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.

Flame For Two, the second in the Bandit Brothers Series is out now!

It’s the story of Xander Montague, the co-CEO billionaire, genius extraordinaire with strong goth vibes, and how he has always loved Harper Blake, from when he rescued her from her crime family past, years ago.
He is in love with Harper but is too afraid to tell her and take a chance. He is convinced that he destroyed his last submissive.
Xander has an anxiety disorder which he uses to his advantage in further cultivating his image.

Logan Marrock, walks into a room and everyone notice and that’s not just because he’s one giant of a Dom. It’s because his personality is even bigger than him. He loves to live life to the fullest and he has never met a risk he won’t take. He’s a member of the Bandit Brothers aka, Axis Management’s Team Stealth. He’s been lusting for Harper for a very long time and he’s taken her out for coffee, they had a breakfast date but she still kept him at arms’ length.
He knows he can give Harper what she craves–and he’s willing to risk his boss’s wrath.

Harper Blake is Xander’s Executive assistant. She took a chance and did something for herself and that chance is growing her confidence. She thinks she can leave the past behind her. She loves Xander.
But he has made it clear to her that he isn’t interested. She starts to wonder about exploring the attraction she feels towards Logan.
But when the past does put Harper in harm’s way, Logan and Xander work together to find out who is behind the trouble she is and start to learn their love for her is mutual.

This is an MFM/Protector Romance/Romantic Suspense.

I loved writing these characters so much that I even wrote a bonus scene! If you do give Flame For Two a read, I hope you find something in it you enjoy! Flame For Two