About Midnight Flight

Midnight Flight is the continuation of El's story from Midnight Wings.

It picks up two years later, as El is about to graduate from fighter pilot training--the greatest achievement of her life. Three days before it's official, Queen Amina offers El a special task: join her crew of elite pilots, assassins, and trackers for a secret mission on a nearby planet. Thrilled at the opportunity, El agrees.

When they arrive on the planet, El keeps her eyes and ears open for any information that might be relevant to the queen—about the mission, the other members of the Queen's Guard, or the local inhabitants.

But on the team's return trip, when one of the assassins cracks open El's skull and leaves her for dead, El has to wonder—was this truly the queen's plan all along?

Although the book is about El, whose character was originally based off Cinderella, the story itself is a retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

New Year Update

Happy New Year! (A little bit late lol.) I have a lot of exciting things in the works, so I figured I should give a quick update:

First of all, books 6 and 7 of the Land of Szornyek series will be published this year! Book 6 is titled Breath of Fire, and Book 7 is titled Fog and Flame.

Secondly, several more fairy tales are in the works. Midnight Flight released today; next up in the queue is Giant Killer, which is the ninth book in the series and the direct sequel to The Stalk. It will be about Jack, and is a retelling of Jack the Giant Killer. (If you like box sets, I'll be creating box sets for the series as well.)

Third, I've been talking about my super secret project for almost three years now--a fantasy trilogy with magic, androids, and murder--I'll be releasing that this year! If you'd like to learn more about that and see some potential cover designs, click here to read about it.

Fourth, a couple of weeks ago, I announced on Instagram that I am working towards an unusual business goal. I don't usually include a lot of boring business development stuff in my newsletter, but I wanted to be transparent about some changes that will be happening moving forward.

The goal is this: in the future, I'd like all of my books (in their digital format) to be available for free. I have some personal reasons for this, but it is also about accessibility—I think stories make people's lives better, and if someone wants to read my books, I want them to be able to do that regardless of their financial situation. As part of the process, I am trying to set up alternative revenue streams so that I can afford to continue to produce books (production costs money!) even while the books themselves are free.

This means I will be talking about Patreon a lot more (if you'd like to support me as a patron, click here!). In addition, I set up advertising on my website, so if you browse through my blog posts, it will generate income from the ads appearing on the pages. I also have already started to develop products (you can see my t-shirt collection here [they run fitted!]) and will be adding more options in the future.

As part of this all, I've already made the first five books in my first ever series The Sagittan Chronicles free everywhere, if you're interested in reading them. The rest of the series (Fall of the Flighters and the two short stories) will be dropping to free in a couple of months.

Fifth, I'll be working on building out my A. J. Sieling brand with works of non-fiction, including more personal essays, essays on topics I like to think about, as well as books for writers. If you're interested in getting my newsletter for writers, you can click here.

Finally, I have a new super secret project in the works! Just kidding; it's not super secret. And no doubt I'll be talking about it a lot. It's a cozy, paranormal ghost mystery series with a beekeeper as the main character. The series will be titled Cecily Winters, and the first book is tentatively titled, Cecily Winters and the Mystery of the Missing Bees. Stay tuned for more information on that.

Aside from that, I'll be doing several writing workshops at various writers associations and conferences around the world this year, both on Zoom and in person, and I'll hopefully be at Baltimore Comic Con in the fall.