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The Breaking Point trailer has been completed and is posted!! It's GREAT!! Cory did a great job with it and I'm soooo excited!! I love it!! Major thanks to Omnific's art department which has done such an amazing job with all the art for me and for all it's other authors.

Check out the video here.

Hello lovely friends and readers.

So, as I get more reviews and opinions on Breaking Point I just have to say...bad reviews or even reviews where something negative is mentioned about the book are hard. :/ This is something I put a lot of work into and you always publish with the hope everyone will love it but the knowledge that not everyone is not going to. Still, seeing it just brings you down a little bit.

However, after the few moments of being down, I find it makes me more motivated to be more picky and work harder on the future books to bring you a better story with great story lines and more developed plots. Breaking Point was by no means my first foray into writing but you know what...I've learned a ton since then and I'm hoping to apply it to my future writing. I myself have even seen in an improvement in my writing for book two.

So what I'm saying is...don't be afraid to say if there was something you didn't like about that book. Please don't be harsh about it, but it does me good to hear different opinions. Sometimes it helps me improve and sometimes I know it's just different readers preference in what kinds of books they read but either way it's still nice to know.

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So, what’s up with the sad kitty, right? Well, sadly I must report that it has been nearly 2 years since Breaking Point was released. Why is this significant, you may ask? It is significant because I have not yet put out the sequel.

I don’t blame anyone, not even myself really, I just wanted to explain some things about the writing process. First of all, I need time. Lots of time. My publisher, wonderful as they are, cannot pay me to write, I don’t get an advance and because of this, I don’t have a deadline. Writing, as much as I would LOVE to make it so, is not my career. Currently, it is a hobby, and hobbies as we all know are usually last on our lists of priorities even though they’re usually the things we want to spend the most time doing.

I’m a nurse in an Emergency Department. I work four 12-16 hour shifts a week. I’m up by five in the morning almost every day and I’m not in bed til at the earliest eleven at night. I work weekend premium which means in addition to the other days I work, I have to work every Saturday and Sunday. I have two school age children. I have a fiancé who is also a full time college student. I have a house to clean and three animals to keep up with. Basically, I’m busy and I’m tired. Writing is enjoyable, but it’s also hard work. At the end of the day when I have a few minutes to sit and write, I have to have some brain cells left in my head that aren't fried from the day to be able to do it.

Sometimes I get a few pages written; most times it’s just a few sentences. Believe you me; it’s not for lack of trying. I have four (yes, I know) books that I have started. Trapped, the sequel to Breaking Point is the one that gets worked on the most and the one nearest to completion. However, any good writer knows, when you have an idea for something else banging around inside your skull it’s hard to work on anything else until you have gotten that out of your head.

So, I’d like to apologize to all those waiting for a sequel, it is coming, I swear, it’s just coming slowly. And I would like to thank you all for your patience thus far and for your continued quest for the next book. When it is complete and to the editing process I will happily post it on here for all of you so you all know it is one step closer to being out for you to read and, hopefully, enjoy. Thank you all so much.

Much Love,
Jess