Happy New Year, readers! Happy 2025! I hope your holidays were joyous and restful. I am praying for all of you in the coming year and I ask that you please pray for me.
What’s in this Edition:
Indie Author Insights – My 2024 Annual Report
One Month Until Release Day – Updates on Stars in the Storm
New in AudioBook – Sparks Fly Upward is now available.
Releasing in January– Other authors’ new releases I’m most excited about.
2024 Indie Author Insights
As an independently published author, I founded Purple Mask Publishing in 2017 with a ten-year goal to break even by 2027. Every year I get closer, but the reality is that I still often have to use my personal funds to pay the bills. Authors don’t write books to make money. We write because we need to, it’s therapeutic, it inspires our readers, and (most of the time) it brings us joy. We write because we have stories that have to be told and hopefully, those stories can help others in some way. And for Christian writers, most importantly, because we strive to bring God glory. For all these reasons, I love what I do even during years without profit, as it was in 2024. Here’s a brief summary of what Purple Mask Publishing accomplished this year:
One Month until Release Day!
We’ve almost made it to another publication day! Stars in the Storm releases on February 9 with Cade and Alice Ann’s story and the conclusion of the Larksong Legacy series. Over the next few weeks, I am incorporating feedback from my beta readers, completing a final read through, and formatting the final versions. I am also loving this series photo (above) by Sarah Everest, who is one of my beta readers and an author in her own right. Check out this fun reel she shared with me.
Pre-orders are now available in eBook at all major retailers and in paperback at my online store. Paperbacks will be available at other retailers on release day.
Pre-Order Stars in the Storm – eBook
Pre-Order Stars in the Storm – Paperback
Catch Up with the Rest of the Series.
New in AudioBook
Good news, audiobook readers! Sparks Fly Upward has now joined the first two Larksong novels on Audible and iTunes. As usual, Tawnya Rollingson knocked Garrett and Martha’s story out of the park with her fabulous historical fiction narration. Tawnya’s YouTube page has videos for all her narrations including this one for Sparks.
We also have a limited number of free Audible codes for all three books in the series. To request one, simply reply to this email.
Get your audiobook of Sparks Fly Upward.
Releasing in January
Need another read? Here are the new releases I’m excited about:
- The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds by Jennifer Moorman – The 1920s meets Back to the Future as a young woman time travels and discovers that she’s erasing herself from history
- The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz – An intriguing 1774 romance from the indigo plantations of Virginia to the hills of Scotland
- When Stars Light the Sky by Elizabeth Camden – Gilded Age romance set at the dawn of World War I
- When the Avalanche Roared by Lauralee Bliss – a fictional account of the 1909 avalanche and train disaster in Wellington, Washington
- With This Ring by Amy Clipston – Small town second chance romance
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Until next time, happy reading!
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Kelsey
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