HELLO MY FRIEND!!

Guess what, it’s 2026!! Can you believe it?? I sure can’t!!! Are you ringing in the new year??? I’ve been spending the past few days reflecting and preparing my goals for 2026 and boy, there’s a lot of good to be thankful for and a lot of exciting stuff to look forward to!! But #1, I’m most thankful to you for sticking with me in this journey! I began my newsletter back in 2019—I cannot believe it’s already been 7 years of chatting with you!!! Cheers to sticking together and riding this crazy fun train of authorship!!! Here’s a pic of how I spent my new years holiday:

Do you set a resolution for the new year? I try and usually take this exact weekend (the weekend after new years) to think about what I want to prioritize in the coming year. For me, I will be making a conscious effort to prioritize my writing schedule. Although I wrote and published a whole novel last year (wahoo Sacred Book 2!) I tend to get sucked quickly into the “business admin” trap—which isn’t much of a trap for me because I LOVE the business side of publishing, but it tends to take away some of my time from the actual writing—which I also love, but seem to have a hard time balancing the two. I want to make an effort to make time for BOTH this year by setting goals for myself each week to write at a set time for a set minimum number of words. I’m starting small with 200 words a day and even got myself a cute little weekly word count tracker too (I am easily motivated by cute things like this hehe). Anyways, that is my goal, what is yours??? Reply to this email and let me know!

Remember that little smiddle audiobook I talked about last email??? Well, I am officially ready to send my newest baby out into the world, and I wanted to start with you! Being one of my very special newsletter subscribers you will always get access to all the goods before anyone else 😊 it’s my way of thanking you for being so awesome and joining me in this crazy author journey!! So far, only one other human being (I mean, aside from my wonderful narrator, Alice Combs) has listened to the audiobook…who will be the second 👀 could it be you??? I mean what else are you doing on a weekend afternoon if not listening to the brand spanking new Sacred Audiobook????? Idk, picking your nose?? HA! JK!

But wait, it gets EVEN BETTER!!! (but Maggie, how could it possibly get EVEN BETTER…oh, it can 😏 )

Audiobooks have traditionally been digital download only. But I couldn’t just have that. I had to do you one better, because you rock and I want to make sure you have the best possible experience you can while experiencing the first ever audiobook of the Sacred series….

BOOM!! An audiobook you can ACTUALLY hold!! I worked with a very awesome manufacturer to bring custom USB collector edition cassette tapes with functional USBs built into them!! I’ll be selling these (while supplies last) through this form here. I am a huge touch, hold, feel person, so having just a digital download of the audiobook wasn’t enough for me, I had to be able to HOLD it in my hands, so SHABANG, now you can too 😊 !!!

📚 🍹 Little Tropetails: Instant Cheers update for ya…my bags have officially arrived at their very next step in their journey to production. I received notice from my manufacturer that they have arrived at their “powder filling” stop on their long adventure from idea to your hands!! In the next few weeks, all 1500 bags will be filled up to the top with the very delicious powder that you will soon be enjoying while reading your favorite book!!! I AM SO HYPE!! It’s crazy to see this idea come to circle after a whole year (I began working on these at the end of Jan 2025), and I could not be more grateful to have you here with me to experience this new, exciting development in the Tropetails family!!! CHEEEERS and stay tuned for more updates 🍹 📚

Maggie is committing to getting back on a set schedule and writing 200 words a day for her new years resolution! What is your new years resolution??

Sacred Book 1: Eslura’s Calling audiobook is READY to purchase directly through Maggie in digital only or in a limited edition collectors cassette tape!

Tropetails: Instant Cheers is even closer to reality with the bags now at their final step of the manufacturing process: being filled with powder!!

But let’s not forget your favorite part of this newsletter……..