Going to Dallas!

        Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all well and staying safe!

        So, what shall I talk about today? Oh, I know! Good stuff! Taxes are all done and submitted, the day job is crazy busy (but I love it), the search for a “new-to-me” car continues (I know what I want and how much I’m willing to pay), I think I’ve found the cover for Wife for Hire (I plan on putting that out within the next couple months) and the rewrite of the love scene for Wife Wanted continues (can’t tell you how many times I written and ripped out, but that’s okay. It happens—I’m just trying to get right), but I’ve saved the best stuff for last.

        I just purchased my ticket to Dallas, where my son lives. He’s getting married to a beautiful young woman who is the sweetest thing on two feet. I just love her (and truthfully, she’s already my daughter in my heart)!

        Anyway, this trip isn’t for the wedding, but rather to go wedding dress shopping with her. Yes, she asked me and I can’t tell you all how thrilled I am. I’ve never done this before. Heck, I didn’t even shop for my own wedding dress forty-two years ago (I repurposed something I already had….what can I say? We were broke at the time).

        So this is a whole new experience for me and like I said, I’m just thrilled. The other great thing about this trip? I’ll get to see a dear friend who moved to Texas several months ago! Whoooo-hoooo! Double WIN!

        My biggest problem now will be keeping my feet on the ground until I board that plane!

Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to spread kindness wherever you go!

Marie

It's Finished...Sorta

 

        Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all well and staying safe!

So, as you all know, I have been working on Wife Wanted, the second story in The Wives of Bravado County for quite some time now and I did something I don’t normally do…I gave myself a self-imposed deadline. December 31. Well, I hit that deadline. Sorta. The story is finished except for the epilogue, which I’m working on now, and one other scene that I’m tweaking (it needs a lot of tweaking!!!!). Normally, I don’t say something is finished unless it truly is…but this…yeah, I’m gonna claim it simply because it was so hard won (I’ve been working on it a long time).

I looked back in my files to see when I started it. November 2019! Over three years ago. In my defense, I did write another complete novel in between starting this and finishing it, but still…that feels like such a long time!

So, edits will begin, but not just yet. I’m going to let it sit for a week or two (and start book three while I’m waiting). After editing, I’ll print it out, read it out loud, make my corrections then send it off to my beta readers.

I’m excited yet dreading it at the same time. The old familiar doubts have crept in. Is it good enough? Strong enough? Is the happily ever after as happy as I think it is? Will anyone else like it? You know, the same questions I’m sure other writers ask.

And that’s all that’s been happening in my life (hahahaha, which is a lie….there is so much going on, I hardly have time to breathe but there it is).

Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to spread kindness wherever you go!

Marie