Thanks to Alex for hosting this each month. Here is the complete list of participants. 

Hi everyone,

Welcome to 2026. Hope you all had a great holiday with family and friends. I took time off from writing during the holiday and it helped. I have some new ideas for stories to write in the future. The series I am working on right now The Thornwick Chronicles is going in a bit of a new direction that I think will fit the overall idea I had for it when I began writing it. 

Something I am thinking about is connecting several other series that I am writing to the Thornwick world. I'm thinking the academy that I'm writing about in the series will be the way I connect the other series to the Thornwick Chronicles. I'm also thinking about some spin-off stories that will take place in a university with characters from the different series. Right now, all of this other than the Thornwick Chronicles is in the idea or planning stage. 

That’s it for now. I look forward to your comments. :)