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I'm A WIP: Reading Vlog

I’m A WIP: Reading Vlog 1/2025 #freshstart

Today I’m sharing some of my reading journey. I released it a few days early to the members of my Patreon community, whether free or paid, along with some exclusive content in the form of my series, Yay Stuff 2.0. Now the video below is public for the world to see. I hope you enjoy it.

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Here are links to the books featured in the video.
Smitten with Candy Canes Amazon | Bookshop

Adventures in Audio Smashwords

The Midnight Library Amazon | Bookshop

Lovelock Amazon | Bookshop

Wielder’s Curse Amazon | Bookshop

Built of Secrets Amazon | Bookshop

American Sign Language for Kids… Amazon

The Monkey King Amazon

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What If? Anthology Series #shortstories #narration

I’m so excited to share two full-length stories, one from each of these collections, as a sample of all the goodness. I’m so proud to have a story featured in Book 2. I may even have one in Book 3. We’ll see if I make the cut.

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What If? 1: https://amzn.to/49PiOtH.

What If 2: https://amzn.to/4adyoik.

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Mark of Bletsian

I’m #writingabook: Mark of Bletsian No.2

Greetings Dear Reader,

Life is hard. Things happen and all your plans go out the window. This year has been rough for me and my family and I’ve had to shift my focus so much away from my writing. Long story short, I’m still processing grief and change but I’m also moving forward with life.

I’m happy to report I’ve made the slightest bit of progress with this project, so this won’t be a long post. I previously mentioned in another post that I lost a lot of the research I used for the original series and some that I’d done for this rewrite. I’m happy to announce that, I think, I’ve finally recreated all that research. While these aren’t words towards a novel word count, it’s the stuff I need to be able to move forward.

At this point, I’m tightening up my outlines and filling in the gaps of changes from the old series to the new, plus I’m developing subplots and characters that weren’t really in the original series, though the ideas were there. I hoped I would be further along than I am, but at least I’m no longer at a standstill. Maybe I’ll be ready to start adding to a novel word count by December.

Before I go, I want to talk about the one thing I’ve already mentioned that will be different in this rewrite. The mark of blessing. The main character has many names but the one his mother gave him is Bletsian, which is Greek for blessing. In the original series, I never explored the meaning or origins of the word blessing any further than to say that’s where the MC’s name came from. In the new series; however, I will highlight characters throughout time who have been given a special mark to indicate they have a significant blessing over their lives; which of course, my MC will be one of those people.

That’s all I have for now. I hope life doesn’t shift again for me anytime soon. I’d like to be settled for a while and simply write.

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