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Updated: 08/31/2025

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Updated: 08/27/2025

August has been an absolutely crazy month. I don't want to bother everyone with seven thousand paragraphs about it all, but I'd imagine if you're checking in, you're at least interested in what's going on!

Kindle Unlimited versus 'Wide': You may have seen me mention things before about the Kindle Unlimited/wide (internal) debate.

You know how, sometimes, a thing can happen, and it can show you EXACTLY what you were worried about without the entirety of the sky falling? Yeah, well, that happened.

I had an issue with Lameria's Gift (and a random fluke occurring during re-enrollment into KU) that left it COMPLETELY unavailable for sale. I'm talking: ebook was gone, period. Listed but not available for purchase. (Paperback was still available, but that's somewhat beside the point.)

It was an interesting moment that left me not just imagining but experiencing a moment where my books were exclusive then shut down for some random thing and it meant they were gone. I had never REALLY seen it (KU) as an 'eggs in one basket' scenario, but I got to experience firsthand what it felt like when you were in fact using one basket and that basket fell through.

I don't EVER want to be in that situation again.

Lameria's Gift was down for more than two weeks. And those two weeks solidified which way to go, when standing in the general vicinity of a place with two options that I'd gone back and forth about for almost two years.

Just... NEVER again. I'll just have to hope that the lack of funds from missing out on KU will come from somewhere else, someway else.

I will say: KDP support (Amazon) is legitimately great. They helped me get the last few of my books out of KU early, so now the fear and such is gone and I can work on getting them all published wide.

Getting the books published wide: I'm making good progress on it! (That has been what I've been doing for weeks.) Just this morning, I submitted the last few books for publishing wide, apart from the pre-order. I'm still working on getting Google done, but I've got MOST of them up on there. Well. Still Regulators 2, 3, and the Complete Trilogy. A couple from Carved Legacy. Maybe one or two others.

Opening a shop: That is on the agenda. I will be working on that soon. I just have SO MANY THINGS, all at one time. I'm taking it one step at a time and trying not to make myself miserable. I am living under the mindset right now (thanks to help) that not everything has to be done in one day. The GOGOGOGOGOGOGO feeling I get is something that is both helpful and detrimental, so I'm trying my hardest to relax some.

Newsletter: I really am thinking about being more active with my newsletter and getting over this idea of 'not bothering people'. I'd like to send one out once a month or so, talk about personal things, book things, whatever things. I'd like to get back to doing group promos where I can offer 'freebies' in there as well, but (being honest), I'm flat freaking broke at the moment and it will have to wait a minute.

Writing: I am having to take a break from it, to get all of this stuff done. I for a moment considered trying to do both things, but I'm so singularly focused, I just can't. I had started writing a new Young Adult series (academy setting) that was/is a LOT of fun. I can't tell you how many times it had me laughing here. I'm looking forward to getting back to it, hopefully soon. And I'm looking forward to the thought of potentially bringing laughter to other people's lives.

Reading: I tried to get back into reading. Didn't work. I am too picky, too nitpicky, and can't relax doing it or enjoy it. It feels like work, and if I'm working on a book, I want to work on my own books. It does still also feel like poisoning the well. Maybe that's weird. Just how it's been for the last decade or so. 

Fable: I made a Fable account (username: CMillerAuthor) and really loved the thought of doing that. But. I have always been of the mind: 'If you don't have anything nice to say...' If I can't rate a book 5 stars, I feel bad, and I don't want to put myself in situations where I feel bad. (Also: see above with 'reading issues'....) But I really liked the vibe of the app as a whole, which is weird, because I usually despise social media of any sort. It's a nice place, it seems like. At least as far as I'd seen/gotten into it. I'd be happy to connect with anyone on there!

Life: Life has been crazy. Between family hospital things coming from multiple directions, the AC going COMPLETELY out, water leaks, animal things, family birthdays, allergies, medication/supplement issues, I could probably go on... It's just been a weird stretch of a month or so.

GOOD NEWS: As you can see above, I decided to stop talking about maybe publishing the Reave Series companion and just DO IT. It's currently on a longer (for me) pre-order, which I'm thinking is how I'll do things from now on.

You can sign up for my ARC Team to get to read it soon! 

I think that's kind of all to mention for the time being, although it's been so weird lately that I feel I'm missing a million things. I think I've bothered everyone enough, even if there might be other stuff! XD

I hope things have been less crazy for everyone reading this, that you're enjoying fall making its way in and are looking forward to some cooler weather!

If anyone needs to get in contact with me, please don't hesitate!

<3 C

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If you're interested in hearing about life and plans for the year, check out my post:
The Start of 2024!

If you're interested in hearing how last year went, check out my post:
The First Half of 2023!

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