Author: D. J. Humphries

Very generalized notes here because I don’t want to bore you all with the inane details, but I am breaking ties with amazon and KDP. This decision wasn’t reached lightly and is at least partly politically motivated – if that bothers you, then I’m not the right author for you and that’s okay! I hope you find an author and stories that you can enjoy.

It’s been a big year for me in figuring out who I am, setting boundaries, cutting ties with hateful influences, etc. etc. etc. And all of that is on top of the politically charged climate we’ve seen in the states, having a serious surgery last year, and dealing with some medical issues this year. And all of that just kind of stalled out my writing because I couldn’t quite figure out which path to take, which way was the right way for me. But I’ve finally made up my mind and am in process of getting everything moving.

SO if you do actually follow me, I’ll be updating my website a bit, have already put into process the unpublishing of my books on amazon, and will be updating the formats for the ebooks I put up through Draft 2 Digital/Smashwords (because they need a little tweaking to show up at their best through that site), and will be back working on my writing and publishing now that I’m confident in my next steps forward.

Things have been tough. The country is a mess. But I hope you’re all hanging in there and getting some reading time in.

See you in the stories soon!

~D.J.

So, technically, I finalized the publishing of Recollect (book 4 of the Haven Ansley Porter series) on July 2nd; however, that’s about the same time I came down with COVID-19 from my travels (part for bill-paying job and part adventure) and announcing the publishing of said book slipped through the cracks – nobody’s perfect!

It’s out now – links to purchase it on my books page and I hope you’ll give it a read and enjoy. This is the middle of the Haven Ansley Porter series, so there’s more storyline and a little less action going on plus the craziness that just keeps happening in poor Haven’s life!

This is absolutely a behind-closed-doors LGBTQ+ friendly series now; this is also the first in the series where POV changes on some of the chapters, which gives a glimpse into some of the male leads’ heads.

As always, keep reading! I’ll keep reading and writing (book 5 is getting pretty close to the end but there were some heavy parts that have been a bit difficult to work all the way through so it has slowed down just a little – still anticipating a 2024 release date though).

~D. J. Humphries

Apparently, I have been epically failing with promoting and maintaining my books and website! I’ve just been too busy writing, working my bill-paying job/getting a new one, and living life. “Keep On” was actually the little motto I wrote for myself on my January 1, 2022 5k run, and I’ve got to say, I’ve definitely maintained that mindset this year!

So… In 2020, I published book 2 of the Haven Ansley Porter series – Trapped By Chaos. If slightly more adult themes that’s leaning a bit more toward romance is up your alley, you should check it out! It starts to delve into more non-traditional romances and roles, but nothing too crazy.

In November of 2022, I published book 3 of the Haven Ansley Porter – Escape – and have done absolutely zero promotion about it, much less announced it anywhere until today! That’s all on me and life running away with me. This series has officially become a behind-closed-doors, slow-burn, reverse harem, LGBTQ+ friendly series, so keep that in mind if you venture into it.

I’ve actually got book 4 written already, have a printed author copy in my hands, and am doing edits in my free time – I just haven’t had a lot of free time to focus on it just yet, hence my excitement about the upcoming holidays and time off of the bill-paying job!

Anyway, I hope you’re all doing well, getting some reading in and having a pleasant year. I know the world went super-sideways for a while and it’s still tripping over its own feet about a lot of things, but I do hope you’re able to find some comfort in reading.

Take care, and since I know I won’t log in before then, Happy New Year!

~D. J. Humphries

My new book “Essence” is out now! I did make it so that if you buy the print copy through Amazon, you can get the digital copy for free! Links on where to purchase available on my Books Page.

This is a bit of a new thing for me, less YA, slightly more adult themes and a few less traditional ideas floating around in this world but I love it and am already deep into writing book 2 in this series!

Wolf Queen – Perri’s Story and Arianna’s Tale & Perri’s Story Boxset are now available! (details on where to purchase available on my Books page)

I am super excited to announce that Wolf Queen – Perri’s Story is finally finished and available for purchase, not only because Perri was one of my favorite characters in the original Arianna’s Tale trilogy, and not even just because it was supposed to be a novella but Perri had a lot more story to give than I could squish into a novella… But also because this all spurred from the fact that my niece, Perri, asked me to include her in my books. I never knew that (loosely) basing a character off of my beautiful, amazing niece would bring such stories to life and I am thrilled to share these with you!

As always, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave reviews! We self-published authors live off of our online reviews – they let other potential readers get a little better insight into whether or not they’ll like the story, and they give us writers feedback from our beloved readers!

Congrats to my giveaway winner Abbie Lu who will be getting this box of goodies on Monday! Thank you to all who entered! It was enough fun for me I just might have to do it again sometime soon 😜

Keep reading!!

Well all, I am extremely apologetic for my disappearance over the past few months!

I have been keeping up the most with my Twitter since tossing off a 150 character message is much easier than writing any sort of actual entry. Since I decided to go back to school for a second degree full time and work full time, plus I’ve made sure to start going to the gym at least twice a week and need to actually spend time writing my books, keep house, and spend time with my kitties! As I’m sure you can imagine, that hasn’t left me with very much time to be on my blog or promoting or anything…

The “good” news? I’ve written A LOT both on my Perri novella and my Ghost Hunter novel (from NaNoWriMo)-though I wish they would quit fighting for attention in my brain and let me finish one of them and then the other… Ah well, writer’s life, right? But seriously, the Ghost Hunter book kept me up until almost 2am with a great idea the other night and I had to be at work at 8am – I was running on fumes and caffeine all day (but still made it to the gym somehow O.o)

The cool news: while I wasn’t looking because my life got so busy, I got over 1,000 followers on Twitter!

I’ve decided I’m going to do a of signed copies of my trilogy but I’m not going to limit it to just Twitter, so check back on Friday for more information (if you’re interested)! 🙂

All I can tell you with certainty is that I’m definitely still writing my books, even though I do apologize that my social media is suffering from my busy schedule! I hope you all keep reading (and writing for those authors out there).

Hi all!

So as you can see (if you saw the old), I have definitely made some huge headway toward getting my website set up the way I want it to be 🙂 Thank you for your patience while I shift over to it being more website instead of only blog! I’m not thrilled with any of the Themes that WordPress is offering so I think I’m going to look into creating my own (yup, I’m that crazy person).

In the meantime, an anecdote…

At work the other day, one of the interns asked me where I get the inspiration for my books and I realized just how odd the answer to that question can be! Of course there’s the general “I had this really weird dream and remembered enough of it that it was the starting point for the story” (that one’s not unique), but the fact that I spun an entire book off of the way that the moonlight was playing on the skin of my arm through my blinds one night… that’s a little more odd! And this year’s NaNoWriMo novel is me taking the overarching idea I’d had for a book a while back, but I didn’t like where it had headed, so I’m keeping the main concepts and characters, and redoing it–but that entire setting popped in my head from driving around Indiana down this road where you’re running parallel to the train tracks with a small-ish strip of grass between the road and train tracks, and twice (only twice!) these two huge trees that look like they had been planted side-by-side ages ago pop up between you and the tracks, probably a couple of miles apart… What that has to do with ghost hunting and demons and mysterious deaths, I have no idea… but that’s where it led me!

Anyway! Thank you again for your patience as I continue working on my site! And Keep Reading!

Hi all!

I have decided to do a pretty massive overhaul to this site! It’s still a work in progress in my mind, so it’s going to take a little while to actually accomplish! Please be patient with me as I get it flipped around and changed! Also, please feel free to send out some suggestions (things you’d like to see, things you hate that I do, etc.). I know I don’t really have a lot of followers at this point, but I hope to get that in better order soon as well.

In the meantime, keep reading! If you’ve gotten book 1 or book 2 from smashwords, there’s a code in the back to get a discount on book 2 or book 3 because it’s Halloween month and I ❤ Halloween!

D. J. Humphries