Up!!! And Some Thoughts on Timing and Publishing Schedules

Chasing the Music is now up!!! :-D

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 Griffin’s stuck in the crap town he grew up in, half-supporting the payments on his mom’s run-down trailer in the park where his long-time girlfriend lives. He’s dying for something different, but can’t walk away from his responsibilities either. 

Lita’s got a name and a reputation to uphold. Forever labeled as the small-town girl who made it big, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to stay on top and shed her southern girl image for the rockstar she is. 

When Griffin gets a chance to tour with Lita, neither his mom or his girlfriend can tell him no. It’s his dream, and it’s not permanent. 

When Griffin meets Lita, he expects magic, instead he finds a cast-iron bitch. He’s listened to her non-stop since she debuted three years ago, but the harsh exterior makes him second-guess his decision to be on the road. 

When he walks in on her during a late night guitar session, her guard is down, and they find understanding in each other they didn’t expect. The late night guitar sessions start to turn into more, but with the pressure for Griffin to return home and Lita to keep up her badass image, the obstacles between them threaten to tear them apart forever.


(In TIME, Chasing the Music comes before Blurring the Lines, but it's a different couple in a very different situation, and I didn't want this book to be the first out in the series ;-)

I've had a few interesting conversations lately with writer friends.

One thing that seems to come up a lot, is the fast pace at which self-pubbed authors release books, and can they really be that good?

I've been working on my For the Love of Music series for a VERY long time. I wrote Blurring the Lines (the first version) five years ago. Chasing the Music is one I've worked on (on and off) for the past year, maybe more. Finding the Dream is a story I've been dying to write for close to two years, and once I realized how well it could tie into this series, I shifted my idea for that story, and flew through my first draft.

Why I do I even bring this up?

Because I held on to Blurring the Lines for a long time thinking it might be cool if all three books came out only a month or so apart, and now I wonder if I've done myself a disservice?
If readers will think--there's no way she could be done so fast. When in reality, I've been working on these three books for years.

So, I don't know... Should I have put up Blurring the Lines the moment it was done?
Should I not have worked on Chasing the Music and Finding the Dream at the same time so they could come out close together?

I have no idea.

But in the end, the reason I self-publish is so that I can write books that are JUST FOR FUN and part of that is choosing the schedule I want ;-)

I guess now I just hope it doesn't work to my disadvantage...

Thoughts?

~ MJ