Novel Updates and More

          So I finally decided to sit down once again and do a blog. I can’t believe that I haven’t been able to keep this up. I mean, true, I don’t have a lot to talk about, but there is always something that can be mentioned. I have so much going on right now.

The magazine

1. My writing
2. Editing
3. Hanging out with friends
4. Spending time with my husband
5. Work
6. Other family

          That’s a lot of stuff and I rarely have time to keep it all up. It’s the reason why the blogs suffer.

          So I need to update you on the books that I have in the works, what’s done, and what’s on the horizon.

Old Books to be Completed:

1. Life and Death
2. Suicide Killer
3. Dreamland Theater
4. Sai
5. Endless Soul

Old Books Completed:

1. Twelve Months
2. Weird

New Books to be Completed:

1. Better Days
2. Come Travel with Me
3. The Haunted Third Shift (Short Story Collection)
4. The Evil Ones
5. Powerful Desire (Poetry Collection)

New Short Stories:

The Crash

New Poetry:

Sunny Side Up

Sequels to Short Stories:

1. Perfect
2. Crimson Lips
3. Fighting
4. The Voyeur Saves the Day
5. Silent Pain
6. Loathing
7. Scorned

          Those are just the ones I remember, though it helped that I wrote them down. The older books I want to complete are Life and Death, Suicide Killer (the next book in the Delta Files series), Dreamland Theater, Sai, and Endless Soul. The latter will take time. I need to a ton of research on it.

          I suppose that’s all, for now. Time to work on the reviews, maybe.

Seriously Lax

        I know that I’ve been seriously lax in keeping up with all of my blogs. There have been a lot of things going on at home and with the magazine.

At Home:

·        Grandma has been in and out of the hospital most of the year. She has been diagnosed with colon cancer and her prognosis with that is good; however, her heart, lungs, and kidneys are not faring as well. Her kidneys are in full failure and she has been put on a very strict renal diet: no salt, no tomatoes, and so on and so on. If she does what she is supposed to i.e. avoiding salt and going to dialysis four times a week she can live for another seven years. On the flip side, if she doesn’t, then the prognosis is days.

·        Both Adult Protective Services (APS) and Child Protective Services (CPS) are now involved. APS will be coming in regularly to make sure the house is suitable for Grandma and that things are calm and that fighting is kept to a minimum. CPS will be helping certain individuals getting a place of their own and moving out. Hopefully that cuts down on the fighting.

GZine:

·        During the holidays I got behind with both the magazine and the blogs. I finally got the third and fourth issues published.

·        The fourth issue of the magazine is out. The issue contains an interview with my friend and our travel guru, Crystal Steinmueller and how she dealt with the death and subsequent years since the passing of her twins’ death. It also includes an article about the seventeenth anniversary of the death of the secretary of our middle school and my thoughts on everything.

·        Working on the next issue.

        Hopefully I will be able to keep going with this blog. I’m not making any promises, but I really intend to.