IWSG Monthly Blog January 2026

Welcome to 2026 and the IWSG monthly blog hop! I’ve started the year with a head cold–things could be far worse–but it is what it is.

January 7 question – Is there anything in your writing plans for 2026 that you are going to do that you couldn’t get done in 2025?

In 2026, I hope to publish the second book in my Evie Chambers Mysteries series. The book is started and is entitled The Case of the Missing Prince. Once that’s done, I need to format a couple of books into audio and paperback. My biggest want is to complete my Listen to the Stones fantasy series which I’ve decided to release in a fashion similar to the Lord of the Rings. So far, I have released two of the four books. In Book One, The Awakening, my heroine discovers that she is more than she ever expected to be, while my hero continues his search for a woman he loved and lost in the past and suffers psychic attacks he doesn’t understand. In Book Two, The Homecoming, my heroine learns more about her past through dreams, out-of-body experiences, and encounters with withches and humans alike who prepare her for what she’ll find when she reaches home. My hero continues his search and worries since the stones he relied on, not only for information but for the plots to his successful novels, have gone silent. Discovering that the woman for whom he’s been searching is the new chatelaine of the Fraser lands, the place where his stones are located, is exhilerating and confusing. He knows exactly who she is and what she was in the past, but she doesn’t know him. To make matters worse, he has competition for her affections. The catch is both of them must find and recognize true love, freely given, before the enemy regains his powers. Once they do, they will both have access to the abilities they need to cdefeat him. If they fail, the world such as they know it, will end. Book Three, The Bonding, is finished and just requires editing. Book Four is barely started, so that’s my big push for the year.

I’ve penciled in a couple of romances as well as another book in my paranomal detectives series, and would like to work on a couple of holiday books, but we’ll see. After a fairly decent December, book sales and pages read so far in January have been abysmal. I’m hoping that will improve. I also my try more promotional activity even though I find it difficult.

So, I end with wishing you all a Happy 2026.

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