I DID THE THING!! Please read this post before clicking the link!

It's here!!! Please read this post before clicking the link!

My new adult manuscript, AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE, is now available to read FOR FREE on Swoon Reads. Just download the app, and follow this link to preview the manuscript. All I ask is that you download, read, and give it a rating once you're done please! Every few months Swoon Reads chooses a manuscript from this slushpile to offer a publishing contract through Macmillan. It's based on editor opinion, reader feedback, and which manuscripts gather the most interest. So every vote, comment, and rating will help. Please note that this is a New Adult manuscript, NOT Young Adult. So it's intended for a more mature audience than some of my other works. Please feel free to share the love and spread the word on this one. I need all the help I can get!

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About the Book

Two years ago, Rennie Cobain's heart was hulk-smashed by Mack, an Emmy-winning, altar boy turned boy band icon. After a world tour as a guitar tech, Rennie gets an offer she should refuse: on Broadway.The show stars the only guy to ever break her heart. 

There's more than dignity at risk once the director discovers Rennie’s family legacy.Out of the orchestra pit and into the spotlight; blue-haired, fame-phobic Rennie is hand-fed to the press. She’s terrified the media will resurrect her past as a homeless, emotionally abused, musical prodigy. Rennie wants to be Rennie-not Kurt’s cousin.Not a survivor.Not a victim.

Mack understands her, but their first chance at love ended in agony. Now she has to kiss him every night in front of a packed house. Trusting Mack may be the only way Rennie can embrace her talent without selling her soul.

Writing & Motherhood

As some of you know, I celebrated Mother's Day this year by becoming a Mom.

For now Calliope is in the NICU, trying to catch her gestational age up to her actual age. I'm learning all kinds of things I never expected to have to know about preemies and trying not to be terrified of the day she comes home.

To distract myself, I've started querying (again), re-working a manuscript that's been collecting dust in my proverbial trunk (still), and also started brainstorming/plotting a new project (oy vey, another one?).

I'm not a masochist, I swear. I'm just trying to get ahead, because I know that in the months (and years) to come, my writing time will be at a premium. Especially once I go back to my day job.

So I'm looking for the advice of my wiser, more experienced writing friends. How do you balance motherhood (or fatherhood) with writing? Especially when you have to work another job to make ends meet in the meantime?

Meanwhile, does anyone have a time machine or two extra hands I can borrow?

From the Mouth of the Lions' Den

Last night my employer officially advised me not to let the door hit me in the ass on the way out. It's been a long time coming, what with the budget nonsense we've experienced since I've worked there, so there's a lot of relief mixed in with feeling like I've been shamelessly ravaged in the least sexy way possible.

Today was a day for figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life. The hubs posed it to me directly, "what could you do for a job that would make you happy?"

There's only one answer these days, and it isn't counseling.

I'm not a brave person, generally speaking, and I'm definitely not a risk taker. So the idea of throwing myself full time into this lion's den? It scares the bejeasus out of me.

It's also exciting as, well, throwing myself into a lion's den.

As much as I'm not a risk taker, I also believe in Fate. I give things up to something greater than myself and let my life guide me. Guide, but not force. I believe everything happens for a reason, and I also believe in signs. Take for example, today's google homepage image.





But I'm also denser than the smog in Smell-A.

So how do I justify following my heart to my practical side...not to mention my husband?