Category: Blue Orchard Books

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!