Welcome to The Black Rose, my lovely crypt dwellers.
This month’s writing update comes to you from the smoking ruins of my office, where I somehow managed to survive:
- one bear fight (fictional, but emotionally real)
- one book collection that nearly killed me
- and at least three characters who refused to follow the plot and instead staged a coup
If you heard distant thunder last Tuesday, that was just me shouting “YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE A SIDE CHARACTER” at my laptop — which, by the way, fainted on me. No, really. It shut down and refused to start back up for hours. I swear I saw smoke and heard a tiny voice whisper, help me…
Anyway.
Tangled Moon Book Four is being slowly edited while I stitch together the pieces of Tangled Moon Book Eight, which is currently growing like a creature assembled in a lightning storm — limbs everywhere, heart beating strong, occasionally lunging off the table to bite me. I love it.
I fear it. I feed it snacks.
🖤
I am, however, thrilled to announce the birth of The Tangled Moon Chronicles: Volume One (Books 1–3). After giving each book a fresh line edit and creating a paperback edition for the collection, I nearly fainted a time or two myself. That said, the coming‑out party will be mid‑June. More details to follow. 🖤
If I don’t reply to your comments right away, assume I’ve been dragged into the woods by my own plot. I’ll claw my way back eventually.
Until next month, Darcy
Darcy Branwyn 
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