There's been a lot going on in my life and some things like my blog fell by the wayside, but it doesn't mean I haven't been writing. A Haunting We WIll Go, my third ghost stories anthology was self-published in May of 2021. That month was a difficult one for me as I had to have emergency surgery after a trip to the ER on May 1st. Surgery was May 2. I was allowed to go home on May 4th. I'd had abdominal surgery so I was home recovering. On Mother's Day. May 9th my husband unexpectedly passed away at home while doing yard work. I was unable to write for nine months and just started writing again this past February. It was my art that helped me through this difficult journey through grief. I finished writing Rosemont Reservoir, the fifth in a series of romance/suspense/drama/crime novels (Whisper Lake, Bolt's Landing, Camden Lake and Dalton Cove being the other four novels) at the beginning of April. Rosemont Reservoir will be live tomorrow on Amazon and in the Kindle store. I'll be promoting the new novel at Articulture 2022 in downtown Westfield, MA on May 7th at Amelia Park Arena. It will not be an easy weekend for me seeing as it's Mother's Day again, but I can't think of any better place to be than among my author friends and out in my community sharing a new novel that would make a good beach read! COVID restrictions prevented this major cultural arts event from happening in 2020 and 2021, so I'm excited about the bigger venue for the event and the opportunity to be able to talk about Rosemont Reservoir which is set in the Berkshire hills. The beautiful Berkshires of western Massachusetts is one of my favorite places to take a drive when I feel stressed and want to get away. (Westfield, my hometown, is also known as the Gateway to the Berkshires.) Next up will probably be the third novel in the Amberton Paranormal Investigation Society novels (The Fairlawn Investigation and The Victoria Wayfarer Investigation being the first two novels in the series.) The Lakeside Manor Investigation may include characters from daughter Kelly's paranormal novels Parapsychology and Empathic Touch. I attempted to complete this partially written novel in November during National Novel Writing Month but it didn't go well. I wasn't happy with what I wrote. The flow of words just had not come back to me yet at that time. Fingers crossed it will get done this summer!