Anybody there?

Hello! This is me cleaning out the cobwebs from around here. As I'm snooping around here and reacquainting myself with my old thoughts, I am amazed by what time has passed and what has not. Perhaps you can relate. I don't know who's even around the blogging sphere I used to know. But I've been feeling drawn back for some time now. What that will look like is still to be determined. In the meantime, I do have some news that I feel like some of you should know!

Once upon a time, I asked a question that introduced me to a fairytale I knew NOTHING about. (If you follow the link scroll, to the comment section to learn about the trigger for this entire narrative.) Years passed and an idea was stirring. Well, I have written a book. One that involves a fairytale by the name of Allerleirauh aka All-Kinds-Of-Fur, and a least favorite of mine, Rumplestilskin. Both fairytales have problematic elements I wanted to address and the story rather started to write itself. That is how Curses Three came to be.

Currently, I am in a soft rewrite stage. I have heard back from beta readers and am now in the process of sorting feedback to work on improving my story. I had hopes of publishing the novel this year as the novel takes place during a harvest into winter transition. Just out of curiosity, are any of you seasonal readers along with mood readers, or is that just me? For anyone interested, I was a guest during a bookish chat with a friend that you can watch HERE. Just forgive my drawing a blank and knocking my camera down. It may help explain a little more about my thoughts and how I've approached these two stories.

In other news, I joined Instagram...or more Bookstagram. In leaving blogging my reading life picked up, only because it's a little easier to read other's ideas than continually create my own. I'm actually planning a post to highlight some of my especially favorite favorites that I've discovered over the past few years. I know, this is me already planning new posts. Fingers crossed I can remain in check without wasting my time with other things. I need to be creating and sharing again!

Well, this is a good start. As I mentioned before, I don't know what this will look like going forward, with writing here or publishing in general. It's a little nerve-wracking opening my blog up again as some of these posts are so old. But allowing a little slack to be granted, this isn't at all a bad place to be.

Yours truly,

Cordy aka Samantha Elisabeth

P.S. Oooh, is that a new name there? Yes indeed it is, and you'll have to return here when I post about where that one came from and what it's doing here!