writing. I don’t want to say too much about it yet, but it’s another Lara X. Lust coauthored trilogy and it’s going to be like Our Own Way and Lakeside Cougars. AKA, contemporary slice of life. I think you guys will really like this one. It’s more like Lakeside Cougars in the sense that it targets specifically one highly underutilized type of woman that people are often asking after. Thanks to me canceling Entering Desolation, I’ll instead be utilizing that time to work on this project in the background. Unfortunately, I’m not sure when this one will come out. I want it to come out sooner rather than later, so assume, at the very least, the first half of 2026. I’ll talk more about this once we’re zeroing in on having the first novel written.

Those are the big ones. Nine novels. Nine novels in six months. That’s what I need to do to be caught up. I’m very much hoping that my new and improved self will be able to handle this workload and I will actually be caught up by July. I do not have much hope for this, however. Not really due to sadness or a lack of belief in myself, but more because I’ve been doing this for eleven years and it’s become obvious to me that plans rarely survive contact with the enemy. The enemy being real life.

That was the first half of Part Two. Here’s a collection of smaller shit (and one big thing that’s actually a bunch of small things) I’m going to be doing in the background that may or may not interest you.

OPERATION - RESURGENCE: Might as well start with the biggest one. I’ve been cooking this one for a long, long time. Not like I’ve been creating some kind of masterpiece plan for it, more like it’s an idea I’ve had for a few years now and every time it occurs to me, I’ll examine it and ultimately reject it. But it never stopped bugging me. And finally, over the past few months, when it came back this time, it made sense. Enough factors have changed that now the pieces fit.

This is about my backlist. For those of you who are not aware, I began my true writing career in late 2014. I wrote serialized erotica. I produced a few dozen novels this way from September 2014 - March 2018. Then something changed. I began writing feature-length novels for a number of reasons. I continued writing erotica that wasn’t quite erotica, in that it tended to have more plot and character development than what most people think of when they think of erotica. In 2019, I heard about this thing called HaremLit. Investigating, I realized I was basically already writing it, all I really needed to do was have the relationships be solidified and make it so that the girls didn’t leave at the end, reshape the narrative just a little to put more emphasis on the emotional side of things, and that was basically all that was needed. That being said, I didn’t quite figure it out for another few years.

2019 could be viewed as the demarcation line between me as an erotica author and me as a haremlit author, although it’s kind of a messy distinction. While I do call Haven and A Warm Place haremlit, because they are, I still hadn’t really gotten down the overall narrative tone and therefore made some decisions with them I wouldn’t now. I was also writing Parasexual and Like A Fine Wine at the time. I can forgive myself for Parasexual, but with Like A Fine Wine, I should have known better than to label it as erotica and also keep them short. Anyway, I’d say the true demarcation line exists at the publishing of Raw. That was about the time I really got my shit together.

Anyway, all this rambling is to establish the fact that I have two sections to my library: Old School Erotica and HaremLit/RFM. For anyone familiar with me and my history, you’ll know that the question of what to do with my backlist has plagued me for years. At one point, I ended up taking down every last old erotica title. But then I realized I was basically fucking myself out of money and also depriving people of stuff I’ve already written and put it back up. For the past couple of years, I’ve more or less settled on basically just letting it exist.

However…

The ADHD medication changes things. I now feel a lot more capable of tackling writing projects I couldn’t imagine dealing with before, mostly because the amount of suffering I would have to endure to go back and work on old, already-finished projects simply did not make it worth whatever benefit there might be. But the meds take away a significant amount of that suffering. Which opens the door again. Which means that I can look over my entire library and reconsider the proposition of essentially ‘remastering’ some of them.

The goal with these remasters is twofold: get older works to people who might never have known they existed, and to make me more money. Which is part of the reason I hate talking about it. There’s so much negativity-and rightly so-around people doing things for money. But then at the same time…we all live in a nightmarish hellscape of unchecked capitalism. Fucking everything is about money. I suppose the biggest difference is degree. At what point does an amount become enough? Well, all I know is that I have not reached that amount. And I base this notion off the fact that while I cannot say that I’m not comfortable in my own life (inasmuch as I’ve solved a lot of the problems that money can solve), there are still people in my life that need my help, and I can’t help them to the extent that is needed. But I could if I had more money. That, combined with the fact that the world is becoming an increasingly destabilized place, and I am not sure about my future. Which is particularly galling, because I had finally gotten to the point where I felt like I was pretty secure.

ANYWAY, after all that setup, below I will explain the specifics of this project. It isn’t as straightforward as it appears. The first three things I’m going to talk about are not the frontrunners for this project, they’re more just…driftwood that I’m collecting up. The real deal is Parasexual.

  • WOMAN OF THE WILD: This is technically my first novel as MV. I wrote it back in 2017, published it, then ultimately took it down because the idea I had for the series it was supposed to launch no longer made sense. And so it sat on my website as a freebie. I’ve thought about tinkering with it, doing a re-release. Well, I’m going to. I’m going to do an edit of it, change some plot elements to make it a mono romance love story between a young adventurer and a dryad, and add some scenes to it, then I’ll put it back up.

  • A WARM PLACE - THE ORIGINAL SERIES: For those unaware, I began a side project pen name in 2019. Crystal Candy. The first thing I wrote for it was A Warm Place, a 12-novelette serial. I really enjoyed it, the people seemed to like it, and when I took it down (along with all other Crystal Candy-related material), it wouldn’t leave me alone. Eventually, I rewrote it and the rest is history. The thing is, the original version is different enough from the new version that I think people might enjoy it. That was why I put it up on my website for free download. But not that many people visit my site, plus, there are often difficulties when trying to load the file onto a Kindle. So, I figured why not just publish it? That way it can both make money and people will have a much easier time accessing it. For those curious, the plot basically covers A Warm Place 4 & 5. The characters are basically the same, though there’s one extra near the end, and the general plot structure is the same. But I didn’t copy/paste anything. I did a truly clean rewrite in that I wrote every brand new word myself. It’s going to be .99¢, in the Kindle Unlimited, and up probably sometime this month.

  • THE LOST ARCHIVES: This one is…different. Lara X. Lust and myself realized last year that we’ve got some stuff floating around in our library that was begun and, in some cases, finished, but for one reason or another ended up buried. As in, not available anywhere on the internet. We decided that we’re going to collect what we can find, clean it up, and assemble it into a collection. We’re still assembling it right now and this is very much a background project at the moment, but it is something we’re working on. I’ll give a much more detailed explanation once we’re closer to release, but one thing I want to say now is this: most of these projects will not be finished. This archive is going to be less for the general readership and more for the more diehard fans. It’s also going to include at least two completely new short stories that I’ll be writing specifically for this archive. Basically, a pair of ideas that I had from way back when that never saw the light of day and never will in a broader form, but are cool enough that I figured they were worth bringing to life, at least in this small capacity.

  • PARASEXUAL: Okay, this is the big one. This will be a test run. For those who don’t know, Parasexual is a series that I wrote across 2018-2019. It’s paranormal romance and harem. A regular dude ends up going on a roadtrip to a paranormal metropolis and gets into a relationship with a werewolf, a vampire, and a succubus. It’s five main novels, a novella, and four short stories. It’s basically harem. I won’t have to change much, I think. Here’s what I want to do: get new covers made, edit and better format all the material, add in new material (at least a few thousand words per novel, it all depends on what it looks like when I actually get there), unpublish the old versions, and publish the new versions. This has a number of things working for it, but one of the bigger ones I want to experiment with and see how the algorithm reacts is that, since I’ll have all the novels ready to go ahead of time, I can put them all up for pre-order, like a week apart each. I’m going to use this as a test run and see how it does. Unless it goes disastrously bad or it causes me to suffer way more than I think it will, I’m going to give the treatment to a few others. Also, HUGE bonus if this actually works: remastered titles can have audiobooks now!

  • POTENTIAL RESURRECTIONS

    • LIKE A FINE WINE: This will be next if Parasexual does well. I’ll be expanding it and, obviously, changing the ending.

    • HELLCATS: Probably going to do this one. It’s basically just sci-fi slice of life.

    • ALIEN HAREM: I’m considering this one. Might, might not. Hard to say. Big problem is that it’s a duology, and I’m not willing to write a whole novel for this project. This one might end up on the cutting room floor.

    • PARANORMAL PASSIONS: This one is basically a lock. I don’t have to change much, honestly.

    • AMAZONIAN’S LOVE & ADVENTUROUS: These would be mono romances. Or, at least, Romance For Men, not harem. These are both stand-alone novels, and they are both about a young, awkward guy hooking up with a mature, confident badass chick over a decade older than him. I figure both of these deserve another go around. I actually like them and how they turned out, but they’ve pretty consistently underperformed.

    • SHORTS: I’m going to be taking down my shorter, older individual titles and re-releasing them as a collection. I’d write at least one new story for it, to help make it worth it. This would consist of EXPLORATION, MY UNDEAD LOVER, THE MISTY VIXEN STARTER PACK, BLIND DATE, THE PALE REDHEAD, LARGE & LOVELY, SNAKESKIN, and PINK (and the sequels/follow-up shorts that I wrote). I’ll do this one regardless because honestly, they are not earning much money.

    • EVERYTHING ELSE

      • ROYAL LUST: If Amazonian’s Love and Adventurous do okay, I could see doing this one. Definitely couldn’t sell it as mono romance, though.

      • WANDERLUST: I don’t see this one. It isn’t coherent enough of a narrative and the argument can’t really be made that it’s not erotica. Because it is. Take out the sex and it kinda crumbles.

      • DESIRE: Definitely not this one. Even less of a point could be made about it not being erotica. Plus, it’s my least successful series. Not sure why, but it kind of feels unlucky.

      • LUST & ADVENTURE: This one is a distant maybe. I guess, if this whole thing turns out to be very successful, I’d likely go the extra mile and do this one. For sure it’s not erotica, but it’s also kind of a mess.

      • SEX & SURVIVAL: Same argument as Wanderlust.

So, that’s the first half of the second half of the middle portion of this update. Uh…sorry. This is getting complicated. Anyway, this is going to be happening in the background for a little while. I’ll make a whole post about Parasexual when I’m ready to get it up and running. Now, let’s move onto the other, actually smaller stuff.

  • AFTER DARK

    • As it stands right now, there’s four ideas chambered and ready to fire. All of them are for Our Own Way. Two of them involve incest! I bet that’ll be nice for the people I have been unintentionally stringing along for fucking forever. (Sorry for that, again.)

    • Also as it stands right now, nothing else has really leaped out at me. I actually just took a quick look through my entire library to see if anything sparked, but honestly, nothing much did. Looking through the entirety of my pre-haremlit stuff didn’t spark anything, except one flicker of an idea for Hellcats, but I’m not sure how many people reading this have actually read Hellcats. And for all of my haremlit? Not really anything. Part of the problem is that After Dark is basically about two things: CNC and incest. A lot of the CNC ended up written into the series or the idea eventually wore away, and for incest, well, most of my protagonists have no contact with their family. Hell, for the incest I have planned for OOW I had to reach a little to make it work.

    • This is how I see the future of After Dark going: given it’s very vibes-based, it’ll continue to have a ‘when it’s done’ schedule. I.e., I’ll work on the stories when I have time/am feeling inspired. I’ll probably at least try to make more incest compatibility in future protagonists so that there’s more After Dark fodder, but I won’t be trying that hard. Ultimately, AD isn’t worth making huge changes in my primary projects.

    • I intend to get the four ideas I have right now finished this year, and I do intend to have more ideas, but this is very much a back burner project.

  • SOUNDTRACKS.

    • This one is purely an indulgent side project for me, but I think some people might find it really cool. When I write, I listen to music. Always. Always have, probably always will. It’s integral to the process. For years now I’ve toyed around with the idea of making a soundtrack page. List the songs I think fit best, give them names like Hunter’s Theme or Cold Days to give you an idea of what it pertains to, and provide links (and real names and artists, obviously) to the songs on YouTube. I’m still not completely sure if I’ll do this, and if I do, I won’t release an OST for everything. I know for a fact I’ll release them for Raw, A Warm Place, and Our Own Way, though. It’ll basically just be a fun extra thing.

  • INCEST.

    • Ah yes, the eternally elusive incest written by Misty Vixen. I swear I want to do this, and that I definitely intend to. I suppose technically speaking I’m closer than I’ve ever been to getting there. I want to at the very least try to get some original incest fiction out. Back when the Quivering Quill was being established, the creator reached out to me and asked if I wanted to publish anything there. For the uninitiated, the Quivering Quill is a website aimed at platforming more taboo works. For me, this means platforming incest. Unfortunately, I was far too busy at the time, and pretty much put a pin in the idea. Originally, I wasn’t going to make the incest available anywhere but on a website I owned, and give it out for free. But now that the QQ is a thing, I want to put it up there, too. I’ll need to talk with the person actually running the site to figure out exactly how this whole thing is going to shake out.

    • If we’re looking for specifics, I have a few. I have a short story written about a first encounter in a contemporary setting between a guy and his older sister. I have two novellas about a nineteen year old guy hooking up with his mom and beginning a relationship. I intend to read through these, get them cleaned up, and publish them to the QQ, and host them on my site for free, too. Given the two novellas were part of a series, I’ll write a few more and wrap it up. Not sure about the brother/sister one. Certainly it could be expanded, but I’m reluctant to go chasing every tale that could be longer, given my current workload.

    • Beyond that? I’m very much not sure. I have ideas I want to write, and I absolutely have a full-blown haremlit incest trilogy planned. As in, same level of treatment/production as my average haremlit series. It’ll be about a guy and his three sisters and it’ll be called Sisters > Girlfriends. I also want to do something similar, but between a guy and his mom and two/three aunts. Lots of potential there. But, unfortunately, it’s the same problem as always: time. Never enough of it.

  • COOL STUFF.

    • This one is no big deal. I sometimes come across stuff that I think is fucking awesome, but clearly not many (or simply not enough) people know about it. I’ll provide a link and a little description. It’ll mostly be YouTube videos, music, games, and written works. (I’ve stumbled across some really cool fan fictions in my time.) I’ll add to it as time goes on. Just something fun.

  • REFLECTING.

    • This one is also no big deal. I’m tossing around the idea of writing a series of blog posts essentially covering my thoughts on a given series. What got it started, what difficulties it faced, what changed, how I feel about, stuff like that. Just some self-indulgent author stuff that maybe some people might find interesting.

  • FAQ.

    • Last thing. I’m going to put together a Frequently Asked Questions section. Maybe you’ll get a question or two answered.

And there you have Part Two. Now it’s time for my favorite: Part Three. Or, me blathering on about ideas I want to write in the future. Once I’m finally at that mythical place of being all caught up. This doesn’t encompass all my ideas.

  • SCI-FI SLICE OF LIFE/ADVENTURE: This one was originally going to be what I worked on once I was caught up. It’s a bit different in terms of the protagonist. I’m still going to do this, but I’m now at the point where I’m not committing to anything. The protagonist is going to be a hell of a lot more self-assured. Honestly, he’ll border on cocky. But it won’t be unearned. This one will probably end up about half adventure, half slice of life. It will also involve at least two muscle girls.

  • UNDERWATER POST-APOCALYPTIC HORROR: I’ve been speaking of this one at least since 2022. It’s going to be dark, bleak, and gritty. It will be in a future where the only place left to survive is in the ocean, and even then it’s a hell of a dangerous place. It will take place mostly on submarines and stations.

  • SCI-FI SLICE OF LIFE/ADVENTURE: Another one of these, but a different vibe. Whereas the first one takes place hundreds of years into the future, this one takes place decades into the future. Commercial space flight is a thing, but we’re still within the solar system. And whereas the first one will have more of a ‘protagonist living his own life’ plot, this one is more ‘protagonist is put into a position of power and must grapple with the responsibilities of that’ kind of narrative. This one is pretty layered, in the sense that I’ve already got a shitload of ideas how it’s going to work and what’s going to happen, and it won’t necessarily be a straightforward plot. In a good way. I hope. People are often asking for more complex narratives.

  • CONTEMPORARY FATED MATES: Ha, now here’s an idea I never thought I’d be into. I never really got into the whole ‘fated mates’ thing. And then I read Charlotte’s Reject by K. R. Treadway. And on top of being a really cool read, it also apparently delivered a kick in just the right way to my brain, because suddenly fated mates made sense. It’ll be a contemporary setting, but with paranormal entities living alongside humans. And I do intend for this to be a harem, so it’s going to get…interesting.

  • NEAR FUTURE SURVIVAL/HORROR: This one I almost started. This one is going to be more gritty, tense action than horror, but there will absolutely be horror. This one is basically a ‘shit hits the fan’ kind of survival story. It’s going to be very grim. I’m really looking forward to this one. I wrote a few chapters of it and my writing came out in a way that it hasn’t really so far.

  • NEAR FUTURE ACTION STORY: This one is more recent. The seed was planted last year, but just recently I’ve been thinking about it. This one is going to be a little different from my normal fare. Typically speaking, my characters are either nobodies or underdogs. Usually, they aren’t that important, in the grand scheme of things. This one is kind of the opposite. The protagonist is going to be…well, basically a Spectre from Mass Effect. Or a near future equivalent. It’ll have a lot of action and take place mostly in one huge city. This one is the current top contender for the first thing I write after I get all caught up.

  • COZY SLICE OF LIFE FANTASY: So, this one is even more recent, and it kinda came out of nowhere. If I were to describe it to you, you’d probably laugh, because it sounds very different from what I write. It’s a kind of ‘grizzled warrior is doing mundane things’ story. Basically, a very experienced warrior takes on a quest involving baby kittens, and that’s all I want to say about it. This will probably be the closest I ever get to writing comedy. I came up with this one this year in basically a ‘bolt of lightning’ moment. Like the whole entire world, the characters, and the broad plot arc for the trilogy coalesced in like ten minutes. It was a very cool experience.

  • MONO ROMANCE: So, I figured I should at least talk about this. I’m no longer interested in writing further mono romance novels after Primal Love. I know, it’s kind of depressing, but it is what it is. For years I wanted to at least attempt a mono romance, but I always came up against the same problem. I always asked myself the same question: Why shouldn’t I just add two girlfriends and quadruple my sales? Well, turns out, I was completely right to ask that question. I can’t claim Primal Love failed, but certainly it underperformed. Now, to be clear, that isn’t the only reason I’m leaving mono romance behind. I do personally have an urge to add in more women to whatever I write, apparently. I’m not sure if it’s me wanting that or just habit at this point. That being said, I want to attempt one more thing that isn’t harem. I’m going to take an idea that I have for mono romance (set in the Haven universe, it was a romance between a regular guy and an eight foot goliath woman), and instead I’m going to add one more LI. I haven’t really seen much in the way of novels covering the no man’s land throuple fiction still is for Romance For Men. Kinda curious to see what comes out of that. I’ll also write a short story for any future RFM anthologies. But beyond that, I think I’m going to stick to harem for the foreseeable future.

And that’s what I’ve got for the moment. 2025 was a mixed bag. Hopefully 2026 is better.

Misty Vixen's & Lara X. Lust's Post Xmas Sale!

Here we are again with our annual sale/giveaway.

Dozens and dozens of titles will be free or discounted from December 26th through December 30th. If you’re missing anything that you want or have been waiting for such a sale, check it out!

NOTE: If you’re curious about why some of the titles are free for different days, the reason is: nearly every title I have is enrolled in the Kindle Unlimited, which operates in 90-day windows. That window, for each individual title, begins when I enrolled the book. So, for the most part, that 90-day window falls easily across December 26th - December 30th. However, a handful of titles don’t. If the initial window closes December 26th, that means I have to wait until the next window opens, which is the 27th. However, because we’re already on the 27th for the window to open, I can’t schedule it until the 28th. And there’s no overlap. You can’t just do like three days at the end of the first window and two days at the beginning, Amazon won’t allow it. But basically, that’s why.

HAREMLIT (and a few mono romances)

EROTICA

Another Not Good Update

Um...shit.

I'm stopping Entering Desolation.

The TL;DR version is that I'm admitting to myself earlier rather than later that I am just not feeling this series. The suffering it would cause me to write this for an entire year means the juice is no longer worth the squeeze.

I'm really sorry to have to do this, but I figured I'd just nip it in the bud here and now, rather than lie to you and to myself that I can do it, get three torturous episodes out, and then pull it down. This way, most of my readers won't know it ever existed, so there won't be as much disappointment.

I hate doing this, and it's largely why I push back against my desire to talk about upcoming projects. I usually follow through with what I announce. I have very few abandoned projects, even among the stuff I haven't talked about. But it does happen. And it always sucks.

I'm genuinely sorry if you were really looking forward to this one. I think the biggest problem is that this story was created to fill a need, which typically does not go well for me. Down the Rabbit Hole was kind of the same way, except the difference there was that it was initially created to fill a need, then abandoned, then left to marinate and strengthen for over a year into a much stronger idea. When I came back to it, it had become an idea unto itself.

So...yeah. That's my announcement.

Mid-Month Update

Uh-oh. I don’t do these very often, and when I do, it’s often bad news.

Which is the case here.

It’s nothing significant, but it’s disruptive enough that it’s worth mentioning. Basically, I’ve been running from burnout this entire year and it seems like it finally caught up to me now that I’m in the SAD swamps. I was hoping being medicated for ADHD would help, and while it has, it wasn’t quite enough. But the burnout isn’t the only issue.

Our Own Way has been swirling around in my head since mid-2021. I’ve had a lot of time to think about it and I’ve been pretty unsure of how long it’s going to be. I’ve finally settled on something: the next novel, Our Own Way 7, will be the final novel. And, more than that, I am delaying Primal Love II to instead get Our Own Way 7 written first. The reasons for these decisions are many, because it’s often a lot of little things that add up to a decision, but I like to try and explain myself if I can whenever I have to make a choice that cuts against what I originally decided or intended. If you don’t care, you can skip this next paragraph and look over the bullet points.

Being Our Own Way is slice of life, it’s a lot more meandering than most anything else I’ve written in recent years. While it’s based off a series I already wrote, it’s definitely gone onto its own tangent by now, so the endpoint became even more unclear. Now that part six is finished and I’ve had a couple of days to look over what’s left on my list, I’ve come to realize that the next book is going to be a potential endpoint. That is to say, I could end it there, and in a satisfying way (I hope), or I could keep it going with basically a second collection of books exploring a new broader overall arc in the story. I’m choosing not to do this, mostly because…after four and a half years, I think I’m good and satisfied with this series. I have other series I want to write, and I’ve come to learn that splitting my attention is bad. So on the creative side, I’m kind of burned out on Our Own Way. On the financial side of things, Our Own Way has done well, but it’s definitely reached the point of diminishing returns. While I’m comfortable financially, I’m also growing increasingly anxious about my financial future, and I’ve also come to realize that 2025 was kind of a mess, in terms of the business side of my creative career. I’ve only released three successful novels this year, and one isn’t even out yet, so I’m guessing OOW6 will be successful, but that’s kind of insane. So I…need to get my shit together basically, for 2026. And wrapping up Our Own Way is a big part of how I do that. Sorry if you were hoping for more, but I’ve come to learn that there’s always going to be someone who hopes for more, which I understand. I’m the same way for some series that I love.

Okay, now the quick bullet point list.

That’s it. Sorry if this is disappointing. I hope all your holidays go well.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | December 2025

November wasn’t that bad.

I ran into a few more issues than I had hoped, and the repairs in the basement are still technically ongoing, but I managed to write more words in November than I have for any other month since June. And it was within spitting distance of June’s output, so that feels kind of nice at least.

However, I would like to go on a small rant for a moment. You can ignore this if you only care about the work. I noticed that I wasn’t really feeling it nearly as much anymore this past month, it being my ADHD medication. I struggled through the month trying to make do with what I had, but it was really not working. I thought maybe I might need to up my dose yet again. But then, suddenly, when I started my next monthly supply of the medication, it was working again! What the fuck happened? Well, did you know that the medications you get, even though they look EXACTLY THE SAME, can come from completely different corporations? And did you know that corporations are allowed to have as much as a 20% deficiency by the FDA in the medications they make? And so as a consequence of this fact, lots of corporations just cut corners and make their drugs not as effective? That’s what I got to learn. Fun times. This whole Medical Industrial Complex is working out fucking fantastically.

Here’s what I managed to get done in November.

And that’s it. I actually got kinda close with Our Own Way 6. In terms of actual writing, I’m at about 90% right now. So thankfully, it should be up for pre-order within the next week or so. Now, as for what’s coming up for the final month of 2025?

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - EPISODE 12. Out right now! The series finale.

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - COLLECTION THREE. This one will get published on the 15th. So, I’m going to do something most people would call me dumb to do, but I’d like to maintain my integrity as much as I can. This Collection isn’t going up for very long. I’m not completely sure how long, but the reason for this is because it needs to go up for the audiobook counterpart. The reason it needs to come down is because I need to release the Complete Series omnibus next month. And I’d rather not potentially draw Amazon’s ire for having ‘too many’ versions of something up. Whatever ‘too many’ is to Amazon this month. So if you don’t want to purchase it, I completely understand. Also, you will not miss anything at all if you do not purchase this collection. Everything in here will also be in the Complete Series omnibus. Because of this, I won’t make much fanfare. Honestly, the coolest thing we’ll get from this collection is the cover art, which features Riley.

  • OUR OWN WAY 6. Definitely coming this month.

  • PRIMAL LOVE II. So, I can for sure say now that I’m not getting this published before 2026. I had hoped, but it didn’t work out that way. I’m going to try to have the pre-order up before 2026.

  • AFTER DARK - COLLEEN’S THERAPY. I will try to get this one out. It’ll likely be the most…involved After Dark I’ve written so far.

  • ENTERING DESOLATION - EPISODE 01. This is my next serial novella series. It’s Sci-Fi Survival/Horror. Think DOOM 3 or Aliens. I’ll talk more about it once it’s actually up and running in the form of early access on my Patreon.

And that’s that. I’m admittedly a little worried. December - February is traditionally the time of year where I do the worst. Though this will be my first winter medicated. Typically, I sort of take some time off at the very end of the year, mostly out of desperate need, because my mental health takes such a hit. Certainly I needed it last year, but…January also couldn’t have really been predicted. I think I’d have lost it even if I had taken more mental health days. So, here’s hoping.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | November 2025

I’m grumpy.

So, I had what you could call a homeowner incident this week. The kitchen sink was backing up. It was a problem that’s happened on and off throughout the years. This time, it wasn’t having it, and it fucked up the dishwasher, too. Called out the plumbers. They informed me that the solution to this problem was going to require jackhammering my basement floor up and cost…somewhere in the low five figures. Given there wasn’t really much choice in the matter, we did it, and I got to try and sleep through literal jackhammering in my house for a few days. (Coincidentally, that’s why my early access of OOW6 faltered. Not enough sleep.)

Anyway, as annoying as this was, it kind of kicked my anxiety back up in a broader sense. And suddenly I found myself rethinking my decision to not do another serial fiction piece next year. Because before I was comfortable enough that I could afford to take some hits for the sake of my sanity. But now? I mean, this didn’t seriously fuck anything up, but it kinda felt like a near miss of an asteroid, you know? Yeah, no real damage was done, but…it fucking could’ve been. It could’ve been apocalyptic. And it could happen again, just as easily. And suddenly, the resources you’ve felt comfortable with for a few years now are not nearly so comforting.

Especially with the way my country is going right now, Jesus fucking Christ. Shit is SO expensive now. And it just keeps getting worse.

Anyway.

I’m settling on an idea right now. I feel a little more confident about being able to do this, because now I’ve had some practice. It’s going to be a bit smaller in scope, and definitely feature fewer love interests. I’m going to cap it at four, may just have three. It’s going to be rather different from everything else I’ve written. It’s going to be a sci-fi survival/horror. The classic story of the isolated, deep space research station that’s screwing around with technology beyond our understanding and suddenly, oh no! We’ve filled the corridors with alien beasts and lots of blood, and ninety nine percent of the staff are dead! Can you escape!? That plot. I’m kind of excited to experiment with it, actually. But admittedly it’ll be difficult to find a balance between the survival and the romance.

Let’s talk about projects in November.

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE | COLLECTION TWO AUDIO is up!

  • PRIMAL LOVE AUDIO should be out this month.

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE | EPISODE 11 is up!

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE | EPISODE 12 (the final episode) will begin early access sometime soon.

  • LAKESIDE COUGARS - THE COMPLETE TRILOGY is up on a long pre-order. It will drop on December 26th. If you’re wondering why I’m suddenly doing my first long pre-order and why it’s for this? Well…basically, it seemed like a good opportunity to experiment. I’ve never done a particularly long pre-order, so I’m curious to see what kind of results it might produce. Of course, in the natural Misty Vixen style, I’m doing it in such a way that it’s going to screw with the results. (Using an omnibus instead of a novel.) For the sake of transparency, there’s not going to be any bonus content. It will be 9.99$. Basically, you’d be buying it for your own enjoyment, or to support me. Which I will always appreciate.

  • OUR OWN WAY 6 (Early Access). I had hoped to be farther along with this, but October was also a bumpy month. The good news is that it’s still coming out relatively easily. Once Monday rolls around I’m intending to get right back on course. I’m going to go hard and try to get this finished this month, with a pre-order for mid or late November. The only thing that’s tripping me up is…I did not quite realize just how much ground I need to cover in this novel. I’m reluctant to cut corners, but to properly give it the space it needs to breathe, it might actually end up being the longest novel in the entire series. Which obviously takes longer to write.

  • PRIMAL LOVE II: Once I finish Our Own Way 6, I’ll hop right onto this. My goal is to get it up for pre-order and out before the end of the year. It will almost certainly be a late December release.

  • AFTER DARK - VETRA’S SECRET: Uh, yeah…sorry about this one. Sort of had to kick that can down the road. Part of the problem is that writing these scenes requires me to ‘feel it’ more than most other scenes. I’m going to try and get this one done this month.

That’s basically it. Sorry I wasn’t more productive. I’m hoping November is when I’ll really lock back in. The weather is turning very nice, I just need things to stop happening for a few weeks.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | October 2025

I’m concerned that the phrase ‘Well, (insert month here) didn’t go as expected’, is going to become a strong part of my vocabulary. If it hasn’t already. Unfortunately, I lost a fair amount of time to real life stuff happening.

Here’s what I managed to achieve in September.

Now, as for what’s coming up in October, (fingers crossed)…

Those are the things for sure. Now to talk about a few other things…

  • Last month, I said that I needed to wait to see how Primal Love did before determining which project I worked on next: Primal Love II or Our Own Way 6. Well, time has passed, and I now know how Primal Love did. Um…not very well, unfortunately. I was really hoping that I was going to be the one who broke out in mono-romance, but it was not to be. Unfortunately, it didn’t even do well among the other authors who have tried this. Like, man, I’m feeling…kind of ashamed? I tried pretty hard on this one and it was largely met with indifference. So…that’s been kind of hard to endure. It’s actually made me reconsider future plans for mono-romance. I’ll need more time for the dust to settle, but I’m thinking now maybe my next non-harem attempt will be that awkward territory between mono and harem where it’s a guy and two girls. I dunno, we’ll see. Ultimately what this means is that Our Own Way 6 is coming. It’s going to be intense, at least for an Our Own Way novel. If I manage to get my shit back together and luck is with me, I might be able to at least get the pre-order up before November, but that seems unlikely, so expect OOW6 probably in mid-to-late November.

  • I’ve officially commissioned a nude wallpaper for Lakeside Cougars, and yes, you will get to see Kate.

  • I’ve decided to try and put a little more distance between my older, non-harem erotic works and my modern harem (and other RFM) titles. One of the main ways I’m doing this is changing some cover art. I’m going to be re-covering A Warm Place. I’ll wait to update the actual novels until I have all of them, but I’ll be releasing the nude art versions as I get them. I’m hoping to have this done before the end of the year, but we’ll see. I’ll also be re-covering Monster Girl Inn.

  • As we head into 2026, I’ll likely slow down the After Dark shorts, mostly because it’s not like I’m sitting on a huge stack of ideas. I’ve got about half a dozen more for Our Own Way (and I’m sure more will come), but I’ve just got two for Lakeside Cougars, one for A Warm Place, and nothing else at the moment. After Dark was mostly created as a passion project, so it’s not something I want to necessarily go looking for ideas for, but instead let the ideas come to me.

  • The year’s coming to a close. It’s looking like I’ve got two more novels in me for 2025. (Technically three, if you count the final Down the Rabbit Hole Collection). It’ll be Our Own Way 6 and Primal Love II. If I’m very lucky, I’ll manage to get both of them out before 2026. Besides After Dark and a couple of secret projects I’m working on, that’ll be it for the year. But that’s probably for the best for me. Hopefully I’ll have a better handle on things and better news to report the next time we do this.

My 100+ Novel Celebration Sale!

I’ve officially written and released over a hundred novels! Originally, I was going to make this post about Primal Love being my one hundredth novel, but that didn’t work out because of medication-related problems, but who cares!

I published my real story as Misty Vixen on September 23rd, 2014. Just over eleven years ago. To say that it’s been a wild ride would be an understatement. This isn’t really a reflection post, as I feel like I did that with my A Decade of Writing post at the beginning of the year.

Instead, this is basically a big giveaway/sale! I do one or two of these every year, where I put some 70% of my catalogue up for free or on a steep discount, so I’m doing that! I’ll also take the opportunity to list my one hundred plus novels. (Some aren’t on Kindle, but they’re free on my website. Some are coauthored with Lara X. Lust. One or two won’t be available at all anymore.)

Let’s get started.

THE NOVELS

OTHER

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | September 2025

August didn’t go as well as I had hoped. However, I did at least figure out what the problem (mostly) was. My body had adapted too well to the current level of ADHD meds and I have started a higher dosage. It’s helping, but it’s obvious I still haven’t figured everything out.

Consequently, I didn’t manage to get as much done as I’d hoped.

That being said, let’s keep this brief, as I’m feeling better and want to get back to writing.

What I got done in August

And that’s August. Unfortunately, Primal Love did not come out. I’m glad to say there wasn’t a catastrophe, but man I was really hoping to get it done. It will be soon. It’s written, and over halfway edited. It’s the first thing I’m going to wrap up this month.

Let’s talk about September.

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE | EPISODE 10 will begin early access soon. Within the next week, ideally. I really let the last episode get away from me and it’s obvious I’m beginning to have issues with the series. There will probably be another Meanwhile this month. I intend for there to be six total.

  • THE WOMAN WITH GLOWING EYES will be released to Amazon. It’s going to be a 99 cent story and not in the KU. The reason for this is because I want to be able to keep it up on my Patreon. I got a simple cover drawn for it that I think works pretty well.

  • PRIMAL LOVE will go up for pre-order very soon. Within the next few days. It’ll be a 10-day pre-order.

  • AFTER DARK will get at least two more shorts this month. I’m going to write one for Chloe, and then the first one for Lakeside Cougars, which will feature Vetra.

  • HAVEN - WE WHO PERSIST might get published to Amazon this month. If not this month, then next. Like The Woman With Glowing Eyes, it will be 99 cents and not in the KU, as I want to keep it as a reward on my Patreon. But everyone will have access to it for less than a buck.

  • BIG GIVEAWAY. It’s been too long since I’ve had a big giveaway/sale, so I’m going to have one starting very soon. Pretty much all of my erotic individual titles will be free, with the collections being 99 cents. Several of my harem titles are also going to be free, with some being heavily discounted, including some collections. I’ll make a special post about it.

That’s all I want to commit to for September, but I need to discuss something with my Patreon readers.

Getting on ADHD medication has changed things for me, and one of the things that’s changed is my realization that I need to whittle down the amount of writing projects I have ongoing. In this spirit, I’ve been forced to conclude that I’m going to have to just cut my 10$/Month Tier. It probably sounds ridiculous, needing to cut a single short story per month, but it’s become obvious to me that my brain gets…cluttered. And apparently I navigate that clutter with all the dexterity of a drunk trying to make their way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I get caught up on things, mentally, too easily. I need a cleaner pipeline for my projects.

I’m not going to be able to achieve this completely in 2025, because I have Down the Rabbit Hole to contend with. As a consequence of this, and of wanting to see how Primal Love is going to turn out, I’m going to use September to (God fucking willing) finally catch up. It’s insane, but in a way, I’m still playing catchup from decisions I made in 2023. Ultimately, what I’m hoping will happen is that having fewer projects on my plate will mean that I can release single novels more expediently and regularly.

There’s likely to be more changes as the dust settles across the rest of the year. Sorry if this is annoying, it’s definitely annoying for me, too.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter | August 2025

I kinda dropped the ball in July. Sorry about that. Things got busier than I anticipated and I’m also still tangling with problems related to my meds. And that second one is still ongoing, unfortunately.

I’ll (try to) keep this short and simple.

What Came Out In July:

And…yeah, that’s how I dropped the ball. Obviously there was supposed to be a lot more there. So the first part of August is going to be me playing catchup. Here’s what you can expect.

  • PRIMAL LOVE: This one will be finished and released this month, barring some huge catastrophe. I’d say I’m 2/3 finished with it right now. I’m aiming for the first half of the month. Part of the issue with this one is that I’m finding myself having to adjust the plot, even though I thought it was pretty set. This is partially because I’m still adjusting to writing mono-romance and questioning the pacing, and another part of it is…shall we say, the desires of the RFM readership sometimes finds themselves at odds with the desires of the narrative.

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE | EPISODE 08: This one is out now.

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE | COLLECTION TWO: This one will go up for pre-order sometime next week and will drop the 15th. It will have two bonus short stories. Audio has begun recording.

  • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE | EPISODE 09: Will begun Early Access either late next week or early the week after that. I need some time to get caught up on other projects. Speaking of which…

  • AFTER DARK: I’ll get at least two of these written, probably both for Our Own Way.

  • PATREON SHORTS: I feel bad about this one. I’ll get a minimum of two pieces out for this one. I’ve begun writing basically a second epilogue to HAVEN, that picks up about a year later. It’s sort of a look at how everything’s working out.

  • DESPERATE LOVE - THE COMPLETE TRILOGY: This one should go up for pre-order sometime soon and should be launching on the 19th.

  • THE WOMAN WITH GLOWING EYES: As a remind, this is a short story I wrote as my first current Patreon reward. It’s unique, however, in the sense that it is a mono-romance and also a stand-alone. I intended to make it free last month, but I ran into some issues and found out I CAN’T make it free, because it’s ‘too sexual’. So instead I’m just going to host it on my website. I’ll probably publish it to Amazon now that I’ve taken the opportunity to get some simple cover art made. It’ll be out this month.

And that’s what I’ve got for projected releases and projects for this month. I think, once I finish Primal Love, I’ll probably not begin production on Our Own Way 6 until September. There are two reasons for this. The first is that I’d like an opportunity to maybe get ahead on some of the other side projects, and the second, more significant reason is that the more I write Primal Love, the more I feel like it requires at least one sequel. The primary question for this sequel ultimately depends on how well it does. The reason for this is because if it takes off and does REALLY well, then I need to jump on that IMMEDIATELY, or I’m wasting SOOOOO much momentum. If I don’t get a sequel out within at least six weeks, I’m killing the series that could be. That, unfortunately, is how Amazon works. All hail the mighty algorithm that kills books, series, and authors indiscriminately.

If Primal Love ends up just doing okay, then I can afford to take some more time. I still lament how badly I fumbled Raw.

Anyway, wish me luck.