Why Monday?

I answer that question and many more plus some spoilers in this week's newsletter.

Welcome back! It’s Monday again. I’d apologize for that but Mondays are inevitable. You can try to outrun them, but they eventually catch up to you. Since a lot of people don’t like Mondays, why send our newsletter on that day?

So you have something to look forward to!

That’s really it.

Our scribe also doesn’t like Mondays, so sending our newsletter on Mondays has the added benefit of giving her something to look forward to on Sundays since that’s when she writes what I tell her to put in the newsletter each week.

And she has to write it exactly as I say. It’s the one day every week I’m guaranteed to get some page time!

So that’s the reason. I don’t know if you ever wondered, but now you know.

I’m Ran, Sarn’s son from the Curse Breaker Series, and now it’s time for some book news!

Since I like lists way more than my scribe does and she has to write what I say, let’s do a quick update on where we are with the big initiatives we’re working on.

Actually, Melinda is working on them. They require a lot of work, so they’re on her to-do list while I think about the next Curse Breaker book and what I want to do in it. That’s what’s on my to-do list. This is what’s on hers:

1. Getting All Our Books Set up on a New Distributor

Melinda is reformatting all our paperback books and ebooks to have the same format. So this is moving along. She’s got all the currently published Curse Breaker books set up on the new distributor and they are publishing now. She’s trying to also have all the His Angelic Keeper books up and publishing by the time you read this newsletter.

Once all our ebooks are reformatted, she’ll re-upload them to BookFunnel and you can download them again if you got them directly from us. We’re hoping to have that ready by the end of June.

Don’t worry. We’ll let you know so you don’t miss out.

2. Chaos Reigns Book Update!

Melinda found a solution to the plot problem and I get to keep all my lines!

So I’m happy. The solution was pretty wild actually and I really, really want to tell you what it is.

What was the problem my scribe solved?

How not to repeat a lot of events from the Rogue Gods Trilogy. That was a serious issue it dragged in two really important characters and they need to do what they did in that trilogy to end the alternate timeline and save the most important timeline—the one that’s in my books!

Melinda lost sleep while trying to figure out how to get around that problem. I am happy to report that she found a way and it doesn’t include any time travel. Melinda is not a fan of time travel in our books, so that made her happy.

I can tell you (because it’s not a spoiler) that one of the wraths targets Misriah, my dad’s guardian angel, and this wrath wants to bond with her. You’ll have to read Chaos Reigns to see what happens.

Melinda posted chapters 18-21 on Patreon and Substack this week. You can read them now.

They include 2 knock ‘em down drag ‘em out fights between the wrath (a demon horse that can transform into a terrifying creature) and a character you know and love, one battle, and a melee and the book is not even done yet. This is not even the climax, so more to come!

Melinda knew this book might have the most fights since it has 3 warrior angels in it, and they don’t play. They also never turn down a challenge and they don’t obey outlines or authors. So these angels are also fighting Melinda.

3. Too Many Books + Upcoming Paperback Sale

Melinda didn’t make progress inventorying our books this week. The weather in NY is going to get very hot next week and will soar into the 90s!

That’s way too hot for mid May. So Melinda had to get ready for the influx of heat by uncovering her AC unit and doing some meal prepping because she can’t use her stove in 95 degree heat.

She might head to the office more than the required days to get away from the heat, so I don’t know she’ll make much progress on this goal next week. We’ll let you know.

5. Special Edition for Curse Breaker Jousts

Melinda did some research on what other fantasy authors are doing for their special editions and her findings are interesting. We’ll talk about them in an upcoming newsletter because she wants to gather more data before she’ll let me discuss the findings with you.

The special edition for Jousts took a backseat this week since Melinda was spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to resolve the plot issue in Chaos Reigns. The book is racing toward the end and she’s just trying to keep pace with it!

I think she may have to finish writing Chaos Reigns before she can really think about special editions since that book is fighting with her every chance it gets. My poor scribe is writing it every spare minute she has because if she leave the story alone for too long, the characters go off on their own. It’s definitely a feral story.

Of course, my aunt (Sovvan) isn’t part of that chaos. She’s hanging with me and our family and trying to save us while everyone in her book else gets into serious world-ending trouble.

I might have to let her go and deal with that…

Don’t forget to follow the project on Kickstarter so you can get all 4 books in the story arc:

After this, Melinda says we can’t do any more crossovers. We’re not allowed to end the world or do anything to cause alternate timelines. Thankfully, there’s lots for us to do in the Curse Breaker series that doesn’t involve any of the banned things.

That’s it for this week. I’ll see you next week!

New Books & Special Editions

The Sea Queen’s Key: Special Edition Coming-of-Age Fantasy

A fire-wielding young woman faces a rogue ice queen to save her city. Features elemental magic, mermaids, complex cast. Myths alive.