Happy Solstice and the changing of Seasons!

A new year is approaching, but in this last month, there are a lot of holidays, and celebrations, and also a lot of taking stock and figuring out how to get through 2025. I've been doing quite a lot of that, myself. So my plan for changing a few things up in 2025 is below!

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NEW RELEASES

First, this month, the latest Dragon Thief story is out! THE SCAVENGER JOB, book 6 in the series, has a holiday theme and touches on more of Myra's past. And things between Myra and Christopher get serious. I hope you all will enjoy this latest story!

THE SCAVENGER JOB
Dragon Thief, Book 6

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The past might save her future, or destroy everything…

A ten-year-old secret, a holiday season, and a walk down memory lane. Myra hopes to share these things with Christopher, because life is short. Especially if you’re a magical thief falling hard for the dragon king’s son. She wants to stay in Christopher’s life, which means being in Christopher’s dragon shifter world.

But first, she needs him to know something about her past. Secrets never shared. And a treasure left hidden for a very long time.

Somehow, old wrongs always come back to disrupt even the most sentimental journey for Myra, though. Endangering this one very important job. And this time, her past, not the dragon world, threaten their lives as Myra and Christopher race to solve an old mystery.

Keeping Christopher by her side is the only thing Myra wants for the holidays, and the one thing that might be beyond her reach.

Because even a magical thief can’t steal a heart.

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The other big news this month is the start of THE CAFE at KatSimonsBooks short stories! These stories all take place in The Cafe, there are cameos by series characters, and they'll be free to read for two full weeks before the next story goes live.

The first story, BOO AND THE WITCH, goes live on December 15th. Don't miss this fun opening story to set up The Cafe. And I hope you'll keep dropping by, on the 1st and 15th of every month to read the newest stories!

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Finally for the new release news, the beautiful paperback editions of the FIRE AND TEARS series are starting to populate out. It will take me a little longer to get those books available everywhere, but they will be out there soon.

For those of you who enjoy my Kat Simons paranormal romance, I think you'll love this series I wrote as Isabo Kelly. It's very sexy, a bit dark, and delicious. Reading to keep you warm in the cold winter months (or to stay warm with if you're in the Southern Hemisphere! LOL)

The books will be available widely but also through my store for select territories! And the interiors are as lovely as the new covers.

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NEWS AND UPDATES

I've mentioned multiple times now that 2025 would be a year I changed things up a bit. I've been mulling over a lot of various options, but one thing that has been in my plan for a long time, and will now get put into practice, is releasing all my books from KatSimonsBooks store first. This will include the print editions, where I have them, and where I can make them available.

So going forward, everything that I publish through my company T&D Publishing, will go to KatSimonsBooks first. Depending on the stories and the publishing schedule, those books will then go wide to other stores about 2 months later. Sometimes that wide distribution will happen a little later, again depending on other things that are going on.

All that being said, everything WILL still be available at all the vendors I can get the books to. The publishing dates will just be after the dates at the store.

My intention with this is to simplify things for myself and make selling direct to readers more of a focus. I'm hoping (trying!) to make KatSimonsBooks a place readers can drop in and visit and hang out and enjoy. So as well as THE CAFE stories, I'm looking into doing some more interactive stuff in 2025. I'm still mulling ideas (virtual author readings and Zoom meet ups), and I'm open to reader suggestions if you'd like to email me and let me know what you'd like to see at the store! Look for new things popping up though in 2025. We'll experiment and see what's fun.

As well as more focus on the store, I'm going to experiment with a few new Kickstarters in 2025. The first one will be for the full collection of Season One of the Dragon Thief series! I had fun with the last Kickstarter and I'd like to experiment with some more things, like fancy print editions and maybe a book box. So as soon as I have the initial link set up, I'll let you know!

Finally, I've had an interesting year with my writing. I've been having a lot of fun and ended up writing a LOT. Now, some of that is THE CAFE stories, so you'll be seeing those regularly. But there's some irony to the fact that I've written more this year and my intention is to slow down my publishing schedule going into 2025. Some of what I've been writing is part of new projects that won't be out until 2026 anyway. But I've still got a lot of fiction that I'd like to get out. (This is a good problem to have, by the way!)

For 2025, though, it will mainly be the standards. There is a new Cary Redmond novel coming soon (you'll get to meet Cary's parents!). The last novel in the Demon Witch series will be out in the fall (that's right, last! I'm actually ending a series--sort of LOL). There will be a new Haunts and Howls collection. And of course, because I'm enjoying them, another season of the Dragon Thief series. And to start the new year, I'll have a new Joan of Kerry story!

So there's going to be lots of reading in 2025 still, but a (sort of) slower publishing schedule. I think. I'm looking at my plans so far, and there's still stuff out every month. LOL. (I swear I'm just a prolific writer who likes to write and sometimes hides in my writing so I don't have to pay attention to the real world! These are all me-doing-the-writing stories, I promise.)

As always, for up to date information about releases and changes in the schedule and events and news, you can join my newsletter. You'll get some free exclusive stories when you join, and you'll get a monthly update. There's also an email sign up at KatSimonsBooks where you'll get store updates and reminders of new stories at THE CAFE, if you'd like the reminders.

Until the new year, I hope you have a wonderful holiday season, I hope you roll into the new year healthy, and I hope you find lots of good books to read!

Happy Holidays! And Happy Reading!

~Kat