Spoilers Read-a-long with Book 2 or 4

and Making Wax Melts a la Ian Sinclair?

Heyya, lovelies and sunwalkers and more,

I have a lot going on this week. The Kickstarter is sitting at one of my favorite numbers, $888 with five days or less left. Whether or not it funds, plans to publish to Amazon and Wide remain. Future plans will not change with the 03/06/2025 (AHEM 369 I tell ya) Box Launch at this time, either.

Beforehand… I need to make sure I get the wax melts for either the Kickstarter and/or the box to smell just right. We’re starting with one Ian Sinclair: 2 parts sea salt + 2 parts chocolate + 1 part leather (add a half part or a second full part if needed after added to wax and your leather scent is as asthma-attack inducing as mine right from the bottle of essential oils).

Do you want to join us for a Spoilers Read-a-Long of Book 2 or Book 4 today at 4 pm E while we sort that out with the wax? I’ll be giving away free samples of the wax, too.

Thank you for believing in healing journeys and healing stories. The Merna Annals is going to be moving to it’s own YouTube channel soon. We’ve launched on TikTok to, as Mat Shaffer would say, be down to clown by focus foxing and finding out what happens. To find out more about those shenanigans, click here. If things go well there, then we can open up their own Instagram and YouTube to port to those two places. To date, I have over 50 arguing with merna shorts to convert from my main YouTube channel and re-release elsewhere. I bet some of you have not seen those yet. Enjoy! They are like random snippets that happen “backstage” as I am writing.

Why did these immortals pick me to be their human bard? I have zero clue. One of my favorite authors, and who kind of inspired me to say WTF let’s do this meta series, is J. R. Ward. Some of you know the BDB (gimme some Phury or Tohr any day—YES, I am still angry about Wellsie, and I read that back when the book originally hit the shelves between 2005-2010). Anyway, the Warden herself talks about writing for the Brotherhood as being like downloads.

The more I lean into my spiritual journey and healing story as a person, the more I realize she hit a gong with those words. It is like a video game download for me. I’ve played a great deal of the Sims and ESO and Dragon Age, so follow me here, yeah?

Downloads bring in a few things. There’s patches—I mean, how else does a writer fix a plot hole? Then, sometimes, you get a little update in something like the Sims and their Stuff Packs. It’s mostly tools, data, things you enjoy (not me looking at the total win of a freebie bookcase that now sits behind my desk and chair I’m typing at right now—THANK YOU, Goddesses and Dad for coming through on that promise—while also remembering that I have the joy of doing Sarra Cannon’s Publish & Thrive class, noted below). Sometimes? You get all of an entire map from a previous game in the series remastered for the current game’s usage—is it me, or did Dragon Age and ESO do that A LOT for about five years to varying degrees of success? For writers and authors and even those of you living other creative lives and building creative businesses can agree: there are times that I am up with the dawn chasing the project that should fix everything.

So, yeah. The Warden GONGED me hard when I listened to an old podcast where she gave this advice to an indie author as a commercial author. You have to be ready for the downloads just as much as you have to be read to do her other piece of career advice I follow as a writer, “Sit your butt in the chair. Do the thing.”

There’s going to be a lot of changes now that I’ve been GONGED this summer. Under my yearbook picture from high school is a single truism. “Failure is the tuition you pay for success.”

May all our failures be the energy that slingshots us into the best good ahead.

From my higher self

From my inner child

From my inner soul writer

To your heart

All my hugs and gratitude for you being here,

Jenna OM

Your Soul Writer

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Registration closes August 3rd at 12:00pm Eastern.