C. M. Rosens

Hello! This is not my first post of the year, but 2025 is still very new. This is what you can expect from this site going forward; I’ve broken it down into 10 major things to look out for!

Schedule of Posts – 2025

The schedule for regular posts will be Wednesdays and Fridays from the end of February onwards, with Mondays for alerts to the bonus episodes on my podcast.

Additional posts will be few and far between, but will slot in on Mondays also for consistency.

Up to February, Author Spotlight Interviews will go live on Wednesdays.

Once the podcast starts, alerts for the main episodes will go live on Wednesdays and the Author Spotlights will shift over to Fridays.

Top 10 Updates for 2025

1. Website updates – you may have noticed this, but cmrosens.com has had a makeover! I like this a lot better and I hope you do too. I’ve also got a new website: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk. This is a pretend Council website I set up for Pagham-on-Sea, as I got the domain name for Christmas. I’ll be posting infrequently there, but you can go and comment on the different pages with pretend “reviews” for its cafes, bars, events, and more. Go check out the comments it’s already got, because they are hilarious! Feel free to do this anonymously and/or under your account, so you can leave more than one.
   
2. Author Spotlight Series – this took off more than I expected last year, and due to its success, I’m going to continue it through 2025. It gets its own page on my menu with the list of 2024 and 2025 authors respectively, so it’s easy to find.
   • Please note that I’m always open for BIPOC indie authors, and especially would like to uplift your work, as well as queer and disabled and neurodivergent authors.
   • I already have a lovely group of diverse authors, and would encourage you to check them out and share the pages on your socials, so people can find these interviews and get to know more authors!
   • Especially share interview links if I’ve spotlighted you! Let’s get eyes on your work, and the others in the series!
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3. Yelen & Yelena eARCs – you have 2 chances to grab an eARC through January!
   • One option is via the Dark Fantasy Freebies promo, running until 31st January.
   • The second option is via the Queer Your eReader event on 25th Jan, where you’ll have one day to get a ton of free fiction.
   • If you get your ARC from these events, please leave an honest review on Goodreads/Storygraph, and then after release, if you can, please copy & paste your ARC review to the eBook/print platform of your choice (the more the better!)
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4. Yelen & Yelena Print and eBook Release – my Hope-punk Dark Gothic Fantasy comes out 14th Feb 2025. You can check out its main page here.
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5. Yelen & Yelena Audio Release – 19th Feb 2025 on the Eldritch Girl podcast. I’ll be serialising this one weekly on Wednesdays, with Bonus Episodes on Mondays, so the Author Spotlight Series will move to Fridays as soon as this starts.
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6. Yelen & Yelena Audio: Early Access and Audiobook Files (mp3) – Currently available as free to all, you can access Chapters 01 and 02 on my Ko-Fi and get your sneak peek at the first 2 chapters.
   • All the other early access episodes are member-only, but also available to the Tip Jar members (patrons of the podcast, a new tier donating £1.50 a month, and getting a free eBook and mp3 downloads as a thank you).
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7. THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD – This book is hopefully getting a makeover this year too, with a new cover commissioned. Watch this space for the reveal later in 2025.
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8. Monthly Fiction (Pagham-on-Sea) – Join my Ko-Fi for monthly fiction from Pagham-on-Sea, including flash fiction, short stories, and letters to you from the characters! Check out my masterlist page for all the fiction you could access already as a member, including all the eBook files you can download.
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9. New Releases – More on these later, but I’m working on a lot of different stories. You can definitely expect a Ricky Porter anthology of short stories and The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre novella coming later in 2025. This is going to be available in print as well as via eBook, and I’ll do the audio for it too. This may not be on the podcast, but the mp3 files will be available on my Ko-Fi.
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10. Birds of a Feather – My Ko-Fi exclusive contemporary (a)romantic thriller has gained a bit more traction, so I will be adding the mp3 audio file to this so people can have both the eBook file and the audio to download, and I’ll also make the mp3 available to buy separately for anyone who has already bought the eBook. The price of this book will go up to £5.99 to reflect the additional files.

A Final Plea:

If you’ve read and liked anything of mine, please drop into a Reddit thread, a Goodreads forum, a Facebook group, or any social media platform you’re on, and rec it there! Word of mouth is THE best way for books to gain traction.

If you want to post a review on your blog or just say you’ve read something of mine and liked it, that would be amazing too (no need to tag me).

I would deeply, deeply appreciate it.