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Farewell Old Friend - The Importance of Backup

Did you ever have that thought? You know the one where you think, gee this pair of shoes is falling apart and I should buy a new pair. Except you don’t because you love those shoes, they are comfy. Then, without warning, they fall apart and now you have to find a new pair.

You can substitute shoes for any item you may have had this thought for. Like maybe a car. You know, you need to buy one because your rust bucket is making another new noise, but you put it off or don’t have the money, etc. You’re driving along one day and next thing you know you’re limping the poor hunk of metal off the road as best you can and calling for a tow truck.

I think you get the idea of what I’m saying here.

This happened to me recently. About a year ago, I realized my laptop was getting some age on it, might be a good idea to get a new one. I mentioned it to a friend, who gave me a laptop that he bought used and didn’t need or want, or bother re-selling it. I turned it on a few times, but my current laptop was serving me well, so the gifted one collected dust.

A few days after I finished Faking it at Christmas, I powered down my laptop. Only it didn’t power down. Which was odd. I waited and waited and finally I pressed the power button and held it till it shut off. I went to reboot it. . . and the black screen of death.

I thought maybe there was a problem with my operating system. Figured I’d deal with it the next morning.

The following morning, I did everything I could, and it became clear my hard drive had given up on me. I managed to get all of my files off of it, so there’s that. But I spent the entire morning doing everything I could think of to get it back up and running, but during a reboot, it went into a BIOS screen, where it screamed at me with a loud beeping noise and a message on the screen told me the hard drive was in fact toast.

My laptop was a Dell Insprion 15 that I’d purchased refurbished from the Dell outlet over eight years ago. I think I only paid around $200 for it. A couple months ago I had to replace the battery in it. Now it’s the hard drive. As I thought about it, I’ve decided not to replace the hard drive. I think it is time to just let that poor thing go.

I could replace the hard drive, but how long before something else goes? What will go next? The screen? The mother board? Or some other component?

The letters on the keyboard had rubbed off long ago. Apparently, that computer wasn’t meant for writers. I tried a silicone overlay, but again, don’t think those are for writers either, because that lasted about four months before those letters rubbed off. Finally, I resorted to painting the letters on the keys with white nail polish and a nail art brush. I’d done this a few times already.

When I realized my poor old laptop was done for, I dusted off the used gifted laptop and installed my Linux distro of choice on it. By mid afternoon I was back up and in business again. I still have a spare laptop, but it is even older than the one that died. So I’m thinking it might be in my best interest to look for a new one.

The used one is fine, except the screen colors seem off, or maybe I’m not used to them. The mouse touchpad is wonky. Otherwise, it’s better than the one that died. Still, I’d feel better having a more modern backup just in case.

I was lucky I had a spare computer lying around or else I would have had to make a mad dash to Wal-Mart and get whatever they had. Not really what I want to do. If I’m going to spend money, I want it to be on something I want. Not something I need in a pinch that might give up the ship sooner than eight years.

The thing that surprises me the most is, I didn’t get stressed out about this. Probably because I had another computer waiting in the wings. The other thing is I regularly back up my files on usb drives. Even if I hadn’t been able to retrieve the files from that computer, I wouldn’t have lost much.

Also, let’s face it, eight years is a good amount of time for a cheap, bottom of the line laptop.

I’m sad about its demise, though. It’s what I started my self-publishing journey on. All of my self-published stories, covers for those stories, and these blog posts (except this one) were done on that computer.

Disaster Prevention

This could have turned out to be a much bigger disaster than it was. Instead, it was a minor blimp on the radar that took one day to sort out. I think the reason is that I try to follow the three rules of computers (or other electronic things these days) and those are. . .

1. Backup

2. Backup

3. Backup

I learned these three rules some time ago from a teacher at a computer class I’d taken. I follow these three rules. In this case:

1. All of my files are backed up on usb drives and I back things up regularly.

2. I had a back-up computer

3. I had enough knowledge to retrieve the few files that were on the hard drive before it started beeping at me and took its dying breath.

The primary worry now is shopping for a new computer. Or I might just find a nice used one for cheap to keep around as a backup.

So remember, if you rely on your computer for daily use, make sure you have a backup or at least a plan in place if your computer gives it up in the middle of something important. Lucky for me, I’d just finished a project and hadn’t yet started a new one when this happened. Like I said, this could have been far worse than it was. Still, I’ll miss that poor old cheap computer. Although I won’t lie, it’s nice having one with all the letters visible on the keyboard.

 

New Release - Faking it at Christmas

At last I have finished and released the 3rd story in the Holiday Wishes Series! I was so excited to finally do this story. Nothing like a short Christmas romance to get in the holiday spirit.

So without further ado, I present Faking it at Christmas - A fake relationship, that of course always leads to more. Hope you enjoy reading it!

MAKE A WISH UPON A SNOWFLAKE DURING THE HOLIDAYS AND IT MIGHT COME TRUE!

Violet

My boss has told me I have to attend the company Christmas party this year. My single male co-workers endlessly hit on me. I’ve no desire to date anymore, been there, done that, no thanks. I wish for a fake boyfriend for my party. After I make that wish, I run right into a hot guy, who also says he needs a fake girlfriend for the holidays. Like, what are the odds? These things don’t really happen. Now, if only I can keep my heart from doing its little flip-flops when I’m near this man, everything will be okay. Right?

Liam

I love my single life. No girlfriend in my future, ever. Now my family is intent on fixing me up with someone at their annual Christmas party. When I run into an exquisite woman who’s looking for a fake boyfriend, I think I have the answer to my troubles. I remind her this is just a fake relationship, no strings. It all ends when our parties are over. Only is it her I need to remind? Or myself?

If you're looking for a short, sweet, steamy holiday read, this story is for you. This is a standalone short story holiday romance with a HEA.Available at AMAZON for $.99 or free in Kindle Unlimited.   

Going Back to the Past to Move on to the Future - More Course Correcting

I’m still trying to move forward with things and get stories written. When I wrote my last post, my little noodle brain was trying to figure things out. Sometimes I feel as though my noodle brain is just that - a pile of useless noodles. Ah, well, I love ramen noodles, so there’s that.

One thing I thought of when trying to move forward was Christmas romance stories. It is that time of year again.

When I originally conceived my Holiday Wishes series of stories way, way back, I had come up with four ideas. Her Secret Santa and The Gift of Holly were stories 1 and 2. Stories 3 and 4 didn’t get written because I’d run out of time after I finished The Gift of Holly.

In late 2021 I attempted to write story 3, but alas, I couldn’t get it to come together like I’d hoped. Time slipped on by without me. In late 2022, I was determined to write and publish another story. I thought again of those unfinished Christmas stories, but I didn’t want to be tied to a tight deadline. This is when I wrote and published Finding Beauty.

In 2023 was the Lyme Disease and I didn’t make a full recovery from that till Feb. 2024. Still, those holiday stories have lingered in my mind.

A Look Back

If you’ve been following along with this blog, then you might recall my post Outline Disaster. You can read the post for the full story that I won’t rehash here, but I’d tried to do a detailed outline for a story, which didn’t go well.

I’ve been struggling with the writing process ever since.

Last month, I uncovered the Holiday Wishes file and looked back at what I’d been doing for those stories. Basically, this is what I had in a nutshell:

* I’d written out four story ideas and described each one briefly.

* I’d set a tight deadline for each story, even got fancy and used a spreadsheet for each step that needed to be completed with deadlines and stuff.

* I have this brief story structure I’d used to flesh out the ideas for the stories. Also, made some notes about the characters and their problems.

* Set to work writing the stories.

All this planning gave me focus. In fact, when I finished The Gift of Holly, I wanted to keep truckin’ along. However, I’d concentrated solely on writing and had done nothing to get ready for the holidays. Yeah, no life work balance there. So reluctantly, I had to shelf stories 3 and 4. Even so, Christmas cards did not get sent out that year. Thankfully, Covid was in full swing, which gave me a good excuse.

It was all this pre-planning on these stories that made me think I should dive further into outlining. That I should make elaborate detailed outlines, character bios, sketch out my setting, etc. Looking back, I now see it wasn’t the outlining per se as it was going overboard with it.

Hopefully, this is a lesson learned. Yeah, I doubt it, but one day a lesson learned might stick.

Christmas is on Its Way

With all of this said, and after studying everything from those Christmas stories, I’m happy to report that I am knee deep into story 3 of Holiday Wishes. So with a bit of luck and a whole lot of not being my own worse enemy, I should have it out before long.

As always, not making any promises on this. But it is good to be writing again.

All of this has me thinking about the upcoming year, but I feel that is something for its own post.

I’m in a much better place with my writing than I was a month ago, and that’s what matters the most.

Course Correcting a Creative Slump

 

I follow quite a few blogs, one or two of them I read daily. I also subscribe to some YouTube channels of content creators that I find interesting. I try not to watch those daily because, you know, YouTube has millions of cat videos. I shouldn’t have to say anymore on that.🐱

Recently, someone I follow on YouTube decided to do a 100 day challenge of posting videos. I found this challenge admirable and wondered if I should set some sort of writing challenge for myself. These kinds of things inspire me.

Thirty days in, this YouTuber threw in the towel on the challenge. The YouTuber listed the reasons why and that he was not quitting YouTube, just the self-imposed challenge. He was going to try something else.

I follow a blog by a professional writer who has set similar challenges with writing over the years. Many times he’s succeed, but a few times he has not.

So why am I writing about this? Because these people show me I’m not alone.

In the past, I have set goals, challenges, made plans and all sorts of things. Sometimes I succeed, but mostly I don’t. Which often makes me wonder what is wrong with me? Until I see others who flounder like I do.

A Cycle of Sorts

Recently, I realized I often fall into some sort of cycle.

What happens is I write a story or two, I get going strong, then I fall into a creative slump. During these slumps nothing I write seems good enough and projects get abandoned. Sometimes I come back to them, sometimes I don’t.

Two of the stories I published this year, Snowed in With My Crush and Beach Fling With the Biker, were both stories I started last year in 2023. Last year was not a good year for me because of contracting Lyme Disease. However, earlier this year, I revisited those stories and finished them and put them out. Both stories were a struggle. Looking back, I wonder if I should have finished them or not? What’s done is done. Those stories are out in the world for better or worse.

Guard My Body came from a writing prompt and while that story took me longer to write than I wanted it to, I didn’t abandon it for months at a time. It got abandoned for about a week, but I came back to it not wanting it to languish on my hard drive like so many others. After that story, I thought I would keep going. Alas, a creative slump hit me.

I started a few stories after Guard My Body. I even tried using a couple of prompts to get me going, but I wasn’t happy with anything I was producing. But there is more. I lost interest in blogging on here as well. Like I had zero interest in even looking at this thing.

During this time, I put in serious thought about quitting. Quit writing completely. Find something else that might interest me. After all, I have a few hobbies that I haven’t worked on in years. Maybe I should turn my attention to those instead? I explored some options.

In the end, I realized that I really didn’t want to quit. I love stories. I love reading them, watching them and listening to them. More importantly, I love creating them. Analysing the situation, I still haven’t figured out what my issue really is with this, or why I fall into these slumps. I think this is the worst one I’ve had in a while.

I belong to a small local writer’s group and during our last meeting, my one friend asked me how my writing was going. I told her what was happening, and she nodded in understanding. For some reason, that made me feel better. Again, it helps to know I’m not alone.

Could it be writer’s block? Maybe. Probably. Who knows for sure?

What I do know is a few days ago I started another story with the determination to finish it no matter what. I also looked at my neglected blog/website, trying to regain my interest in it. Which I have.

Moving Forward

I have many other things going on in my life outside of the writing that no doubt affect my writing in negative ways. I try to work past them, but it’s not easy. In the end, no one really cares if I write something or not. A depressing thought, but one of truth. Except. . . I care, and that matters a whole lot.

While I would love to set some sort of challenge for myself, now is not the time. Like the YouTuber I mentioned above, maybe it’s time to evaluate where I’m going and readjust my course. It would seem course correction is an ongoing thing in life. Maybe that is as it should be.

Well, there you have it. A long over due update of where I’ve been. A new story is in the works and I should be a bit more active on here again.

The Making of a Story - How 'Guard My Body' Came to be

This is the first story that I’ve published that resulted from a writing prompt. So I thought I’d write a post about how this story came to be, in case it is of interest to others. I guess this is sort of a behind-the-scenes type thing like they do with movies and TV shows.

When I’d finished drafting Beach Fling with the Biker, I wasn’t sure what I was going to tackle next. I needed something to keep me productive, so I wasn’t six months or more between releases again.

I have used the editor on the Reedsy website for the past few stories to format my manuscripts into ePub to upload to Amazon. It made that part of the process quicker and easier for me. One day when I was on their site, I noticed they had a thing called a Plot Generator. So I thought I would indulge in a bit of creative procrastination to see what it did.

A Writing Prompt to Get Me Going

First off, their Plot Generator is not some AI thing. As of now, I’m staying away from AI for my creative writing. There is far too much dispute over copyright infringement surrounding AI for me to be comfortable with it. With that said, the Plot Generator basically has some occupations, situations, sub-genres, etc., pre-programed in. Basically, it would be the same as if I wrote these things on pieces of paper, shuffled them up and picked something at random.

Anyway, I put in that I wanted to write a romance, hit the generate button, and it displayed different scenarios. Nothing really jumped out at me until I hit upon a bodyguard for a character.

I think the reason bodyguard jumped out at me is that I’ve become obsessed I mean addicted, Ahem, a fan of Korean Dramas in the past several months. At about the time I finished Beach Fling, I’d also finished watching Blood Free, in which the hero is a bodyguard. So that stuck with me.

'Blood Free' a K-Drama I highly recommend 😉

After I played with the prompter a bit, I decided I’d wasted enough time and went back to doing edits on Beach Fling with a Biker. Except, the whole bodyguard thing took hold of me.

Needless to say, I went back to the site the next day and kept generating things until I found something I liked.

Here is what I ended up with:

A bodyguard, who can be stubborn. A writer, who is cautious. It’s an erotic romance story about an arranged marriage. It kicks off near a Mexican dive bar with two characters trapped in an elevator. (Note that: someone in the story has a reputation to salvage.) And there’s a twist! They were childhood best friends.

That’s it. That’s all there was to it, and from that, I developed an entire story.

Writing the Story

If you’ve read the story, you know I didn’t use everything that is in this prompt. And some of the things I did use weren’t really used as this prompt would suggest.

Can’t really say that Jackson, the hero, was stubborn, or that Madison, the heroine, was cautious. They also are not involved in an arranged marriage. Nor where they childhood besties. However, I did sort of slide those two things in a different form briefly.

The Mexican dive bar and the hotel elevator sure did ignite my imagination, though. In fact, my little grey matter thought about how this story would start as I was doing edits on the Beach Fling story. It took such a hold on me that I stayed focused on finishing and publishing Beach Fling just so I could start writing this one.

Because of this percolation period, when I started writing Guard My Body, I’d worked out so much of the story in my head that I’d say I knew everything up to about the half-way point of the story.

Once I had that written, my progress took a stumble. An issue I’m working on overcoming. After hitting a bit of a wall, I got busy creating the cover. When I finally came back to the story, it all came together.

All in all, I had a great time writing this story. To be honest, I thought it turned out to be a cute quick read and I really liked it.

Would I do this again? Maybe. I recently tried to generate another story idea, but nothing really caught my attention. It could be because after I finished drafting this story, another idea took hold of me. One that came from my little noodle brain instead of an outside source.

Well, there you have it. That’s how Guard My Body came to be. Remember this little story is available on Amazon for $.99 or free to borrow in Kindle Unlimited.   

New Release - Guard My Body

Another new release! I'd hoped to have this one out by the end of June, but it just didn't work out that way. Hot weather set in, which always makes me a bit lethargic. Then there was a holiday. While I didn't have big plans for the Fourth of July this year, I took it a little easy and enjoyed the holiday.

With that said, I present to you: Guard My Body - A Short Bodyguard Romance

I had a lot of fun writing this one. I can only hope you have just as much fun reading it. Enjoy!

 

A dive bar, a broken elevator, and a man hotter than any fantasy. What could go wrong?

Madison

Being a writer is not at all what I thought it would be. Writing about crappy restaurants and dumpy hotels is not the life I imagined. Then again, I get stuck in a hotel elevator with a man hotter than sin. Who turns out to be interested in me. Except, it is just my luck to lose him as quickly as I found him. Will I ever see him again? Considering my bad luck, I doubt it.

Jackson

One unpleasant job and my reputation as a bodyguard is in tatters. I’m hiding out in a dumpy hotel to get over my failure. That’s when I meet a woman I’m drawn to like no other. Except my bad luck extends to our brief meeting. As time passes, I know I’ll never see her again.

Years later, a writer needs a bodyguard. What were the odds that it’s the same writer from that cheap hotel? Only now, her life is in more danger than eating in suspect bars and staying in run-down hotels.

I might have failed as a bodyguard once, but I’ll risk everything to keep her safe and make her mine forever.

Guard My Body is an insta-love, standalone, bodyguard romance. This is a short, sweet, and steamy read with a HEA guaranteed. Enjoy! Available at AMAZON for $.99 or read for free in Kindle Unlimited.

Cover Reveal - Guard My Body

Whao! Would you look at this, a cover reveal. Obviously I've been working on another story.

The title is Guard My Body. It's about a hot protective bodyguard and a writer. Because who doesn't want a hot bodyguard as a book-boyfriend?

Writing this story has been a lot of fun, I'm about to enter the final stages of it and hope to have this story out by the end of this month.

When I was finishing up Beach Fling with a Biker I wasn't sure what I was going to write next. The past few stories I've used the Reedsy editor to format my manuscripts to upload to Amazon. It has saved me a lot of time with formatting.

I noticed on the Reedsy site they have a plot generator. So I decided to check it out. It spit out an idea about a bodyguard, which intrigued me, but I also dismissed it. However, the concept wouldn't leave me alone, so I went back and started generating plots involving a bodyguard as my hero.

And no, their little plot generator is not some AI thing. From what I can tell, they have several different occupations, situations, etc. and all it does is shuffle them about to come up with a writing prompt. Nothing fancy, really.

There is actually much more to how this story came about. Also, it doesn't actually generate a whole plot from beginning to end. It's more like a writing prompt generator than a plot generator. But I developed a whole story from the very short paragraph it spit out at me. Yes, it was only a short paragraph from which I've written a whole story.

After I release this story, I'll write a longer blog post on this whole process as well as the prompt that was generated.

Until then, stay tuned and if you want to know when this story is released, keep checking back, or you can subscribe and get the news of the release delivered to your inbox!

Blogs - Why I Love Them and Why I Want to Do More

 

I like blogs. I read several almost daily. Most of the ones I read are by authors, but I read other kinds of blogs as well.

Some blogs have helped me. For example, when I decided knitting a pair of socks was a great idea, I found a blog to help me figure out the stitches for the heel of the sock. Or when I decided to dual boot my laptop with Linux, while retaining Windows.

Although, I'm not sure why, I've never really logged into my Windows partition. Oh well. The point is the info on a blog was there to help me.

As some of you know I'm not big on social media. I've never understood Facebook and honestly, I'm not sure I ever will. To some extent I do, but mostly I don't. I feel like everybody is shouting, "Hey, look at me, and here's my views on this and that, today I'm upset at this other thing, and oh by the way this is what I had for breakfast with photos."

I can live my life without that madness.

Once upon a time, I did try to be active on Facebook, if I remember correctly, I lasted maybe a week? I fizzled out in a hurry, because I still didn't see the point.

X, the artist formally known as Twitter, I sort of got, but that too was, for the most part, beyond me. However, I think I figured it out some when everyone was leaving the platform. People talked about the friends and the community they'd built on there. Yeah, I can understand that.

I must say I like Instagram. I have started following a few people on that. Maybe the reason why I understand Instagram is it feels more like a blog in many ways. However, I do not post on it since it's photo oriented. I purchased a new phone last year with a nice camera on it and I'd say 95% of the photos I've taken on it so far are of my cats.

Although, I do realize I should not underestimate the power of cat pictures.

Maybe one day I will find a social media platform along the lines of Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram that I like and go all in. Maybe. I wouldn't count on it, but I am open to it.

So that leaves the humble blog.

I think part of what I love about them is you don't have to sign in to anything to read them. There are usually numerous ways to follow them, and in many ways they feel a little more personable. I don't have to deal with ads, unless the blogger has chosen to display them on their site. I'm all for the ads as long as they don't get in the way of the content. Sometimes they do. I try not to go back to those sites.

With all of this being said, since blogs are my chosen form of social media, I want to blog more often on this ye ol blog of mine.

Except there is a problem. What the hell am I going to say?

There are days when I want to write a blog post, but then I can't think of what to write about.

This is why I'm writing about what the heck to write about right now. I wanted to do a blog post, didn't know what to say, so this is what I've come up with.

Then I realized that if I would blog more, I'd probably get better at it. You know, it's like everything else, the more you do it the better you get.

What has brought this on is if you read the last post, I've been at this for four years. Last month I took a look back from where I started. When I did that, I also looked at what I've done on this blog.

To date, I've done less than fifty posts in four years. That really isn't very many posts for the time frame. Especially when this is something I enjoy doing.

I've been reading a few books about blogging lately. Mainly blogging for authors. You know so I can get better at this and have more interesting content and things that people might actually want to read. I'm not sure if they are helping or not.

I figure the worst case scenario is I resort to blogging about my cats. Since I have several photos of them that I could put with the posts.

Best case is I find interesting things to write about that other people want to read. I'm sure my cats would be interesting to other people. The amount of cat videos on YouTube is testament to that. Then again, maybe I'm the only one who thinks that.

Regardless if others find my ramblings interesting or not this blog has served as sort of a journal of my writing journey thus far. Which is what blogs were meant to be originally, web journals. In fact, I've recently went back through some of my posts, because I found them interesting and it reminded me of lessons I've learned as I went along.

Which is one reason I keep doing these mindless ramblings, and why I'll most likely continue to do so.

 

Four Years of Self Publishing - What I’ve Learned and Looking Ahead

 

Last month marked four years since I began my self publishing journey. It’s hard to believe that it’s been that long already. In some ways, it’s even harder to believe that I’m still at it and still trying.

It’s been a learning journey for certain. Not just about writing and publishing, but also about myself.

A Brief Look Back

I’ve published nine stories in these four years. I’m disappointed I haven’t published more, but at the same time, I’m amazed at how far I’ve come. From being scared to death about putting myself out there, to having nine stories published. Not a big win, but a win I’ll take.

When I started this, I set out to write erotic short stories. I'd read a few books that claimed that writing short erotica would have you earning money in no time. Sounded like a good idea to me.

My first three stories, His Workaholic, Getting Her Clients and Her Holiday Fireworks, certainly revolved around sex. But they also have romantic elements and could've passed as erotic romance.

Then I wrote Her Secret Santa, which was supposed to be hot and steamy, but it didn’t turn out that way. Which was okay because I had a blast writing that story. However, instead of erotica, I’d written a romance. The Gift of Holly turned out the same.

Those stories made me realize that’s where my heart was really at, writing short romance.

After the Christmas stories, I got in my way more often than I care to admit. Struggles came in all forms. From trying to do detailed outlines to not doing any outlines, to deciding maybe I still wanted to write erotic stories, to not wanting to, and the list goes on and on.

Two years after those Christmas stories, I finally found my way back with Finding Beauty. I’ve made slow but steady progress since.

This month I published story number nine: Beach Fling with the Biker.

What I’ve Learned

There is always something new to learn. No matter how much time and effort I put into researching writing and self publishing, there is always going to be something I missed. Or something new to learn.

Learning about writing and publishing is fun. Through it all the most valuable lessons of all are what I learned about myself.

I learned about the things that hold me back, and the things that push me forward. It seems to take forever for those lessons to sink into my little noodle brain. Something else I learned.

I’d say the biggest thing in all of this is, I get in my own way more often than not. With writing, there is no boss standing over me or issuing me orders. No one cares if I do this or not. I have to be accountable to myself, which is good and bad all at the same time.

The most valuable lesson I learned is that it is possible to overcome your fears and chase after your dreams. The best way I found to do it is to set a goal and keep my eyes on it till the end. Usually, I’m far too busy reaching the goal for the fear to come and stop me. I still have fears. We all do. They may never go away, but I’ve learned to push forward, anyway.

Moving Forward From Here

Speaking of pushing forward. Where am I going from here? The real answer is, who knows? Because no matter how much we plan, scheme or set big goals, doesn’t mean that is where we will end up.

With that said, I’ve been scheming a plan of things to come.

Lately, I’ve been going back through looking at what worked for me and what didn’t seem to work very well. Because, let’s face it, doing nine short romances in four years is not the numbers I wanted.

So I’ve been coming up with ways to ramp things up. To get more stories out, to be more productive overall. I think what set this in motion was the realization that last month was the four-year mark for me.

I’m going to do the things that worked well for me in the past and push forward to get more stories out this year. So when I look back in four more years from now, I can see how much more progress in writing, publishing and learning about myself along the way.

With all this said, exciting things are coming soon. More stories are in the works and I hope to be way more active here on the blog as well.

Here’s hoping the next four years are awesome!

New Release - Beach Fling with the Biker

 Another new release is here! Beach Fling with the Biker is live!

Is it a fling? Or forever. . .

Alexa

At last, a long overdue vacation at the beach.

Everything was going as planned.

That is, until a god of a man walks in on me in the shower.

At least he didn’t have a knife. Still, who does that? Because of a reservation screw up, we’re sharing the little beach cottage. He’s a hot guy on a bike from Houston and I’m just a boring accountant from Cleveland. Not a chance this could turn into anything more. But a beach fling with a hot biker? Even a boring accountant like me wouldn’t turn that down.

Damon

Alone on the beach for a week.

That’s all I wanted.

Except, a mix-up with my reservation has thrown a sexy woman who wears loud shirts in my path. I’ve never met anyone like her and fear I never will again. It doesn’t take long to figure out that I don’t want a beach fling. I want forever.

Author Note: This is NOT a motorcycle club romance. This is a man on a bike that meets a woman on the beach with a HEA guaranteed.

Beach Fling with the Biker is available at AMAZON for $.99 or free in Kindle Unlimited. Enjoy!