Sitting next to my lover, my editor, and my best friend this morning as I work at Starbucks. It’s not a crowded table. Just me and Becka, my fiancee, who celebrates her birthday today!

Today’s not the only special day coming up in the next several weeks.

One week from today, on March 17th, the “Moms Talk Autism” podcast will be airing their interview with me. We talk about my childhood with undiagnosed autism, parenting an autistic child, and how my books address the absence of authentic and realistic autistic protagonists in the adult fiction market.

We recorded it a month ago, when the book had only been out a few days. The interview is a bit superficial, and I wish we talked longer, but neither of the women interviewing me had actually read Blood Game yet, so that limited our conversation. I’ll post a link here when it drops, but you can search your favorite podcast venue for it and find it easily.

The week-end after that, I’ll be in Grand Haven, Michigan for the Third Coast Book Festival. It’ll be my first ever signing event, and I’m pretty excited. If you’re from the west side of Michigan, or can get there easily, come out and meet me! My table will be in front of the Jumpin’ Java coffee shop.

One other thing I’ll be doing for the first time at Third Coast Book Fest … selling my sequel novel, Crying Call! It’s finished, and I’ve got copies, and of course I’ll be bringing plenty of copies of Blood Game too.

Crying Call won’t be available for purchase in stores or online retailers until its official worldwide release on February 3rd, 2026. But I own the copyright, and I can sell it myself anytime I want. And I’ll start doing that on my website sometime in April.

But those who see me at Third Coast will be the first to get it. First after Becka, that is. She always gets the first copy of everything I write. Happy Birthday, baby, and many happy returns!