Karyn Rae's Blog

Harlow (Terms of Surrender Series Book 1) releases on June 19th!Yes, we write for career, for purpose, for solitude, and for freedom, but we also write for connection. I don't think I can accurately articulate what it feels like to know that someone got you. They read your book, and they understood. For whatever reason, your story resonated with them. This resonation is the addiction, the chase of the high that brings you back to write the next book.I give you The Story Estate, and her review...

With the release date of Terms of Surrender closing in, I wanted to tell y'all a little bit about how this book came to be.I started writing TERMS when I turned thirty-seven. I'd spent a week in Folly Beach, SC, and one afternoon sightseeing in Charleston. Just one. Like a great love story, one afternoon was all it took to be swept up by this magical city. Now, don't get me wrong here. My love affair with the South was decades into no return, but standing under the Haint blue ceiling of a wid...

PART ONE12:00 a.m.The remaining hours of her life dripped away in synchronization within a finger-smudged IV pouch that hung alongside her bed. The bag was already half-drained. A background orchestral of machinery worked in melodic rhythm, rising and falling with each pitchy tone, no one piece more important than another, but each part playing perfectly. Each shift in my back-wrenching metal chair created a trill racket. Just another instrument to the orchestra that stabbed through the monot...

Some days the grind feels like it's shredding my last sane nerve. Some days can feel the total opposite. Self-publishing a book isn't just releasing a book for sale. You are starting a business, launching a world-wide brand, and most of us are the only employee in the company. It can be overwhelming to do the work of a team, defeating to hear the word no, and exhausting to put in the hours to become successful. However, on the day that you hear the word, YES, it makes everything you've done w...

Y'all, I have fought this moment for so long. Despite all factual evidence, I convinced myself that I would NEVER start a blog. I thought it was time wasted from writing my current project, or putting effort into my publishing company www.karynraepublishing.com. But, here we are at blog post #1. Sigh. . . let's go.First, I'd like to welcome you. The purpose of this blog is to inform you of current projects, previously published projects, and those that still live in my head. From time to time...