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I made an announcement at the end of June that I was leaving my corporate day job without having another job lined up. Was it a stupid idea? Definitely not. The day I walked out of the office was the day I felt free.

And I've been living that 'free' life all summer. No work. No need to set the alarm. No school for my son. Days at the beach. Coffee dates. Pyjama mornings. Lazy days. It was bliss.

However, everything has to come to an end - the summer ended, my son started a new school, and...

I know I shout a lot about Weink, but their model for authors is just too good to miss!

Their author portal is unlike any other. They offer authors genuine opportunities, such as custom made book covers, marketing packages for each book and the chance to turn your written book into an audio one, as well as being able to set out your chapters in your own way.

This mood board for Whisper Of The Wolf was just one of thirteen (ye, thirteen!) personalised marketing packages set up for me by the...

As many of you know, I started my writing career a few years ago by entering a poetry competition run by a publishing house I saw advertised on Facebook. The challenge was to write a poem every day for 21 days and, if your poems were selected by the publishers, they were published as a book.

As it was January at the time, I thought I'd make it a New Year's resolution and entered the competition, choosing to write every day about my life - the challenges of parenthood, the shock of a cheating...

After delisting my books in April following my departure from Draft2Digital, I had been expecting the royalties from the books I'd taken down to dwindle to nothing this month.

So, imagine my surprise when I had yet another royalty payment from D2D this week. I hadn't been expecting it at all and, judging by the amount, it looked as though someone had bought the print version of one of my books.

Confused, I did a little digging and discovered that Whisper Of The Wolf and Santa Baby were both...

As I move away from Wattpad, I thought it a good idea to add a book to my profile there, in which it states where to find my books. I also included book covers and the blurb for each story, with the intent of providing readers enough info to wet their bookish appetite.

However, whilst adding information to this book, Wattpad has decided to mark the book as 'Mature' despite it being just an informative book.

There were no mature themes at all in it - it was just a few pages of book blurbs and...

With me moving many of my books onto Weink for readers to binge for free, I'm also making the most of the platform's bonus chapter content.

Bonus chapters can be added to any book, and are available to read by Weink+ subscribers only. The only stipulation is that authors must not make bonus chapters part of the main story. Bonus chapters are what they say they are - just bonus content.

I had been making use of Substack for both my newsletter and bonus content, but the minimum monthly...

Yep, the scammers are back ... and they seem more desperate than ever!

Yesterday, I had quite a few notifications from Wattpad, telling me that I'd been tagged in posts. Curious, I opened the app to see what I'd been tagged in ... and was met with exasperation, frustration and a whole lot of scammers.

Scammers had created quite a number of false Wattpad accounts and had tagged genuine users in a post saying that they were selected for a 'mandatory security refresh' and that the users must...

... and I love seeing authors from the LGBTQ+ community being celebrated on Bookstagram!

So many bookish creators are making a point of reading, buying and reviewing books by LGBTQ+ authors and it warms my heart. These wonderful humans are bucking trends and making a stand against the narrow minded people who have been trying to cancel Pride Month. I've seen creators call out bigots, name and shame them, and then carry on like it's an average Tuesday.

It makes me proud to be a member of both...

As a queer writer, Pride month is something I have and will always fully support. Our brothers and sisters in the LGBTQ+ community need as many allies as possible to help beat the discrimination and spite against them.

All of my pages, whether it's Instagram, BlueSky, this website or writing platforms, are completely safe spaces and I work hard to pull out the weeds that leave their hate. I won't stand for it. And I won't have it affect anyone needing a safe space, if only for a few seconds....

After I received the email this morning, I, like many authors, have made the decision to withdraw all of my books from the Draft2Digital platform.

The introduction of a 'maintenance fee' as well as an annual fee if your books earn you less than $100 per year is ridiculous.

I stuck it out with them when they made changes to the withdrawal threshold, effectively making it much more difficult to make a withdrawal.

But these new changes will target budding authors, and that just ain't okay.

It's...

Have you signed up to my newsletter yet? I sent out one at the beginning of every month to keep my readers up to date on my stories, my WIP, behind-the-scenes info, and a round of last month.

I have found that many readers prefer to hear from me this way as opposed to keeping up on social media. So why not sign up and see what I waffle about every month!

Have you signed up to my newsletter?

I send at least one out every month, with writing updates, book releases and latest news. I plan on adding bonus chapters and mini-fics in the future, too!

Why not sign up and be the first in the know.

I've been on Substack a while now - since April last year, to be more precise. And while I love using it as a newsletter, I'm still unsure on the 'paid' aspect. Yeah, I love earning money (who doesn't?) and using this feature as a way to supplement my meagre author wage is great. Maybe I need to write more mini-fics and bonus chapters for it. What are your thoughts on this?

As most of you know, I am against AI being used in a creative way, in that I think it's immoral for AI to be used in creative spaces. It takes jobs away from humans. Amazing artists are being forced to either raise their prices or give all together because of AI. Writers are being falsely accused of using AI whenever they try out a new writing style or if they use the em dash (I use em dashes and will not stop using them either!).

An indie author who I follow on social media was recently...

I'm lucky to have had many of my books listed on both the Popular and Featured lists on.

Thank you to everyone who has gotten my books there by taking the time to read, review and enjoy my storiesover on the app.

Why not check out Weink? You might find your next best read on there.

For those of you reading my Christmas novella,' This Christmas', it is now complete!

If you have already read 'Crush' and 'Obsession', why not check out 'This Christmas'? It features all the characters from these two books as they come together to celebrate the wedding of Caleb and Jenson (about time, right?).

The book is available to read, for free, on both Wattpad and Weink.

I'm in! Why not join me for five days of prompts, festive cheer and general writing at the beginning of December? I'll be keeping a log of these five days on here, so stay tuned!

Thought I'd join the masses and create a TikTok account! If you're on the app, let's be friends!

To help keep myself on track with the editing part of What I Am (and to stop my incessant procrastination!) I'll be re-uploading each edited chapter to Weink over the next few weeks

I'm determined to finish it by the end of the year

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