Last year, it was all about writing. I was focused on breaking the walls down and reaching those milestones of finishing a book. Finishing another book. Doing stories that were different and explored storylines that had never been explored before. And I did it. By the end of 2025, I had three books printed and available online.
There have been some teething issues with Lulu.com, but these have been mostly resolved. And I’m also pleased to announce that my fourth book, The Dance Between Us, should be finished in late Jan – early Feb, proofed/edited and will hopefully be out roughly in March. More info about that to come.
What I do want to tell you now though, is that I’ve been working on a strategy plan this year to encourage you all to pick up a copy. I have a number of sale ideas/plans, as well as increase on lore about the books and other really fun ideas.
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I am also excited to tell you that my GoodReads profile has been updated, so if you are already in that circle, you are welcome to connect with me there.
You are also welcome to watch the trailers that I make of my books, straight away on YouTube, at: https://www.youtube.com/@firebornpress
Right! Now that we got all the connections out the way, I see I have a little space still left here to tell you about the next book. I’ll be doing a lore post about it, so I don’t want to go into too much detail, but let me give you an outline.
First off, the main theme is probably a love story. I know, I know, love isn’t really an emotion that I usually write about, especially the romantic kind. I can tell you right now, or at least ensure you, that there is no huge make-out scene, and there are definitely no long, laborious pages, like Katniss had, in Hunger Games, where it was ‘do I like Peter or do I like Gab,’ or Twilight version where it’s between Jacob and Edward. This book is NOTHING like that. And it’s not 50 shades either.
No, it’s more of a life-long story. This might hit hard for those of you in your 40’s who have had a moment to reflect back, like I have, and have that ‘oh, shit’ second where you realise that you had an opportunity and you messed it up. For some reason, when you are a child, or teenager, or even in your 20’s, you think that the people that are in your circle, will be in your circle forever and unfortunately that is not the case. Friends come and go and you don’t realise it until it’s been a decade.
The Last Dance pulls in my own story, were I had a moment with a boy when I was ten. And I messed it up, because I didn’t want to get married at ten and the whole idea freaked me out. I thought life wouldn’t change and he would always be around, until he wasn’t. And now… now he is married, with kids, and a happy bubble. Which is great – I’m happy too and happy for him and bla bla bla… but still… I can’t help think, what would have happened if I wasn’t a complete paloonka and I had gone for it thirty years ago. I can’t help but wonder how my life would have panned out and if I had a time machine, would I go for it?
And so as that door shut on the mystery of what happened to that cute boy I knew in Grade 5, it dislodged an idea in my brain that grew and expanded into a plot line.
Alva, the character, came to life, as a witch that was also petrified when a boy, Lukas, told her that he had feelings. She had a little more to freak about that, because, on top of the sort-of-feelings I had, she had the secrecy of being different. Which comes with it’s own set of problems.
Flash forward twenty years, she now lives with her secret, and a family. But events cause her to trigger and well, a witch hunter is on her trail.
He is coming for her.
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