Updates on What I’m Working On
This is Book 1 in the Oregon Series.
One of the people on my editing team came down the flu in December. I would rather wait and have the book be as good as it can be before publishing it. Plus, the people who help me with my books are friends. Yes, they started out as readers who contacted me, but we developed friendships over time, and their opinions are important to me. So I want to take their thoughts into consideration before uploading the book for publication.
When this is on pre-order, I’ll let everyone know.
The Hero Least Likely is coming along better than I expected.
This is Book 2 in the Love Under Desert Skies Series.
We are heading for the last 1/4 of the story now. I had to do some rewriting to the beginning to get on the right track with this one, and that set me back for a bit. But things are going smoothly now.
Today, I just wrote the scene where the hero of our story proposes to the heroine, and it turned out a lot better than I expected. There are characters an author writes who wonders if the characters will be able to successfully pull off a big moment when it arrives, and I’m both relieved and excited by the way the hero handled the proposal in this book. (Yes, I know it sounds weird for an author to speak as if the author had no control over a character, but the fun in writing is NOT feeling the control. I might be writing the story–and therefore, the character is really “me”–but I like viewing characters as if they are like my children–people I have no control over.)
And earlier in this book, I made a slight error that was a contradiction to Tagalong Bride (Book 1 in this series). At first, I was tempted to go in and change this error in this book since I did catch it while listening to Tagalong Bride. But then, I realized this error is the perfect segue into Book 3 of this series. I can’t say that is, unfortunately. It would spoil an important element in this story. Just suffice it to say that I was excited when I realized where I can go with this plot point.
Also, due to a concern someone has about the age of a certain character, I have decided to make the heroine in Book 3 of this series 35 instead of 39. I am trying to find ways to introduce older characters into books, but I have to make it work for the series.
That being said, I will be able to make the heroine in Book 3 of the Oregon Series 42 (I think I settled on 42), and the hero will be 50. Unfortunately, that book won’t be out until 2026.
I have slotted September 2025 through February 2026 for my holiday series since there is going to be a Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine theme to those books. I’ll speak more specifically to this series in a later post. I’d like to get the covers done before going into them. I’m putting this 3-book series into the Regency world so I can bring Mr. Christopher Robinson in as the hero in Book 3 (the Valentine one). Don’t worry. He is still married to Agatha. I’m not killing her off. I just have a special “holiday magic” twist I’m throwing into the story.
I think I’m halfway into The Earl’s Bluestocking Bride.
This is Book 1 in the Marriage by Chemistry Series.
This is one of my funnier romantic comedies. The comedy is more of the heroine not realizing she loves the hero while hating his alias. This is a situation I’ve never done before, and it’s turning out to be more fun than I expected it to be, so I’m dragging things on for a while. These two are soon to be married. It won’t be until after the marriage that the big reveal happens, and at that time, I anticipate having even more fun with these characters. To be fair to the hero, he doesn’t realize who her alias is, either. So he’ll be just as shocked in the big reveal as she’ll be. This book only goes to prove that sometimes authors enjoy messing with their characters. 
This is Book 2 in the Oregon Series.
You haven’t read The Wilderness Bride yet, so there’s no background to understand the preacher who is the hero of this story. But anyway, suffice it to say, he’s not exactly the most likable character in The Wilderness Bride. This setup is actually intriguing to me because we are taking a character who is unlikable in one book and then presenting his point of view in a way that makes him likable. The thing with points of view fascinates me. I love working at the same characters from different angles. It makes them more real. They are layered. Anyway, I really like this hero and am looking forward to seeing how he grows through the course of the story.
