September News and Updates
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Hello, and welcome September! I hope everyone is having a great latter half of the year! Make sure you check back now and then for the blog posts that don’t get emailed out. I really don’t want to blow up your email, so I keep some of them just on the app! Some of the recent ones have been about the importance of queer writing today and the history of transgender/homosexual people in the DSM.
What’s going on these days? Well, almost done with the next novella, Taming the Wolf, which comes out in October! Then focusing on the next Doctor’s Training book.
The biggest update this month? The Kickstarter for Behind the Red Duology is LIVE!!! Get great rewards for backing, including your name in the acknowledgments of Scarlet Release! It’s going to be amazing!
Coming soon!
Taming the Wolf releases October 30th!
This is a Sapphire City Shared World novella!
What is the Healing Bonds Universe?
Well, in short, it is a larger world than what most authors write in. It’s a place where three cities are interconnected with each other: St. Louis, Missouri, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Santa Cruz, California. In each city, the stories may seem independent from each other, but as the stories progress, a single hair-size thread begins to connect them all together. Chains of Fate is set in St. Louis, Missouri, and starts with the Doctor’s Training trilogy. This is the ONLY trilogy that MUST be read in its entirety since the three books are one story in three arcs. The next series to debut in 2026 will be Joe Town Bound, set in St. Joseph, Missouri with the book Dark Honey. Finally, in late 2026, Silken Bonds will debut, taking place in Santa Cruz.
Each individual series has its own heroes, but it all comes back to the characters from Doctor’s Training in the end. They are the glue that binds the Healing Bonds universe together, and will be intertwined in all the stories that follow, even in a small way.
The other big uniting force is each set revolves around a BDSM club/dungeon in each city. Two—the one in St. Louis and the one in Santa Cruz—are loud and visible. But one, in St. Joseph is very much underground in a highly conservative area of the country. So there are some different dynamics, but these places are, again, interconnected.
So, if you want to know more about the Healing Bonds Universe, follow the link and check out everything you could want to know about it!
Oh, so behind the scenes, things have been just wild. I’ve been working on my health, and boy has it been a doozy! I’ve been on Zepbound for a little over three months (mostly for A1C but also for weight). I’ve lost nearly 40 pounds and dropped my a1c from diabetic to normal range in that amount of time. I take other meds, of course, but the Zepbound was really the key to lowering it.
The issue is, though, my iron is low and they don’t know why. So, off to hematology and GI for me. THEN they found me tachycardic, so now I can’t take stimulants for hypersomnia and ADHD. So, that’s been fun…not really.
I’ve been doing a lot for my health, but different things keep popping up. But I’ll keep going on this journey!
Check out my friend’s Medium page! You’ll be happy you did!
Slip into the silent stars, and swim among the sedate, singular sensations these that swell and swing And sing sweet, soothing songs.
My next appearance is at St. Joe Pride. You will also find a lot of products that you can by like jewelry, book bags, bookmarks, and more!
What stories are you craving right now? More queer joy? Neurodivergent heroes? Complex villains with soft hearts? I do try to write with radical authenticity, and your voice helps shape what comes next. Hit comment and tell me: What do you wish you saw more of in the books you read?
Introducing: Bobby, the biggest baby there ever was.
As you can see by the furry state of my bed, he is a regular sleeping companion. He has one spot on the bed, and he gets very upset if that spot has something in it. He’ll paw and try to move it, and if I’m lying on it, he’ll paw at me to get me to move. Somehow, he’s trained himself to paw at my head to tell me he wants treats. I’m not sure who got trained, though, me or him.
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