Chains Of Deceit is coming soon!

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We funded my second book, Chains Of Deceit! Yay! Thank you so much for all your support and for helping me bring these beautiful books into the world. I am finishing the final revisions before sending it to the editor. My Alpha reader (aka my husband) says it needs more kissing and a more epic ending! So I MUST deliver. Usually my fight scenes while I'm writing the first draft goes something like this:

They stare down the corridor with menacing grins and glinting eyes. ***come back and describe fight scene here*** Result is that MCG is wounded.

Which is funny to my husband. But I have to write the overall plot before I describe the details. It's jut how it works for me. *shrug* I don't mess with the formula. Details for me come last. I think it's because I write the first draft so quickly and roughly, I imagine it's like a sketch before the ink and pen. A rough in, if you will. Details comes later. So more kissing and a more epic ending is coming your way. I had a bunch of questions that needed to be answered and I wasn't sure where in the story to reveal them. So I wrote some things twice and see. how it felt. This is why revisions are super important to me. I get feedback from Rob who always has great suggestions and go from there.

What else is going on?

I sent in my Quixotica manuscript to an agent that I would love to rep my work. It's been a whole week and a half and I have to say I'm brimming with hope. 

I've been selling paperbacks at local pop-up shops. My family is now in a position where leaving them for an evening or a all-day event isn't quite the burden it used to be. I'm grateful for a supportive husband who helps me lug all the tables and cartons of books (books are heavy). But I love being out and talking with readers and see what they're reading. At the last one, they had a bunch of kids and now I wish I wrote Middle Grade books! They were all so smart and articulate! Someone's mama is doing a great job out there!


What's next?

After I send Chains to the editor I'm going to take a long nap. Then I'm working on two more books in the spring: The Cookie Platter and the next Seasons of Sugar Creek book 3 Spring Weddings. These stories have been itching around the inside of my head and after working on fantasy this year, it'll be nice to have a pallet cleanser! 

After that, I have some other stories I would like to explore. I wrote the beginnings to see if I like the characters and I have some fun stuff coming up! So stay tuned!









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