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Welcome to the new people who have signed up for my newsletter. This week will be one of my normal chatty newsletters. Next week I’ll talk about the book I’m releasing this week. Then I’ll go back to just chatting for a few weeks.
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Blaze and I are still recovering from the trip to Colorado Springs for the Superstars conference. The way I’ve been explaining it is that I completely emptied my batteries and they’re still recharging. I can do things, but I get exhausted pretty quickly, and will continue to do so until my batteries get topped up.
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So while I’ve been walking some, and I’ve done a couple of social things, I’ve also been spending a lot (A LOT!) of time on the computer, updating and upgrading things. For example, I’ve made some major changes to the LRC website, including a new WordPress theme. And I’ve made some changes to the KRP Shopify store.
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As for the Shopify store, there will be a lot more changes to that later this year. I’m taking another class that starts in June, all about setting up Shopify, Klaviyo, and running Facebook ads to the store.
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Blaze and I have been taking the AMMO class (Author Marketing Mastery through Optimization). That class is very much geared toward him, a writer with long, successful series.
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The new class is more geared for a writer like me, who writes in all the genres, write a lot of stand-alone novels, and is more trope-adjacent as I like to call it. (If you’re curious, here’s a link: https://directsalesforauthors.com)
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Anyone who’s met me knows that I’m a happy person with a lot of energy. This last week was hard, though, and it wasn’t just one thing. It included the betrayal by a close friend, another close friend’s illness, politics and the world in general (I was raised in MN), still being tired from the con, feeling as though I’m having issues breathing (it was SO DRY in Colorado Springs), and so on.
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When I was in my twenties, I had a very good friend who firmly believed that to be an artist meant you had to suffer. I rejected that soundly. I do my best work when I’m happy. That isn’t to say that I haven’t created some very powerful pieces when I was unhappy—I reread one of them recently and I can still hear the screaming. But being unhappy means bursts of output. Not sustained creative flow.
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In addition, I’m very aware when my internal happiness quotient isn’t filled. I start to process what needs processing as soon as I can, doing what needs doing. Even if that “doing” involves just sitting and thinking and having patience with the process.
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So I’m a bit quite today, a bit down. Still working my way through things. For me, this involves journaling, as well as regular walks, thinking things through. I have a couple of long drives today—to and from an event. I’ll do a lot of processing, thinking, and more importantly, feeling, while I’m driving as well.
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By next week, this cloud should be completely gone and I won’t even remember that it was hanging around for a while.
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And I think that’s it from me today.
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Daring starship captain? Check.
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Best friend/deadly assassin? Check.
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Though it was never Rosey’s dream to make first contact with living aliens, she seems to have stumbled into it.
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Which side do the Humans get involved with? Can they avoid this conflict all together? Or is their introduction to alien politics going to involve space fleets and battles?
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Alien War—the last of the Live Alien Contact series—brings all the conflicts, cons, villains, and good guys to a final resting place. Dreams are fulfilled, romance blooms, and oh, yeah, the bad guys finally get their comeuppance.
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If you need to catch up, we're putting the Jessica Keller Starter Kit on sale for just $2.99. If you've already read it, consider gifting it to a friend. Purchase the books, email info@knottedroadpress.com with your friend's email address and we'll send it to them.
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Begin your adventures with Jessica Keller and the Alexandria Station universe in this epic, military space opera box set.
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This box set is available ONLY on Knotted Road Press.
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Jessica Keller could win the war--if only they'd let her!
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“Edge of the seat excitement...a wonderful tale.”—Philadelphia Weekly Press
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Contains the following complete novels:
Auberon
Queen of the Pirates
Last of the Immortals
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