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🌞☀️ Ahh, that delightful warmth! 😍🌳🌻 I am going to stay right here and enjoy the outdoors. 🌼🌿✨

👑 One day, I'm gonna beat my husband at our favorite game! 💪🏼 I love the thrill of the competition, but sometimes his moves catch me off guard and I find myself scrambling to protect my king 🤯 Anyone else relate? #GameNight #CoupleGoals #ChessChampWannabe 😂♟️

Making the switch from iphone to android and I knew it be different. Do I like change? :-/ Mmmm sometimes. I'm feeling like a baby learning how to walk with this new phone.

I looked up my Amazon page and found reviews that I had never seen before (some were years old) and only then did I realize that I hadn’t been checking (stressing) as much as I used to. And wow thanks so much to those that have read my stories and taken the time to write a review. It always means so much! Wishing you happy holidays and happy reading during the time you have off for yourself.

Found one of the original copies of my first book with the purple title! I dropped it off in one of the local book boxes this morning. Hoping it finds a good home :-) pics on Twitter & FB

I said enough & left town. I drove 3 hours west & settled in for a few days at a spot by the water. I felt a little undeserving of it because I have been sitting on my draft for a while but it turns out that was what I needed to get some ideas flowing again. “Creating Kennedy” the draft is almost complete & ready for the next phase. It’s still about a year out but that’s OK

My next book “Creating Kennedy” is nearing completion with the first draft. I had gotten stuck on what things I could put my main character through and how she would get back at those that caused her harm while getting away with it. I needed some time to think and I’ve got something now that’s great :-)

Sometimes I just find myself falling into a world that I knew was there but really didn’t see. I had heard about how hard the place had been hit by the hurricanes in the last few years and only had those images in my head to go by. I spent the weekend googling images and videos of Puerto Rico to get a sense of the place for my book, “Creating Kennedy” This place is now on my bucket list :-)

Do you ever wonder if people from your past read your writings? I do, won’t lie. I wonder if they see a bit of themselves in the characters, if they remember things the way I had. My next novel, “Creating Kennedy” is inspired by j€rks from my past. I admit it’s fun to re-imagine them and bring out their mean to inflict on my protagonist.

My big ole cactus has been transplanted and put up a fight too. I wore work gloves, the ones with that dipped rubber coating and it still pricked me through the gloves. pic on Fb

You know you are an adult when you get excited about a house plant pot. It came in earlier this week and now I just need to wait for the local stores to open up to get a bag of dirt :-P (picture up on facebook)

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This was for sure a baking bread kind of week. The smell of fresh baked bread is for sure at the top of my list of favorite smells. I posted a picture on FB of my creation :-) #romancenovels #NOVELIST #writer

surviving lockdown finding I’m shopping online 4 nice clothes though I have nowhere to go should post pics on FB I’m working on “Creating Kennedy” If I could reach in2 my story & shake Kennedy in2 seeing the big picture, I would. The last chaps were hard, I want her 2 b perfect, but she doesn’t have the experience or confidence 2 navigate the situations I’m putting her n Have an amazing weekend!

I made progress this week in my next novel, “Creating Kennedy” the story’s direction has been nailed down. I have a short description of the novel for the back jacket but what I really needed to answer to myself was what was the direction of this story? What was the point or goal and I was able to get right down to it and lay out the story’s trajectory.

Happy New Year! I may travel once the bans are lifted 2 Alberta or Iceland. I haven’t got much 2 show 4 the last little while, ideas r flowing 4 “Creating Kennedy” Having Dreaming about the plot, though still mixed up. Writing is not only fingers tapping @ a keyboard it’s making those ideas flow in a way that makes sense. A new pic is on FB. Hair is cut & now purply pink. What’s your plans 4 2021?

A fly is trying to land on the food & on me. I go after it gets away. FINALLY its swatted, I think? I dont know because it flew after BUT it happened where the food was being made. I can't find it. I decide to bake the dish (hoping to god that the body isnt in it. Im worried because hours later there is no sign of it. I eventually found it dead in the sink. I wont be eating fly for dinner.

These last two weeks have been nice. This weekend, I had a garden wall installed onto my backyard shed. I’m all set for next year. The garden wall was inspired by Zack Efron’s show on Netflix called, “Down to Earth” I’ll post a picture on my Facebook page. Anyway have a great week :-)

I learned today that I hate sun dried tomatoes. I subscribe to these food boxes where you get all the ingredients measured out to what you need and Today I had Bree and fig sandwich with sun dried tomatoes & kale salad with vinaigrette dressing. I thought I wouldn’t like the kale but really it was those sun dried tomatoes. They were too salty for me! Anyway, have a great week.

Wanted to say thank you for the book reviews. It makes me happy that my books are being read even after some years of being published. I hope your weekend has been good. There has been a lot of rain but it was much needed.

I’m not one for playing games on my phone but I got onto one called Township. My husband was asking me about the game and I told him you basically build a city. Sounds boring right, he thought so but it’s strangely addicting. I should use the game to build my book scenes. Has anyone entered the Watty’s this year? If so feel free to link your books. Have a nice week!

There had been some extended family drama that I just don’t get. I wasn’t involved in it and only heard about it from others. The couple in question are both hot heads, got into a big fight with one another and basically involved other family members into their own chaos. What’s so frustrating is they get sooo much support from other family members but take it all for granted. Hoping for amends.

I started reading a new book, “Come sundown” by Nora Roberts on my e-reader. I used to see a ton of this romance author’s books in the library box on my street (which is now closed because of covid measures) but never picked one up until now.

Can you believe it’s already mid June! Wow! No writing done this week I’m still getting used to a more busy work schedule and have to carve out some time for sure. Also not much reading done either. I’m almost done “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood I just have the acknowledgments left. Wishing you a great week!

Hey hope June has been good for you so far. These last few weeks I’ve been getting back into the routine of working again, but from home and am still getting the hang of balancing work life writing. I keep having dreams of the villainous character in “Creating Kennedy” and will be taking parts of those dreams and putting them to paper. Anyway just wanted to check in and say hi!

He was a part of my family for ten years. He was spunky and playful and he always wanted attention so much so that at times it could be annoying. He used to get on my nerves because he loved to lick everyone and anything at any given chance, including ears. Yesterday was hard. I had a final goodbye to that little ball of white fur. He was a good dog with a loving heart.

I wonder if other authors ever name their children by the names they had used in their books??? I’m sure it’s happened but for me I don’t know. Once you use a name should you use it again?

#authorlife #romancewriter #ilovewriting

I’ve been drafting a story. Social media will amplify issues. It’s about Kennedy Archer, a sophomore. In her junior year she was awkward, shy, & easily forgotten. Now with a new school year she is returning with confidence, having worked with a friend over the summer. Others take notice & she has to navigate new relationships. Once I have more I’ll start posting.

I read this article last night and found myself comparing the images that we are used to seeing versus the photos that were recently released. I did the, “That can’t be her...no...or is it?” Anyway have a look. okay back to writing :-)

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Watching “Locke & Key” and love. It’s fantasy, reminds me of Chronicles of Narnia. I watched “Don't F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer” on Netflix covering a canadian murderer. I saw the news but had no idea a facebook group tried to warn the police. it’s worth watching. Reading a few good romance stories and hoping to get a boost to get back into writing. Hope you are healthy and safe!

I’m reading “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood & I love how this author’s mind works. I’m only a few chapters in & she has been using other characters voices to tell the story (besides Offred from The Handmaids Tale) Anyway, just wanted to say hello. Hope everyone is having a great week. I love March, because it’s my birthday month & because it’s when the season starts to change. YEAH for Spring!