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A Random Assortment of Publishing Plans for 2023

Every December I sit down to plan out the most logical books I should release for the next year—and every year the plan goes wildly off track. (Insert mental image of author shaking head here.) But, like clockwork, I did it again because I’m a planner by nature and I love lists.

Some of the books I know will get written are from the His To…Series: His to Use and His to Love (early in the year). I also have high on the to-do list to make sure Aubrey and Lincoln’s book gets written this year (Aubrey shows up in Rethinking Fate), as well as another Too Close book.

You’re probably starting to see a theme here…

So did I. (Picture me shaking my head again.)

So I added books to the list that will be able to go on Amazon. I’m less sure of these, but right now, I have that I want to write more about the pups from the Leashes & Lace world. I want to go back to my omegaverse and write more about the littles from the club at the very least. I’ve also been playing around with ideas for a story about Ben and Conner (from the Bound & Controlled club).

There are a lot of fun options from my list of side characters that I’ve been adding to and making notes about this year. My Facebook group has been great about helping me collect all the random characters that have stories, and the list is now on my whiteboard in my office.

The books I know will come out at the beginning of the year because I’ve already gotten a lot written in them (smiling author image here lol) is another Beautiful Shame book. Finley is a sweet, naughty slut, and he’s adorable. You’re going to love him.

I’ve also got a great start on another novella in the alien world. This is going to be in the Dirty Daddies Spring Anthology. Tentacle Daddy is very intent on finding a little to care for. I love writing those guys and my new alien, Wright, is just as earnest as the rest.

There are also a half-dozen first chapters of several other ideas that have popped up over the last few weeks. Like, I know who the guy was downstairs cheering on Brady in Save Me Santa. The number of random book beginnings I’ve done over the past month is truly ridiculous, but I’m very grateful that the people in my head are chatty.

Hopefully, 2023 will continue with that theme and the characters will continue to be excited and helpful.

I would love to be able to write everything that’s bouncing around in my head, but that means they all have to cooperate. So, fingers crossed for a productive year and lots of books.

Comment below: What are you most interested in reading this year from me?

Personal Recap of 2022

This has been such an odd year and it feels almost like a turning point in my life. I will be the first to admit I didn’t get nearly as much written as I wanted to (although I apparently published 22 titles!), but I can’t complain because the tradeoff was that I got to spend a lot of time with my son during his senior year of high school.

Getting my son ready to go off to college with everything that entails practically and emotionally was a huge learning experience—and a lot to do as a single mom—but I’m so proud of him…and not just because of how he’s done in college. He’s figuring out the balance between asking for help and doing things himself and he’s learned so much. But he’s also been a wonderful big brother even though he’s not home all the time now.

When I left for college, I can honestly say my family never missed me. They just weren’t that type of people and we never had a close relationship so leaving just exaggerated that. But my daughter and I can honestly feel the difference when my son is gone and it was a stark reminder for me about how different my relationship is with my kids than my parents had with me.

Now as we approach 2023, I’m getting my daughter ready to start college next fall and learning things all over again. She’s so different than my son, but it’s been wonderful to show her all his successes and let her see it hasn’t been a scary process. I can’t wait to see how things go for her next fall when she starts college, but that’s going to be hard because it will be the first time in a very long time that I’ve been on my own.

It’s going to be so weird, but I’ve got a lot planned to keep me busy, and my daughter has told me not to worry because she’s decided to basically live in my basement forever once she finishes college.

So…yeah, not sure if I should be worried about that or not, but the sentiment is…sweet? It sounds like I need a hermit cave in the next house. What’s a She Shed that’s technically in a basement?

To keep me busy next year, I’ve got a lot of books planned and I’m even going to be at RARE in Florence, Italy next September. That means it will be time for a big vacation while I travel all over. Balancing traveling and work will be an interesting challenge, but it’s going to be so much fun. I plan on staying busy in a lot of ways, and hopefully, that means I can do a lot more book events going forward.

I hope this year was wonderful for you and that you have big plans for next year. I’m doing my best to teach my kids to dream big, so I hope you do the same. Good luck in 2023.

My Favorites from 2022

When Sage (my wonderful PA) put together a list of the books I published this year it surprised me. I’ve kept pushing through this year feeling like I haven’t done enough and haven’t gotten enough accomplished. Looking at the list, though, I got more done than I realized.

So focusing on the best parts of 2022, I had so much fun writing every book that came out this year, but some of my favorites are Owners & Dolls, the Trouble Comes in Threes series, and Bishop and his cuties.

—Emerson (Owners & Dolls) was just so funny. Every thought and random thing that came out of his mouth made me smile, and I loved that he was so wonderfully unique. His uninhibited way of seeing life was so much fun to write.

—The story for Donovan and Trey (Trouble Comes in Threes) was more of a passion project. I love disaster movies, and my favorite time in movies was in the late ’90s when all the asteroid movies came out. I love those, so when I started watching some fun documentaries on what-if scenarios, I knew I had to write one. They’re so sweet and I love their banter.

—Bishop and his cuties took a long time to get started, but once I figured out what he wanted and what he needed, things came together quickly. I’m very grateful for several friends and readers who helped me brainstorm about these guys, and I’m very grateful that so many of you jumped into the series so I could release the boxed set first.

I’m still figuring out what I should aim for in 2023, but what I plan and what the people in my head start chatting about aren’t always in sync. So far, I know I have a few things to finish like His to Use and His to Love (His To…Series). I also want to go back to my omegaverse, and there are a few fun projects with other authors that I’ve agreed to do.

I can’t wait to tell you all about them, but in the meantime, if there’s a kink you want to see me explore in a book or a past character you’re ready to read more about (like our cutie the baker’s son who popped up in the Bound & Controlled series), comment below or join my reader group to let me know.

Here's to a pretty good 2022 and an even better 2023.

Books Published in 2022 by Shaw Montgomery -MA Innes

Including bonus shorts, audiobooks of previously published titles, and new releases…I released 22 titles in 2022!

Wesley – Now Available on Audible!

My dramatic cuties are back.

Wesley’s audiobook is now live and I can’t wait for you to hear how sweet he is in audiobook. These guys are all so much fun to go back and visit, but his story is one of my favorites because of how much he had to overcome to get his happily ever after.

It was going back and working on finishing the audiobooks for this series that pushed me to write Bishop’s story (Our Love) and eventually Emerson’s (Owners & Dolls). Just looking through the books and making plans got Bishop finally starting to chat and made it easier to figure out what he needed to make him happy.

I’m still working on plans for 2023, but one of the things I want to do is to go back and revisit more of the pups from the Leashes side of Leashes & Lace. There’s still so much more to see, and I’m pretty sure Eli has more fascinating friends we should meet.

Have fun with Wesley, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season.

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Bryan Has Lots of Questions – Too Close to Deny Now Available! + Smashwords End of Year Sale!

Too Close to Deny…that’s basically Kevin in a nutshell. He’s hard to resist. On my end, he’s hard to resist because I had no intention of releasing two Too Close books this month. It was not my plan at all. It was his plan, though.

Kevin had countless things he wanted to talk about and do, so we settled on getting most of his list into two books. He’s a wonderfully bad influence, though, because the more he got what he wanted, the more Bryan started to speak up and demand he get a list too.

That nearly killed both Kevin and me… because neither of us are used to Bryan speaking up and being the instigator of anything.

However, he had a list of questions he wanted to work his way through, and Kevin was the lucky person who he aimed his questions at. Of course, Jeremy and Maddox were smart Doms and made sure they eavesdropped to stay up to date on the insanity.

Don’t worry, Kevin and Bryan spend a ridiculous about of time doing the same thing, so it all evens out in the end.

They’re so funny and just so darned cute…even when they’re talking about naughty things like switching partners would be like and what Maddox and Jeremy might do together. (That conversation nearly killed Bryan lol).

I can’t wait to show you what else they’re up to for Christmas, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Too Close to Deny is now live here on my site or on Smashwords. Please feel free to purchase it where ever it makes the most sense for you.

If you need several of the books to catch up with the cuties, Smashwords is having their End of Year sale.
Several of the Too Close books are either free or on sale, so go check those out. It runs through the end of December.

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The Boy Are Back – Too Close to Risk is now Available!

Too Close to Risk is now live.

I love coming back to these guys. Kevin, Jeremy, Bryan, and Maddox are so real to me at this point that it’s like going to talk to old friends.

In Too Close to Risk, the story starts before the holidays you saw in Our Too Close Christmas last year.

You’re going to get to see those holidays from Kevin and Jeremy’s point of view, as well as see what else they were doing around that time.

I’ll give you a hint…they end up talking to Ben…hmm, what could that mean?

Too Close to Risk contains the bonus chapters from Our Too Close Christmas, so if you didn’t get a chance to read that last year you will now.

But there just wasn’t room for everything Kevin wanted to tell you about, so Too Close to Deny (book 9) will be out in mid-December, and it will finish their holiday season and all the shenanigans that they’ve planned (Maddox is to blame for some of the excitement too lol).

But no more hints for that one just yet.

I can’t wait to show you what they’ve gotten up to and what Maddox has planned.

It’s going to be a very interesting Christmas and a fascinating holiday season in general.

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