Regrets…

She died, but not because of me.

It took a long time for me to understand this; to realize that the burden of what happened to her wasn’t because of the things I said or did.

*Deep Breath*

Even 16 years later, I still reflect on it, and at times guilt creeps up on me. Some things, you can never move past completely.

Maybe one day, I’ll be ready to share with you lovely folks reading my blog the detailed circumstances of those events. But not today.

So why begin my blog post in this fashion? Well what I had planned originally was to talk about one of the central themes of Penumbra: Regret, and reflecting on my own past experience has left me in an morose mood.

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Regret is a terrible thing to experience. With your heart buried in the past, how can one ever move forward? Sometimes you wish you could have done something differently–to make a different choice that could have altered the fates of you and everyone around you.

Aria Valencia, the main character of my best selling romance mystery & suspense series, the Midnight Society, has gone through hell and back. At the end of Semblance, her life has been destroyed, torn apart by the Midnight Society’s shocking and psychotic nemesis. And Aria can’t help but feel responsible for the death of someone close to her.

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Her guilt and regret resonates throughout Penumbra as she struggles to piece her life back together. She’ll need to find ways to persevere, otherwise she’ll be consumed by all her dark thoughts.

And she can’t do it alone.

So, with Penumbra’s second draft complete, we’re closing in on the release date for book two. Do I have a firm date in mind? No.

I want the book as close to perfect as possible, and until I’m confident of that, I won’t be making any announcements on when Penumbra will be released. But I promise you, it will be sooner than later.

Meanwhile, make sure to keep pimping Semblance! I do appreciate every single person’s efforts in spreading the name of Logan Patrick’s across the literary landscapes! Heck, it motivates me to work faster in delvering more books into your hands =).

I guess I’ll leave this post on a final note: Love one another and never forget you’re wonderful.

I’ve stated before that I have the most caring/kind/amazing readers in the universe, and none of you have given me any reason to think otherwise. Sometimes, I can’t help but notice that there are others out there that resort to being cruel, to talk bad about other people, to push others down to climb out ahead.

And I just can’t understand why?

Ignore the bad, focus on the good of others, and continuing being the wonderful person you are, and then you can live a life without any regrets. There’s nothing worse than feeling responsible for the misery of others.

Trust me.

Logan Patricks