So I have been on Sabbatical for a while--it's been a difficult time to be an author and the whole everything of the world has kind of strangled my creative self.
You may or may not have noticed I killed my Patreon page. Two plus years of hitting pause was too many, so I let it go. Perhaps it will be relaunched when I am officially back from this bad place. But for the interim, it is a nice relief to no longer have that weight on my psyche.
I have been crocheting. And doing artsy things. And spending time with my friends. And playing games like Palia and WoW (which, surprising many I am sure, I had never played until last year.) And being present in my community. I go on occasional writing dates with one of my besties, and every time I am able to write, I feel more human, more alive, more myself.
MAKING things still brings me a great deal of joy and light. So I poke at my Orc Saga prequel novels (there are two now, and I need to write them to be able to get a handle on Orc3 because... Dragons. And the Politics of Hunaland. And Foundational Lore. I need to know all that history before Arianna and Isabel engage with it all.) And I poke at a stand alone novella about an Orc who makes beautiful enchanted jewelry and a woman who has spent the first 40 years of her life trying to hide the pieces of herself people did not approve of.
Hockey Mark's book is currently on life support because I cannot imagine a scenario in which a Canadian would want to loiter around in the USA right now--but I do have ideas of how I might be able to flip the script to make it something that makes sense for the characters, when that mental roadblock lifts.
So just because I am on Sabbatical, it doesn't mean I am not still trying to make things, to write stories for me and you, for the world and the readers who need them. I just need to look inward and keep it local for a bit, and be able to pivot to whichever thing is bringing me joy, because joy feels so much harder to find in the world we've currently manifested here.
I promise when I am back at it, I will yell really loudly. But for now, I just need a little bit of peace and quiet.
Thanks for understanding!
