Well, hellllooooo there 👋🏻
I’m not saying it’ll be Mondays when new posts go live, but…it’s Monday and I’m posting again, haha. It wasn’t intentional, and I don’t know if I’ll keep it up, or what. (Probably the ‘what’ 😆).
This is gonna be a relatively short post, or I think it will be; it’s more of an FYI, to let everyone know that the plan I had for my Smoke Chaser series is not gonna go ahead—no, no, I’m not dropping off the planet again! In fact, if you go over to the Books page, then move down to SC, you’ll see that all four books in Smoke Chaser are back up and available on Amazon, right this second.
If you didn’t catch the last post, my plan was to do rewrites on the series. However, I had a weird moment: I’ve been avoiding doing them lately, then I just suddenly realized that rewrites are not needed.
The series is fine the way it is; it’s not perfect, I know that, but that’s because I wrote it in 2015/2016. That’s 9 years ago! Almost a decade has past, of course my writing isn’t the same as it was then, I’ve grown as a writer and artist, as well as a person. It’s not perfect and that’s been my main concern. I can do better.
But this is a case of letting sleeping dogs lie. It doesn’t need to be perfect. I don’t need to rewrite it half a dozen times until I deem it perfect and re-release it again. You know what I do need? I need to be comfortable with the vulnerability of growth being visible to the outside world.
Yes, readers are going to see my writing in one place with one story and another in the next. But that’s part of being human and being an artist. We get better with time and there’s no shame in showing that growth. I have to keep moving forward, not dwell on the past.
In reality, it’s not broke…so I’m not gonna fix it.
You can find the linkies for them on their page here on the website. The only thing is, right now “Wildfire” is up on Kindle Unlimited, as well as available on Amazon in digital and paperback, while the 2nd-4th books are on Amazon in digital and paperback.
This is only temporary; books 2-4 are going to be put back up on Smashwords for Global distribution in digital, however, the paperbacks are going to be exclusive of Amazon (for now) and book one is exclusively on Amazon while up on KU, as per their terms.
I am, however, going through with an edit on “Edgeplay”, as well as books 2 & 3 in Goode Pain, and putting them up in the same fashion on Amazon. I am also going to be editing books 4 & 5 and sticking them up. No fanfare, no big waves, just gonna do it. So, keep a look out for them!
Okay, I think this is long enough and I’ve said what I wanted to say!
More updates to come! And, remember: keep moving forward ❤️
Xoxo Annabel Lee.