Jacque Stevens

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