Autumn Ruby's Blog
April 29, 2019
Spring Update!
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Crossed Series is now complete!
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Full of heartache, you will love taking a chance with our characters to see how second chances are always worth fighting for.
***I absolutely loved Blake, Candice and all of the supporting characters in Crossed Forces! This book had love, suspense, emotion, best friends, hot sexy alpha males, and strong women. It really did have everything! ~Love2ReadRomance***
***This was a fantastic read that takes you on an epic journey. ~Amanda M (Amazon Reviewer)***
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**The whole story took me on a rollercoaster of emotions and the twist and turns at times made me sit there in shock! This story is definitely a 5 star read and one I just fell in love with
~Tracey&HelensBookBlog
[image error]We would LOVE to hear from you once you had read our series – let us know what you think!
Thank you so much for all the love and support
It means the world to us XOXO
March 9, 2019
Star Crossed
Book babes! It’s been a minute but I had to pop on and tell you about my gorgeous new cover for Star Crossed, the third and final (for now) book in the series. I’m so in love with this story as it’s the one that first inspired the whole series and for me, it’s a case of save the best for last! The story takes you right back to where Crossed Forces began and focus’ on Evelyn (remember her?) a relatable, ballsy heroine who I just know you’ll fall in love with.
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It’s an ugly cry, full of sweet happy moments to balance the heartbreak and leading you to a well deserved HEA for Evelyn, Gabe and some of the other stars of Crossed Series!
Blurb;
Some things were just meant to be
Like a cherry on a bakewell tart
Or vanilla frosting on a cupcake
That was us
Star Crossed Lovers
What we had defied time, distance, or any other kind of logic
Me loving him
Him loving me
Until the end
But what happens when the end comes to soon
And neither of us are ready to let go?
The ultimate second chance romance, for everyone who believes they can find their bit of happy, when the ever after doesn’t go to plan.
What you can expect to find in Star Crossed:
Strawberries
A Cowboy Sex God
Heartbreak
A menacing ex
Sexy times
Sweet love
Single Daddy
I was going to add a what my beta readers said section here, but it was mostly incoherent cussing so I’ll skip to another teaser and just politely summarise that they loved it…
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You might notice that I wrote this one on my own because Tasha has some super exciting news to share! She’s expecting a baby boy very soon, so is taking a break from writing to make and look after a tiny human-yay! So happy for her xoxo
If you see Star Crossed around, please show it some love as I’m flying solo and need all the support I can get!!!
Love you all lots,
Clare -AKA Autumn Ruby xoxo
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November 16, 2018
Fall Update
It’s my very favourite time of year! The colours of nature are changing and inspiring new ideas for more sexy romance reads. The weather is getting colder, making it the perfect time of year to snuggle up with a romance novel and a mug of hot chocolate.
Tasha and I are so thankful to everyone who downloaded our books on our freebie weekend-over 700 of you! We hope you love Blake & Greyson, our military heartthrobs, just as much as we do.
One of the questions I get asked most by new and aspiring authors is how do we overcome writer’s block. So, I’ve devised this easy use tool which we hope is useful.
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After a year of author life, I’ve learnt that writer’s block is a real and big, sucky problem that can completely take over your writing world and bring your dream manuscript to a standstill. If you’ve hit the wall of doom, panic not! I have devised this simple traffic light tool for assessing and overcoming writer’s block.
First of all, before you even try to use the tool, do not, and I repeat DO NOT put down your manuscript. Once you do, if your anything like me, it will probably take you a ridiculous amount of hours to come back to. Next, assess the problem using this easy traffic light system.
Mild: If you chose green, this is great news! You only need to make some tiny, minor changes and you will soon be smashing your word count goal again. Pick up your manuscript and move. Writing is an art form and you need to ensure the creative energy surrounding you is dynamic and fresh to breathe new life into your work. Re arrange your office, drive to the most remote (safe) place you can and write there for a change. Turn on some background music that is totally different from what you would usually listen to. Add a new room fragrance to your work space or wear an out of season item of clothing that you haven’t worn in ages. You get the drift. Sometime we need to change everything that surrounds our manuscript to gain a fresh outlook. If you try all of these ideas and are still at the wall, reassess to Amber and keep reading-remember still keep hold of your manuscript. Don’t put it down yet! There is still hope!
Medium: The best tip I have found to break through Amber level writer’s block is to stop the current scene your working in, visualise your favourite scene for the main characters and write that instead. If this doesn’t work, then you can finally step away from your work (temporarily) and read something else. It doesn’t matter if it’s a food blog, trashy magazine or a chapter from a classic novel as long as it’s not from the genre you are currently writing in. Again, it can help to move away from your usual workspace whilst you do this. Change is always a good thing when trying to get your creative juices flowing. Sometimes, you might need to take a day or two to read a couple of books before coming back to your novel. If you try this and are still stuck staring at a blank page, your in trouble, progress to red, you are officially in writer’s block hell, BUT there is still hope!
Severe: Step away from your manuscript. As in save and close it, put any print copies in a safe place, lock up your work space and no peeking for an ENTIRE day. A lot of writers freak out after all the advice telling them to write every day but honestly, after a year of working on my debut novel and making a ton of author friends, I would say that this doesn’t work for most people. It might for a while, but eventually you’ll be at risk of burning out. Quitting whilst you’re ahead could be the best thing you ever do for your manuscript. Spend the day doing something completely unrelated to writing. It doesn’t have to be creative, productive or remotely successful. It’s a break, remembering that is the most important part. Do whatever you need to do to make yourself forget about working on your book and put yourself first. I know it’s cliche but self love is super important as being an author is tough at times and often we are on this journey alone. Finally, if you hit severe and do decide to take a break for a minute, Make sure you have a full 24hours, but never leave it any longer that that before coming back to your work and trying again to work through the stages. If you put it off and procrastinate you will end up stuck in a rut and make things even more difficult for yourself. I really hope this helps and wish you all the luck in the world with your novel.
I am taking part in this years Nanowrimo after last years success so watch out for a few secret projects coming soon!
Lots of Love,
Clare Xx
August 16, 2018
Summer Update!
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This summer has been all about the writing and we are so excited that Crossed Paths is almost ready to release! Of course we have been working on some secret projects too, but we are holding on to these for just a little bit longer. With all our mini me’s off school over summer it’s been tricky finding time to do anything other than mummy duties BUT we did manage an AMAZING trip to Oxford.
We were lucky enough to meet a ton of awe inspiring authors at FBBF 2018, a UK based signing. It was fab being able to catch up with all the authors we have built relationships with since we began our publishing journey. A highlight for us was hugging Laura Farr who we collaborated with on Christmas Kisses anthology last Christmas. Her cowboy romances are to die for and our signed copies are now pride of place on our bookshelf.
Our fave new discovery was Nana Malone who is just so sassy and fabulous you can’t not read her books! But our unicorn author this year was Tillie Cole. OMG that woman is serious female boss goals. She was so sweet and at the same time the ultimate badass and her Hangman Series will live with us forever!
Our favourite moment was meeting some of our readers! Yep, you read that right, we have real life, actual humans who have read and loved our book enough to buy it ask us to sign it for them. We had to keep pinching ourselves to check we weren’t dreaming. It’s definitely given us the push we needed to apply for some signings ourselves so keep your fingers crossed for us and we might be seeing you at a signing very soon…
Here’s a few snaps from FBBF…
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As Oxford is so close to The Cotswolds, where our debut novel, Crossed Forces was set, we couldn’t resist a trip. It was surreal to visit the actual village of Bourton-on-the-Water, also known as the Venice of England and take pictures in the exact spot where we have based so many of our scenes. It’s an absolutely stunning place and we literally had to force ourselves to leave when it was home time.
In the midst of all the writing we all also managed to re cover Crossed Forces and re write the blub…be sure to let us know your thoughts! In celebration, we have temporarily reduced the price to just 99p so if you’ve not already read it, be sure to grab your copy at the reduced price.
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Have a summer wherever you are and whatever you do and keep your eyes peeled for Crossed Path’s because it’s coming and it’s the best thing we’ve ever written. We are seriously in love with this story and will be heartbroken to move onto book 3!
Love and kisses
Autumn Ruby XOXO
March 29, 2018
Work Stress
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This is one of our favourite quotes. We post it over and over across our social media sites because it’s a reminder of our goal. People reading it might think wow that’s ok for you to say, you must have an amazing job. Nope! We both have bog standard normal and ok ish jobs. We write in our car, in the bath tub, in bed…you get the gist. It’s not that we wake up and head to work as a hot tub tester or some other awesome career…it’s that we’re determined that one day we will wake up on a Monday and feel happy that we can write all day 
