What Can You Expect From My Future Books

I get this question a lot and I love it because it means people are paying attention and want more. So let me tell you what is coming and why it is coming in the order that it is.

Chasing 25

The first thing coming from Bayou Bound Books is a book called Chasing 25 and it is unlike anything I have written before. It is essentially 25 life lessons I learned by a pretty young age. Not surface level stuff like be kind to others or work hard. I am talking about the real ones. How to deal with grief. How to survive things that cause complex trauma. How to keep going when life has handed you something that nobody prepared you for.

These are not lessons I read about somewhere. They are things I lived through firsthand. I have taken my own experiences and stripped away all the boring details to get to the raw honest truth underneath. The kind of truth that I wish someone had handed me when I needed it most.

Stay tuned because I will be doing a dedicated blog post about Chasing 25 very soon.

Southern Gothic Horror Fiction

This is the genre Bayou Bound Books was always building toward and it is coming. I have a full outline, bare bones drafts, and more story ideas than I know what to do with. The southern gothic horror novels are coming and they are going to be everything this brand has been promising since day one.

But I want to be honest about why they have not come first.

I am a huge advocate for mental health. I have been through things that left me feeling completely alone and lost and I never want anyone else to feel that way if I can help it. So before I dove into dark fiction I wanted to make sure I had put something into the world that could genuinely help people first. The guided journals came before the horror novels on purpose. That was always the plan.

A Poetry Collection

I am also working on a collection of free verse poems that sit right at the intersection of southern gothic atmosphere and real human emotion. The southern themes are there but they are used as scenery, as atmosphere, as a way to create a feeling rather than a barrier to understanding. These poems are encrypted with the south but not so much that they become inaccessible. The goal is for someone who has never set foot in Louisiana to read them and still feel something deeply familiar.

The Bigger Picture

Everything Bayou Bound Books publishes is connected by the same thread. Real human experience. The messy complicated parts of being alive that most people are too afraid to say out loud. Whether it is a guided journal, a horror novel, or a poem, the goal is always the same.

To make you feel less alone in whatever you are carrying. 🖤

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