Happy New Year 2026


Happy 2026 everyone! I hope you had a great year and a relaxing vacation. I loved having my oldest back from college for the holiday.

My Facebook business account was hacked on December 10th and still hasn’t been recovered. Dealing with Facebook’s responses was exhausting and derailed my focus completely. As a result, I barely wrote at all in December. Consider it a lost month for the next book.

My account is still lost, but I’m distancing myself from it, beginning to let it go as unrecoverable, though I still hope Meta will see reason.

Hopefully I’ll have a better writing update for you next month.

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