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I’m sure you’re all familiar with my cat, Remy.

Well, I’ve drawn her face and put it on a bunch of items on Redbubble!

Go take a look!

So. I started on another site.

As some of you may already be aware, my life is very chaotic and I’ve been doing some hard thinking about whether or not I really intend on reopening the shop when I get back home and get access to my stock again. I think the answer is no. If I’m being honest, the shop was a lot more effort than the sales made it worth.

So if you want any of the art things, I’m now on Redbubble! I am still very much planning on designing more things for the Writing Advice line, and I have a few more cat-related designs coming very shortly.

I’m also still on Art of Where for those who are interested in the old designs, and I do fully intend on doing the more intentionally designed for the product types of things there, but Redbubble is a new fun thing where I can just put art that doesn’t necessarily have that very intentional purpose and I’m kind of excited for it.

I don’t know if this is unusual, but I seem to pick up hobbies pretty easily. Like, easier than it feels like most people I know. Many of my friends only seem to have one or two that they’ve stuck with for years and, well…

To be fair, this one was an accident. It’s really an extension of the bottle charms if you think about it. After making a few of those (And I still make them, don’t get me wrong) I just had a lot of charms left over. As well as those really cute beads.

I do find it very relaxing to create, and they are much quicker to finish than the bottles. But now I have all of the jewelry I’ve made and… well, I’m not going to wear all of this. I feel like this keeps happening.

Please take all this jewelry from me. I am running out of space.

I may be on a publishing break, but I’m naturally going to fill this next year with other projects that I have been putting off! Now that I’m not concerned about publication, I can take some time to work on some of the other things, right?

Games

• Dawn game
  There’s a day in the Twisted Eden books that I’ve been wanting to make a game out of. A choose your own adventure where you can see all the outcomes of that chaos if things had been slightly different.
• City Without Heroes game
  There is mention during the duology of something that happened with Damien. I’ve been toying with some ideas for games relating to that.
• Looking Glass Saga game
  There is a month where Alice is in Wonderland and I don’t elaborate on it. I think this might make for a fun mini game.
• Twisted Eden game
  There’s a lot of referenced to The End during the series. I have been playing with an idea for a game about what happens after that happens.
• Shift the card game
  I already started working on this, so maybe I’ll get a bit further in the process of this!

Writing projects

• Portal fantasy trilogy and prequel
  This might be a book trilogy that comes out eventually, might not. It’s a whole bunch of story ideas that I couldn’t make work individually pushed together, so we’ll see!
• Wipe
  I think I’ve mentioned this project before, but it’s a multiverse series of novellas. And I have no idea how I’m going to put this out if I do like it. It doesn’t feel like a thing that fits publication…
• White Noise prequel
  There’s a lot of casual background talk about what happened in the labs initially, well before the series started. I have notes. I could write it.
• Cloned Evil shorts
  Originally, Cloned Evil was going to be an ongoing serialized story. As it is, I have a lot of notes for middles of possible stories that never got beginnings or ends, so I might explore doing some of those!

Other projects

• More random products like jewelry or stickers
• Looking Glass art in general
• A whole bunch of zine ideas

Looking for a unique gift for someone in your life this holiday season? Check out these handy gift guides for something they might not have yet!

Through the looking glass

• Return to Wonderland
• Looking Glass bottle necklace
• Return to Wonderland first chapter scarf
• Alice bottle charm
• Return to Wonderland skirt

For the aspiring author

• Writing charms
• Storyteller’s Workbook
• Write the fun thing notebook
• Have you considered murder? pencil case
• Worldbuilding workbook

For the superhero nerd

• Beatrice pencil case
• City Without Heroes
• City Without Heroes first chapter scarf
• Georgina notebook
• Fredrika

A little bit of glitter

• Peter bottle charms
• Charm earrings
• Lucky star ornaments
• Guitar bottle necklace
• Bead earrings

It’s my birthday! And for my birthday the past several years, I’ve announced a book that I would be writing for NaNoWriMo this year. It’s a tradition to have the poll run, for me to be pushing the poll, and to reveal the results on the 25th, one week before writing starts.

But I’m taking a break this year. I’m still debating whether or not I’ll write at all, and I may, but it’s going to be something just for me this year. And it will be mostly because I want an IngramSpark coupon.

But if you wanted to help me still celebrate my birthday this year, you can always get one of my books or, if you’re doing NaNoWriMo, check out the Storyteller’s Workbook! Happy writing, everyone!

It’s spooky season at last! With halloween less than a month away, here are some books to help get you in the mood for the holiday!

House of Hollow

This follows three sisters that have always been a little strange, though they didn’t think anything of it. At least, not until the oldest of them disappears and the younger two must find ut both what happened to her and what happened to them all when they were children.

House of Hollow review

Vampires Never Get Old

This anthology series has a little bit of something for everyone, provided that you also like vampires. There’s a range of stories from the deeply unsettling to ones that are just a lot of fun.

Vampires Never Get Old review

Witches of Ash and Ruin

Of course we needed a witch book! This one follows younger witches as an ancient evil is coming back into the world via a string of sacrifices of other witches.

Witches of Ash and Ruin review

Roses and Rot

This isn’t technically a horror as far as I’m aware, but it does follow several artists that are determined to achieve greatness in a school setting that turns out to be much more than it appears to be. Also, it’s another book about sisters.

Roses and Rot review

Strange Practice

This one is not actually that scary, but it is a lot of fun! This one follows a medical professional that specializes in the supernatural and the vampires and other supernatural creatures that come to her for help.

Strange Practice Review

Sawkill Girls

This is a lovely horror novel about a small town with old families and one that has been subject to a demon’s whims for generations. Along with him comes a pattern of sacrifice that must occur in order to secure a family’s legacy, whether they want it to happen or not.

Sawkill Girls review

I’ll be Gone in the Dark

This is non-fiction, but true crime feels appropriate for this time of the year. The tale of the Golden State killer, the focus on the stories of those who have been left behind after the atrocities, and the unfortunate shift at the end will leave you unnerved.

I’ll be Gone in the Dark review

Tales from the Twisted Eden Sector

Most of my books have at least a little something spooky in them, but my very first published series was the closest to intentional horror. The series is a series of short stories that take place in an alternate universe Vancouver where magic exists but is kept hidden by the Syndicate by any means possible.

This is more of a heads up for anyone who is following me! I’m taking a break.

I’ve been publishing multiple books a year for 9 years. For my 10th year, I’m gifting myself a break. A whole year of not pressuring myself to get something ready for publishing. It means I’ll get to write things that I might not ever publish or show anyone, and it’s just what I need! I’m tired, and I think a break will do me well.

On top of that, I’m privating a lot of my social media. Some of you may have noticed that many of my accounts are now set to private and that was intentional! Planned! I swear, I haven’t been canceled. I’m just, again, tired. I’ve been making myself a consumable entity on the internet for a while and I want a break from that part of things.

If you want to keep in touch, I’ll likely still be keeping up with the book reviews and other articles for this blog. I’ll also still be updating the official Scrap Paper Entertainment Instagram and the Facebook page. The newsletter is going down to once a month, but it will still be going out. Things are just not going to be personal for a little while and I’ll exist only as my content, not myself.

Is this a bad thing to do as an author? Probably. But I’m tired, and I’ve always valued my ability to walk away from things in my personal life that aren’t working for me. I may come back to social media one day, I may not, we’ll see. But the books will likely return in 2022, so check back for those!