"Only With You"

So, a few years ago, I was lucky enough to get front row seats to one of Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" concerts. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a pretty big fan of hers - her music, her fashion, her perfumes, her super-cute greeting cards, and even her quirky personality. I love it all.

But as I was sitting there watching one of the best concerts I've ever been to, since she puts on one amazing show, my mind started to do its thing where a story forms out of nowhere and just grows from there. I kept thinking about the people she was on tour with - her band, the back-up dancers, the crew - and I started to think about what would happen if someone as famous as her were to fall for an average guy who worked on one of her tours.

I kept that idea in the back of my mind since at that point in my life (it was exactly five days before I published my first novel, Just Watch the Fireworks) I had so many other stories I wanted to write. But now I've come to a point where all those stories, and some I hadn't thought of back in November 2011, have been written.

So I came back to this idea I'd had almost two years ago when I went to one of Taylor's "Red" concerts back in April. I decided to write the story that had been brewing in my mind for a long time, but I put a different twist on it that made it more personal by adding in a best friend love interest instead of someone from the tour. But it's still the same concept of immortal falls in love with mortal, and how can that ever work in the real world?

Only With You will probably end up being around a hundred and thirty pages give or take when I'm done with it. It's a shorter story than I usually write, but it'll still be packed with a good stuff. And I'm excited. I love how the characters are shaping up, especially Ryder. I kind of adore him.

And just because I got the idea for this book from being at a Taylor Swift show doesn't mean this book is in any way about her. She just unintentionally inspired the initial idea, but Sydney is definitely not her.

So check it out. It's up on my page now. I don't have an official pub date yet, but I know it'll be sometime in September.

And for those of you who are wondering how Shattered Crowns is going, it's going great. I'm editing at the moment, and it'll be available in just sixteen days. Whoo-hoo! Get excited! I know I am.