Retirement

I've been retired a year on July 5th.

One year of no day job but my own.  Not going to lie.  That first month was weird.  I deep-cleaned the house and weeded and spun like a whirling dervish.  I knew I had a due north, but I was so used to being on my feet non-stop and moving moving moving, I had a difficult time slowing my roll.

Gradually.  Gradually.

I began to breathe.  I focused on being in the Sanctuary each day until fourish and worked on my writing.  I've published three books in this year, "Fascination, Chimera, and Canary."  Not bad.  😁

I'm grateful for the time I've been able to spend working on a career that means everything to me.  The opportunity to become the author I'm meant to be.  I can't explain how absolutely vital this is to who I am.

But besides the career, I've been available.

I've been available to watch grandchildren, be Nurse Ratched for Molly's knee operations, and come back to myself.  I've been available to help clean out a grandparents' home, have lunch with friends during the week, and be the weirdo that enjoys shopping at nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning.  I can clean the house, make dinner for Molly, and finish laundry by five.

This time is precious.  This time is...amazing.  I never take it for granted.  Not one minute.

Always writing*

CANARY

Anti-hero.

Fae.

Demons. Rage siblings. Mouthy mortals.

Ray Smith is a solitary soul.
Hijacked by determined siblings, she’s thrust into a Fae war with high stakes and ruthless consequences. Ray reluctantly agrees to help and soon becomes head of the growing group. She embodies the daring leader her siblings need, but apathetic anti-heroes aren’t above the fray.
A psychotic birth mother. Creatures bred to kill. An obnoxious Fae Queen. Siblings to protect.
Ray finds herself thrust into the twisted lineage game that takes no prisoners. There is no room for errors, and the clock is ticking.

"Canary" available in eBook and paperback. Book 1 in the "Canary" trilogy.

Always writing*

Double the pleasure. Double the fun. Double the stress.

Y'all of a certain age probably remember the doublemint twins and their commercials.  Cute tie-in between the twins, and the gum being "double" mint.  Catchy jingle.

Double can be good or bad.  I always wanted to be a twin.  Thank the good Lord he saw what an incredibly bad idea that would be.  

I was going to strictly use IngramSpark for distribution for "Chimera" and "Canary."  Turns out that isn't working for me, and I've also released them on Amazon.  I'm not even going to compare the difference in intuitive instruction. 😒 

Sometimes it's hard to keep track of both of anything.  Two FB pages, one professional and one personal.  Same with Twitter.  I've given up on Insta.  Shame on me.  Streamlining sounds great.  I tried tweetdeck for one day, had a small mental breakdown, and never opened it again.  I like my chaos how I like my books.  Started by me.  😎

Hope I've made a good call here.  If not, brace yourself for the blog post that states I'm an idiot because I think I can multi-task things outside my head like I can INSIDE my head.  😬

Koo koo kachoo

Always writing*

...and diversifying my portfolio...😂