Coming in 2019, I’m going to start putting out a quarterly newsletter – in March, June, September, and December!

It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and if you pay attention to the “common wisdom” in the independent publishing world, it’s something I should have started doing about four years ago. So, yeah, that needs to happen.

Shoot, I don’t even have a mailing list or anything. Let’s get that going first: Here’s where you click to sign up!

But hey, you’re not sure if you want a newsletter or not – that’s fair. So here are some ideas about what might go in it that you don’t already see here.

A typical newsletter might include:

– An in-depth look at one of the book locations, a visit to a small Texas town, or the like. With lots of pictures – I’ll probably make my husband take those because he’s a better photographer than I am.

– An excerpt from an upcoming book, or notes about what I’m working on, or a scene that got cut from a previous book. Maybe even an original, exclusive short-short-story. But definitely something writing-related.

– A recipe. Because I like to cook, my friends like to cook. We all like to eat, and there’s plenty of recipes going around. Lots of them are for pie.

– A picture of my cats, because that’s what the internet is for. Seriously, if you don’t want to see any pictures of my cats, don’t subscribe. But you’ll be missing out on gems like this: