Category: This & That

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

PRE-ORDER now!

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

Pre-Order now!

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!

Again with the testing…

I guess we’re soft purple now.

Don’t know how to get my book covers in the sidebar, so now they’re at the bottom of the site, in the Footer area.

Elle is not amused.

My back is sore,

My neck is out.

This is why

I scream and shout.

To get to Books, click here! 🙂

Published
Categorized as This & That

I’m baaack???

My site changed servers a few months ago, and because I’ve been busy recovering from a car accident and working on updated versions of Deceiving Derek and Catching Claire in Love & Other Calamities – and also writing the next three titles in the series, Before Brady, Just Janie, and Trusting Trey – I didn’t realize my blog was broken. I kept trying to publish new posts, to no avail. I spent hours on tech support with my host, to no avail. They even switched my customized Muse Interrupted theme to the 2021, theme and I still couldn’t publish a post.

Most aggravating.

I was about to hire a website designer to fix things when I decided to do ONE LAST TEST. And, well, whatever was glitching for weeks before I went away to trek through Ireland for a month is no longer glitching!

This is good because I really, really, really need to redesign my website, and I want to move it to a WordPress-based site because my web design software is on an old computer I only keep for the software. I need to get with the times and make things mobile-friendly.

So redesigning my site is on my To-Do list for this year.

That said, because I’ve been away from publishing for so long, like 5 years, I made the decision not to put any of the books in Love & Other Calamities on pre-order until all 5 are revised and edited. I’ve learned that when it comes to my neck, skull, and shoulder injuries I just need to put my health first, and besides who wants to read a connected series with months and months between releases?

If you’ve stumbled upon this post and you’ve been wondering, What happened to Cindy? Yeah, I got whacked, multiple times, from behind. And it wasn’t as fun as it sounds. 🙂 I’m now seeing a pain management specialist, getting nerve block injections every 3 months or so, and, on top of my other therapies (of which there are many), I finally feel like I can get on the path to publishing again. I can’t spend much time at the computer. I do 2-3 hours a day of physio, strengthening and yoga just to TRY to get to 4 hour days – with breaks that interrupt my flow. I would really love to get 4 to 5 4-hour writing days a week. I’m not there yet. I can get maybe 2 hour days. I can do a 3 hour day but will pay for it the next day.

I am determined, even as I am reminded that those 6 hour days are lost to me forever. So I’m gonna go ahead with my plan not to put Love & Other Calamities on pre-order until the editing process is complete.

For my readers, that means some aggravating waiting. But I thank you for your understanding.

When the updated versions of Deceiving Derek and Catching Claire are on sale, I’ll let you know here. I won’t be creating new website pages for the series – I will just be putting the links here and/or pointing you to pages hosted on a site like Books2Read or my SleekBio. When I design my new website, I WILL create separate pages for each title, but because of my injuries it seems not a very wise use of my limited time to make 3 new website pages on an old computer with old software and THEN redesign the entire site.

Thank you for your understanding!

PS. You never know, I might change my plans and update my old site before redesigning the new site. If so, I’ll also announce that here.

Testing

Just testing

Haven’t been able to publish a post in forever.

No idea why.

Happy Friday the 13th!

A friend from high school turned 58 today on Friday the 13th! She was born on a Friday the 13th, and, guess what? 5 + 8 = 13. That’s pretty lucky. For years, until I was 13 and met this friend and another born on April 13th, who both set me straight and showed me calendars from the year of our birthday to prove how wrong I was, I thought I was born on a Friday the 13th in January.
 
Turns out I was born on a Wednesday. My mom had 3 kids close together and couldn’t remember the day of the week I was born. My dad only knew he was working out of town and came home on Wednesdays and Fridays. So I was therefore born on one of those days. Thirteen years of thinking I’d been born on Friday the 13th flew out the window! I had to console myself with being born on the 13th day of the 13th month.
 
Happy birthday to everyone born on the 13th of a month, but especially to the Friday the 13th babies! It’s not unlucky. We’re a bit weird, but, hey, weird is wonderful. Embrace it!