| Hello Readers! PT is done. I am free. The shoulder lives again. I celebrated the only way that makes sense — by immediately going back to writing. Obviously. It has been a big week, and there is a lot to share, so let’s get into it. Brand New — Once Upon A Fairytale Anthology Something new is available for pre-order, and I am so excited to tell you about it. Once Upon A Fairytale is a dark fantasy fairytale anthology — original stories, not retellings — and it is exactly as delicious as that sounds. A prince imprisoned in a tower. A stolen child. A jealous enchantress. A mysterious hunter in the forest. These are not the fairytales you grew up with.Available to pre-order right now for only $0.99. My contribution is called Half-Coin Promise, written under my W.M. Dawson pen name — and here’s how it came to be. When I joined this anthology, the organizer rolled out story concepts for each author to work with. I got three: Best Friends, True Love, and Castles.I looked at those three things and knew immediately what the heart of the story had to be. Not the castles. Not even the love. The friendship. Two girls split a coin and make a promise — find your own castle, and meet me at the gates when you’re done. That coin became the thread that runs through the whole story, keeping Elara and Lyric connected even as the world tears them apart. Labyrinths that feed on memory. Iron citadels wrapped in fog. A cursed valley that steals a musician’s voice. Separate roads, separate trials, one unbroken promise between them. I wanted the friendship to shine all the way through — even the happily ever after. Because the best love stories, romantic or otherwise, are really about the people who walk alongside you while you figure yourself out.Half-Coin Promise is a fairy tale about the kind of love that doesn’t rescue you — it walks alongside you while you rescue yourself.  Pre-order Once Upon A Fairytale for $0.99Coming September 1 — Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl Three weeks. That is how long until Wisteria Creed officially arrives, and I am barely keeping it together. If you haven’t met her yet — Wisteria is half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, runs a graveyard-shift radio show, and has a very firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless. When a Wendigo tears through her San Diego neighborhood, she calls it in and gets Detective Trevor Gibson — the one cop in the city willing to take her seriously. What follows is a reluctant partnership, a slow-burn romance, and a case that keeps getting worse in exactly the ways she should have seen coming. Someone has been capturing Wendigos. Studying them. And now that someone has decided Wisteria herself is the most interesting thing he’s ever found. She has spent her whole life being told she is not quite enough. She is about to find out exactly how wrong that was. This is the first book in a brand new series — paranormal romance with urban fantasy bones — and I cannot wait for you to meet her properly. Pre-order Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream GirlStill Available — Seasons of Magic: Summer Seasons of Magic: Summer is out now, and my story The Flames of Lammas is in there — emotional, transformative, and the kind of magic that stays with you. If you haven’t grabbed it yet, it’s available now and will be around for a few more months. Don’t sleep on it. Grab Seasons of Magic: SummerThe Richmond Academy Series — The Final Stretch Five books. One year. All happening right now — and the finish line is in sight.  Trial by Fire — Book one. Available now and on Kindle Unlimited. Trial by Sea — Book two. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited. Trial by Earth — Book three. August 25, 2026. Pre-order open — almost here. Trial by Wind — Book four. In editing. October 2026. Trial by Spirit — Book five. In second draft. December 2026. The finale.Yes. December. Shayla’s story ends this year. I have a lot of feelings about this, and I am processing them one chapter at a time. Start with Trial by Fire Continue with Trial by Sea Pre-order Trial by Earth — August 25From the Writing Cave — A Free Woman I am officially discharged from physical therapy, and I cannot tell you how good that feels. Months of slow, stubborn, infuriating progress — and now I can move my shoulder almost entirely normally. A little soreness remains,s but I can work that out on my own, on my own schedule, without anyone making me do the thing with the resistance band. I am thrilled. I am grateful. I am free.The heat is still absolutely committed to being the heat — triple digits, relentless, personal — but I can see fall on the calendar from here. It exists. It is coming. I am choosing to believe in it the way you believe in something you desperately need to be true. The writing cave, meanwhile, has never been busier or more alive—so many stories, so many deadlines, so much happening this year and into next. I wouldn’t trade a single sweaty, manuscript-covered moment of it. Thank you for being here. For reading. For coming back week after week even when the desert is trying to end me. You are the best part of doing this. Happy Reading, Wendy P.S. Trial by Spirit — book five, the final chapter of Shayla’s story — is in second draft right now. I am writing the ending of a series I have loved with my whole heart this year. December can’t come soon enough. And also I’m not ready. Both things are true simultaneously.  She studies the stars while her love life crashes and burns.Get your FREE copy of Midnight Skies Amateur astronomer and recent Ph.D. graduate Eden Daniels has always been fascinated with the cosmos. Her father had told her how the stars watch over the earth though they are millions of miles away. Until an accident at work brings a pair of magical red high heels into her possession courtesy of a snarky fairy godmother, Eden never guessed how closely those stars watch.Her fairy godmother assures Eden that the red shoes will bring her every sexual fantasy to life. Eden scoffs at that idea…until the Orion constellation manifests as a very real, very naked man in her bed who claims to know her desires. The mythological hunter’s smile promises delivery and satisfaction.But her fairy godmother omitted a very important warning: that even mind-numbing pleasure comes with a price tag attached. And danger lurks behind every wish.GET FOR FREE  Love is a shift of heart.Get your FREE copy of Shaman Don’t let the series number trip you up. Shaman is a standalone book. Its kick-ass FMC and swoon-worthy MMC will steal your heart. A druid straddles the line between light and darkness . . . 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 Survival in the Cracks of EmpireGet your FREE copy of Our Fallen Woman What would you sacrifice to survive hunger? A striking work of Irish historical fiction, Our Fallen Woman draws readers into a world shaped by hunger, faith, and impossible choices. Set against the harsh aftermath of Ireland’s Great Hunger and the pull of emigration, this novel follows young Erin, a child born into poverty and heartbreak, whose life is altered by forces far beyond her control. From the windswept shores of Galway to the unforgiving streets of Dublin, London, New York and beyond, her story unfolds alongside others caught in the machinery of empire, survival, and ambition. Lives intersect across class and continent, revealing a society marked by injustice, resilience, and quiet acts of sacrifice. With elements of historical drama, romance, and crime woven through its pages, this is a deeply human tale of endurance and transformation. It explores what is lost when survival demands everything and what remains when faith, identity, and hope are tested to their limits. Rich in atmosphere and emotional depth, Our Fallen Woman will appeal to readers of female-driven historical fiction who seek a story both intimate and sweeping, grounded in history yet alive with urgency. Experience the power of survival and sacrificeGET FOR FREE               |
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