Chaos, Coffee & Characters 🎃☕✍️
Hey friends,
Let’s have a little fun with this one — because, oh boy, motherhood has been a ride lately. 😂
Between my daughter discovering on YouTube that baking soda can clean everything (and now I have a suspiciously filmy residue type countertop) and my son “finishing” the laundry by piling it all on the loft couch… I’ve been going through it. Send help. Or coffee. Or both.
But in other, far more exciting news — I officially printed out my entire first draft of my new romance novel. All. 451. Pages. Seeing that stack of paper sitting there feels like a huge accomplishment. There’s just something about holding it in your hands that makes it feel real. Now it’s a waiting game for the editor’s notes to roll in. Cue nervous pacing and hopeful snack breaks.
In the meantime, I’m:
🪄 Flushing out characters for my next fantasy novel (because of course new ideas always appear before I finish the current one).
🐺 Editing the final draft of Part Two of The Alpha’s Luna — aiming to have it wrapped up by next week.
📘 Getting ready for book cover time soon (and maybe even a preorder announcement in the next few weeks 👀).
Outside of writing life, we’re diving full-speed into fall activities. I need to grab pumpkins soon — last year we waited until the week before Halloween and had to hunt for enough. Never again. 🎃 We’re also planning our annual trip to the corn maze and zombie nighttime paintballing (a family favorite — the kids absolutely love it).
So tell me — what are your favorite fall activities? Do you go all-in with pumpkin carving and apple cider, or are you more of a cozy blanket and spooky movie kind of person?
Talk soon,
Heather (H.A. Ransom)
Let’s have a little fun with this one — because, oh boy, motherhood has been a ride lately. 😂
Between my daughter discovering on YouTube that baking soda can clean everything (and now I have a suspiciously filmy residue type countertop) and my son “finishing” the laundry by piling it all on the loft couch… I’ve been going through it. Send help. Or coffee. Or both.
But in other, far more exciting news — I officially printed out my entire first draft of my new romance novel. All. 451. Pages. Seeing that stack of paper sitting there feels like a huge accomplishment. There’s just something about holding it in your hands that makes it feel real. Now it’s a waiting game for the editor’s notes to roll in. Cue nervous pacing and hopeful snack breaks.
In the meantime, I’m:
🪄 Flushing out characters for my next fantasy novel (because of course new ideas always appear before I finish the current one).
🐺 Editing the final draft of Part Two of The Alpha’s Luna — aiming to have it wrapped up by next week.
📘 Getting ready for book cover time soon (and maybe even a preorder announcement in the next few weeks 👀).
Outside of writing life, we’re diving full-speed into fall activities. I need to grab pumpkins soon — last year we waited until the week before Halloween and had to hunt for enough. Never again. 🎃 We’re also planning our annual trip to the corn maze and zombie nighttime paintballing (a family favorite — the kids absolutely love it).
So tell me — what are your favorite fall activities? Do you go all-in with pumpkin carving and apple cider, or are you more of a cozy blanket and spooky movie kind of person?
Talk soon,
Heather (H.A. Ransom)
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