In my plan to release 25 new Intellectual Property (IP) products in 2025, January was a win. Keep in mind that each book could become several different IP releases. In other words, one product might be in print, ebook, audiobook, full-cast audiobook, German translation. I get to set my own rules here, and part of my goals for 2025 is to expand how many formats each story might become.
That may seem like a rather loose rule, but re-releasing ebooks or updating and releasing books I published years ago don’t count as “new” IP projects unless I put it in a different format.
#1 – Walk in Darkness, ebook format, 1 Jan 2025 — a new short story from the *Witch in Time* series
Knowledge is power—if it doesn’t destroy you first.
To be fair, I wrote this story in late December, mostly while I was watching Baby Nugget from midnight to dawn to give his mom some rest. So I guess that’s another tweak to my rules–that it’s the release date that counts, not the finish date.
During this month and my Nugget-watching, I worked on edits and revisions for manuscripts I finished right before I sold my house and moved, and it’s time to pull them out of storage and finish them.
This expanded and modernized edition offers a fresh look at communicating beyond the veil.
#2 – *How to Speak to the Dead* from 2007, ebook format, 17 Jan 2025 — an expanded public domain fav of mine that I published in 2007 and have now expanded it considerably.
When I published it in 2007, I added my own commentary as original material. This time, I expanded it extensively and published both the original text from the early 1900’s as well as a more accessible and modernized version.
Maeve, a time-traveling witch, has spent her life caught in the web of prophecy and cosmic forces, torn between protecting the ones she loves and safeguarding humanity’s future.
#3 – A Witch in Time Supernatural Thriller Duology, boxed set, ebook format, 18 Jan 2025 — Both Answered Prophecy and Turn of Earth from 2024 in one collection.
Since these two novellas were bookends of Maeve’s life, I decided to offer them under one cover.
Besides, I really adore my cover designer, and her covers always inspire me.
Betrayal, magick, and transformation—a Southern witch’s path to self-discovery is anything but ordinary.
#4 – Rites of Passage Southern Gothic Trilogy, 27 Jan 2025, boxed set, ebook format.
This is a rebrand of my PWF trilogy because PWF got overrun with shifters and audience expectations changed.
Also, as I’ve discovered recently, books 2 & 3 are heavily Southern gothic and book 1 is more American gothic but with a Southern main character. Truly, I didn’t realize that I often write Southern gothic, but if you know my background, that does make a lot of sense.
As for new IP, this is also a boxed set and includes Rite of Awakening (previously Midlife Illusions (retitled Rite of Awakening)), Rite of Letting Go (previously Midlife Mirage (retitled Rite of Letting Go)), and Rite of Reckoning (previously Midlife Visions (retitled Rite of Reckoning)).
A Southern witch returns home. Secrets won’t stay buried. A chance to confront and heal—or face the consequences.
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