Time to Come Clean
I feel like a total fraud, but once I tell you why, perhaps you will forgive me.
When I cranked out The Fergus She Books I and II (Girl Desecrated and Master of Madhouse), I had ever intention of writing more because I love the characters and you loved the books.
You've heard the saying, "Best laid plans of mice and men"?
Well, just as I hit 5000 members on my newsletter list, started book III of The Fergus She and was getting awards at work, and raising my teenage boys, and living large, I developed a mysterious illness.
I say mysterious because it started slow, just a little more fatigue than usual. Then, the fatigue became me forgetting my students' names, struggling to stay awake on my commute, crashing when I got home, and my home... the house I used to clean in 4 hours top to bottom now took me 2 days.
Fast forward five years and probably 100 specialist, doctor and lab visits and their is still no diagnosis, I am no longer teaching, no longer married nor living in that beautiful 2500 Sq foot home, no longer writing... heck! I don't even have a working computer.
That fatigue? It has morphed into muscle weakness that becomes complete paralysis on occasion and it is triggered by exertion.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. War rages in the Ukraine. The stealth Covid rages in China. So who am I to complain?
I'm just sharing why I feel like a fraud.
The writer who didn't write.
The storyteller who didn't finish the story.
But know this dear reader... 😘 I love and appreciate your patience. And, the story is written in here... in my mind. I know what paces Rachel (The Fergus She) still has to be put through. I know the historical background of Scarlett that must still be unraveled. I heard your requests for more about Rachel's mother, and I can't wait to share what her subplot.
Someday, I will get a diagnosis and hopefully treatment.
And someday, I will finish The Fergus She.
But it has to be someday, hopefully soon, but not today for I will need my prior energy to keep up the twists and trysts set in Books I and II.
But that day is coming. And, so is Book III of The Fergus She.
When I cranked out The Fergus She Books I and II (Girl Desecrated and Master of Madhouse), I had ever intention of writing more because I love the characters and you loved the books.
You've heard the saying, "Best laid plans of mice and men"?
Well, just as I hit 5000 members on my newsletter list, started book III of The Fergus She and was getting awards at work, and raising my teenage boys, and living large, I developed a mysterious illness.
I say mysterious because it started slow, just a little more fatigue than usual. Then, the fatigue became me forgetting my students' names, struggling to stay awake on my commute, crashing when I got home, and my home... the house I used to clean in 4 hours top to bottom now took me 2 days.
Fast forward five years and probably 100 specialist, doctor and lab visits and their is still no diagnosis, I am no longer teaching, no longer married nor living in that beautiful 2500 Sq foot home, no longer writing... heck! I don't even have a working computer.
That fatigue? It has morphed into muscle weakness that becomes complete paralysis on occasion and it is triggered by exertion.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. War rages in the Ukraine. The stealth Covid rages in China. So who am I to complain?
I'm just sharing why I feel like a fraud.
The writer who didn't write.
The storyteller who didn't finish the story.
But know this dear reader... 😘 I love and appreciate your patience. And, the story is written in here... in my mind. I know what paces Rachel (The Fergus She) still has to be put through. I know the historical background of Scarlett that must still be unraveled. I heard your requests for more about Rachel's mother, and I can't wait to share what her subplot.
Someday, I will get a diagnosis and hopefully treatment.
And someday, I will finish The Fergus She.
But it has to be someday, hopefully soon, but not today for I will need my prior energy to keep up the twists and trysts set in Books I and II.
But that day is coming. And, so is Book III of The Fergus She.
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