Polls and Changes
Restructuring More than Last Year
Heyya, sunwalkers and soul bards.
How is January 2024 halfway over? Sigh. Wow. So much has happened in the first two weeks of the year, and with 50 left to go, I’m maximizing what is most effective around my social media for the better.
How are polls helping me with this? Well, as a small business owner and former K12 educator, I know the importance of data and what roll it can play in a reflective mode. Polls are an epic way for me to check in with my audience at a glance—and I used them all the time in the classroom. Over on YouTube, check my channel and all the amazing videos that came out this week by clicking here, I poll my community tab at least once a week these days about something.
I plan on using that function as often as I can, so if you want to have a say of the content that goes on over there and my Ream Stories page (click here), then feel welcome to travel through portals to where you’d like to adventure with us!
I am doing a remodel of Ream Stories before finishing the next Kickstarter Campaign, and then the YouTube channel will start to get another overhaul of which series stay and go toward the end of 2024. I noticed some lines are starting to blur as to what the channel’s purpose is to its viewers. I intended it to be about my books, growing an author business, and author life. I think The Merna Annals and other media related to only my books might be overshadowed by my amazing writing community, so maybe I might be opening more than one other YouTube channel this year, should an interest exist? Wait, another channel?
The Cheesecake Man and I plan on taking Replaying the Plot on its own channel. We’ll have a podcast of the playlist that started it all right on my YouTube channel, and instead of talking once a month about only video games, we entertained the idea of doing an anime themed one, too, since the media are so heavily connected. Cody and I also talked about starting to record the two of us playing video games and posting our individual playthroughs there once a week. At the moment, all of this is thought and speculation as we allow the dust to settle from our recent move.
No, we are still not unpacked yet. No, the Christmas tree is not yet down. Yes, we feel swamped and drained, lol. We’re spending days off fixing that very concern. In our pace, in our stride, in our time.
I thought the rebrand relaunch revolution ended, but much like Ian and Nephtyri’s journeys, things are everchanging for the better, even when the fog is thick and the path is unclear. I said 2024, show me more open doors. Spiral staircase mode to get to them? Not a bad way to travel.
OMG SO MANY STAIRS? (You’re welcome, nerds.) I’m okay with it. Let’s get walking.
Thank you for being part of my journey. Take care of yourself. I know you’re worth it.
Sincerely,
Jenna O’Malley
Your Soul Writer
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Author Spotlight
Rachel D. Adams
Packs & Portals (The Dragon Tasker Series, Book 2)
LGBT Fiction, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Trouble's brewing in both worlds. Friends or enemies - it'll take everyone the Dragon Tasker knows to stop it.
Jean-Michel and Gabriel are in our world of Gaia, investigating who is responsible for opening dangerous portals between worlds. As they investigate the corruption around them, they also explore their own connections and emotions.
Meanwhile, Jean-Michel's best friend, Devon Weylyn, must travel back to his world of Ordia to help the family and pack he left behind. Pack Weylyn is in dire straits, but to help means relying on people he thought were enemies.
Tightly regulated portals connect these sister worlds. Not many beings have the power to create unnatural portals nor the desire to create such unstable doorways. Who is taking the risk, and could this be tied to the wars and struggles of the Ordian Packlands? Who would benefit? Who might pay?
Will the secrets uncovered in both worlds drive our heroes together or rip them apart?