Another rainy day. May as well publish a book.

 What does one do when it's another rainy day, and your short happy ass does NOT want to go out and get groceries in it?

One publishes a book. 🥳

Submitted "Fascination", Book 3 of the Rivers Sisters series to Amazon, both paperback and Kindle.  It's always a surreal and incredibly proud moment.  Rather like giving birth.  

I did that.  I made that.  I love that.  Look at how pretty my baby is.  🥰

And then me.  Being me.  Starts immediately back on another work.  I've two works in progress right now.  Book one in an incredibly dark series.  And I've started on Book 4 in the River Sisters series.  Of course, now that I've finished Book 3, I'm also jotting down scenes for Book 5.  It's cute how I do that.  🙄  Sure.  I won't bite off toooooo much.  But when I finish a book in a series like that, I will immediately start giving myself permission to explore the book in progress and the next one.

Literally.

Always writing*

Rivers Sisters Series

 Brief overview of the five-book series:

Colleen, Heather, Megan, and Paisley are raised by their mother, Grace Rivers. They are witches unknown to all magical historians. Their father, Herman, sacrificed himself for their mother, and their family is cursed to never reunite. But there is a slim chance. For each daughter must find a mate worthy to make the dangerous trek to rescue Herman. None realize this, but the powers that imprisoned him know. The dark ones throw everything they can at this family to prevent that rescue from ever happening.

But these witches are strong and will not back down from any challenge. The stakes are raised in each book, higher and higher, with evil finding new ways to hurt and try to stop the fractured family.

Most rivers run.

But these Rivers fight.

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Always writing*

Saturday Plans

 It's my day off.  We all know that doesn't mean what it sounds like.

I'll be editing "Fascination", third book in the Rivers Sisters series, for the last time.  Possibly uploading to Amazon today.  If not, I have Wednesday and Thursday off.  I'll shoot for that.  I work tomorrow at the day job, which is ass.  A one-to-five day is actually a 10-6 day for me.  Getting ready, driving an hour, working 12-5, driving an hour home.  The day is shot.  But it's my LAST Sunday to have to work.  There's that.  😁

Will work on "Incantation", fourth book in the Rivers Sisters series, if I feel the yen to do so.  Or I can pop back over and work on my first book of a dark little trilogy I started.  Not sharing the title.  It's a thing for me.  I'm a bit superstitious in that way.  Not a romance in the slightest.  Reflection, regression, and redemption.  Story of a soul and the journey it takes.  I was on that hot and heavy before I popped out "Dante's Desire", finished "Fascination", and absolutely glued myself to the keyboard for "Chimera".  It's always that main character that plucks at me.  I'm absolutely addicted to writing their stories.  

Have I told you about my mind cabin?  😎

It's sort of like a chalet, I've never been to one, but my subconscious has ideas.  I'm chilling out in the main room.  All sorts of beings wandering in and out.  Some say "Hi!".  Some give me a dude nod.  Some promise to see me later...with no indication of how long "later" will be.  And they explore and walk off to wherever they need to be.  It's wonderful.  High traffic.  I greet everyone.  Every once in awhile I'm taken off-guard, but that's okay.  It's good for me.  It is, quite literally, never a dull moment in my white matter.

I'm off to be a word wizard.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Always writing*

HAPPY PRIDE!

 I think this year, perhaps more than any other, it's important to be vocal.  It seems as though the LGBTQIA+ community is facing more hate than ever.  The Transgender Community targeted with more vitriol.  A community that simply wants to love being torn apart by those who fear what they don't understand and will never try to.  What is there to understand?  Love.  Love across genders and non-genders.  Uncomplicated unfettered unrestricted love.  Scary, huh?

No.

It's not.

If it's about appearance, then being shallow is a chosen trait.  Fix yourself.  If it's about what people are doing in their bedrooms, that, quite frankly, is no one's business but those involved.

I find it horrifying the fascination and condemnation from those that use THAT as their moral objection.  Guess what?  Hetero couples?  I know for a DAMN FACT there is shit going on up in there that I want no part of.  What people do, sexually, to each other is no one else's concern if it's consensual.  The fact that you are fixated by it says a LOT about you and nothing about them.

I live in a state where a bigoted white male makes laws.  He's a despicable human being who has forced his agenda on the entire population.  I can't stand the sight of him.  

HE is what happens when we don't speak up.  

HE is what happens when we don't educate others.  

HAPPY PRIDE!  LOUD AND PROUD!  Spreading love!  💓

Always writing!

Writing and editing

 Life would be AMAZING if all I had to do was write write write what came to me and hand off the decidedly less-fun activities to others.  I'm looking at you, synopsis.  

But honestly?  Then I wouldn't learn anything.

Editing gives me an opportunity to look at my work, with an as objective eye as I'm able, and tighten it down to make it better.  Who wouldn't jump at the opportunity?  From overuse of words (such as assholes "that" and "had") to repetition of words in the same sentence, hello Thesaurus.

I finished "Fascination", Megan's story, three days before I started "Chimera".  Seems like I've given her enough time to breathe.  Cool editing fact:  If you try to edit too soon after you finish...you will begin to resent words in general, especially your own.  😣

I believe she's a little over 68,000 words.  Glanced over her yesterday after querying.  There's a nice segue into Paisley's story, "Incantation".  That makes me happy for the simple fact I've already started that one.

I made notes for the five-book series years ago and now add to it as the details come.  Sometimes I truly adore my wee brain.

That's the plan.  Edit.  Write.  

Enjoy your day.

Always writing*

It has begun...someone pound on the drums for me...

I've finished "Chimera."  This is the first time I've publicly written the title anywhere.  Now I'm querying agents, and they want to know if I have a website and blog.  Um...yes?  

I do!

But I also have a forty-hour a week job and add ten hours to commute.  BUT...*happy dance*...my last day at the day job will be JULY 1st!!!  They offered early retirement and blah blah blah, and I jumped on it. 😁

Now, instead of killing myself on the weekends, working 9-7 in my office, The Sanctuary, I'll be able to kill myself five or six days a week!  You have no idea how excited I am!  

I started "Chimera" on 2/11/22 and finished it on 5/8/22 with 65,795 words.  I only now looked at the dates.  I use index cards with the date, the words I start and finish.  I wrote this beautiful book while working my full-time day job.

Imagine what my short ass can do simply focusing on the writing!  I'm not a swooning chick, but I may swoon.  😂

Basically...I'm back.  I'm blowing the dust off this bad boy and making it a priority.  

Damn.  I am excited!!!

Always writing*

Latest addiction!

I finished an Erotic Fantasy Romance and a Contemporary Romance about the same time.  I've decided to publish both on Amazon.
It's not easy writing a book.  You reveal more than you want to of yourself.  And there are so many parts of the process that can trip you up.  I'm talking to YOU "sagging middle".   bastard

But a wonderful part?  Shutterstock.
I'm addicted to thumbing through hundreds of pages of photos to find the PERFECT one for a book cover.  While looking, I often find inspiration for another book.  Scenes or faces that ping something in me that I know will, someday, become a story.

It took me no time at all to find the cover for Please Come Again.  I've already downloaded all the pictures for the Rivers' Sisters series.  I have folders for other stories and have started some for pictures that intrigue me.

I love it.

I will add a disclaimer telling you that you may not want to skim around on your work computer because some pictures are NSFW.  😁

I'm off to poke around and find a cover for my Contemporary Romance now.

Happy reading!

Always writing*