Well, now I’ve gone and done it.

I’ve signed two separate contracts for four books (and a reprint) that’ll start coming out in November (the reissue/reprint), April 2025, August 2025 and then (likely) October 2025 and sometime in 2026.

This feels surreal.

It also feels like the result of a lot of hard work (hard graft as the Brits might say). No matter what anyone tells you about good things happening overnight, they rarely do. Unless you define “overnight” as “every overnight in your whole life.”

I am incredibly excited about the whole thing. (You can’t see me dancing around my office, or my living room, or the street outside. But I am.) The thing is, the publishing industry works in slow motion about 99.9% of the time. Tune in Tomorrow came out in August 2022 — and I’ve been hustling it ever since. (There’s some hustle on the photo on the right.) The offers I got that are paying off today started to flower earlier in the year, came to be more concrete literally within days of one another in April, got turned into contracts in July, and now — just as we’re deep into spooky season, they’re finally all a reality I can speak about.

It is impossible to be wildly excited 24/7 for extended periods. But I am doing my best. It’s one of those situations where you think if you put too much hope into the magician’s hat, it’ll all disappear. Or if you talk about it, you’ll jinx everything. Whenever I’ve been particularly excited about something happening over the years, I have a tendency to work through every possible scenario that might come to pass. And then, as if by thinking of those scenarios I’ve killed them off like shutting the door on quantum universes, inevitably something I didn’t plan on happens.

This time it happened.

So here’s what’s happening:

ArcManor/Caezik is set to publish two of my early novels in 2025. Two! In one year! Within months of one another! They are:

The Only Song Worth Singing, about a trio of Irish musicians who come to America for their first tour — only to be followed/stalked by three legendary fae who upend their lives. It’s got a romance, suspense, super-dark fantasy, meta discussion about the way belief can create reality … and oh, yeah, it’s my love letter to rock ‘n roll. (April 2025) Pre-order link here (and it is a standalone, despite the Book 1 mention). Have I mentioned lately that pre-ordering is important?

(Note: We do have a cover for Only Song. I just can’t share it yet. But there is a big guitar featured, plus some very determined fae, and a band on it. More soon.)

Then there’s Leave No Trace, which has a lot going on in it: Girl who grows up with her recluse father and heroic brother in the woods. Two musicians who come to the woods for adventure (and to write songs) with their manager and get far more than they bargained for. The revelation that the fae world is disappearing and wars are being fought to keep them from trickling into the human world. And the understanding that the group of them may be the key to saving both worlds. This book contains none of The Only Song‘s characters, but it is connected in a way I hope a third book will let me reveal. (August 2025, no pre-order link yet.)

Note: These are not funny books. At least, not intentionally. They may be weird, but they are not wacky.

But wait, I’ve gotten ahead of myself a bit because ….

Rebellion/Solaris is republishing Tune in Tomorrow under their new imprint, Solaris Nova!

That’s right, it’s Phil gracing on that new cover, guarding both mangoes and scripts! I’m so proud of my security dragon!

And they’re putting the epilogue that didn’t fit in the original book (but which savvy purchasers have been getting from me as a PDF bonus for the past two years) inside! This will be a digital-first publication, but also available for print-on-demand so we won’t have that issue of the books not being available, etc. We’re working on an audiobook expansion, so stay tuned for that.

And if you write reviews or are a critic or an interviewer who would like to speak to me, currently Tune in Tomorrow is available on Net Galley, so grab your copy now!

But wait! There’s more! Solaris Nova has contracted me for two more books in the Tune universe! The Tune-iverse? I need a better umbrella term, so let me know if you have ideas. Now, these books are not sequels. Much like The Only Song/Leave No Trace, I think of them as part of an umbrella world where shared characters may wander in and out, but each book takes place in a different “Trope Town” (or Towns), filled with humans but run by the Seelie Court Network to make very tropey, genre-specific movies.

For example, the first book in the so-called Tune-iverse will be … We Interrupt This Program! Think of a trope town that’s like a “Murder She Wrote” village. Now imagine people start going missing. A lot of people. Including the Seelie Mayor. And only Winnie and her pack of brownies, teenage kids and a recalcitrant Unseelie are maybe, possibly, going to save the day! But they’re going to need shortbread….

We Interrupt This Program is (tentatively) due out October 2025. More on that soon! And yes, Interrupt and the next book in the series are meant to be weird, wacky and silly. At least, I hope so. Being funny is serious business.

So … yeah. YES! I mean:

Let the editing, the writing and the marketing commence! (After, of course, a bottle of champagne and some ice cream to celebrate. Because I am 100 percent jazzed about all this.) When it rains, it pours, and I am more than happy to get soaked right now!

xo,

R

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