I'm excited to share with you my upcoming children's book, The Things Dragons Do, launching on August 11th. As someone who loves dragons and fantasy, I think you'll really enjoy this journey into the secret lives of these magical creatures. My book explores the unique things that dragons do, from playing games to hoarding unexpected treasures. I want to take you behind the scenes and share some of the inspiration behind my story. Over the next few weeks, I'll be sharing sneak peeks and fun facts about dragons on my social media. Stay tuned for more updates and get ready to join the adventure.

I thought I'd give y'all a book update for my latest project, The Things Dragons Do.

I have finished the line art and have moved onto coloring. I've decided to give illustration/alcohol markers a go. So far I am not disappointed with the results.

I have also decided on an official release date of August 11, 2026, and will have some cover art to share soon so stay tuned! In the meantime, here's a sneak peek of what to expect, from one of the quick sketches I did prior to actual line art.

Hey all,

As usual, I suck on doing updates. I know. I know. i need to do better. But there is some good news for y'all.

I'm working on a new children's book!

As of this moment, I'm taking a short break before diving back into doing line art for my illustrations for the newest addition to my young children's books lineup, The Things Dragons do, which I hope will be more than ready for an early Fall release. Dates yet to be determined.

I've already gotten the manuscript finished, with a "dummy book" created to split it into pages, with rough sketches for what each page will look like. Now I'm on to the line art while deciding what color medium I want to use on this puppy. There are several to choose from, but I want it to look the most awesome possible.

Short history behind why this book: my hubby gave me the idea after he had a dream that I'd already written it and was reading it at local elementary schools. Apparently they liked it so much it inspired several listeners, so I figured, why not? Thus began the epic journey of trying to decide what all I should include in my idea of what dragons do. 

As part of this journey, I researched dragons from various cultures, and will try to convey those cultures through depictions of their dragon types, fingers crossed. There were a lot of good ones, but I wanted to keep this upbeat, kid friendly, and fun, so I had to limit what i represented, and how I'm presenting the various types of dragons.

The journey will continue for a while, until I"m happy with the end result, which might take a while, since I"m still maybe a third of the way in, but, fingers crossed, it will be awesome!

Now, back to work before the current system of storm fronts demands i turn off my computer so it doesn't get fried.

Toodles for now!

So.... I know I'm horrible about updating things, but I thought it would be a good idea to let everyone know that I've experienced some technical difficulties recently, which included a Trojan somehow getting on my computer and wiping out my primary hard drive.  Thankfully, none of my pertinent files were deleted, as they were on a separate drive, but I lost a lot of other stuff and am still trying to get everything back up and running, remember what apps I used etc.

In general, I have several new ideas for books that go in different directions than what I usually do. These are budding ideas, and I'm not sure where they'll go just yet, but there's a lot of "rebuilding" of my computer and work area after my computer was wiped, so we'll see how things go. Most of those projects will probably have to wait until January, but we'll see.

Until then, as we head into the holiday season, i wish you all Happy Holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hope all goes well you with all.

Hey everyone. I know I haven't written here in a long, long, long time. I have no excuse other then that life happens, and I tend to forget about writing blog posts while dealing with the every day stuff.

For those who didn't know, I am now on Instagram. That's a fun change.... Though, I confess, I'm not exactly great at updating things there, though I do try to post at least once a week. Sometimes that doesn't happen.... but it is what it is. I am still on facebook and you'll get more out of me there than anywhere else.

So, what's up in my world? Well, my husband's second book, The White Raven Saga: A Change In Tides, has officially been launched into the world to quiet fanfare. Yeah, didn't really have the money or time to do a proper marketing launch campaign, sadly. But I hope you'll all go and check it out just the same because it's pretty good, especially since he doesn't consider himself an author but a storyteller.


In other news, I've been turning more to my art lately, working on various projects involving sewing, painting, and generally creating. I am working on a fan fiction that has been part of an ongoing series for over a decade... and I have to go back and reread stuff with that to remember where I was going with things, stuff I've already mentioned etc, because I had to take a break with that as well due to some health issues. Yeah, not fun.  Texas weather being what it is, unpredictable at the best of times, has done a number on my household and our chronic migraines, so yeah... migraine flare ups are common and often debilitating. (I debate doing a mini series of podcasts or posts about that but we'll see.)

I am also now doing mentorships with select individuals, so that is also keeping me busy. And am trying to network with various creators, mostly in the voice acting industry. I'm not entirely sure if I'm trying to put my hat into the ring, regain my confidence with just reading/narrating in general, or what, but I do plan on narrating my fan fictions and posting them to the interwebs as a lead up to, hopefully, narrating my original works for audiobook consumption.  In a world where AI is becoming more previlent, I think it important to keep up on that if I can, but it's definitely not easy. There are a lot of challenges so it is what it is.

There are many pseudo projects in various stages of work, drafts mostly... so we'll see where that goes. There are a couple childrens book stories on the back burner, as it were, and there are a few scraps of potential novels running around, occassionally wanting attention, though not too much, so nothing major has come of them yet. I think, for the moment, I'm in "rest and recovery" mode, but am hoping my husband, Daniel, will have his third book of The White Raven Saga seris ready for me to play with soon. He's editing it, but with his many full and part time jobs to make ends meet, he's not having as much luck with working on those either.

All that said, we are both plunging ahead with what we can and hoping for good things in the future.