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  • 2026 Florida Senate Session

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    It’s that time of the year again! Session began a couple of weeks ago now and we have a lot of bills to get through. I’ve broken down the bills I’m watching into six major categories: Healthcare, Feminist Issues, Law Enforcement, AI, BIPOC Issues, and Other/Recurring Bills. This is a long article, summarizing only some…

  • November 2025 Project Updates

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    We’re slowly winding down for the end of the year. Finally. I’m quite tired, not sure about you all, but it’ll be nice to rest. Before we can get there though, it’s time for another project update! Far North Rewrites are over!! It’s nice to have that all wrapped up before the end of the…

  • October 2025 Project Updates

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    ​Happy Halloween! It’s that time again! Let’s jump into the updates, shall we? Get you back to your haunting faster. Far North ​Deep in rewrites at the moment. The first pass of editing is done, so now I’m strictly going back and focusing in on content edits. Making things better, tightening up timelines, and clarifying…

  • FL Budget Discussions 2025

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    Budget discussions during the special session are slated to begin June 3rd and last until June 5th, with a tentative slot for June 16th if needed. The first two days are scheduled for 0900EST until 2000EST. Long days ahead for the Senators. For what the budget features, I’ll leave you with the approved bill that…

  • May 2025 – Project Update

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    Not going to waste much time up front. Let’s just get into the updates this month! Finally got some much needed feedback on Book Two of Far North. Just from one alpha reader, but it still gave me the impression I was on the right track with things. I’ve also been slowly working on the…

  • FL Senate 2025

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    It’s been a wild session for the Florida Senate and House this year. While I had initially started compiling a list of important bills to keep an eye on, things quickly devolved once the session began. Of the 974 Senate bills that were proposed this session only 205 total bills between the two chambers have…

  • Project Update – April 2025

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    How are you all doing? April has been a wild ride, hasn’t it? Things are still moving at pace here. Despite some difficult moments, I will say there’s been lots of positives to celebrate too. We have a house finch family nesting just outside our front door. It’s been a joy to watch the tiny…

  • Project Update – March 2025

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    As mentioned in ​On Doing the Thing (Again)​​​ the next book in the Far North series is now with alpha readers! Has been since the start of the month too. It’s clocking in at 163 pages and 115k words, so I suspect it will be some time before notes are returned to me. We also finished our play-through of…

  • On Doing the Thing (Again)

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    I wonder if it’ll ever normalize that I keep writing and churning out new novels. Early this month, I finished the first draft of Far North – Returning: Vic. It’s still a shock. While there’s still plenty of editing work left to do, that’s half-way through the series as it’s been planned. When I was…

  • Project Update – February 2025

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    Hi, hello, how are you? I’ll be keeping this update rather short and with minimal formatting. Why? Well, I’m trying out some new things and haven’t fully settled on how I want to present everything just yet. One noticeable change is that I’ve stopped recording word counts for each day. At the end of January…