Hello, everyone. And Happy New Year and New Decade!
Yes, we’ve seen the ongoing debate on whether or not the new decade has begun. Potayto, Potahto. We’re charging into the 20’s. And it’s an exciting new decade indeed.
Especially exciting for us. All of us.
The Wake-up Call
Now, typically, we don’t share our personal lives much in our public book world. We blogged a couple of years ago about moving to a tropical island and going minimalist.
What we didn’t share since then was the near-near-death experience Stone had one year ago next month. No need to go into the details, but suffice to say, both of us were terrified he wouldn’t wake up the following morning.
Every day since has been an amazing blessing. And has reprioritized our love for life, initiated a vow to experience the world with childlike wonder and joy each day we’re lucky enough to wake up in, and recharged our energy for creating adventuresome stories.
After the health scare, we moved back to the mainland, to beautiful Boise, Idaho. And in mid-2019 we dubbed the next twelve months our “Year of University”, although we suspect it will continue on to be every year, with us eagerly learning and growing.
Some of the Cool Learnin’
A few of the many creative things we’ve learned thus far include formatting our own books, designing our own covers and promotional materials, and creating our own original art.
Yep. Art for our book covers!
In the next couple of weeks, we’ll share with you the five book covers we’ve created for an exciting new short-story adventure series we’re revealing soon… #StayTuned
New Email Family
Part of our wake-up call, our second chance with life together, has been to elevate our current mailing list and the wonderful readership within it that supports us. So, rather than an occasional email (only as notification of preorders, sales, and new releases), we’re going to reach out a little more often. Possibly monthly, or more.
And we’re considering ourselves a part of the tribe, those who love to escape in original breathtaking journeys, delight in the heartbreak, the growth, and the journey where love prevails and the good guys always win.
To embrace our readership more fully, we’ve named our tribe… {whispers} as our banner above hinted…
the Bastion Family Adventurers!
Exciting Gifts Ahead for our Loyal Readership
As a thank you to our loyal fans, we’re going to be extending special gifts to those included in our email list. What kind of gifts?
- Exclusive Cover Reveals: Be the first to participate in the unveiling.
- Exclusive Preorder Alerts: Never miss an opportunity to order your copy.
- Exclusive Bonus Gifts: series art, bonus scenes, seasonal goodies, and more!
- And Exclusive FREE Stories! For a limited-time, shared only with our family.
Join our Bastion Family Adventurers!
If you aren’t yet a part of our mailing list, now’s the perfect time…
We’re honored for you to join us: Bastion Family Adventurers
This week, share in our first Exclusive Cover Reveal of the decade!
Next week? Be the first to hear about our surprise series and see the beautiful covers. PLUS… receive the first story in the series FREE! A full two weeks before its release!
What’s Coming in the Next Decade?
LOTS of stories.
We expect to release books in every season of every year.
Till we die.
Which hopefully won’t be for a really long time.
{stares with intense love and expectation at Stone}
For starters?
That new short-story series we mentioned contains five standalone adventures. The first book will release February 2, 2020. Then each short story after will release every two weeks.
Annnd… the next Highland Legends novel finally has a release date!
{whispers} Born of Mist and Legend is the Exclusive Cover Reveal we’re sharing with our Bastion Family Adventurers this week!
Then we’re writing the next two novels in the Unbreakable Series, the next Highland Legends novel, a standalone spinoff novel from the No Weddings series, another fun new comedy series, a young adult fantasy adventure series… and much more.
Oh, and did we mention {whispers} audio?
Pretty exciting stuff, right?
Most of all, we are grateful. So very appreciate we’re here. With you.
Thank you for all your support through the years. We look forward to many decades yet to come.
Your humble shoe and boot,
~ Kat & Stone
© 2020 by Kat Bastion and Stone Bastion
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