For us, this is our annual “Take Dad To Get Ice Cream Day” and I might be slightly giddy because the cubs and Mr. Damson are going for a hike and maybe, maybe it can also be, “Take Dad For A Hike Day”, anyways, it leaves me with an empty house and blank pages to write.
I have Nick and Mulberry’s book all outline but you know what happened, last night? Clara, who is my steadfast background character popped up with, “I want a book of my own.”

So I’m telling her to hush (and maybe asking Marrock to rope the girl up for awhile) and getting to work with Nick. These two deserve their book.

Being a smutty romance writer on father’s day is wild because my feed is filled with Daddy-kink recs and I love it.
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To all those who are celebrating Father’s Day, today, I wish you a great one!

That was my word count today. It’s not often I hit 4k in one day but I did today so it’s worth noting. On what? Well, I was so releived to have a break from Ivy & Gabe (until I get edits back) I visited Sasha & Finn again.

And as I re-read Sasha & Finn, I remembered why I wanted to write this story. It’s an intro to the Bandit Brothers World, we see Jordan and it even ties in to the next series. But not only that, Sasha is a sassy, brat who was a ton of fun to write. These two aren’t new to kink or BDSM and they hot and heavy fast.

But they needed it slowed down just a little bit. I have a thing about making characters rush to it. Slight spoiler if you haven’t read Flame For You: After Simone leaves the hospital, in the early draft, I had Quinn go all Alpha on her. Without feeding her soup. And betas were like, “You know, this guy needs some redemption” and I agreed, even though I liked that Mr. Walsh showed some emotion, there.

So anyways, Sasha & Finn got 4k added to them and I really can’t wait to share this with readers. ARC Team is now open for Flame Again, the linky is here.

Questons I’m contemplating this morning, as I start plotting Book Four of the Bandit Brothers Series. This is the story of Nick and Mulberry (yes, that Mulberry). I’m so exicited to write this one because I think it’s going to be fun and the story is going to move the series to the conclusion-we find out who was behind Mulberry’s kidnapping. Will we find out who was behind the attack on the Bandit Brothers, that fateful day in June? Mmmm…not exactly, no.
This book is more slow-burn than the rest, though there is going to be where it almost-happened, that one night before we get on with it. Nick is so damn stubborn because Mulberry is everything he thought he didn’t want.
Anyways, it’s humid around these parts-which means something different than humid where I used to live-basically here, it means my eyes are red and puffy and I can’t see the screen too clearly until the allergy pill kicks in–thankfully there is coffee until then.

Have a good Tuesday, friends!

Being an author … is wild. You could be having a perfectly good book day, smiling after you just saw your sales for the month so far (double digits-total win!) and then realize that someone 2-star’d your book on ‘Zon. Ugh.

Time to get back to edits for Flame Again and keep on writing. Hope you have a great start to your week, friends!

This isn’t the first time I have lost sleep over this book. And I am so thankful to have fantastic beta readers who have kept cheering these characters on because I have been ready to throw it into the fire several times.
And I don’t know if that’s the reason for my sleeplessness, but here I am. Too bleary-eyed to do anything to the manuscript, I’ve written down a bunch of notes that went through my head, and I hope they’ll make sense in the morning.

Usually I quip, “It’s just another plate to juggle.” Or, “I don’t do it all! You should see my house!” in answer to the question, “How do you do *all* this?” And the person means homeschooling the cubs, writing, part time giging, you know, all the things.

Everyone has a thing. So this is just my set of things that I am constantly juggling and constantly running on exhasuted-pigeon status.

But it dawned on me today that I juggle better when I don’t have a surprise to deal with. When there isn’t an interruption- even if it’s a positive interruption- for invites and plans to visit places and science experiments- I do better when they are mapped out, and I don’t have to re-arrange my day on a moment’s notice.

I can’t always say yes to the interruption; some things can’t be re-arranged, but today, I’m glad I could say “yes,” and that meant that I didn’t get as much editing as I had planned on Flame Again, but I did move the percentage closer to “finish” and sometimes juggling means making peace with the measure of productivity, or using different criteria to measure it.

I am wearing fuzzy socks because although the forecast promised rising temps today, it’s not an instantaneous thing, apparently.

The coffee is mildly hot, and Google calculator tells me that I am sixty-six percent through this editing pass on Flame Again. Sometimes it’s helpful to see it in numeral form. Further along, then I was yesterday, and I’ll take the forward momentum.

Slogging through edits for Ivy & Gabe, Flame Again, book three in the Bandit Brothers Series, when I come to a scene where Gabe is getting himself, ready to enter Ivy. You know, as they do in romance books. And as he grabbed the lube from the nighstand–my editing came to a crashing halt.

I recalled one of my betas had left me a note, “Oh…when he lubed up there, I thought they were going to have anal.” I don’t want to disapoint readers, espeically not my betas, so I rewrote the scene.

Only to have it dawn on me that it wasn’t this scene. It was further along in the book. All well, I guess that can be Bonus Scene for later.

It’s our zillionth day of rainy and grey here and my hands are almost too cold to type. If you want to read a bonus scene, Harper’s Punishment is availible here.

Getting back into those edits now and drinking tea.