Anne C. West

It’s time for another Week in the Life video from me.

Updating my Short Stories is ongoing. Secrets In The Sand is the 10th collection of short stories and consists of cosies set at the coast! It’s quirky. It’s cute. And I love it!

Last week I told you that Notebooks, the 7th collection in the Short Stories Series, is my 3 stars collection and it’s available on Amazon and through KU. Did I say it’s a sci-fi collection?

When Hearts Leap, the 9th collection in the Short Stories Series, is also available on Amazon and through KU.

My Unknown Series of sweet regency romance novellettes is now boxed up and ready for your read!

I hope to give my serials attention from next week, so hopefully you’ll see that in the weekly vlogs. So much to write and so little time!!! Plus of course, the energy thing that is actually more intense.

That’s it for today.

Cheers!
Anne

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It’s time for another Week in the Life video from me.

This week I focused on editing, editing, editing! My goodness!

The writing bit is fun. Okay, not exactly fun, but not exactly torture. Then there’s editing. This is a unique type of torture for me. It usually accompanies a lot of cringing during the first reading and subsequent rereadings of the blog post, short story, chapter, scene, or whatever I worked on. Then it’s the ‘you know what, that’s not too shitty’ phase.

Then the rewrite starts. This part I particularly detest. It’s also here where I kinda just forget I ever wrote that and leave it saved in Drive. But then, I’m pulled back to what I wrote because of the initial idea I had. Because, yes, my ideas hound me! And that’s usually where I straighten my spine, look myself in the mirror and remind myself why I’m doing this.

Hence, the week that passed…

I’m updating my Short Stories series as it is now on Amazon.

The original series was a single short story. Now it’s building into collections. I’ve updated two of the current collections with additional short stories. Notebooks, the 7th collection in the Short Stories Series, was updated with a second sci-fi short story. And boasts 3 stars on Amazon! Isn’t that wonderful!?

When Hearts Leap, the 9th collection in the Short Stories Series, boasts four women’s fiction short stories. Please give it a read and let me know what you think with some stars! It would make my ink-filled heart really happy!

The collection you see me edit with ferocity is the Secrets In The Sand, collection 10 in the Short Story Series. This cosy mystery series goes live 24 August 2025, and I have a bit of editing I want to get through.

My serials are currently being horribly neglected. And for that, I’m truly sorry. But as soon as I can get ‘me head out of me arse‘ and get this done, you’ll have serials to enjoy again! But thank you for your patience.

In the meantime, look out for the box set of my Unknown Series, currently available in single books through Amazon and Amazon KU. With it the bonus scenes in the single books as their own collection of short stories! Both are available 17 August 2025. Also, remember to grab your free short story. Follow the link at the top of this blog post.

That’s it for today.

Cheers!
Anne

**Please send me an email with your feedback at anne@annecwest.co.za. Comments vanish and get missed, hence emails.**

It’s time for another Week in the Life video from me.

Last week was all about tax prep. I’m happy to report that my 2025 taxes are officially out of the way. Cue small victory dance. And yes—believe it or not—I’ve already started prepping for 2026. I know. Unbelievable.

I also hinted last week at some changes coming to my Short Stories series. Well, I’ve continued working on that. I’m planning a proper round of blog posts and emails to share the details, especially about the shifts in my collections currently available through Amazon KU.

Speaking of which—I’ve been dabbling a lot more in the Amazon ecosphere. It’s massive, obviously, with a mind-blowing number of readers, but goodness, the bureaucracy can really get to you. Still, it is what it is, and here we are.

If I’m honest, I’ve been feeling a bit blah lately. Not sure exactly why, but my energy has been low, and my productivity has taken a bit of a knock. I guess sometimes that just happens—and that’s okay too.

Remember to grab your free short story. Follow the link at the top of this blogpost.

That’s it for today.

Cheers!
Anne

**Please send me an email with your feedback at anne@annecwest.co.za. Comments vanish and get missed, hence emails.**

It’s time for another Week in the Life video from me.

Last week’s focus on taxes and other admin tasks kinda derailed my focus. I ended up doing too little writing and editing and way too much manuscript reformatting. Yes, a necessary task, but not something I wanted to do. It’s still on going.

In the near future I will be giving the changes to the Short Stories Series through to you. I think you’ll like it.

That’s it for today.

Cheers!

**Please send me an email with your feedback at anne@annecwest.co.za. Comments vanish and get missed, hence emails.**