Flashbacks & Filler- Back Feature of E'steem: A New Woman

 I almost didn’t get a chance to write this year’s books. In fact, I came this close to leaving this world last year.

Usually I like to talk to the reader and aspiring writers so they can learn what inspired these stories and what the lessons are in them in these back of the book features. But I almost wasn’t able to be here write this book.

In July of 2025 I had a heart attack. And I spent the last six months recovering from the angioplasty surgery. As I had to deal with heart issues, I didn’t have much time to think about writing. Before I had the heart attack which was later diagnosed as heart failure, I had only finished Isis: Runway of Doom, and started writing John Haynes: An Offer He Can’t Refuse, and part of Isis: No Goddess is an Island, and I hadn’t even the faintest idea what the E’steem story for 2025 would be.

For the last seventeen years I’ve been trying to follow God and do what he told me to keep going. Unfortunately, seventeen years of long-term unemployment and the stresses of being out of work, looking for work and running a publishing company and a YouTube channel took its toll on my health. The stress of worrying about trying to make a living off declining book sales and YouTube ad revenue affected not only my mental health, but my physical health. But I’m still trying to obey God. Still trying to keep going.

As I got out of the hospital, I dealt with the diagnoses of heart failure and type 2 diabetes by working on my recovery. In the downtime I returned to the keyboard of my Macbook Pro. I managed to get the John Haynes story finished, and then wrote two E’steem stories. Both revolved around E’steem’s relationship with Christ. The first story I did was about E’steem doing a livestream to talk about how her life had changed. It was essentially a recap story to let new readers know what happened with E’steem in the 20 books she made appearances in.

And the other was chronicling E’steem first days as a New Woman in Christ and the direction she was taking her life in with her relationship with God and John Haynes. A follow up to No Good Deed, this was going to be a flashback story that took place a few days after The Temptation of John Haynes. In that story it would showed how E’steem redefined her relationship with John to start being his helpmeet and set the goals for becoming the woman she always wanted to be.

The livestream story just wasn’t clicking, so I decided to publish the story set right after The Temptation of John Haynes. With it being a flashback story, it’d be like one of those filler comic stories publishers produce when a creator gets sick and can’t get the issues they want to print. One of those stories they have on hand to keep a series in print without gaps

so they don’t have to publish a reprint with a new cover like Fantastic Four Volume #180.

I was already feeling bad that I wasn’t able to publish an Isis book for 2025, and I didn’t want to have another year with gaps in SJS DIRECT Universe books. As I worked to recover from the heart surgery, I managed to finish five books. John Haynes: An Offer He Can’t Refuse, Isis: Runway of Doom, E’steem The Submitted Soul, E’steem: A New Woman and Isis: No Goddess is and Island. I thank God to be blessed to live to be able to finish those stories. And I hope I’ll be around to write more of them in the future.  

With a diagnosis of Heart failure, I don’t have much time left in this world. From what I’ve read it may be five years, it may be ten years. But I’m still trying to obey God and keep going. Where I’m going I don’t know. But I’m hoping I can be able to continue sharing my writing with everyone for as long as I can.