I’m still buzzing from Villains & Vixens this past weekend — my brain feels like it’s stuck on a sugar high spiked with chaos. Readers, authors, narrators, artists… everywhere I turned there was another wickedly brilliant soul. And yes, Austin Giorgio. (I met him. Twice. Don’t worry, I’ll be insufferable about it.)

And of course now I’m hooked — already scoping out the Texas Book Festival in November, waitlists for next summer, plotting cons further out. Who knew this would become my new addiction?

But back to the real chaos: Midnight.

I thought I’d release it this week. I swear I tried. But you know how it goes: start an edit, make a tiny change, then suddenly you’re knee-deep in rewrites and wondering if the story is rewriting you. Will it drop soon? Absolutely. Am I making it harder on myself? Naturally.

Because apparently one obsession isn’t enough, Austin Giorgio’s performance cracked open a new story idea. (Short story? Ha. No. This one’s got teeth. It feels like a whole damn book stalking me in the shadows, and I haven’t even finished the first one yet.)

So here I am, confessing to you, kittens: my squirrel demons won the week. But I’m back at the keyboard, tearing into Midnight like a fiend, and the next time you see me it’ll be with a final teaser, created by Justin Fuller. And then—

Well, then you’ll meet Dean Thompson, the beautiful problem I keep running back to, again and again.