Everyone has been waiting to hear when the title they're waiting for will be released.
This is my book update for January 2024. So this is a little about book updates for Christine Michelle and Anne Storm.
First, before we get started on what's headed your way and when, I want to address why last year was so slow with releases. I had Covid (long covid) several times in 2023 (three) and the lingering effects combined with my other health issues made it very difficult for me to even focus to sit down and write a sentence. When I did manage to write, it was coming out as word salad and led to complete frustration. My sentences would come out backward, I was using the wrong words because there was some messed up connection between what I know, what I meant to say, and what ended up typed in manuscripts.
On top of that, I had a major incompatibility issue with hardware/software that was supposed to be compatible and ended up chewing up my manuscripts and spitting them out in even worse condition than my poor, battered brain managed to do on its own.
So, I had no choice but to take some time to heal and let go of all of the frustrations that were taking a toll on my being able to heal and get my brain, focus, and motivation going again.
THEN, I found out that the Pay-Per-Chapter Apps were stealing my book series (Savage Vipers MC). And that has brought about a whole new problem with releasing one of the most anticipated books... Baby Me (the 4th in the Savage Vipers MC Series by Anne Storm).
If you see ads for my books, especially Wait for Me and Devastate me (character names: Star and Jared (Bagger) and Nova and Breakneck or Kim and Tripp from Surprise Me), please make a comment that the books are stolen and report the ads on social media. Report the apps in your app store that are running the ads as well.
I am not sure when I'll release Baby Me because of this thievery. In a not-so-shocking turn of events, the pay-per-chapter apps that have stolen my work actually contacted me to try to pay me an advance on the next book in the series! Like I ever gave them permission or sold my work to them to begin with... But I guess they grew desperate since I refused to release the book.
At this stage, I have to get lawyers involved, to make sure the books are taken down and the apps along with them if I can manage it. Unfortunately, those apps are all owned by the same entity and they keep spreading like a virus. Every time one is taken down another 5 go up, and readers keep supporting them. I am not the only author with stolen books on those apps. A great deal of the content on those sites has been stolen.
ANYWAY, now that the explanations on the holdups are out of the way, here is what's coming: From Christine Michelle:
Winter Wolves (a paranormal romance/suspense with shifters - wolves, obviously)
When the Last Petal Falls (Robeson Family Novel #2 - marriage of convenience/friends to lovers)
Bad at Love (angsty, unrequited, small town romance)
From Anne Storm:
Nothing Special (an angsty, marriage in trouble, billionaire, cheating & forgiveness romance - it is a standalone)
Baby Me (depending on the legal stuff with the other stolen books in the series).
The Homewrecker's Fate (Book 1 in The Cheating Hearts Series)
RELEASE DATES (FOR SOME BOOKS) WILL BE ADDED SOON!