Jacque Stevens

You already know I have my first book/series on sale right now, so I thought I would talk about some of the “firsts” in my current Work in Progress. Ette’s Story runs parallel with some of the events in Swan Bride and is based on the more traditional stories of Swan Maidens and Selkies. So you should know how it starts: A woodcutter takes Etta’s cloak. These sections are still being edited, but I feel pretty good about the first few lines, so I thought I would share: WIP: E

For those of you who have read the Swan Bride (and I hope a lot of you have) you might recognize the main character of my current work in progress as Leda’s half-sister: Etta Wood. She is a swan maiden with a black feather cloak who married a woodcutter several years before Leda’s story in the Swan Bride. Though Etta mostly serves as a foil, sounding board, and mentor to Leda in the Swan Bride, I have been interested in expanding the story of her romance as it follows the mor

It may go without saying that I have been away from social media and posting about my books for a while. Basically, for the last year since the Swan Bride came out. I still was writing, but for whatever reason, it just wasn’t as fun as it used to be. It was slow and honestly a bit discouraging, so I let myself get pulled away by other goals—making it even slower. I kept missing my usual word-count numbers and even had to cancel a preorder I posted last year, knowing that I wo