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With 2025 now behind us, it feels like the right moment to pause and reflect on what the year looked like from a book sales perspective. While numbers never tell the full story, they do offer a useful way to measure progress, consistency, and the long-term health of a writing career.

Over the course of the year, Amazon accounted for 2,373 book sales. Sales across wide platforms totalled 1,262, bringing overall sales for 2025 to 3,635 copies. On their own, those figures represent a solid year....

As I write the last few chapters of the Sundered Crown Saga, I find myself looking back over a journey that began way back in 2013 – over a decade that feels both impossibly long and strangely short. When I wrote the first words of Heir to the Sundered Crown, I was younger, more unsure of myself, and living through a difficult period of my life. I didn’t know then what this story would become. I certainly didn’t know how much it would end up meaning to me.

When you begin a fantasy series, you...