About the next one

I was so determined to keep updating this website.  And I am still.  I just got a little snagged on this whole ‘let’s move across the country’ bit.  Turns out it takes a bit of effort to manage and requires slightly more organization than a long camping trip.  Still.  We’re here now and getting settled.  Which is why the second book got pushed to late April. 

It’s done – mostly. I’m just swimming through the standard panic period and using my allotted time for fretting over if I’ve mixed up my dashes and commas.  The worst part is when I toss everything up in the air and ask myself if the story is even something I want to share anymore.  It’s hard not to feel done with the project after reading it twenty different times.  Some things start to lose their meaning like a word said so many times that it will never sound right again.

I am also very aware of suffering from moments of impatience.  I will suddenly decide that I’ve finished and good enough is somehow now perfectly great.  So now when I feel like I’ve hit that irrational point, I step back and wait a little longer.  It’s like writing an email while in a blind rage – never send that email – wait for rational thought.

So lucky me (us?), I have passed the impatience and am currently well grounded in rational thought and ready to let loose the next book.

If you have been cruising around this website, you’ll have noticed that I gave away the title.  Crimes of Business and Pleasure.  Sounds scandalous, yeah?  Depending on your level of desensitization, it is.  I had moments of raw sadness and wonderous victory while writing it.  Heat and hunger.  Fragile and fearsome.  Longing and loneliness.  I could go on, but I won’t.  I adore the leads and hope you find them at least tolerable.