I’ve just released my new urban fantasy, Learning to Love Lies. It's a complete four-book urban fantasy along the lines of A Lick of Flame. It follows a woman who finds out she has a unique ability to see ghost tethers. She becomes invaluable to a dashing demon and signs a contract with him. Soon she's thrust into a world of exorcists. And lies. Because that's all her demon is good at.
If you like continuous action, snarky sidekicks, and a sprawling plot, check it out.
As usual, it's available for free from most of my retailers, excluding Amazon; I can no longer set books for free there. I have to wait for them to do it via price-matching. You can always get the first book for free directly from my website here.
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In other news, I'm making a change to book scheduling. It used to be that I wrote a standalone urban fantasy series and released that one month, then the next month I'd add a new Galactic Coalition Academy series. I'm gonna scale back on the GCA. There'll still be new content, probably about 3 new series a year. But I'm also thinking of shifting more to short stories.
Which brings me to my next point. I used to write for free on a website called Fiction Press. This was around 20 years ago. Some of my first books – like Gladys the Guard, The Betwixt, and Witch’s Bell – all came from there. I enjoyed the process, because I pretty much got instant feedback as soon as I put chapters up. I kind of want to go back to a model like that to trial story ideas before writing them into a series, and I've been thinking about Patreon. I haven't decided exactly how it will work, but I'm thinking of having a free tier where I post a short story once a week. Then – because I've got such a large catalog – linking a similar complete series to it for paid tiers. I haven't done anything, just thought it through, but I'm assuming I'll do short stories between 2500-5000 words each. Which will of course be a bit of a commitment – between 10,000-20,000 extra words a month. Before I do this, considering my personality, I'll need to have at least 8 short stories ready to go. By the next newsletter, I should have more information about whether I'll go ahead.
If this sounds like something you'd like – free short stories and linked complete series for a fixed price – let me know (while there’ll be four short stories a month, there'll only be one linked complete series – I have a lot of stock, but not that much!). I've never actually used Patreon before, but if you have any comments – especially if you don't like it – let me know.
It'll be a dry run for something I've been thinking of for a while – which is offering subscriptions from my own website. It'll be à la carte – you pay a monthly fee, and you get access to the entire catalog. It'll really benefit whale readers. But I've never done anything like it before, and Patreon seems like a good first step.
That's pretty much it for me this week. I've just started my new urban fantasy. I'm calling it a palette cleanser. For the last two years I've been planning most of my book ones, at least. This time I'm jumping in, because I really enjoy the discovery-writing method.
I hope you all have a great month, and happy reading.