Starting Over
Has it really been almost three months since I gave you all an update? Oof. Bad Jackii! If anything, I suppose it demonstrates how busy I’ve been. My debut novel is literally days away from being available for pre-order, its cover is amazing, and I have all my ducks in a row for the next two books in the series, too. In fact, there’s nothing I can do for this first series until other people get back to me, and I have no control over that.
Which means it’s time to really start on my next series. Which is difficult! Switching gears like that is so hard for me. I’ve been in a production/marketing mire for the first series for a while, and most of my time was spent figuring out HOW to do what I wanted and needed to do. All I want to do is write! Sit me at a keyboard and I’ll just go, go, go. Throw in a bunch of other stuff that I have no skill at and tell me it all needs to be done, and my neurodivergent brain just sort of bounces around in a freefall.
What didn’t help was doing a birth doula training program in May, followed by a visit to family in New England into June. Shaking things up even more. I mean, I wouldn’t have NOT done those things, and I’m happy I did, but they did create breaks in my workflow.
So to quickly catch y’all up: My first contemporary queer romance series is called International Love and Misadventure. The first book is Starlight and Cinnamon, where a love-obsessed spy and a therapist with a hero complex fall in love while trying to bring down a vile Silicon Valley techlord. We’ve got spies, a masquerade meet-cute, messy lesbians, interracial romance, and a monkey heist, and it’s sure to make the worst online people mad. It comes out September 9 of this year, and I’ll be sure to share the preorder links when they’re available. If you’re out looking for it, I released it under my pen name, Jem Spears. In the meantime, I’m hammering out the basics of my next contemporary queer romance series, and outlining and draft-blocking book 1 of that one. So you know. I’m busy.
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