Month: February 2024

The lies that get us through

There is something doubly deflating about being sure and feeling like you’re ahead- you sent out ARC’s ahead of schedule! Before release! Way before the ‘Zon’s deadline! – You checked and re-checked your edits! – only to discover that it’s all lies.

Not all.

I’m still ahead of schedule.

My ARC Readers are super awesome, and I can’t thank them enough for their eagle eyes. The ARCs did get sent out before release. BUT.

Oh, it’s a big BUT, those edits? Gone. Like particles of nothingness that never existed.

Using my formatting program for editing probably wasn’t the greatest idea, but you can write in the program, and I hit the save button. But somehow, the edits aren’t there.

That’s okay.

You always kind of adjust something that is next to something else – or at least I have a tendency to do that – so some things are gone that I can’t get back but because of this raging head cold / virus thing I’ve been dealing with I’m way behind word count and that means, I’ve only been in this world and feel like I can get back on the train of what I had adjusted.

I’m wickedly proud of this book and reviews are saying nice things about it, so I’m thrilled for readers to have the next Mercy book.

By the time readers get it, it’ll be even stronger.

Speaking of stronger, I feel like Sasha and Finn need more love and I’ve re-written the blurb for Flame For Chance and I’m thinking a sale is in order, soon.

 

A trance of words

I feel like February has been one long head cold, not as fun as a  Dionysian trance but with the same amount of sticking power. I’ve been busy with Mercy’s next release…and I love this book so much. It’s giving me all kinds of feels. I wanted to write something that was sweet but spicy, with a tender loving Dom and plenty of fun, where the characters were old enough to have been around a time or two. 

I love writing suspense plots but I am glad I took the break from the Bandit Brothers Series because as I’m spending time with Ares and Josie, I feel refreshed to come back to it. We have snow here, the myth of a warmer winter gone.

The next book I write, needs to be somewhere warm and sunny but that new project is going to have to wait. Josie and Ares are in the snowy mountains and I can’t wait to see hwat happens at Ares’s chalet.

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When it’s too real …

My February started off with a plot twist that has thrown my world into a whirlwind, and like all good plot twists, I can’t reveal it just yet…and maybe not for a long, long time from now, several more books until I do, kind of timeline.

February also caused me to lose access to my Instagram account that I have had ever since I started writing, and I am so sad about this. I had the best mutuals and so much history that I don’t have access to. I keep trying to get it back but it’s not looking likely. I made a new one, and please give me a follow over there: https://www.instagram.com/raleighdamsonwrites/

I had a dream about an angry soccer mom showing up at my door and complaining because they didn’t like the fact that I let my kid do something they disagreed with, and let me tell you? That was entirely too real for my liking. It was so real; I was all confused when I woke up, thinking it was soccer day.

When a reader connects with my book and characters? It’s magical! And I adore this new review on Flame For Two! Have you read Xander, Harper and Logan’s story? It’s here 

If you want to read a steamy bonus scene from my alter ego, grab it here: Later That Night 

Going to keep writing and stay in my writing bubble – it’s much more pleasant than all this realness!

 

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