Happy New Year! I hope it’s treating you well so far. I’m going to launch straight into updates — most of which are the result of me reevaluating my life all of last year and deciding what I want to happen over the next twenty years before I’m too old and achy to do anything! Here’s what’s going on…

Acting

Check into Sky Crime on 14th January, 2025 to watch World's Most Evil Killers, season 9, ep. 2, to see if you can spot me.

Any further acting work I get, I will send you when I am able to.

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Writing

Having written over 25 publications (including novels and novellas) in the span of 13 years (from 2010-2023), writing fiction is now something I do "as and when". All the projects listed below have no dates. The Eye of the Storm series can be considered complete — only one side story novelette still needs to be written. The Witching Pen series was complete a long time ago, and the Once Times Thrice novels are fairly complete within each book. I am very thankful for all my long-time readers still sharing my books, and all the new readers finding my books — I hope they inspire you, and I hope you'll agree they are unique in some way. They can be enjoyed for decades to come and I am so glad about that.

Art

In 2025, I am focusing on TV and film work, and also beginning an MA degree in Illustration at the end of January. Most of my time is spent illustrating at the moment; anyone who is interested can view my work here and there is a separate Substack for art news.

Home Life

In more personal news, our daughter is going to turn 16 in a few months and is taking her GCSE school exams this year — we’re doing the whole ‘6th form college interviews’ thing. Our two cats, Indigo and Green are still with us — they’ll be 10 years old in summer this year and are as cheeky and lovable as ever (but also starting to get that middle-aged grumpiness!).

Things still to do that will get done at some point:

Audiobook of A Silver Kiss (Vampire Poetry) — I may also create sketches for this compilation and bring out a whole new illustrated edition; same with ‘Til Death Do Us Part.

The Witching Pen series new paperback covers (this series has been missing paperbacks for quite a while). Read about the complete series.

Jewels of the Crown — the final novelette in the After the Storm novelette series.

The final novel of the Once Times Thrice series - this is 37% completed (of an estimated 80,000 word novel).

Dianna's Writing Desk Podcast — this podcast is halted, but there are plans to restart it as an overarching audio newsletter that covers ALL of what I do from art, to acting, to writing, with interviews and such.

So there it is. I apologise it’s not news of a new book to read, but as you can see, a lot has been and is happening in other areas, and at some point my books will get another look in — but they are available and still there doing their awesome thing :)

Big love to you all — keep well and be happy.

Dianna xx

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