Dear humans,
It’s Zazzle. Remember me? No? Yeah, that female took over the blog for a long time. How dare she have thoughts and opinions of her own? Sooooo rude.
See? It’s my turn now.
We have been receiving a lot of questions about what books are coming out when. I have decided to answer these questions for you!
Rapid fire style.
Here we go!
Plaidypus?
May, middle of month. It’s this year’s birthday book. Patreon readers will get it earlier in May. The plan CONTINUES. As planned.
Dirty Deeds 2: June. Early in June. This is NOT available on Patreon. It is still on schedule for release.
Sekrit Project: Early December. You can find the Sekrit Projekt on the blog somewhere. We linked it. Somewhere. Good luck. We linked it somewhere. (Good luck. Or get onto the Patreons.)
Okay, that’s the more obvious stuff. Let’s dig into the less obvious stuff!
Witch & Wolf World! Let’s go!!!
Old Secrets (Karma #3): Female hopes for 2023. Keyword: hopes.
Dual Nature (Sean #2/Pack Justice #2): 2023. Prioritized over Old Secrets because it has been waiting longer.
The Edge of Midnight (Whats-his-face #3. Wolf Hunt Dude. DECLAN. That’s it. Declan. Declan #3… Sorry, Declan…): Prioritized behind Dual Nature but before Old Secrets because female wants to write it.
We don’t know nothin’ about Dustin right now, sorry.
Booked for #3: 2023 into 2024. It’s prioritized after the Witch & Wolf conclusion books.
Fox Witch #3: Whenever it gets done as a side project of fun. No idea. Female is excited to work on this one. Prioritized behind Vampire of Montana, as Vampire is partially finished…
Susan Copperfield, Agents of Royal States: Vampire of Montana: 2022, maybe?? When? No idea. Probably November. Might be January if not done on time. Why? There will be no double releases of books in same month due to Patreon.
Requiem for the Rift King: One day a week will be dedicated to Requiem for the editing phase of the books. Once editing is finished, work on the third book will begin as well as work on Rider of the Sun Horse. No ETA, but the first two books will drop back to back. (So like… say… July and August, or August and September…) Due to the amount of work, new material, etc, they will be both priced at $5.99 on patreon and $6.99 on regular vendors.
The female is debating if she will hold back the first two books until book three AND Rider of the Sun Horse are complete. Rider of the Sun Horse is a MONSTER of a book and may be $7.99 on vendors but still $5.99 on Patreon. it is already 80,000 words long and isn’t anywhere near done. Feel free to offer your ten cents in the comments below. Literal ten cents can be sent to the female via a book purchase, where I will steal all the cents and transform them into more cat food, treats, and toys.
Rider of the Sun Horse is an epic.
Note: Requiem is in third person, and it is a dark epic fantasy world.
The female is debating rewriting / re-releasing the Eye of God. You may vote yes/no in the comments below. It is in the same world as Requiem but it is on a different continent.
Bernadette Franklin Books: We know nothing. Sorry. We just know nothing. Covers are being rebranded right now. Once the female is out of deadline hell, we shall know more.
Claustrophobic is on sale for $0.99 until April 10. The price is currently changing at vendors, so keep an eye out. Yes, we’re doing Christmas in April. Enjoy!
Susan Copperfield Main Series: Prince of New York is next. It hasn’t been started. It hasn’t even been plotted yet. Expect 2023 at the absolute earliest unless the female is overwhelmed with the burning need to write it NOW and then there is a random surprise book that just takes over her life.
Royal States does that to her sometimes.
Dae Portals: We know nothing right now, sorry. It’s in the queue of old stuff to be done, but other books have higher priority.
Mag Rom Com? Dirty Deeds 2 has 101 Ways to Die in June. It’s over 50k, so it’s definitely a book. Like an actual book. I would not feel bad for charging $5.99 for the book at 50k words.
Ooooh, were you asking about Doggone Mess? 2022, after the deadline hell gets finished. Female is planning to blitz the hell out of it if at all possible. Possibly early 2023 if the blitzing doesn’t go well (due to self-imposed no more than one book a month rules.)
P.S.: If the female goes on a book bender and ends up with one book a month for a while, blame the Jolly Ranchers a friend sent her, the coffee, and anxiety. Anxiety-fueled benders are the weirdest. Especially when coupled with coffee and Jolly Ranchers.
I think that covers the most common requests.
Female REALLY needs some time off after Dirty Deeds 2 and Plaidypus is finalized. (And after writing a blitz novella for a Sekrit Projekt… but the Blitz Novella will be a fun side-trip.)
I am so excited to see this updated list! One question though – is there any updated information and/or timeline for the next Jesse Alexander book? Even if it’s not on the cards until some time in 2024..?
Make sure your human gets the rest she needs, Zazzle. And make sure she gives you the appropriate amount of chin scratches for keeping her in line <3
I have zero idea on Jesse… Jesse is SO dependent on mood because the books are *so* hard to write. What usually happens with Jesse is I will just get into the mood and if possible, set everything aside and blitz through it while the mood is there. It’s a big “we’ll see.”
Thanks much for the listing! all sound wonderful. love The new covers but the chameleon with Santa hat RULES! Just saying. For being so totally independent, we are lucky to get so.much writing fro. You and we all appreciate it! Btw, if there is a list of any kind I love Jesse Alexander stories beyond reason. Just saying! Thanks so much. ..
Lovely news! I was wondering if there are any plans for continuing the Zodiac books? I just read Hypnos and quite enjoyed it.
There are, but I’m monitoring the COVID situation because the next book has a Chinese-American protagonist dealing with mass illness. I pulled the plug on the series as soon as COVID hit in earnest, and the plug will remained pulled until racist asshats learn to grow up, unfortunately.
*points at racist asshats* You! You are why we can’t have nice things! *grumbles* Fuckers ruin everything…
Maybe Zodiac could be a Patreon only!!! I LOVE your work!!
I am not considering doing any patreon-only novels at this point.
have fun writing we await your book dispersals at your leisure!!!
Thanks for giving us dates! They’re giving me a lot to look forward too (just knowing that the the books will eventually appear is magic for me to get excited honestly so even the roughest of dates is appreciated by my wallet for preparation purposes)
Don’t care when stuff comes, just want stuff to come out. Want the human to enjoy writing, and keep doing it. Scratches to the furry management.
Yes! To the eye of god etc – I was able to read an exert of the main series in that world and would love to read other stories in that world!
I’ve just blitzed through seven of your books in three days (mostly in the Witch & series). Thank you: It’s cold, rainy, and snowy here, and my 70+ body is aching; I’ve had your worlds to hide in. Back to a reread of Karma #2.
Thank you Zazzle! Looking lovely as usual. ?
Thank you Zazzle for the update. If possible is there an update on the next balancing the scales series?
Not right now, sorry… trying to keep from drowning from the deadline crush. After the deadline crush, I’m taking a few weeks to be a not-exhausted and overworked human. After that, I’m going to make a list of “fun projects” and “need to work on these to wrap stuff up” projects, and I’ll be on a more free range schedule, although I’ll be setting aside time specifically for the old project catchup.
Any update on Fox book 3? I’ve reread soooo many times waiting anxiously. Thanks!
It is on the list for the next batch of books, but I am not promising dates because of the changes to how I am producing future books. When the book is getting ready for production, a preorder will be set up. 🙂
Is there any updates on Fox Witch #3? I know writing deadline hells take precedence.
Esel Cooper. Sdpoodlemom@gmail.com
It’s on the list, but it’s down the list. Gotta get through the active deadlines and jury duty first.