2026 Looking Forward

I keep meaning to make better use of the blog space within the website. Add it to the ever-lengthening Master To-Do List.

I went into the new year with my WIP (the Rogue Ops series) on the backburner; I have a bucket full of “admin” tasks to catch up with and a whole lot of plans that turn out to require actual effort to make real.

Since I’m just a wee, baby author– there is absolutely an “I” in “team–” and only an “I” for the most part. 

So I have to DO ALL THE THINGS and WRITE ALL THE BOOKS, but I can’t do both at the same time. 

2026 is scheduled to see:

  • more foreign language translations.
  • audio books in dual voice narration.
  • more books available in paperback.
  • more books being made available on storefronts aside from Amazon.
  • an online store for direct-from-the-author (Me!) sales.
  • and more online presence from me– the author– on social media and…gulp…probably a reader group. 

This is the incredibly over-simplified version of the to-do list. Behind the scenes, it’s a seven-headed hydra that spawns two more items for each one I cross off. 

I’m also one of those, “well, as long as I’m doing this, I might as well get this done too,” thinkers. And, of course, there’s the never-ending, “It turns out I can’t do this until I do this, this, and this,” conundrum. 

So we’ll all find out together what gets accomplished this year!

But there’s also a “To Be Written” list! And my TBW is about as long and neglected as most of our “to be read” lists because I’m an easily-inspired, total “squirrel” author! 

The simple list:

Rogue Ops hooked me back in the Lumberjack series, when Harlan showed up out of nowhere with a fancy helicopter. 

I was obsessed! 

I needed to know everything about who he was and what he was really up to.

That led me down a sort of military, romantic suspense rabbit hole where– I quickly learned– my author super powers are useless. 

But I still had to write the series because that’s the only way I would discover the characters. (Author brain gonna brain, I guess?)

Then, this team of men showed up in my brain who turned out to be nothing like what I’d expected and I had to re-evaluate everything I thought I knew about their series.

Spoiler alert: It could potentially sprawl into another series. We’ll see what the characters do.

Meanwhile; the series that everyone wants more of: Raven Swann’s match making stories!

For a good while there, Raven wouldn’t talk to me. She’d gotten a bit burnt out and was thinking about retiring and handing her business over to her assistant. 

Then, she got very talkative and now she keeps emailing me success stories that she thinks are worth their own books. 

I can’t keep up!

There are already 15 novellas making up the Modern Match-Maker series, so I’ll be writing new Match-Maker books as separate series in the same “world.” 

Raven, Jessica, and I have a plan to tell six new stories from Raven’s successful matches in the second half of 2026 and I’m hoping to get Raven to tell me her story in full detail as well. 

Then there’s that Halloween thing: What is in the woods above Moonshine Ridge, anyway? 

I don’t plan on veering off into the paranormal romance lane as part of my Big Author Picture, but I do love me some PNR. I wrote Moonshine Ridge with all its folklore and ghost stories and Bigfoot sightings because I love that stuff in real life. (All my YouTube and podcast subscriptions are mysterious missing persons and cryptid sighting channels. It’s over the top.) I wanted the opportunity to tell a few “weird” love stories now and then.

Then people started reporting dogman sightings in those haunted woods and well… if everything falls into place just right, there’s a special Halloween release in the works. 

Of course, I have to live my non-author life in the meantime, and that to-do list is full of some big things for the year as well with January, in particular, waiting in suspense on other people to come through on their end before I can move forward with my own plans. (She says while staring at the phone and sighing impatiently.) 

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~Rocklyn