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She’s Done Waiting to Find Out — And So Am I

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Hello Readers!

She flies.

Trial by Air is out today, and I have been waiting to say those three words for a very long time. Four books in. Four elements down. Shayla Montgomery has been through fire, sea, and earth — and today she finally takes to the air.

I am so happy about this; I don’t quite have the words. So let’s get right into it.

💨 Trial by Wind — Out Now

Book four of the Richmond Academy series is here, and I could not be more excited for you to read it.

Shayla survived the Earth binding. She’s not sure she’ll survive everything that comes after it.

The wind tunnel beneath Richmond Academy has been unstable since the night she touched it — and it isn’t calming down. The council wants it contained. Her father wants a guardian worth the family name. And Shayla wants to make it through one term without losing control of the one thing she can’t afford to lose: herself.

Then the new cohort arrives. And Shayla realizes the tunnel was never the real threat.

A silver-eyed transfer student who watches too closely. A water-shifter with a smile like a closing door and secrets to match. A quiet historian who knows more about Richmond’s buried history than anyone should — including the parts about guardians who never finished what they started, and the family that’s spent generations deciding who gets to try.

Somewhere in that history is the answer Shayla has been too afraid to look for: what happens to a phoenix who never learns to fly.

She’s done waiting to find out.

👉 Read Trial by Wind now

The Richmond Academy Series — Four Down, One to Go

I cannot believe we are here. Four books out in one year. One more to go. By December, the series will be complete, and I’m still working through my feelings about that.

Here’s the full arc:

🔥 Trial by Fire — Book one. Where Shayla’s story begins. Available now and on Kindle Unlimited.


🌊 Trial by Sea — Book two. Deeper secrets, underwater trials, trust pushed to its limit. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.


🌍 Trial by Earth — Book three. The pivot point. Darker, heavier, everything shifts. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.


💨 Trial by Wind — Book four. Out now. She flies.


✨ Trial by Spirit — Book five. The finale. December 2026. Pre-order open now.

If you’ve been waiting to binge the whole series — December is your month. All five books, complete, ready to read straight through.

✨ Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl — Still Available

Wisteria Creed is out and waiting for you if you haven’t met her yet.

Half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless. Paranormal romance with urban fantasy bones, slow-burn romance, found family, and a protagonist who refuses, at every turn, to be what the story expects her to be.

Book two — Not Your Book Boyfriend — is in edits, and the cover is almost ready. The moment I have it I will have a pre-order date to share and I will be making considerable noise about it. Watch this space.

👉 Read Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl now

Anthologies — All Available Now

🍂 Seasons of Magic: Mabon-Samhain — The autumn anthology. Six witches, spells gone wrong, magic that always has a price. Perfect October reading.

🌊 The Call of the Sea — My story The Drowned Chorus — a marine bioacoustician, a remote North Atlantic island, a voice in the water. A siren story unlike any other.

📖 Once Upon A Fairytale — My story Half-Coin Promise — two best friends, a split coin, and a promise that holds all the way to their happily ever after.

☀️ Seasons of Magic: Summer — My story The Flames of Lammas — emotional, transformative, the kind of magic that stays with you.

👉 Grab Seasons of Magic: Mabon-Samhain


👉 Grab The Call of the Sea


👉 Grab Once Upon A Fairytale


👉 Grab Seasons of Magic: Summer

From the Writing Cave

After the great backyard water adventure of last week, things have settled down considerably on the home front, and I am choosing to appreciate every quiet moment of that.

Fall has finally, truly arrived. The nightly freezes have started making appearances after a summer that seemed genuinely committed to never ending. The cats have discovered the balcony again now that the temperatures are reasonable — they’ve been out there soaking up the autumn sun like tiny, opinionated solar panels — and the whole writing cave has a different energy to it. Cooler mornings. Better light. The particular kind of productive that only comes when the season finally shifts.

Four books out. Edits happening. A cover incoming. December on the horizon.

It has been quite a year.

Thank you for being here for all of it — every launch, every countdown, every quiet week in between. Trial by Air is out today. I hope you love it.

Happy Reading,


Wendy

P.S. One book left. Trial by Spirit — Shayla’s ending, the finale of the Richmond Academy series — lands in December. I have been writing this series all year, and I am so close to the finish line I can feel it. Pre-order now so you’re ready the moment it drops. December is coming faster than any of us are ready for.

The Backyard Flooded. The Book Launches in a Week. October Has No Chill

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Hello Readers!


One week.

ONE WEEK.

Trial by Air drops October 20, and I have been waiting to type those words for a very long time. After fire, sea, and earth — after four books of building toward this moment — Shayla is finally going to fly. Next Tuesday. Seven days. I am ready, and I need you to be ready with me.

💨 Trial by Air — One Week Away

October 20, 2026. Mark it in your calendar. Set a reminder. Tell a friend.

Book four of the Richmond Academy series is the one I have been building toward since page one of book one. Shayla is a Phoenix — flying was always who she was meant to be. But she had to earn it. Through fire and sea and earth, through every trial this series has put her through, she has been working toward this moment.

Next week she gets there.

If you haven’t pre-ordered yet — do it now. It lands right on your Kindle the second it drops, and you won’t have to wait a single extra minute.

👉 Pre-order Trial by Air — October 20

And if you need to catch up first — you have one week. Go:

🔥 Trial by Fire — Book one. Where it all begins. Available now and on Kindle Unlimited.


🌊 Trial by Sea — Book two. Deeper secrets, underwater trials, trust pushed to its limit. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.


🌍 Trial by Earth — Book three. The pivot point. Darker, heavier, everything shifts. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.


✨ Trial by Spirit — Book five. The finale. December 2026. Pre-orders are open now.

One week. We can do this.

✨ Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl — Out Now

While you’re waiting for Tuesday — Wisteria Creed is right there waiting for you.

Half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, 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.

Paranormal romance with urban fantasy bones. Found family. A protagonist who refuses at every turn to be what the story expected her to be.

And — I got a sneak peek at the cover for book two, Not Your Book Boyfriend, and I am barely containing myself. The moment it’s finished, I will have a pre-order date to share. Watch this space.

👉 Read Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl now

Anthologies — A New Season Is Here

🍂 Seasons of Magic: Mabon-Samhain — The third collection in the Seasons of Magic series is here just in time for the season. Mabon brings balance, gratitude, and the coming darkness. Samhain brings divination, the thinning of the veil, and honoring the dead. Six witches. Spells gone wrong. Intentions turned sour. Magic that always, always has a price. This is the autumn anthology, and it is perfectly timed.

Seasons of Magic: Summer is wrapping up its run soon — grab it while you still can.

🌊 The Call of the Sea — My story, The Drowned Chorus — a marine bioacoustician, a remote island, a voice in the water, and the ancient impossible being behind it. A siren story unlike any other.

📖 Once Upon A Fairytale — My contribution: Half-Coin Promise — two best friends, a split coin, and a promise that holds through labyrinths and fog-wrapped citadels all the way to their happily ever after.

☀️ Seasons of Magic: Summer — My story, The Flames of Lammas — emotional, transformative, the kind of magic that stays with you. Grab it before it’s gone.

👉 Grab Seasons of Magic: Mabon-Samhain


👉 Grab The Call of the Sea


👉 Grab Once Upon A Fairytale


👉 Grab Seasons of Magic: Summer

From the Writing Cave — A Week in Review

Fall has been full of surprises here. The lovely kind: my sister-in-law came to visit from out of town, which is always such a treat. The less lovely kind: the backyard decided to flood.

Turns out the irrigation system we thought was completely off was, in fact, not. Not even a little. We found out through increasingly urgent warnings from the water company about continuous water usage, followed by a very long day of multiple visits from multiple water people tracking down the source, determining the fix, and getting it sorted before it became a much larger problem than it already was.

The good news: it is handled. The irrigation is now genuinely, verifiably off. We know where the cap needs to go. We lost a writing day to the chaos, but the backyard is contained.

The balloons are still drifting overhead. My sister-in-law has headed home.

And I am back in the writing cave where I belong, counting down seven days to launch.

Thank you for being here. One week, readers. One week.

Happy Reading,


Wendy

P.S. Last week I lost an entire writing day to a flooding backyard, multiple water professionals, and an irrigation system that had opinions about being turned off. This week I get to launch a book. I genuinely cannot decide which one is more chaotic. At least the book was planned.

Hot Air Balloons, Fourteen Days, and a Phoenix Who’s About to Fly

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Hello Readers!

Every year, without fail, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is the moment fall becomes real for me.
Not the calendar. Not the temperature. Not even the rain that soaked my entire state last week. The balloons.
This week the sky filled up with hundreds of hot air balloons at dawn and something in my chest just — settled. I grew up watching them. As a kid it meant either bundling up and heading to the Fiesta grounds or standing outside watching them drift overhead, enormous and colorful and impossibly quiet for something that size. Now I watch them from my balcony. Sometimes they drift low enough over the park behind my place that I get to watch them land.
Every single time it still gets me.
That is fall in New Mexico. That is what October feels like here. And this particular October has a lot going on — so let’s get into it.
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💨 Trial by Air — Fourteen Days
October 20th. Two weeks from now. I am not calm.
This is book four of the Richmond Academy series and the one I have been building toward since the very first page of book one. Shayla is a Phoenix — flying was always who she was meant to be. But the series needed her to earn it first. Fire, sea, earth — each element teaching her something she couldn’t have learned any other way — and now, finally, the air.
Fourteen days.
👉 Pre-order Trial by Air — October 20th
And everything leading up to it:
🔥 Trial by Fire — Book one. Where Shayla’s story begins. Available now and on Kindle Unlimited.
🌊 Trial by Sea — Book two. Deeper secrets, underwater trials, trust pushed to its limit. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.
🌍 Trial by Earth — Book three. The pivot point. Darker, heavier, everything shifts. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.
✨ Trial by Spirit — Book five. The finale. December 2026. Pre-order open now.
If you’ve been waiting to start the series — this is your window. By December, the whole arc is complete and ready to binge.
✨ Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl — Out Now
Wisteria Creed is still out there waiting for you.
Half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless. Paranormal romance with urban fantasy bones. Slow-burn romance. Found family. A protagonist who refuses, at every turn, to be what the story expects her to be.
Book two — Not Your Book Boyfriend — is in writing and editing, coming later this year. And yes, I am already planning book three to close out the trilogy. Wisteria’s story is just getting started.
👉 Read Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl now
Anthologies — Still Worth Your Time
🌊 The Call of the Sea — Out now. My contribution: The Drowned Chorus — a marine bioacoustician, a remote North Atlantic island, a voice in the water calling her name, and the ancient impossible being behind it. A siren story that isn’t what you expect.
📖 Once Upon A Fairytale — Now Available! My contribution Half-Coin Promise — two best friends, a split coin, and a promise that carries them through labyrinths and fog-wrapped citadels all the way to their happily ever after.
☀️ Seasons of Magic: Summer — Out now. My story, The Flames of Lammas — emotional, transformative, the kind of magic that stays with you.
👉 Grab The Call of the Sea
👉 Once Upon A Fairytale
👉 Grab Seasons of Magic: Summer
From the Writing Cave
Getting back into normal writing life after vacation has been lovely — and also slightly complicated because all that beautiful rain we got last week left a few uninvited surprises in the house. Leaks. Oddities. The particular joy of discovering that your home has opinions about heavy precipitation, but declined to share them with you until after the fact.
Nothing catastrophic. Just the kind of thing you must deal with before it becomes the kind of thing that becomes catastrophic. The glamorous reality of home ownership, arriving right on schedule.
Writing life, at least, is settling back into its groove. The balloons are in the sky. Fall is officially here. October has a book dropping in fourteen days, and I am ready.
Thank you for being here. October is going to be a good one.
Happy Reading,
Wendy
P.S. Fourteen days until Trial by Air. Shayla has been through fire, sea, and earth — and she has earned every single moment of what comes next. Pre-order now so it lands on your Kindle the second it drops—October 20th. We’re almost there.

The Cats Are Hiding. The Rain Is Staying

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Hello Readers!

Welcome to October.
The month of cooler temperatures, spooky season energy, and — if you happen to live in my corner of New Mexico right now — an absolutely relentless amount of rain. We will get to that. First: Trial by Air is twenty days away and I cannot contain myself.
💨 Trial by Air — Twenty Days Out
October 20th. Mark it.
Book four of the Richmond Academy series is almost here — and this is the one I have been building toward since page one of book one. Shayla is a Phoenix. Flying was always part of who she is. But letting her get there too early wouldn’t have worked — she needed to earn it, element by element, trial by trial, through fire and sea and earth, until she was finally ready.
October 20th is when she gets there.
I cannot wait for you to read this one.
👉 Pre-order Trial by Air — October 20th
And here’s the rest of the series while you’re getting ready:
🔥 Trial by Fire — Book one. Where it all begins. Available now and on Kindle Unlimited.
🌊 Trial by Sea — Book two. Deeper secrets, underwater trials, trust pushed to its limit. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.
🌍 Trial by Earth — Book three. The pivot point. Darker, heavier, everything shifts. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.
✨ Trial by Spirit — Book five. The finale. December 2026. Pre-order open now.

🌊 The Call of the Sea — Still Available
Speaking of dark and atmospheric — this one could not have better timing.The Call of the Sea: A Collection of Dark Fantasy Tales is out now and my story The Drowned Chorus is inside. Mermaids and sirens torn between land and sea, stories of danger, betrayal, and love that cannot be. Dark fantasy that dives deep and does not come back up the same way it went in.
Maren Voss is a marine bioacoustician who arrives on a remote North Atlantic island expecting solitude, data, and silence. Instead she finds a voice in the water calling her name — and the ancient, impossible being behind it. Science meets magic. Grief meets wonder. A discovery that could change everything, and a presence that has finally taught her how to hear herself again.I wanted to write a siren story that wasn’t typical for the genre — and this one became one of my favorite things I’ve written all year.
👉 Grab The Call of the Sea.
More Anthologies
It has been an unusually anthology-heavy season for me — they all came together at the end of the year at once, which made for a busy few months but also meant I got to write in a lot of different directions. I am not complaining about any of it.
📖 Once Upon A Fairytale — Original dark fantasy fairytales, pre-order now at $0.99. My contribution Half-Coin Promise — two best friends, a split coin, a promise that holds through labyrinths and fog-wrapped citadels all the way to their happily ever after.
☀️ Seasons of Magic: Summer — Out now. My story The Flames of Lammas — emotional, transformative, the kind of magic that stays with you.
👉 Pre-order Once Upon A Fairytale for $0.99
👉 Grab Seasons of Magic: Summer
✨ Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl — Out Now
Wisteria Creed is still out there waiting for you if you haven’t met her yet.Half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless. Paranormal romance with urban fantasy bones. Slow-burn romance. Found family. A protagonist who refuses at every turn to be what the story expected her to be.
Two years in the making. Worth every rewrite.
👉 Read Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl now
From the Writing Cave — Moody October Edition
October arrived with rain. A lot of rain.
Parts of New Mexico have flooded. Flash flood warnings have been everywhere. The cats — who have strong and well-documented opinions about thunder and lightning — have been hiding under furniture for days with the kind of betrayed expression that suggests they hold me personally responsible for the weather.
Here is what I did not expect: I love it.
I am a desert person. I write in sunshine and heat and the particular bright clarity of a New Mexico afternoon. But something about the rain on the windows and the gray sky outside has unlocked a completely different writing mode — darker, moodier, more atmospheric. It is genuinely a different vibe and I have been leaning into it fully.
Whether it lasts or not, I am writing while it does.
Thank you for being here at the start of what is shaping up to be a very full October. Twenty days until Trial by Air. I am ready. Are you?
Happy Reading,
Wendy
P.S. Twenty days. Trial by Air drops October 20th — the book I have been building toward since book one, the one where Shayla finally flies. If you haven’t pre-ordered yet, now is the time. It lands right on your Kindle the moment it drops and you won’t have to wait a single extra minute.

Fire, Sea, Earth, Air, or Spirit — Which One Are You?

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Hello Readers!
I am technically on vacation.
I say technically because the husband was called into work on day one — a “minor” work issue that took half a day — so I tagged along, sat there very helpfully, and at least got a free lunch out of it. Vacation: so far so good.We are now attempting to reset, tackle some house projects, and pretend that laundry and clearing out clutter count as relaxing. The rain has arrived in the desert — genuinely welcome, genuinely needed — and it is doing its level best to slow down every outdoor project involving anything that needs to dry. I need that stain to dry. The rain does not care. The desert needs the water more than I need a dry afternoon, and I know this; I accept this; I am fine with it.
Errands, at least, remain unaffected. Small victories.
Now. Let’s talk books.

The Richmond Academy Series — The Full PictureFive books. One year. All of them either in your hands or on the way.Before Trial by Air lands in October, this is the perfect moment to catch up, start fresh, or finally convince that friend who keeps saying they’ll read it someday that someday is now.
Here’s everything:
🔥 Trial by Fire — Book One
Available now and on Kindle Unlimited.Shayla arrives at Richmond Academy as the girl who can’t control her spark — a Phoenix Guardian in a school full of students who can. What follows is a story about finding your power, your people, and your place in a world that wasn’t built for you. Everything starts here.
🌊 Trial by Sea — Book Two
Available now and on Kindle Unlimited.The stakes are higher. The secrets are deeper. Georgios has a mermaid heritage with a very inconvenient price tag, and Shayla and Georgios are pulled into a series of deadly underwater trials that push their trust to the breaking point. Just when they think they understand what’s happening around them — the tides shift.
🌍 Trial by Earth — Book Three
Available now and on Kindle Unlimited.The pivot point of the series. Darker twists, earth powers, and Georgios’s Minotaur heritage stepping fully and finally into the light. This is the middle of a five-book arc — and if you know anything about what the middle means, you already know things get heavier before they get better. They do. Worth every page.
💨 Trial by Air — Book Four
October 2026. Pre-orders are open now.This is the one I have been waiting to write since the very beginning.From the moment I started building the Richmond Academy series, I knew I wanted Shayla to fly. She is a Phoenix. Flying was always part of who she is — but letting her get there too early wouldn’t have worked. The series needed her to earn it, element by element, trial by trial, until she was finally ready.Book four is where she gets there. And I cannot wait for you to read it.👉 Pre-order Trial by Air
✨ Trial by Spirit — Book Five
December 2026. Pre-orders are open now. The finale.Shayla’s ending. The conclusion of a five-book arc I have been living inside for over a year. I’m writing it now, and I have feelings about it that I don’t yet have words for.👉 Pre-order Trial by Spirit

A Question for You
If you were a student at Richmond Academy — which element would you want to master?
Fire. Sea. Earth. Air. Spirit.
Hit reply and tell me. I genuinely want to know. Bonus points if you tell me why — and bonus points if your answer changes depending on your mood.
✨ The Not As Written Series
Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl is out now, and Wisteria Creed is waiting to meet you.
Half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless. A Wendigo situation in San Diego that turns out to be considerably more complicated than advertised. A reluctant partnership with the one detective in the city willing to take her seriously. A slow-burn romance and a found family built in the margins of a city that doesn’t know what it’s looking at.
👉 Read Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl now
And coming later this year — Not Your Book Boyfriend, book two of the Not As Written series. Wisteria has the life she fought for. New Avalon is about to send someone perfect to watch over her. Perfect is not what it looks like. More soon.
Anthologies Still Available
📖 Once Upon A Fairytale — Original dark fantasy fairytales, available for pre-order at $0.99. My contribution: Half-Coin Promise — two best friends, a split coin, and a promise that carries them through labyrinths, fog-wrapped citadels, and cursed valleys to their happily ever after.
☀️ Seasons of Magic: Summer — Out now. My story, The Flames of Lammas, is inside — emotional, transformative, and the kind of magic that stays with you.
👉 Pre-order Once Upon A Fairytale for $0.99
👉 Grab Seasons of Magic: Summer
Thank you for being here even on the quiet vacation weeks. You make every issue worth writing — even the ones written while waiting for stain to dry.Happy Reading,
Wendy
P.S. Trial by Air is the book I have been building toward since book one. Shayla is a Phoenix. She was always going to fly. October is almost here — and so is the moment she finally does. Pre-order so it lands right on your Kindle the day it drops.
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Wisteria Took Two Years to Get Here

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Hello Readers!
Welcome to September!
The month of falling leaves, cooling temperatures, fall season energy — and for me personally, approximately four simultaneous book releases. September is doing a lot. So am I. We are in this together.
 She’s Finally Here — Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl
Wisteria Creed is out in the world, and I have been waiting for this moment for almost two years.
Here’s something I haven’t shared before. Wisteria started as a short story. A single short story with a character I liked so much I couldn’t let go of her. So I rewrote her into a novel. Then I rewrote the novel. Then I rewrote it again. I outlined the full three-book arc. I rewrote it some more.
Two years. Multiple full rewrites. Because Wisteria refused to be anything less than exactly right — and honestly, she was correct to hold out.She is full of personality in a way that surprised even me when I wrote her. Half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless. She is paranormal romance with urban fantasy bones, and she hits completely differently from the Richmond Academy series — which was always the point. She was built for a different world, a different reader, a different kind of story.
And she is finally, gloriously out.
 Read Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl nowAlready working on book two — Not Your Book Boyfriend — coming later this year. Wisteria has the life she fought for. New Avalon is about to send someone perfect to watch over her. Perfect is not what it looks like. More soon.
The Richmond Academy Series — The Final Stretch
Last week Trial by Earth dropped. Next month Trial by Air lands. In December, Shayla’s story ends.
I need a moment.
Here’s the full series — all available or pre-orderable right now:
 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. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.
 Trial by Air — Book four. October 2026. Pre-order open now.
 Trial by Spirit — Book five. The finale. December 2026. Pre-order open now.
Five books. One year. Three in your hands right now, two more on the way.If you’ve been waiting to binge — your moment is almost here. By December, the whole series will be complete and waiting for you.
A Wild Year — And How It Actually Happened
I know what it looks like from the outside. Five Richmond Academy books and a new series all in one year. It looks slightly unhinged, if I’m being honest with myself.
Here’s the real story: I wrote a lot of these books last year and spent this year editing them. It was a long stretch of heavy writing followed by a long stretch of heavy editing — and now you’re seeing all of it arrive at once. It wasn’t five books written in twelve months so much as years of building finally hitting its release window simultaneously.
Still busy. Still a lot. Still absolutely worth every single word.This year has been a wild ride in the best possible way, and I wouldn’t change a thing about it — except maybe the summer heat, which I would absolutely change retroactively if given the option.

Anthologies Still Available
 Once Upon A Fairytale — A collection of original dark fantasy fairytales available for pre-order at $0.99. My contribution, Half-Coin Promise, features two best friends, a split coin, and a promise that carries them through labyrinths, fog-wrapped citadels, and cursed valleys all the way to their happily ever after.
 Seasons of Magic: Summer — Out now. My story is inside — emotional, transformative, and the kind of magic that stays with you.
 Pre-order Once Upon A Fairytale for $0.99
 Grab Seasons of Magic: Summer
From the Writing Cave
September is here, and I am choosing to believe fall has officially arrived even if the desert hasn’t fully committed to the bit yet. There is something about fall season that feels deeply appropriate for a week when a paranormal romance launches and a YA fantasy series is barreling toward its finale.The writing cave is busy. The tea is hot. The cats are — as always — extremely present and completely unbothered by any of this.New month. New energy. So many books still to come.
Thank you for being here through what has genuinely been the most productive and exciting year of my writing life. You’ve been a part of every single release, and that means everything.Happy Reading,
Wendy
P.S. Trial by Spirit — Shayla’s ending, the finale of the Richmond Academy series — is being written right now. December is the destination. I have been living inside this series for over a year, and writing the last book feels like something I can’t fully describe yet. You’ll hear about it when I figure out the words. Stay close.Image descriptionImage descriptionImage descriptionImage descriptionImage descriptionImage descriptionImage descriptionImage descriptionImage descriptionImage descriptionImage description

Earth Landed Yesterday. Wisteria Lands Next Week

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Hello Readers!
Yesterday, Trial by Earth walked out into the world.
Next week, Wisteria Creed does the same.
I am thrilled. I am exhausted. I am already writing the next thing. This is fine. Everything is fine. The writing cave is absolutely on fire — metaphorically, thankfully, given that I write paranormal romance and an actual fire would be on brand in a way I’d prefer to avoid.
Let’s talk about all of it.
 Trial by Earth — OUT NOW
It’s here. Book three of the Richmond Academy series is officially in the world, and I could not be more excited for you to read it.
Shayla’s earth powers. Georgios’s Minotaur heritage stepping fully into the light. Darker twists. Higher stakes. The pivot point of a five-book arc that has been one of the wildest, most rewarding things I’ve ever written.If you’ve been waiting — wait no longer.
 Grab Trial by Earth now
And if you’re joining us — here’s the full series so far:
 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. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.
 Trial by Air — Book four. Pre-order open. End of October 2026.
 Trial by Spirit — Book five. The finale. December 2026.
Five books. One year. Three down, two to go.

 Next Week — Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl
One week. Seven days. I am not calm.
Wisteria Creed — half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless — is almost ready to meet you properly. Book one of the Not As Written series lands next week, and I have been looking forward to this one for a long time.
Slow-burn romance. Found family. A protagonist who refuses at every turn to be what the story expected her to be. A Wendigo situation that turns out to be considerably more complicated than advertised.
If you haven’t pre-ordered yet — now is the time.
 Pre-order Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl
And already in progress — Not Your Book Boyfriend, book two of the Not As Written series, coming November 2026. Wisteria finally has the life she fought for. New Avalon is about to send someone perfect to watch over her. Perfect is not what it looks like. More on that soon.

Let Me Tell You What Two Simultaneous Series Actually Looks Like
People sometimes ask how I manage it. Two series. Multiple release dates. Editing one book while drafting another while a third is literally releasing this week.
Here is an honest answer: it looks like a lot of open tabs, a very strong coffee habit, and a writing cave that has started to feel less like a room and more like a permanent state of being.
Trial by Air is deep in editing right now — book four, out at the end of October — while I am simultaneously in the trenches of Trial by Spirit, the final book of the Richmond Academy series, targeting December. Meanwhile, Wisteria releases next week, and Not Your Book Boyfriend is due in November.It is a lot. It is genuinely, objectively a lot.
And I love every chaotic, deadline-stacked, manuscript-juggling minute of it. Something about having this many stories alive at once makes the writing cave feel electric. Every project feeds the others in ways I didn’t expect. Writing Wisteria’s found family in San Diego makes me think differently about Shayla’s found family at Richmond Academy. Drafting Trial by Spirit’s ending makes me more intentional about how I’m building the Not As Written arc.
Busy is good. This busy — the creative, deadline-driven, living inside-multiple-worlds kind — is the best kind there is.

Still Promoting — Anthologies Worth Your Time
 Once Upon A Fairytale — Pre-order now for $0.99. Dark fantasy fairytales, original stories, and my contribution Half-Coin Promise — two best friends, a split coin, and a promise that holds the whole story together.
 Seasons of Magic: Summer — Out now. My story The Flames of Lammas is inside — emotional, transformative, and the kind of magic that lingers.
 Pre-order Once Upon A Fairytale for $0.99
 Grab Seasons of Magic: Summer
From the Writing Cave — Home Improvement Edition
The shoulder is working well enough now that I have rediscovered an entirely new category of things that need doing around the house.
This week: a toilet. Next up: a bookshelf that needs a backing, probably this weekend. Normal household things. Mostly normal. The kind of things that pile up quietly while your arm is out of commission for several months and you’ve been pretending not to notice them.
The desert is still warm but there is a distinct feeling in the air that fall is negotiating its arrival. I am welcoming it. I have left the porch light on. Fall, whenever you are ready, the door is open.
Thank you for being here through the busiest summer of my writing life. It has been quite a ride. The best kind.Happy Reading,
Wendy
P.S. Trial by Spirit — the final book of the Richmond Academy series — is being written right now. I am in the trenches of Shayla’s ending. Five books, one year, one story that has meant more to me than I knew it would when I started. December is coming. I’m not ready and I’m writing it anyway.
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A Small Town Romance
I hope you enjoy this small-town sweet romance. When you’re finished, please leave a review. Reviews help other readers find the book.Nate Wilder comes home to Cedar Hollow ahead of schedule — his tour officially over, his war anything but.
Widowed and quietly unraveling, he carries a truth no one in town can see: that grief and guilt made him question his own readiness, and he walked away before hesitation could put someone else in the ground. No one knows. And he’d like to keep it that way.
When his sister — my best friend, Rachel — pulls me into the swirl of casseroles, pointed questions, and small-town speculation, I do what I’ve always done: I make lists. I manage chaos. I keep storms from taking people under.
But the storm that is Nate Wilder is harder to organize than I expected.
His late wife’s family is circling. The gossip is sharpening. And when the whispers about his loyalty, his stability, and what moving on is supposed to look like threaten to swallow him whole, Nate makes a proposition I never saw coming: a fake engagement — clean, practical, temporary — to quiet the rumors and prove he’s planting roots.
What starts as a contract quickly becomes the safest place either of us has had in years. As we plan a fundraiser that could rescue my struggling business and honor the past without being buried by it, the lines we drew begin to blur.
And somewhere between the lie we’re telling Cedar Hollow and the truth we’re afraid to say out loud, I stop being able to tell where the arrangement ends —and where real love begins.GET YOUR BOOK HEREImage descriptionGet your FREE copy of Darkness of My Soul Preview
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The world ending was the easy part, dealing with a demon cosplaying a human who thinks I’m going to be his queen, not so much.

Lynn The moment my mother died, he was haunting my dreams like some weird stalker. He claims there’s a tie between us, but all I know is that I need to take him out if I’m ever going to be free.

Kalerian She has no idea what she’s capable of. The power she has over this world and how I plan to use it. She’s been mine since the first life I saw her in. She just doesn’t know it yet. She thinks she can win, but I never lose.

Can I really save the world and fight my past or will I be consumed by it?
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I Got Best Friends, True Love, and Castles — Here’s What I Did With Them

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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 $0.99
Coming 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 Girl
Still 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: Summer
The 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 25
From 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.
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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 . . . Renleigh Rogan keeps to herself in her remote Montana cabin, tending her plants and honing her protection spells. Only occasionally does she indulge her shape-shifting abilities… Called to Scotland in the middle of the night to help heal a rogue warrior, her first instinct is to ignore the summons, but danger lies in disobeying a powerful goddess. A rogue is caught in a celestial tug-o-war . . . Jamie Lennox gave up the warrior community long ago, voluntarily fighting in the Morrigan’s rogue army. Cocky, and one of the most accomplished swordsmen in the community, he’s the perfect weapon for taking the warriors the Morrigan covets most. Yet when he loses a pivotal battle, she turns on him, leaving him injured and lost in a no-man’s land between good and evil, a place no warrior or rogue can exist for long. Luckily for him, a beautiful druid has come to his rescue, even if she’s saving him against her will. Two people are brought together by a force they never saw coming . . . The fact Jaime Lennox looks like a fallen angel has nothing to do with Renleigh’s decision to come to his aid. His sexy come-ons do not intrigue her either—not even a little bit. Nor does the mysterious past he hides. While the two of them spar inside an enchanted cottage in the Highlands, overhead, a celestial storm is brewing, one that will require each of them to decide what truly matters—their beliefs about themselves and each other or the truth that will set their love free.GET FOR FREE
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The Sun Is Trying to End Me — But the Books Are Thriving

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Hello Readers!
August is here and it is doing the most.
Trial by Earth is dropping at the end of this month. Seasons of Magic: Summer just landed on Saturday. Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl is six weeks out. And somewhere in the writing cave, all five Richmond Academy books are in motion simultaneously, which is either impressive or unhinged — possibly both.Let’s talk about all of it.
Seasons of Magic: Summer — It’s Here!
Seasons of Magic: Summer dropped this past Saturday and I am so excited to finally have it out in the world.
My story in this anthology is called The Flames of Lammas — and it is a different kind of magic from my Magical Matchmaking contribution in Spring.Lara fled to Oregon to escape a man who nearly destroyed her — but starting over isn’t as simple as running away. Welcomed into a warm and powerful coven, she begins learning witchcraft and the sacred rituals of Lammas, hoping to release the pain and fear she left behind. Surrounded by newfound friendship, she finally starts to feel whole again.
But when her abusive ex tracks her down and demands she return, Lara’s fragile peace shatters.
With the support of her coven and the strength she’s fought to reclaim, Lara must face him under the rising flames of the Lammas bonfire. This time, she won’t run.
Because true magic isn’t about spells — it’s about finding the power within to set yourself free.
It’s emotional, it’s transformative, and it captured my imagination in a way I didn’t expect while writing it. I hope it stays with you.
👉 Grab Seasons of Magic: Summer
The Richmond Academy Series — All Five Books Are in MotionLet me paint you a picture of what August looks like from inside the writing cave.
Book three is releasing at the end of this month. Book four is in editing. Book five is in second draft. All five books in a single series, all in active stages, all happening this year.
I am fine. Everything is fine.
🔥 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 now — this one is almost here.
💨 Trial by Wind — Book four. In editing. Coming October 2026.
✨ Trial by Spirit — Book five. In second draft. The final book in the series.Yes, the final book. I’m not ready to talk about that emotionally but I am writing it anyway.
👉 Start with Trial by Fire
👉 Continue with Trial by Sea
👉 Pre-order Trial by Earth — August 25th
What’s Happening in Trial by Wind — A Tease
Since Trial by Wind is currently on my editing table, I want to share something about it — because something happened in this book that genuinely surprised me while writing it.
I had a plan. I knew where a certain dark secret was going and which character it belonged to. And then, somewhere in the drafting process, the story told me I had it wrong. A completely different character needed to carry this secret. The backstory, the lore, the way it ripples forward — it all made so much more sense the other way.
So I rewrote it. And it was one of the most fun rewrites I’ve ever done.I can’t tell you which character. I can’t tell you what the secret is. What I can tell you is that when you get to it, you’re either going to gasp or immediately flip back to look for the clues I planted. Possibly both.
Trial by Wind. October 2026. Watch for it.
Coming September 1st — Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl
Six weeks out and the pre-order is live. Wisteria Creed — half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless — is almost ready to meet you properly.
The cover is coming. The book is ready. September 1st is closer than it looks.
👉 Pre-order Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl
From the Writing Cave (Send Help. And Ice.)
The desert has decided that August means business. We are back in the triple digits and the sun is doing that thing where it feels genuinely personal — like that level in Super Mario Brothers where the sun comes down trying to end you specifically. That is what stepping outside feels like right now. I am staying in. The cats are staying in. We have all made our peace with indoor life.On a significantly brighter note — PT is nearly over. I should know for certain next week, but the signs are very, very good. My shoulder is moving almost fully normally again, with just a few remaining hitches that I can manage with regular stretching. After months of this slow, stubborn thaw, freedom is right there. I can practically touch it. With my almost-fully-functional arm.I cannot wait.
Thank you for being here every week, for reading, and for following along on what has been the busiest and most exciting year of my writing life. You are very much a part of this.
Happy Reading,
Wendy
P.S. Five books. One series. Fire, sea, earth, wind, and spirit — all coming this year. Trial by Wind lands in October, and it has a secret in it that even surprised me while writing it. Trial by Spirit, the final book, is already in second draft. The end of Shayla’s story is being written right now. How are you feeling about that?
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 Theory Time — What Do You Think Is Coming in Book Three?

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Hello Readers!
We are a little over a month away from Trial by Earth dropping; the rain has finally shown up in the desert like an uninvited guest I am absolutely delighted to see, and the writing cave is running at full capacity.It’s a good week. Let’s talk about it.
The Richmond Academy Series — Where We AreFor anyone just joining us, here’s the full picture:
 Trial by Fire — Book one. Shayla arrives at Richmond Academy unable to control her spark and leaves something entirely different. Available now and on Kindle Unlimited.
 Trial by Sea — Book two. Shayla and Georgios face underwater trials, deepening secrets, and a mermaid heritage with a very inconvenient price tag. Out now and on Kindle Unlimited.
 Trial by Earth — Book three. Pre-order open now. Releasing August 25, 2026. And oh, do we need to talk about this one.
 Start with Trial by Fire
 Continue with Trial by Sea
 Pre-order Trial by Earth
Trial by Earth — Let’s Talk About Book Three
Here’s something I don’t think I’ve said out loud yet: Trial by Earth is the book I almost wrote second.
I had the water book and the earth book swapped in my original plan. But the deeper I got into this story — the darker twists, the weight of what happens to Shayla and Georgios here — the more I knew it belonged in the middle. Book three of five. The pivot point. The place where everything gets harder before it gets better.
And it is darker. I warned you I’d keep pushing these characters, and I meant it.
What makes this one different is the powers. We’ve seen Shayla’s fire. We’ve seen what water demanded of Georgios. Now we’re grounding — literally. Shayla develops earth powers in this book, and there is something about grounding energy, about roots and stability and what the earth asks of you, that hits completely differently against the chaos of everything happening around her.
And Georgios. His Minotaur powers come forward in a way we haven’t seen yet, and writing that side of him has been one of the most genuinely fun things I’ve done in this series. He’s been patient. He’s been steady. Book three is where we find out what’s underneath all that steadiness when it’s really, truly tested.
This is the middle of a five-book arc. If you know anything about five-act structure, you know what the middle means. Things shift here. Not everything shifts the way you’re expecting.
I have two questions for you, and I genuinely want your answers — hit reply:
 What do you think is coming in Trial by Earth? Theories, guesses, wild speculation — bring it all. I love seeing what readers expect versus what actually happens.
 What are you most worried about for Shayla and Georgios going into book three?
(I’ll just be over here, reading every reply, saying nothing.)
Last Call — Seasons of Magic: Spring
Seasons of Magic: Spring disappears at the end of July. That’s soon. If it’s been on your list, this is your official final nudge.
My story, Magical Matchmaking — clumsy witch, skeptical mundane man, love spell that goes gloriously sideways — is in there, along with a full anthology of magical stories. Still available on Kindle Unlimited.
After Spring comes Seasons of Magic: Summer, available for pre-order now and arriving August 1st. My contribution this time is quieter, more emotional — a woman reclaiming herself after everything. I’m proud of it in a different way than Magical Matchmaking.
 Grab Spring before it’s gone
 Pre-order Summer now
Coming September 1st — Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl
The pre-order is live, and I am barely containing myself.
Meet Wisteria Creed: half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, graveyard-shift radio host, and a woman with 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. Because the Wendigo wasn’t random. Someone has been capturing them. Studying them. And now that someone has decided Wisteria herself is the most interesting thing he’s ever found.
She’s spent her whole life being told she’s not quite enough. She’s about to find out exactly how wrong that was.
 Pre-order Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl
From the Writing Cave
The rain arrived in the desert this week, and I cannot overstate how happy this has made me. We went from triple digits and suffering to actual clouds and actual rain and temperatures that feel like the atmosphere remembered we are living creatures with limits. I went outside voluntarily. It was a moment.The shoulder is doing so much better — and I may, fingers firmly crossed, be done with PT after my evaluation in August. I refuse to jinx it by saying more than that. But the idea of being free — truly free, arm working, PT behind me — is keeping me very motivated in the writing cave.
And the writing cave has been genuinely buzzing. So many projects, so much happening this year and into next. I am busy in the way that feels alive rather than exhausted, and I am grateful for every word of it.
Thank you for being here, for reading, and for replying when I ask questions. You make this worth doing every single week.
Happy Reading,
Wendy
P.S. Trial by Earth lands August 25th — and after that, we head into the wind. Book four is where Shayla finally gets to fly. Just thought you should know what’s coming.
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