Monday, July 22 --- 5,703 words Tuesday, July 23 --- 4,555 words Wednesday, July 24 --- 6,240 words Thursday, July 25 --- Friday, July 26 --- Saturday, July 27 --- Sunday, July 28 --- TOTAL words for Week 14 ---
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I'm off to an early start this week with the final book of my contemporary romance trilogy, called From the Ashes of Love. It's a bit of a tear-jerker romance because of the hard road the couple has taken individually in order to find each other, so be prepared. But it'll be completely worth the journey in the end. Here's what it's all about: Harrison “Lucky” Peterson is burned out from his firefighting job—literally. He was badly burned in the recent BC fires and had to take a break to heal and recover. However, even though he’s getting back on his feet, he can’t escape the nightmares he carries with him from when he was trapped and thought he was going to die. And the nightmares are only getting worse. His old boss and friend recommends he go to a therapy retreat in the small town of Bobbins in Alberta, run at the local inn every year. He decides to give it a try. While there, he meets another attendee—a woman who is also struggling with PTSD from her years overseas as a soldier in Afghanistan. Through their shared trauma, will they make a connection stronger than their pain? The timing of this book seems pretty appropriate, considering that the fires have flared to life again in BC with this heat wave we're having up in Western Canada. Unfortunately, there are many firefighters right now battling the blazes once again and putting their lives at risk. My thoughts go out to them! I'll be back on Sunday to read an excerpt from my new novel. Hope you stay cool during this heat wave! The Mystery Chef has come to an end, and here's an excerpt from how her romance starts - from a not so great place. Next week, is the last book in this contemporary romance series with the final couple from the small town of Bobbins. Tune in tomorrow to find out who it might be. Until then, hope you have a great night! Monday, July 15 --- 3,992 words Tuesday, July 16 --- 7,401 words Wednesday, July 17 --- 5,845 words Thursday, July 18 --- 8,611 words Friday, July 19 --- 2,450 words Saturday, July 20 --- 6,554 words Sunday, July 21 --- 7,150 words TOTAL words for Week 13 --- 42,003 words Romance is being cooked up this week in book 2 in The Mystery Chef. A single mom with secrets... what could possibly go wrong? Here's what the story's all about: Katie Donaldson has lived in Bobbins, Alberta her whole life. The only time she’s ever left was to go to university, and she never finished—instead, she came back pregnant and alone. In the eight years since, Katie has worked hard to launch her home catering business. She supplies the local inn and the senior center, as well as working at local weddings and other events. Her big secret is that she’s a masked Instagram influencer, which helps pay the bills—she’s the Mystery Chef. As her popularity grows, more people online try to figure out her real identity, but she’s relatively safe from discovery in her small hometown. When a reporter arrives, intent on finding out who she is, she’s surprised when the sparks fly between them. As they get to know each other, will the secrets they each have bring them closer together—or tear them apart? Come back on Sunday to see how Katie can escape getting outed when I read an excerpt from my new novel. Have a great week, everyone! Miriam and Jon have found their happy ever after... and so have I, as I bring another book to a close. This week was a bit of a struggle with writing as I juggled a few non-writing things. Nothing terrible at all - for example, I was happy to go visit Art Walk in Edmonton, which had a lot of fabulous artists on display, including my aunt Linda's work. You'll be seeing more of her artwork soon, since she's one of the artists whose fabulous artwork will be on the covers of several of my books. In fact, the plan is to have her work grace the covers of the trilogy I'm writing this week and the next two weeks. I'm very excited to be working with her! It's always fun to do a family project like this. Speaking of books coming to a close, here's an excerpt from this week's novel The Art of Love: Next week, I'll be tackling book 2 in the series with a brand new couple in the small town of Bobbins. Tune in tomorrow to find out who might be on the path to finding true love. Until then, hope you have a great night! Monday, July 1 --- 5,403 words Tuesday, July 2 --- 8,406 words Wednesday, July 3 --- 3,500 words Thursday, July 4 --- 4,992 words Friday, July 5 --- 6,832 words Saturday, July 6 --- 4,002 words Sunday, July 7 --- 6,966 words TOTAL words for Week 12 --- 40,101 words I'm late again to post my new book's intro info, although I've already made a dent in writing today. I was on Read My Lips Radio earlier today, with fabulous host Radio Red and co-guests James Hill and Candace MacPhie. It was livestreamed, but if you didn't manage to catch it in person, here's the recap: And that leads me to this week and my new book. As I mentioned, I've already started writing it, and my new book is called The Art of Love. It's the first book in a trilogy, which I'll be knocking out, one by one, in the next three weeks. Here's what it's all about: Miriam wants to leave it all behind—her boyfriend just ran off with her best friend a week before her wedding. She’s ready to hide and lick her wounds for the next five hundred years or so. That’s when a great opportunity strikes: she’s won a year-long fellowship sponsored by the Arts Council to study painting under her idol, contemporary Métis artist Jon McMurray. He runs an inn in the small town of Bobbins in Alberta. But when she arrives, Jon seems to have never heard of the fellowship—or of her. He laughs off her paperwork and tries to kick her out. Undeterred, she offers to help out at the inn to prove herself. As she works closely with him, her hero-worship starts to change to something else. But does the grumpy artist see her only as a protégé or as a partner in more ways than one? Come back on Sunday to see how it all turns out for Miriam and her crush when I read an excerpt from my new novel. Until then, have a great week! The weather has warmed up considerably in a cross-province heat wave, and so I'm inside my house today and probably for the next couple of days as I'm writing. I'm just finishing typing the last few words of my new novel Sloshed... instead of outside in the oven that is my office in the summer, LOL. I have to say, I usually I really like the characters I create - a good trait, since I'm the author, right? - but I LOVED writing these two characters this week, Fu and Violet. They have a great The Odd Couple vibe, which was a lot of fun to play up in the story. Here's an excerpt, so you can see a bit about what I mean: And speaking of couples, I'm going to be tackling a multi-book contemporary romance series over the next 3 weeks, so tune in to hear about some more tortured... ahem, fun characters falling in love. (Well... love IS torture sometimes, isn't it?) Until then, hope you have a great Sunday, and I'll get back to writing the last chapter of Sloshed. Until tomorrow! Monday, July 1 --- 3,244 words Tuesday, July 2 --- 0 words Wednesday, July 3 --- 9,767 words Thursday, July 4 --- 7,001 words Friday, July 5 --- 9,670 words Saturday, July 6 --- 7,505 words Sunday, July 7 --- 5,001 words TOTAL words for Week 11 --- 42,188 words |
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