Okay, so the hubby has been beta-reading for me, or rather he’s been beta-listening. The man’s kind of addicted to Audible, so he likes to turn on Word’s Read Aloud as he goes through the manuscript. I grumble about this because I hate the droid voice, and it’s just weird to hear my stuff read […]

Woo-hoo! Just knocked out some of the trickier revisions to my manuscript. There were a few chapters that needed a lot of work, but I feel good about the result. Good enough to open the doors, so to speak, and finally let someone read this thing.

Spent the past four days revising the first kiss scene. I know I’m being ridiculous rewriting the same flippin’ page over and over. But damn, if you throw in a line like “You’re beautiful…”, you gotta anchor that business, or you’ll end up sounding like you’re biting off one of the cheesiest lines in Twilight. […]

Draft one is done! 125,600 words on the dot. And, that epilogue? Well, I’ll just say that it gave me a chance to write in a slightly different genre for a minute, and I think I might have missed my calling ’cause The Siren’s Tail sounds kinda hot. Might need to expand on it later.  […]

Last chapter wrapped! I made it to the B.K.P.! Woot! Awesome way to celebrate my 41st birthday! Now, I just have the epilogue left.

So, it’s Father’s Day, and the last couple chapters I’ve written just happened to have featured my main characters’ fathers.  PJ’s dad, Logan, is a cool dude. He restores cars, and he’s got the tats and leather vest and the whole tough guy appearance. But he’s really a total softy for his wife and four […]

Chapter 46 Okay, so Beau dumping the contents of PJ’s backpack all over the bed is kinda like that moment in Book 2 when Gray jacks Kory’s phone. Dude’s in a mood, and I’m so here for it. But he’s definitely gonna need to apologize, ’cause it was kind of a dick move.  Also, happy […]

Chapter 45 The end of this chapter surprised me. I knew this scene was going to culminate in a point of conflict between my main characters, but I hadn’t planned on adding this little bit at the end where PJ helps Juliana after the football game. I’m glad I did. It humanizes Thelma’s mother, and […]

Chapter 44 Can’t set a contemporary romance in the South without some football action. This chapter had me smiling. Especially PJ with the air horn. Also, I’m shipping Thelma and Jeremiah hard now.  Who knows… maybe five or six books down the line….

Chapter 41, Scene 2 In the immortal words of Britney Spears, “Oops! I did it again.” Oh well. I think it’s important to give both characters a perspective with the sexy time. Beau needed his turn. Yeah, I’ll go with that. Plus, I needed to make up for that business with the twisted testicle.