Fifteen Years: Resolve Update

Hello, gentle readers. Since last we spoke, a lot has happened—a global pandemic, a Master’s degree, a career change, and more loss and grief than I care to recount. The pandemic, as it did for so many of us, put everything on pause, including Resolve. I thought the lockdowns would lead to me having more time and space to finish the book. It did not. But it did force me to reflect on what I really wanted. The end of that journey led me to working as a psychotherapist in partial hospitalization for youth and adolescents who are survivors of trauma and living with severe mental illnesses. To get here, I upended my entire life at nearly 40 years old to go back to graduate school. My new profession (to do it the way I want to) requires numerous licensure exams, trainings, certifications, consultation hours, and supervisory responsibilities. This has left little time or energy to devote to my writing since 2020 when I first applied for grad school.

But 2025 makes fifteen years since I published Shatter. Now, had I chosen to, I could have made the decision to not finish the series given the significant demands of my new life. I could have walked away. That is a choice I am allowed to make. That is not the decision I have reached. This year, I plan to publish Resolve. I have worked on it on and off for the last six years, and it matters to me to give this story, these characters, and you, my readers, closure—especially those of you who walked this journey with me over nearly fifteen years. I won’t be updating my blog or social media frequently, but I will post announcements for things like cover reveals, pre-order release dates, etc.

I want to thank you if you’ve stuck around over the last decade and a half. Life doesn’t go as we planned. We cannot predict or control the future. I hope to honor these characters who have lived with me for twenty years. I hope to honor their story. I hope to honor you, my readers. But, most of all, I want to honor my own journey, my own struggles, and my own ambitions.

Thanks for sticking around.