There are two points I come hard against while finishing a book.
One is, knowing when not to touch it anymore. Like, just don’t
Could something be better? That’s a never-ending pile of always. But if I just fix this one word…don’t. Knowing when to “don’t” is hugely important.
Set it to formatting, get it out in the world, and be done.
And the second point is where I ask my betas: “This isn’t even a book. What is this book about?”
Thankfully, I have peers who pat me on the head and say, “You do this with every book.”
We have reached these points with Sasha and Finn and here is something that I realized, with the comments from one of my amazing betas.
I have a thing for the flawed character.
I talked about it here with this post: The Flawed Character Who Doesn’t Apologize, meet Quinn Walsh but it’s taken to this book, book number whatever (still not sure how Sasha and Finn’s book is going to be numbered) to realize that it’s a thing that is through all my books and I like it.
Their flaws don’t get worked out and in the next book where they are mentioned, they are still their flawed selves, even while living their Happy Ever After.
In Flame For Chance, it is Finn Kraweic who has it together.
Okay, his heart is hurting but he pretty much has it together: a secure job, property, got friends, all those things that tend to make up “stability” and it’s Sasha, with her pesky problem of running out the door when things get too tense, uncomfortable or just because there is a door, who is flawed.
And maybe typically, it’d be expected that the Dom has beat this out of the bratty submissive. Sasha is a brat.
Finn is a Dom but he accepts her shortcomings.
I mean, he punishes her for her behaviour (that they agreed to, consensually) but helps her get to a better place to work it out…but she’s working it out. And when I started to worry if readers would accept this, if they’d expect her behaviour to change, for her to stop doing it…I pressed the button to send it to formatting. Because she is working on it…not perfect.
Anyways, Flame for Chance drops soon and I am so thrilled to have the next Bandit Brothers book out!
(soon, soon)
