Welcome to 2025

Another day, another year in the ever marching world of progress.

I'm not really one for resolutions, especially as I'm not great at sticking to them. With that said I do intent to write more this year. I am in a place both work wise and home wise where that should be realistically possible. I got more progression done on Souls Ignited last year than possibly the last few years combined which is very hopeful too. As I said in my last blog post, (I really need to do these more frequently), audiobooks allowed me to re-join book world for the first time in a while. This renewed spark for both reading and writing was further enhanced by my attending Rare Edinburgh in September as a volunteer where I met many new book friends and lovely authors.

Although I have been loving the Maas-verse and enjoying a bit of dragon riding, I met Rebecca Yarros in September, I am not about to start writing about elves, fae or anything very romantasy related (yet). My heart still remains firmly in paranormal romance with my vampires and werewolves, although the world of the Highland Hunters is always expanding and being set in my homeland of Scotland, fae are somewhat unavoidable when writing about supernatural beings. Over the Halloween holiday I dabbled a little in the world of monster f*@king with a scene I wrote and published on Wattpad. I do intent to keep working on this when I can and it will fit into the Highland Hunters world, though the intensity of this writing will not flow over into my original trilogy. The spice level of this story will remain on the monster theme and Eyes Open, Hearts Aflame and Souls Ignited will have their own, less intense level of spice.

To be honest, from a personal level, 2024 was more than a bit of a dumpster fire and I truly learned the level of my internal fortitude and that of my family. We have all emerged stronger from it, but not without scars. These will stand as a testament to what we went through and proof that almost anything can be endured and battled through with support.

I am, as always, eternally grateful to my parents and my husband for being such a massive support to me no matter what I do.

Now, with that said, on with 2025 and whatever mysteries she has waiting for us. I wish you all the best in following your dreams.

Tessa.