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Two Rom-Coms on Pre-Order!

Folks, I am thrilled to announce that not only are ALL MY BOOKS now enrolled in Kindle Unlimited, which means you can read them for free if you’re subscribed, but I have two more books coming out this year! You can pre-order them now.

First up, JUST JANIE, book 4 in Love & Other Calamities, comes out April 23rd, so not a long wait, but you can pre-order now to have it sent to your Kindle on the release date.

PRE-ORDER JUST JANIE

Green book cover with hearts featuring a dark-haired Keon and a blonde Janie smiling and gazing at each other with eyes downcast.

He might have plucked her petals, but she has her pride. Keon the Canadian cutie isn’t getting near her daisies ever again!

Is he only after a good time?

Just when Janie McAllister is convinced her feelings for her ex are finally and neatly tucked in the past, Keon Rivers surprises everyone—but especially her—by coming to town early for a wedding.

OMG, OMG!…okay, she’s cool. Janie won’t allow the sexy whirlwind that is Keon to toss her world into disorder a second time. No, she’ll survive until the nuptials are over and he is on his merry way again.

Except Keon has his own plans. And they involve Janie. And a forever love.

That is, if he can get her to see how perfect they truly are together.

Available: April 23, 2025

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Tania, a redhead in a wedding gown, and Trey, with dark blond hair and a trim beard, in a tuxedo, embrace on their wedding day. Tania is holding her bouquet and is tapping Trey's nose with a finger.

Will he say I Do or walk away?

The flawless wedding day Tania Hoyt dreams about crumbles to ashes when her shoes get ruined, fire destroys the church, and her deadbeat dad blows in, upending the family apple cart. After a summer of far too many mishaps and the mother of all surprises, Tania worries if the universe is trying to drop her a mega-clue that she and fiancé Trey Whitaker simply aren’t meant to be.

But Trey can’t lose her. He has only hours to pull together a happy ending and prove he’s the man—and the husband—Tania deserves.

Available: September 8, 2025

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Don’t you love these covers?

All 5 books in Love & Other Calamities will also be available in print. Watch this space!

It might get dusty around here…

Hey, there! It’s nice to start feeling normal again. I am looking forward to a wonderful spring and summer, thinking back that a year ago we shaved my head.

This year, I bought an eBike and am trying to get used to it. I haven’t ridden a bike in years!

I’m also taking a course on building a website with a specific WordPress for Writers theme. I love my site, but it’s an old HTML site and not suitable for viewing on a phone. Before I get back to writing, my plan is to build the new WordPress site and get all my books over there. If I can’t do it myself, I’ll hire out, but I enjoying building websites!

I’m enrolling my books in KU!

Hey there, if you’ve been with me for awhile, you’re probably wondering where I went.

I’ll be honest and say I nearly gave up writing during a time when I felt like I should have been celebrating my recovery from chemo and radiation for Triple Negative Breast Cancer. It just didn’t go that way.

Chemo and radiation took a lot more out of me than I realized. THEN my husband and I contracted COVID for the first time.

THEN I got depressed. So much so that my mood affected my sleep to the point where I needed to be hospitalized.

I hope you haven’t suffered from a long depression. I’ve had highs and lows before, but never like what I experienced this winter. I’ve never needed to take depression meds.

Now, I am on a couple of medications but hope to whittle those down as I continue to heal.

Long story short, I haven’t written since BEFORE BRADY came out.

***AND NOW COMES THE BIG CHANGE!!***

After several years of marketing my books Wide (on all retailers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, and Apple Books), I’ve made the decision to go exclusive to Amazon, which might delight you or tick you off.

Yes, I’m moving my books into Kindle Unlimited!!

I’m excited about this. It will make it easier to schedule promotions. Plus, it gives access to a readership I didn’t have before.

Keeping my books wide might look simple. On the back end, life will be less stressful only dealing with one retailer.

If I find being in KU isn’t working, then I’ll put my books wide again but with a more streamlined process behind the scenes.

As of this typing, my books are in the process of being removed from Google Play, Apple, Kobo, BN, and Draft2Digital, but places like D2D aggregate to third-party retailers and I need to make sure all the books are gone from those retailers before I enroll them in KU.

I’ll let you know when the process is complete. For now, my books are available for sale on Amazon as per normal.

I hope I don’t lose you as a reader by making this move, but it’s something I need to try.

Now, here’s a picture of my hair 8 months post-chemo. It’s at a weird mullet/shag point of growing out, and I dinna like it very much. I can rock a pixie, but my hair grows fast so short would require Too Many Haircuts. I can’t wait until it’s the length it was before, between my chin and shoulders. But at least I ain’t bald anymore.

Talk soon!

New interior design for Picture Imperfect!

Thought I’d share shots of the new interior formatting for Picture Imperfect, my steamy mystery romance, AKA “A Sassy Suspense,” and a stand-alone set in the Pacific Northwest.

I wanted to update some language from the first publication that might cause some folks harm. Ie. words like crazy, insane, and overweight (which was only used in the book once, but if it caused harm, I apologize). Now that I know better, it felt like the right thing to do was correct some language.

While at it, I redesigned the interior with some snazzy new formatting that I love! The cover hasn’t changed, but I’m including a shot of Picture Imperfect next to Head Over Heels, as PI is twice as long!

PI is my longest book, with multiple points of view, a love story, a mystery to solve, family and friendship complications, and – ta-da, of course a happy ending!

What I found doing this update is there was one typo!! Fixed it.

I also got to update a bit of technology.

And I discovered I still love this book!

The new formatting applies to the print and digital editions, so if you pick up a copy, you’ll get it as it is now, February 2024 moving forward.

Same cover, “Not for Resale” because it’s a proof copy

Sample of new interior formatting (this is the first scene with Gabe’s mom’s point of view – she gets a love story in the book too!)

Another sample of the new interior formatting. I love the script! (PS, don’t zoom in and read the page if you don’t want a spoiler)

New author pic, taken, you know the drill, in my bathroom with my shower curtain backdrop behind me.

Comparing spine width to Head Over Heels

Wanna check out PI? HERE

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Before Brady reviews!

I’m 6 weeks out from my surgery and still have a long way to go on my journey, but I’m keeping my toes in the writing world when I can.

I’m busy updating DMARC records (gobbledegook for email deliverability rules that are coming into place on February 1st.)

I’ve done a light edit on PICTURE IMPERFECT to update some word choices and tech. Happy to report that I only found one typo!

I’m about to upload the new editions of the book and will let you know when it’s ready. Same cover, no big changes. Just minor edits.

And…

My books can always use more reviews, and because I had a medical challenge in 2023 that will be continuing into this year, I didn’t do a great job getting ARCs out for BEFORE BRADY. But some fab reviews have come in from readers around the world!

5 Stars! “Every girl wants to meet Mr. Right, but sometimes it takes a long time to figure out that Mr. Right might not check all the boxes.” CA Cindy on Amazon (not me, I promise)

5 Stars! “I loved Alicia and Brady’s story . . .great characters, sparky interaction and a little steam . . . plus terrific humor.” Laura on Amazon Canada

5 Stars! “Alicia is missing her chance with Brady. This was a really good story where Alicia needed to figure out how to “multi-task”. This was a fun and enjoyable story with some great steam.” Deb on Amazon Canada

Thank you, readers!

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Before Brady release day!

Today, Before Brady, Book 3 in Love & Other Calamities Romantic Comedy, releases (nearly) everywhere ebooks are sold!

IOW, the biggies: Amazon, Apple Books, BN, Kobo, and Google Play. I’m not sure when I’ll get things sorted on smaller stores reached through another distributor.

Normally, I would be all over things, but I’m having surgery in two days and am in serious prep mode. So my home page might be out of date for a little while. It’s not as easy to update as this blog (which really should have a soft green background to go with the rest of my site, but that’s something that also needs to wait).

But take a look at Before Brady if you want a quick-read, emotional steamy romcom that includes fun cameos from characters (and a dog) from Books 1 and 2!