8/25/25 My first book is getting so much positive feedback. Not only from friends, family and coworkers, but strangers as well. The only thing that has been a damper on this experience is a so called friend from high school leaving 1 star review on Amazon. I have my suspicions on why she did that, but Amazon has not removed it, even though I have evidence supporting this was maliciously done. I have decided to use this as a learning experience and possibly as inspiration for an upcoming novel.

Because that is what I’m currently working on. What Happens Next is the sequel to What Really Happened. It will have someone different as a main character but Sam and Diana will return. I don’t want to give too much away but I am currently down the rabbit hole of questionable psychology experiments like the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the Milgram Experiment. Something the villain knows well.

I hope to have the first draft done by Labor Day, and will use the next few months to write the other books I plan to publish next year as there are plans for several.

Keep checking back for updates, but in the meantime… back to the grindstone.

10/31/25

Today marks the 90th day since I became a published author. I have been shooketh on how well What Really Happened, my debut novel under Raven Lynne has done. Thank you sincerely from the bottom of my heart for the support.

I have been writing like a fiend and making much progress on my writing goals for next year. But am happy to say I have met the goals I had for the sequel What Happens Next and the next book I am pubslishing (…drumroll please….)

Which is why I am excited to annouce my brand new clean series, The Rising Calls Series. Book 1 Rising Crime. This will be published under my real name Raven Conces to help seperate it from my books that are a little more graphic.

If you are wondering…but Raven, What Really Happened wasn’t that spicy? I know… seeing how many people I knew like my boss, and former teachers, and my friends dad want to be supportive and read it…I’ll be honest. I chickened out… future books under Raven Lynne, will move more in that direction of the romantic supsense books I like to read. Like Kay Hooper, Linda Howard, Iris Johansen, and Stephaine Laurens, just to name a few of my favorite authors.

But my goal is to have Rising Crime releasing on 2/14/26. This is a novella and will only be avaliable as an eBook on Amazon until I have the whole 6 book series released and then will do a printed omibus copy.

In addition to the sequel of What Really Happened, What Happened Next, and this new Novella. I plan to publish some fall themed books and have them ready just in time for fall next year.

So thank you for sticking with me on this insane journey I’ve taken on becoming an author. Your support is making my dreams come true.

11/15/25

I was not planning on pushing Rising Crime live for pre-orders yet… wow I just kept looking at the cover concepts I had created and everything just feeling off. So I went to Canva to see what I could create on my own. And I loved it! It’s plain and simple sure, but it does everything I need it to in a cover… and it’ll be apart of a theme. Since I’m still very small time and since many people probably aren’t reading this website yet. I’m planning on hiding easter eggs in certain things around here. You can 100% blame Taylor Swift for this as I constantly go down the rabbit hole of trying to guess her next move.

But it was once I got the cover finalized the momentum was there and that’s one thing I’ve learned when you have momentum use it. Sometimes it means I don’t get a lot of sleep and I put myself out there too much, but it has led me to some interesting destinations.

So here I will share all of the cover concepts of the Rising Calls Series and the Omibus edition. They probably still need some slight editing to make sure everything looks even, but overall this is what they’ll look like.

11/30/25
So I am getting ready to finish the sale of a lifetime. I’d forgotten I’d set up What Really Happened to be free for 5 days over Thanksgiving, and it was a damn good idea as I got tons of downloads. I walked away from a lot of money doing that, but I’m hoping it leads to a strong Cyber Monday, and many reviews and reccomendations.

I enjoyed it so much, that I plan to do this every year. I personally think it’s ridiculous how expensive books have gotten the price I have to put them at just to make $1 is ridiculous. So this is my way of giving back to the readers by having one week a year where the ones on Kindle Unlimited are free so people can enjoy them.

One thing though is I’ll probably not be writing updates here much anymore…because I had a better idea.

I know I’m crazy to have the next 10 years of books already planned….if you’ve found the hidden vault, you know.

But what if I basically write an Autobiography call it The First Draft, and put all of my updates on my writing journey there. It’ll be part Autobiography, and part journal, but I want to work on it as my journey to becoming an Author is happening, not 10 years from now when I have to try and remember everything.

So I’ve gotten started, and it’s coming together nicely. There will be a chronological order to it you can follow, but it won’t be printed in order as each section will have a specific topic. Such as the Business Side of becoming an Author, and the Rise of Political Outsiders and what fun I had writing the first draft of that story.

But hopefully it’s the kind of thing that lets people get to know me, in a way I think will be useful because I plan to do a lot to deserve to have an autobiography, hopefully everything will work out.

But as midnight looms closer and the end of my sale becomes official and I get to see how well I really did. It basically tripled my numbers in 5 days of sales and total readers and I climbed as high as #3 on Amazon’s Free section for Kidnapping Crime Fiction. Which is insane considering my lack of budget, my lack of social media, and the fact the book has only been out for 4 months.

But it tells me something important. My cover and blurb are working, it’s compelling enough to make people want to click download. Knowing that is worth more than money as the next book gears up.

1/11/2026

Happy New Year! A lot of work has been done over the last few weeks. I finished first drafts of several books, and it helped me narrow my focus to just 2 to be published this year. Rising Crime is now off with a professional editor and is set to release on Valentine’s Day. And Political Outsiders, I am aiming to have it published by the 4th of July. I am super excited for both! I was also able to complete the cover for What Happened Next, the sequel to What Really Happened.

I wanted to take a moment to publish something here on my website to say thank you. Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, everyone who has followed me on this journey. I just had a work conference, and it truly touched me how many people came up saying they heard I’d written a book and were proud of my accomplishments.

It’s hard to find the words to describe what it feels like when my coworkers, my bosses, my bosses, bossess boss, people I respect and look up to, say these things like what I’m doing matters. That is why my next book. Rising Crime is dedicated to my coworkers, the people who have to put up with me day in and day out. I love you guys.

2/20/26

The latest update on my writing journey is very exciting. Rising Crime is now officially in the water, and due to stellar job performance I was awarded a nice bonus which is going to fund an Audiobook of Rising Crime.

I am deep in the process of listening to submissions for auditions and I am blown away by how many talented narrators there are interested in this book. Hearing it read by a professional is making me feel like I knew what I was doing when I wrote this… fun fact, I just make it up as I go and try to get it to sound like the stuff I enjoy reading.

Actually, I don’t believe that’s mentioned on here anywhere. My list of favorite authors.

JK Rowling is who got me into reading when I was 13. I used to hate it. But when Harry Potter became a movie, I decided to check out the book and fell in love with reading then.

Then one summer when I was 17 I had an administrative assistant job at a go-cart track and the previous employee left a book on the desk. Iris Johansen Dead Aim… and I fell in love with the genre of romantic suspense/thrillers.

Via that one book and the recommendation they would put of other authors similar I found Kay Hooper, Lisa Kleypas, Linda Howard, Julie Garwood, Julia Quinn, Stephanie Laurens, Christina Dodd and Suzanne Brockmann. All of whom write wonderful books.

But if I had to choose just one as my favorite. It has to be Finding Laura by Kay Hooper. It is still to this day my all time favorite love story and murder mystery.

4/19/26

I was able to cast the very talented Duet Duo Alex Corbett Ashby, and Cynthia Lucia for Rising Crime. One thing that stood out about them was their professionalism and how they were able to make the 911 calls and radio traffic sound realistic. It’s only waiting on the final approval process from Amazon, and then it’ll be available on Audible. I seriously can’t wait for people to get to hear this audiobook. It turned out so good!

5/9/26

I just got my manuscript back for Political Outsiders, and my editor said she loved the book. Honestly, I’m probably more nervous about releasing this one than any of the others because of the subject matter.

Other than the usual pro-2A themes that naturally appear in my books, my only real political goal with this story is to encourage people to become informed voters. Know why you believe what you believe. Know why you’re voting the way you are.

We may all arrive at different conclusions because we’ve all lived different lives and had different experiences that shape our worldview. That’s part of why I love these characters so much. When you really examine their platforms, there are both similarities and differences, all rooted in a deeper question:

Is the role of government to cause the least harm, or to create the most good?

More than anything, I hope this story encourages people to pay attention during the primaries, examine their “why,” and become more informed voters.

You’ll probably never hear me fully condemn one side over the other. If anything, this book reflects my frustration with how political parties themselves can sometimes encourage tribalism, reduce people to teams, and shift the focus from solving problems to simply winning elections.

My hope is that people stay curious, think critically, and never stop asking why they believe what they believe.

So this is why I’m nervous. This book tackles some very mature themes while still making room for levity, romance, spice, and suspense. But with more and more people feeling disconnected from the current political system, I also felt like the time was right for the kind of story this book is trying to tell.