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Whee! An Update.

So, I updated my website...and the blog and stuff to match.  Wasn't digging the red, feels like the blues match my covers and overall personality better, so...yay!  I like it.  Hopefully you guys will too.

So...Book Four of the Olsson's Pass Series is on hiatus at the moment.  It wasn't coalescing in my brain the way I wanted to, so I've put it down for a moment.  Plus, it seems there's something of a diminishing returns thing going on with series' in general, so...there's that, too.  And I haven't got the money for proper marketing right now.

End result...I'm doing a standalone!  Signed up for CampNano again...and again, am very much behind.  I can't seem to sit down long enough to do more than 1000 words at at time these days, for various reasons.  Maybe I left too much time for my Rest After Release thing, but it seems like every time I sit down to write I either procrastinate or get dragged back out into the real world to deal with stuff.  Laundry, scraped knees, kid who won't nap because they've taken all of their clothes and diaper off and are now cold and standing in a puddle... the usual, really.  (18 month old.  Gonna start on the road to potty training soon.  I'm really looking forward to the time when I can cancel the diaper subscription off Amazon).

Might just have to start getting up before the kids again.  Or at all.  If that's even possible, since they get up at ungodly hours (ie: 7 am).

As for the standalone, I'm 8000 words into what will possibly be in the neighbourhood of 70k, so that might push my release date back again...I need to do some more proper planning.  And figure out another giveaway...all that fun stuff.  Gotta write more, I'm about three days behind...or more.  Like 10k behind where I should be...yaaaaay.

Anyway: Read my books!  They're on Amazon.  And in a month or so will be on everything else.

Woo! 






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