Hello Readers!
Kids are heading back to school and the weather is turning cooler which means there is more time for readings!
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For example, most Christmas novellas get published in October. That's about the time people start thinking about reading Christmas stories. If you do it earlier, people aren't ready for it, later and they've already bought the ones they are interested in. It's kind of a magic window.
I got a late start on this year's book because Independence Hall came out in July, and I was working on that right up to my self-imposed deadline - again. My deadline for the Christmas novella was the end of August to give my editors a month to read through it, and maybe I could release it by mid-October. I did not finish by my self-imposed deadline, which isn't a big surprise. I did finish it soon after though. The problem is that I now need to do my read through before I send it to my editors which pushes everything back a little further. I'm still hoping that it will be released in October, but it now might be later in the month than I would like.
My next deadline that I've set for myself is to finish the seventh book in the Holliday Hotel series by next August so that it can release October 2022. That gives me nearly a year to complete it. I'm not sure what that means for a Christmas novella for next year. It seems weird to release two books in one month. I'll keep you updated as I figure out what will happen. In the meantime, I'm beyond thankful for your support and patience with me as I navigate through this journey. Now that I'm back to work full-time, it's more difficult for me to find time to write, but as long as I have stories in mind, I'm going to keep writing.
