Welcome to the month of loooooove. I remember just a few years ago, I’d have to buy enough mass-market Valentine’s Day cards for TWO classrooms, label them individually, wrangle my kids into signing their names to each card, and hope they remembered to take the cards to school to pass out during their Valentine’s party. Now, I have two teenagers (well… one teenager, one preteen), so those days are gone—at least until Duck starts school in roughly 3 years.

Anyway!

There’s gonna be an indie-author-only Stuff Your Kindle Day soon! The 10^th to the 14^th, in fact. If you’re not sure what a SYKD is, it’s where authors put their books for free on the ’Zon and you can download them at no cost to you! This event is my first time participating in something like this, and I’m excited! This also means, my books Scars & Souvenirs and Long Time Gone are in KU until April 20, 2025. (Dreams Reborn is also in KU because I just couldn’t have Scars in and not the sequel!)

In the last newsletter, I mentioned another anthology that I’m participating in. We Shall Rise is an anthology that means something to me. A lot of somethings, really. If you don’t know, I am a woman. To be more exact, I am a bisexual woman. So both reproductive rights and LGBTQIA2S+ rights are unequivocally important to me. They’re fundamental to my existence—to a lot of people’s existences. Even if you aren’t part of the “rainbow community” or you’re not someone with a uterus, someone you know is. They’re most likely someone you love. More than that, though… They’re someone. Someone who deserves rights to their own autonomy. I wholeheartedly believe this, and I can only hope you do, too.

This anthology brings me no money. Any money made from sales of this anthology go to charities—Volume 1 will go toward The Center for Reproductive Rights and Volume 2 will go toward The Trevor Project. The other authors, service-providers (formatting, editing, design, etc), and I are doing this strictly to raise money for causes we believe in. (Let’s be honest, though: IF I was making any money off this anthology, I’d be donating it anyway.)

I’m at 71k words for Feels Like Forever and STILL not quite finished. And this makes me worry that it’ll be longer than I expected. 😬 But I’m enjoying the writing process—enjoying getting to know the characters—enjoying bringing new worlds and lives to, well, life. (Or, rather, the page…)

While I’ve been writing FLF and my anthology piece, I’ve also been hard at work trying to finish the second part of my dual novella, Letters from Home. And all the WIPs I’ve started for my holiday collection that I’m planning on releasing in December. I’m honestly so excited to get all these out there for y’all. I’ll have to tell you all about all of them when I have them more figured out.

I think this is all for me this month. See you in a few weeks!

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​Romance books in KU!​

​Happier in Your Arms: Free books!​

​Unholy Fate by Georgia Wells & Cora Masters

​My Billionaire Surprise Baby by Anita Shaw

​The Cross We Bear by Rebekah Dodson

​King's Wife by Sayali D

​Quinn by Krysta Fox

Music Corner

This month’s Music Corner is Call My Name by Drew Erwin

Isle of Pain by C.J. Lucci

Finley K. James writes
contemporary romance that
has both heart and heat.
​Past Newsletters​

​Scars & Souvenirs​
​Dreams Reborn​
​Long Time Gone​

​Love Notes​

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