is this the year of the Ill-Behaved Women?


Hello Reader, and Happy New Year!

I could not be more grateful than I am for the year you've made possible. Look what we did!

And this is just in the last week! I'm encouraged to lean in to believing in my work enough to make bringing you stories a regular thing. If nothing else, I hope this note encourages you to lean in to work/play that calls you, even if you're the only one who hears the sound. Go forth and be your supposedly ill-behaved self, keeping in mind:

That's really the perfect segue to reminding you... it's book release day for Vegas Girls!

I would be so so honored if you followed Thelma Miles and Kathleen Young as they continue their story through some of the most seismic changes in women's history. In Vegas Girls, federal agents circle and rival gangs plot as Thelma masterminds the perfect con to tear down a criminal empire. But she must decide if family loyalty is worth the price of her soul.

Buy the book now and take a gamble on grit!

And finally, if possible, please share Vegas Girls to your social media. You can do it easily by sharing one of my posts:

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Thank you so so much!

What are your resolutions for 2025? Do you even make them? As of this writing, I have not. Yet. I do think they can be fantastic, so long as they're more like "re-sets," but I have been so fully immersed in writing the conclusion to Havana Girls it's consuming all my re-set energy. Cannot wait to share that one with you. Let me know if you'd like to get an advance reader copy (ARC) of Havana Girls, or forward this newsletter to someone you think might.

Yours Truly,

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