How time flies

Excuse me while I reflect a little on the past few years and damn how fast they go by! I've often said that March is my month. I don't know, it's just that good things seem to happen in that month!

in March 2008, I made my first sale to Harlequin and I also sold the first three books in my KGI series, effectively pushing my career in a new, exciting direction.

In March 2009 I took a huge leap and fulfilled a dream of mine by selling a Scottish historical trilogy. Now a lot of people were surprised. Some even questioned whether I'd be able to pull off something that wasn't erotic (The same was said about the KGI series too lol and well the Desires and pretty much everything I've written since publishing erotic romance) But the simple truth, as I've said it many times, is that erotic romance was the deviation for me. I started my writing aspirations with historical romance and always hoped/planned to write historicals and contemporary action adventure stuff just like KGI woot!

But you know, selling something in March 2009 and then setting deadlines and such to publish them 2 and a half YEARS later? That may as well be a lifetime. That's two and a half years to stress and worry endlessly over whether I can pull off a kickass historical. Whether I'll be able to switch from contemporary romance to the magical historical story I have dancing around in my head. Thinking it and envisioning it is a far cry from actually putting it on the page and pulling off the execution. That's two and a half years to agonize over whether I'll be a complete and utter failure.

And then suddenly two and a half years have passed and I'm now on the eve of publishing the final book in that first historical trilogy. I shake my head because looking back, I'm still not sure how I managed to pull off those stories and get them down exactly as they were in my head. But I'm happy with the result.

I've had a lot of firsts in the last year and I have so much to be grateful to my readers for. You guys embraced my KGI series when I was terrified you wouldn't. And then you embraced my historicals when again, I was terrified you wouldn't. I wanted so badly to be able to continue my KGI series and to also continue writing fun, romantic, magical Scottish historicals. Thanks to you? I totally get to. I'm even now working on the 5th KGI story and as soon as I finish it, I'll be starting work on my next Scottish historical series and I'm so giddy excited I can hardly stand it.

So I'll be celebrating the release of NEVER LOVE A HIGHLANDER but not just as another book release but rather as the culmination of a long held dream of mine. A dream I've worked on for nearly ten years now. A dream that my wonderful readers have made possible. Thank you. You guys are the absolute best.

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