May 2018 Update

Where Am I?

I know. The perpetual question that always needs answering! I swear I don’t even know the answer half the time!

May 20th found me flying from London’s Gatwick airport to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I have much-loved family and friends in SK and Alberta and plan to be here for the summer.

My parents live in a renovated 1930’s craftsman style yellow brick schoolhouse which up until a few years ago, was a pigeon-hotel and is now a beautifully light and airy one-room space upstairs, complete with loft, and an open-concept basement with modular walls which can be swung and moved about to create bedrooms as needed. It’s a very quiet and peaceful place to be and I get lots of writing done here.

Two of my best friend’s are getting married this summer, so I’ll have some travels to the Niagara area of Ontario on top of my swings into the BC area. As always, I plan to spend lots of time in Canmore and hit my favourite biking locations this summer which include Fernie, Revelstoke, Golden, and of course Banff.

In April I spent 10 days in Thailand on the island of Koh Samui. What a wonderful place! The best food and the friendliest people. If you’ve ever considered visiting Thailand, I highly encourage it, especially if you’re a beach baby. My pale freckly self was not designed for beaches, but I go armed with a gigantic hat and lots of sunscreen and seem to manage not to fry to death. I even might become a darker shade of white.

The writing is going strong, I seem to have found a balance of word count and arm/wrist-health. Business is going good and creativity is flowing, so that’s always a good place to be. I can’t complain!

I have just received my manuscript for The Elementals, Elemental Origins Series Book 6 back from both of my editors, and they both enjoyed the story! Yay! My job now lies in making any structural edits to the story and then to hand it back for a final copy edit before uploading the whole shebang to Amazon.

I am still going to try for an earlier than June 7th launch, but if you’ve been following me for a while now, you’ll already know that I don’t make promises! I’ll do my best, that’s all I can say! I am so excited to have Book 6 done as it marks the end of the Origin stories and the beginning of the stories about what happens with your favourite characters after high school and beyond.

What I’m working on next!

No one has seen this cover yet, so TA DA! Who do you think that is? That’s right, it’s Mira MacAuley, Targa’s beloved mother.

I am not sharing the title for this story as of yet, but I can tell you that this story will tie together the Returning novellas with Born of Water as it follows Mira MacAuley, and young Targa, as Mira faces life as a single mother and chronicles how she first joins the Bluejacket Underwater Salvage team and the challenges she finds within. It promises to be an adventure that will touch your heart and take your imagination to places that only a mermaid can reveal.

 

Born of Air in Print & Audio

That’s right, finally! Born of Air is now in processing to become available in paperback and will be up for grabs within the next 30 days! The Audio version is also being recorded right now, and though I can’t promise an exact date, the audio version will also be out within the next 2 months or so. Stay tuned for updates on these!

 

Two Boxed Sets are Coming!

It’s an exciting time! Readers love boxed sets and I’m so excited to be bringing 2 of them to Amazon before the end of June! The Kacy Chronicles will be published by LMBPN Publishing, and The Elemental Origins Series Complete Boxed Set will be published by my little house, Intellectually Promiscuous Press.

That’s it for now! Until next time…happy reading.

XO

Abby