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Updated: 2/12/2026

I'm a few days late for saying this, but I'm happy to let everyone know that the Kobo issue IS fixed. (Bonus good news for me is that it WASN'T my fault! Just a badly timed (for me) out-of-my-hands sort of thing.) I really don't care whose fault or why; just glad it's all fine now!

Other good news is that I am PRETTY SURE any of my KDP account issues are fixed now? Pretty sure? The one that caused the direct issue is definitely fixed. And I think everything else is fine......?

Side note: The little things do matter. If something is wrong, get it fixed immediately. Not just with its and it's (tiny typos) but life in general, health, so on. It's easy to tell yourself everything is and will be fine while looking past something you know isn't fine, but sometimes, stuff just goes really bad wrong from a tiny thing. (But it's important to make sure you don't go insane worrying about every little thing. I still count that as progress for me.) I'm digressing here....

I have NOT updated the main post/blog thing about the account issue. I've honestly been too exhausted along with not having time, and when I HAVE had time, I've just been flat worn out/down.

While 'hell week' is thankfully over here, other less serious things have carried over. Legitimately EVERYTHING keeps breaking. I have never seen anything like what's been going on with my family and me the last three weeks. But things are still improving all around, and I'm happy about that.

I spent some time last week writing! I think that might be part of why I was so exhausted. I don't want to say that I'd forgotten how physically taxing being so mentally drained from writing can make me. I haven't forgotten. It's just been a while since I've felt that way! And I'm not as young as I once was. ha! So that contributed to being exhausted part of the time since my last update. 

I am trying to figure out how to balance writing and other work things. I've never been very exceptional at 'time splitting' no matter how hard I try. I am singularly focused. But I accepted at least a year ago that there will ALWAYS be more stuff to do--all the stuff that keeps me from writing. And if I keep on like I have been the last few years, things will BE how they've been the last few years, which is with me never writing, and if I don't write, I'm legitimately miserable. It's like starving the soul; you can only handle it for so long. And I've gone so long now, it's like I don't even know how to feed my own soul at this point, as odd and borderline ridiculous as that might sound to anyone who doesn't know what it's like. I've likened how I've felt all this while to sustaining an injury at work. Being the lover of basketball that I am, I always think about it in a physical sense--a player gets physically injured, and they have to deal with that. Surgery, if required, therapy, so on. I got injured in the spirit and have had to get that fixed. I feel like I'm just now putting weight back on it, and I'll admit... the last couple weeks have been a struggle with that. I guess it's like the 'get back on the horse' saying. Sometimes, you just get hurt so badly that the thing you love... Well. It changes things.

I'm trying to bear the good sort of weight again. I'm working on it. And hopefully, if I can get this sorted, I will have some new books for you soon. I can't tell you how badly I want to write books for people from THIS POINT in my life. Not me as a 20-something. Struggling though I am here, I like the me I am SO MUCH BETTER now, and I just feel... I haven't gotten the best of me out yet.

I'm working on it.

But alongside trying to work on that, there are the other sorts of work things. Virin and Regulators are no longer free. I need to update the images on my My Books page to reflect that. Fifteen Right is no longer in KU. I need to change them to reflect that as well. I'm working on accepting... I don't have to give EVERYTHING away for free. It's okay to not.
But there are the other things.
I've gotten most books up in my shop. BUT. I've now got BookFunnel, so I need to work on getting THAT sorted, so that I can have BookFunnel fulfill any shop orders instead of it coming from my site. I just have daymares about readers needing help getting books onto their e-readers, and I am NOT equipped to handle explaining that sort of thing. ha! And I keep telling myself that, if I get everything going through BookFunnel, that would make life easier in SO MANY WAYS. Giving out review copies, ARCs, so on.

I don't know how long that's going to take me. I've tried doing those sorts of tasks first thing in the day and writing later. But I'll be honest... I get so miserable doing that stuff, it just DESTROYS not just creative feelings but my days as a whole. I hate it so freaking much. I get about an hour, maybe two or three of it before I want to just... 
Well. Shut down.

I might try it the other way around this week--write first then give myself an hour at the 'end' of a workday, to tackle parts of this ever-growing pile of STUFF. No matter what I do or how hard I work, it feels like the list of things I need to get done quadruples daily or weekly. I will say... That, at this point, is the ONLY thing I really miss about KU (not having MORE STUFF TO DO). And having less fear(s) about monies. But I'm tellin' ya, after what just happened? Never again.

Never, ever again.

I did NOT mean to write so much. But this is what's going on with me. If it's a while before I update again, you'll know what I'm working on and why. And if it takes me a long while to update the post about the account situation, you'll also know why (that it's on my list of things to do and I just haven't gotten to it yet).

Please know that I'm hoping everyone is well. And please know, if you're going through ANYTHING like what I'm going through or what my family is going through... you're not alone. And if you need to hear it, I'm going to tell you what I've been telling myself and a few other people lately.

You will get through it, and everything will be okay.

Just keep pushing forward. And it will be okay.

<3

Thanks for checking in.

And whether you have someone to say it to you or not?

❤️HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! ❤️

Updated: 2/2/2026

I am aware of some weird sort of issue going on with Kobo, where anyone trying to get Reave there can't get it. I have NO IDEA what in the world is up with that, but I DO have an email sent to support with Draft2Digital about it. I am hoping this issue will get fixed/resolved soon and that anyone who wants to get Reave there is able to. Please check back soon, and I will let you know when this gets resolved. I'm so sorry.

I never thought I would thank someone for a 1-star review, but... Whoever left that? THANK YOU. I wouldn't have known there was an issue, if not for you. (But it does suck, all around.)

I've been doing this for a pretty long while now, and I have NEVER had so many big issues like this, and they all converged and occurred right at the time of the BookBub Featured Deal. I haven't been so embarrassed in my adult life. Maybe ever. Because being professionally embarrassed is a totally different thing than anything I've ever experienced. (And it's super frustrating, especially with feeling I've driven myself crazy trying to make sure I was doing everything right all the time.)

I guess I just have to accept that weird stuff happens, and technical crap happens, and sometimes it's like an evil force summons a dark cloud over you and you've gotta just ride that sucker out (the storm) 'til it's past. 

While I feel that 'hell week' is over (that's what I'm calling last week)... it's kind of like having to pick up all the things that fell or got damaged/blown around during it. My family still has SITUATIONS going on here, but things are looking better, which is a larger relief to me than I know how to get across.

And the 'Italy situation' I THINK is taken care of, which means my KDP account SHOULD be fine now. I am going to do my best to make sure that's the case. (I will also update the main post about that soon. I just can't right now. The last week and a half or so has taken a lot out of me, and I honestly feel like I just need to rest.) 

The price match issue for Reave in Canada IS fixed. So, if you missed out on it a few days ago, you can find it available now! Hopefully the Kobo situation will be taken care of soon, too. Hopefully ALL things are just totally better soon.

I've written the last two days, which is a big development and something I'm happy about. I'm tellin' ya... it's been hard to. For a long time. But I've really been wanting to. Progress is something to be happy about, for sure.

I did another painting that I'm proud of. And I'm very confused. I used to be absolute garbage with any kind of art. My WHOLE LIFE. I feel in ways like I'm learning some things about me with and through this, in ways I can't with writing or life. So. That's interesting. Maybe I might get halfway decent at it, if I can figure out what brushes do what. But I just don't feel the same way about painting that I feel about writing. Then again, I don't have to worry about getting so deep in the painting cave like I do the writing cave that I don't look anywhere else while life passes by.

I might be scared to write, because it's such a consuming thing for me. I guess that's something I need to potentially work through.

I did NOT mean to ramble so much.

Anyway. 

Kobo issue: I'm aware and am waiting for a solution that I hope comes soon
Reave's Amazon CA price match: Fixed
The Italy ads issue: I BELIEVE is fixed, which means...
KDP account issue: Hopefully totally fixed
Writing: Yes (and still wanting to write nothing but a potentially too sexy age-gap romance that I likely would never let anyone else read... but maybe sometimes it really is okay to keep some of them to myself) (no matter which book(s) I try to work on, the same thing keeps trying to write itself....)
Shop: A couple more books added; working on it slowly when able
Family issues/situations: Some fixed, some halfway fixed, and the big one is improving day by day
Me: Tired and recovering from hell week; working through/on stuff

I really hope things are going well for everyone. And I hope SO MUCH that NO ONE is having a week like the one I am getting out of. If you are, I'll say again like I said a few days ago...
I am sending you good thoughts/feelings and internet hugs.

Apologies again to anyone who caught sight of the dark cloud of issues that is just now getting past, and if you missed out on Reave at your favorite retailer a few days ago or even today, please know I am trying my absolute hardest to get any issues standing between you and my book(s) fixed.

<3

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