Where I'm At...

There’s a lot going on in my busy life and in my head, and I thought I’d just take the time to update my readers on my book world – one: because I like to keep you in the know and two: putting it down in words is kind of like stepping back from a Monet painting. I can see the big picture rather just a lot of blobs.

Along with organizing my move a few months ago, and then everything that needed to be organized for my holiday, and then actually taking time out to go on that holiday (oh I know, poor me having to organize a holiday – that was sarcasm btw), I’m also Maid of Honor in my best friend’s wedding this summer so I’ve been organizing the Hen Night (Bachelorette Party), freaking out about getting the perfect bridesmaid dress, and marvelling over the superwoman that is my best friend. 

This girl is a full-time (AWESOME) mum, has just been promoted at work and begun training for said new (full-time) position, has had to move house and is redecorating said house as we speak, and is in the middle of organizing her wedding that takes place in August. And I thought I was stressed. Anyhoo, kudos to Ashleen. She rocks a lot. And has done for the entire sixteen years we’ve known each other. :)

 

So, with everything that’s been going on this year, my ambitious writing schedule has kind of suffered. My foray into adult fiction began sooner than I had intended because, I don’t know about other writers, but if I have characters in my head who refuse to go away I have to let them speak, and that’s exactly what’s happened with my Adult contemporary romance. That doesn’t mean I’m going to let my YA books suffer. Darkness, Kindled (Fire Spirits #4) has been pushed back a month to accommodate the release of my adult fiction novel, but this is really for editing purposes. I am going to be hard at work on Darkness, Kindled so fear not Fire Spirits fans… just because I start a new project doesn’t mean I forget the one I’m already in the middle of. Anyhoo, I love Ari, Jai, Charlie and the Seven Kings. We’re not done with each other! So… here’s how things are looking. My adult fiction book is releasing in September, so Darkness, Kindled is releasing in November. Still no definite release date on that and I can’t say right now when there will be.

However, to apologize for the slight delay on release I will be releasing the ‘Club Scene’ from Scorched Skies (Fire Spirits #2) from Jai’s P.O.V! YAY! Hot-a-licious :p

Look out for this over the coming weeks.

With Fire Spirits #4 out in November, that means the fifth book will be releasing within the first few months of 2013. This pushes the release of Phantasmagoria and Other Stories to Summer 2013, and I will probably be working on my adult dystopian series in tandem with this. So for all you fans who have been waiting patiently for Lunarmorte Repercussions, the spin-off series to the Tale of Lunarmorte trilogy, we’re now looking at a late 2013/early 2014 start – preferably the former. And of course there is still the matter of Sneak Thievery, which I’m hoping to be able to write alongside Phantasmagoria. We shall see! Life has a way of getting in the way of things – which can be seen when you look back at my original schedule for this year in which I hoped to have every single book in the Fire Spirits series out by December. Still, I feel good about being able to release books a few months after the other rather than having to wait a year in between, so I’m not going complain :p

So, that’s how things are looking for now. Hope you’re all looking forward to it! And remember, there’s still time to enter the Borrowed Ember giveaway!

Love ya

Sam x

P.S for folks who follow the blog via the Goodreads feed (which will only allow me to feed in one blog) check out a new teaser for On Dublin Street here - for readers ages 18+