I suck at updates

Hey everyone. I know I haven't written here in a long, long, long time. I have no excuse other then that life happens, and I tend to forget about writing blog posts while dealing with the every day stuff. For those who didn't know, I am now on Instagram. That's a fun change.... Though, I confess, I'm not exactly great at updating things there, though I do try to post at least once a week. Sometimes that doesn't happen.... but it is what it is. I am still on facebook and you'll get more out of me there than anywhere else. So, what's up in my world? Well, my husband's second book, The White Raven Saga: A Change In Tides, has officially been launched into the world to quiet fanfare. Yeah, didn't really have the money or time to do a proper marketing launch campaign, sadly. But I hope you'll all go and check it out just the same because it's pretty good, especially since he doesn't consider himself an author but a storyteller. In other news, I've been turning more to my art lately, working on various projects involving sewing, painting, and generally creating. I am working on a fan fiction that has been part of an ongoing series for over a decade... and I have to go back and reread stuff with that to remember where I was going with things, stuff I've already mentioned etc, because I had to take a break with that as well due to some health issues. Yeah, not fun. Texas weather being what it is, unpredictable at the best of times, has done a number on my household and our chronic migraines, so yeah... migraine flare ups are common and often debilitating. (I debate doing a mini series of podcasts or posts about that but we'll see.) I am also now doing mentorships with select individuals, so that is also keeping me busy. And am trying to network with various creators, mostly in the voice acting industry. I'm not entirely sure if I'm trying to put my hat into the ring, regain my confidence with just reading/narrating in general, or what, but I do plan on narrating my fan fictions and posting them to the interwebs as a lead up to, hopefully, narrating my original works for audiobook consumption. In a world where AI is becoming more previlent, I think it important to keep up on that if I can, but it's definitely not easy. There are a lot of challenges so it is what it is. There are many pseudo projects in various stages of work, drafts mostly... so we'll see where that goes. There are a couple childrens book stories on the back burner, as it were, and there are a few scraps of potential novels running around, occassionally wanting attention, though not too much, so nothing major has come of them yet. I think, for the moment, I'm in "rest and recovery" mode, but am hoping my husband, Daniel, will have his third book of The White Raven Saga seris ready for me to play with soon. He's editing it, but with his many full and part time jobs to make ends meet, he's not having as much luck with working on those either. All that said, we are both plunging ahead with what we can and hoping for good things in the future.

Updates and stuff

 Man alive, it's been a while. I am totally horrible about updating my blog posts and related. It's just been such a hectic past few months, mostly with migraines from the weather in Texas not being able to make up its mind. With the up and down temperatures, and the changes in pressure, my head has been far from happy, which has resulted in my not being as active as I would like.

That being said, I am working on various projects, including a new fan fiction, editing my husband's next book, a massive sewing project (think giant Baymax plushy 2.0), as well as learning Japanese so I can translate some of my children's books into that beautiful language. Confession: as far as the Kanji goes, I'm struggling. There are so many! I'm still having issues learning all the Katakana, too, but that's another story.

Another sad thing is that I had to change up my website completely. It's no longer hosted on blogger, like it was previously, so I had to rebuild it all from scratch, which was no easy feat. Back in the day, when migraines didn't rob me of stamina and concentration, it wasn't as big of a deal. But Google decided my blogger stuff couldn't be indexed anymore so I had to make some serious changes there. Thus, if you try to go to my blog, here where I'm posting this one, you might get stuck. But if you go to my website (url has not changed), I have started blogging there, though definitely not with the frequency I probably should.

Any who, just wanted to pop on and say hi to everyone. Thanks for your continued support. My husband sends his thanks to all who have bought his book as well. Hopefully I can be more active with my posts, but if not, just know I'll at least try to pop on when there's some kind of update y'all need to hear.

Until then, toodles!