Maria Luis's Blog, page 3

Breathless: a Love Serial, Part XII & Epilogue

Y'all, I cannot believe that this is the final chapter of Breathless! For eleven/twelve weeks now, we have been working toward Claire & Jake's HEA and now that it's finally here....I'm not ready to let go!! The last chapter and the epilogue were by far so much fun to write. It's a bit long (is that really an issue, though?!!) and I so hope that you enjoy it!!You'll find that at the end of this post, there is only a link to a poll. Wait, you're probably wondering, why are we doing a poll if Br...

Breathless: a Love Serial, Part XI

Hey y'all,You might be noticing that this chapter has come to you late this week. I'm going to be honest - for eleven weeks now, I've had no trouble at all writing Breathless. It came easy, so easy that sometimes I was like, "Wow, can all my books flow so easily?" Not this week, however. This week, I have rewritten this chapter three times. The votes came in. They stacked up nearly equally (though not an exact number), and . . . I got writer's block. I wrote the first version, hated it, and t...

Breathless: a Love Serial, Part X

Happy Tuesday - and for all of my American readers, Happy Fourth of July!! With the majority vote from last week, it seems that y'all wanted Claire & Jake to . . . open up. In classic form, they've both agreed to go with the vote and also put up a bit of a fuss. Also, it seems that Claire was hiding something pretty major (NON-SPOILER...you'll have to read to see what's up!)I am SO loving this story! Depending on how the vote goes this week, I think we'll be wrapping up Breathless in the next...

Breathless: a Love Serial, Part IX

Soooo, I hope everyone enjoyed my *ahem* lovely poll from Sunday? I .... may have been cracking myself up too much with it. But, really, IT WAS TIME. Don't you agree? Jake agrees. Poor Jake.Good news - I don't have to say that anymore! Also ... we mentioned that Jake & Claire had chemistry, right? ;)I hope you enjoy! And, as always, don't forget to vote at the end!Much love,MariaPart IX:JakeI’m not a monk.I spent the majority of my twenties hooking up with random women. There was good sex, ba...

Breathless: a Love Serial, Part VIII

Hey y'all - I am so sorry that this is coming to you waaaayyyy later than usual! Last week was so exciting! But it was also a time crunch and exhausting. Sin Bin (Book 2 in the Blades series) was due to my editor Tuesday. Take A Chance On Me released Thursday (yay!) I promptly crashed all night Friday and spent most of yesterday trying to recover from weeks of go-go-going with little sleep. I'm getting back into the swing of things today - no weekends for authors! LOL - and will be back on tr...

Chapter Reveal! - Take A Chance On Me

Are you ready? We are now officially 7 days away from Take A Chance On Me's release - yay!! I'm so incredibly excited to bring you this steamy & flirty contemporary romance. Early reviewers are weighing in already - eek! - and they are saying that it's my best book yet! *takes a bow* What better to kick-off our pre-launch than by sharing Chapter One with all of you? Success! Let's do this...by the way, at the bottom of this post, you'll find a giveaway! Don't forget to enter! CHAPTER ONEMIAMI...

Breathless: a Love Serial, Part VII

Hello there!I'm so sorry that this is coming a day late - deadlines, y'all, deadlines. But yay for Take A Chance On Me coming in . . . 8 days! (Cue.The.Panic.). With that said, y'all totally threw me for a loop this week with another tie! First time, I was like, "Okay, no problem. We'll get through this." But this I was definitely like, "Another one? Is that even possible?" But yes, yes it was.So, here we have it - an installment that bands together the two highest votes from last week's poll...

Breathless: a Love Serial, Part VI

Hi there! I have returned! I've been in Charlotte for the weekend at The Indie Tea Retreat and it was ... amazing. So many inspiring women - Brittainy C. Cherry, Staci Hart, Aly Martinez, Corinne Michaels, Danielle Allen, just to name a few - including every single attendee that I met. This weekend was actually the first time in months I also unplugged from technology. No using my cell phone. No checking my laptop. Just me and my notebook and pen, as I soaked up every bit of knowledge that I...

Inspired at the Indie Tea Retreat

Late this past winter, I stumbled across a newsletter. It was dedicated to romance authors - indie romance authors. I had yet to publish Power Play, or any book of mine at that point. But it must be said ... I soaked up every bit of knowledge that I could find on self-publishing.What worked, what didn't work. I *stalked* (not really....sort of really) famous authors online to try and understand what they were doing that showed them improvement. I took screen shots of their Facebook ads so tha...

Breathless: a Love Serial, Part V

Happy Tuesday!! (Never thought I'd say that before, LOL)I hope that you are ready to see what happens next between Claire and our man Jake. You voted and hopefully I delivered! The winner came down to...chemistry, but I threw in another vote, too, because it worked perfectly and was needed, I think.Disclaimer: I am ready to write the next section already! This story has me hooked and I hope it has you hooked as well!As always, you'll find the link to the poll at the bottom of this post. Don't...