Wow, I can’t believe the Books and Tea League only launched three and a half weeks ago! It’s been an exciting month as I figure out how to make sure all the moving pieces are working as they should and integrate the content creation into my workload. Not everything has gone as I planned, but it’s been pretty good overall.

And we’re now up to eleven members! Woot! Please welcome new members this week: Theresa, Claire, Linda, Laura, and Maria. I’m so thrilled you’re here!

By the way, for Loyalists and above still waiting for your welcome packages: after much frustration, I finally found out what the delay was for the last item I was waiting for. I just checked the tracking on it, and it was delivered to my local depot six minutes ago. Not sure I’ll be able to pick it up tonight (I’ll have to check their hours), but no matter what, your packages will be in the mail on Monday. Yay!

Here’s a round-up of the rewards for this week:

Work in Progress

Chapter 7 for Every Bell that Rings is now live. The plot thickens, as Noel and Stephanie’s sister concoct a plan to make Stephanie fall in love with Christmas.

WIP chapters are available to everyone to Chapter 3, and Loyalists and above past that.

Letters from My Writing Desk

This morning, I posted an all-tiers Fireside chat post called “A Personal Update and a Writing Breakthrough.” In it, I give a very long look at what’s been happening in my real life and how that’s affected my writing life over the last couple of years. Also, some recent breakthroughs I’ve had that have made me excited for the future.

As I explain in the post, this week has been very full as I try to work ahead on some content. That’s why this post went up so late. However, I’ve spent today prepping some future posts so I can accomplish that goal of working ahead, so expect to see some more fun stuff going live in the next week.

But, since this went live today, I’m not sending out a separate notification for it. Consider this to be it. :-)

Tea with Talena

Last Friday was the first Tea with Talena monthly online meetup. Jossie and I had a great time getting to know each other better, but we both agreed that we couldn’t wait to have more people join the community so we could really explore some of our favourite things and connect with other people over books, especially my books. I’ll be setting the date for the next meetup next week, and I would love to see a few more faces join us this month.

I’ll keep you posted!

Coming Soon

I’ve got some fun things scheduled over the next few weeks, and even more in the idea and planning stages. I can’t wait to share them with you! Keep an eye out for a new Story Bite, some fantasy map art and behind-the-scenes for the Rise of the Grigori, and installments for both the Every Star that Shines early access draft and the Finding Heaven audiobook.

As always, thank you for your time, support, and attention, heroic reader. It is a privilege to have you here.

What will you be reading this weekend?