Chocolate makes me want to write

So I have a thing for chocolate...what girl doesn't? I think my favorite kind is by Godiva. Milk chocolate with salted caramel. Yum. I'm in heaven.

So anyway, I'm noshing on this chocolate I absolutely love, battling writers block. Well, not quiet block. It's more like writer's interest. I'm supposed to be working on one book, but my mind keeps drifting into the ether with ideas for another book I have that's not even supposed to be in the works yet...and wouldn’t you know it, I’ve already written the first chapter. lol. It's great, because my mojo is in high gear...but not so great because it's for the wrong book!

It's like shiny object syndrome (which I'm sure is something I’ve just made up). You're working hard, something distracts you...ohh, shiny! I shall hop over here to investigate. An hour later you've sat back, realizing you've been watching cat videos on YouTube.

Very productive.

So I've decided to focus by eating chocolate. Not sure if it will work. But my mouth is very happy.

The book I'm trying focusing on right now Is the Council, book 2, A werewolf's moon. Normally when I get writer's block, I go back to the beginning, and read it. Then I end up where I left off and I'm able to keep going. I have not gone back to read it yet, so I'm thinking that will be my next step. Or I may just take a couple days off and work on something else, maybe leave a message for my muse. PLEASE COME BACK!

Just kidding, my muse is fine, just a tad distracted by shiny objects and chocolate.

Other than that, I'm going on a mini blog tour for Chasing McCree!! Very excited for that. You can find the link on my Facebook page. The dates have been chosen. 5 days in May. But I have no idea which blogs I will be on yet. I'm leaving that up to my tour manager.

Well, that's all for now, I'm going to stop hopping off on bunny trails and get back to writing...but first I have to go to the mall...

Cowboys! Cheerleaders! Oh my!

So this is it. The day of my third book release. I sit here writing this, bleary eyed at 8:22 am. My cat, Bailey, is whining and crying for attention. I’ve been on the computer way too much over the last few weeks. It’s time to spend more time with me. That’s what she’s saying. But this is only my third book, and my computer keyboard is hardly smoking. So I will give my fingers a rest for a couple days, and then it will be back to work on two books!!

TWO.

Do you hear me? The incredible feat of having two books released this summer is probably insane. But I am going to do it! Why? I HAVE NO IDEA. It just seems like a good idea…. I may regret it. Who knows? But I love a challenge.

Before I talk about what’s in my future, I would like to talk about what is in my present. Chasing McCree. The book about a cowboy and cheerleader. I wrote it for many reasons…the most prominent one being that I looked around, and did not find any YA about cute cowboys! What?? They were all relegated to the romance novels.

How come there are no cute cowboys in YA? I kept asking myself, over and over.

Sure, sure there were plenty of books with cowboys in them and on their covers with glistening, bulging pectoral muscles and the promise of a feisty heroin. She would love him for the man he is, and not his shiny, sweaty, glistening, work roughened exterior….

O.

M.

G.

Lord save me from the clichés!

So I decided to remedy this. I let my fingers do the walking over the keys, thinking, I’m not breaking new ground or penning the next New York Times Bestseller, but damn it, I’m filling a void. YA romance needs cowboys! We have vampires. Werewolves. Angles. Demons. Fairies. Witches. Dead Cheerleaders. (Because live ones are so last year.) Hell, there are probably books about bigfoot….pirates. Greek Gods. (I’m running out of things to list!)

And now, we have a book about cowboys!

*sighs, smiles*

And now I’m sitting here thinking…why stop at just one book about cowboys? Why not have a whole slew of cowboys, and maybe even cowgirls? Cowpokes. Cow people? (Foreshadowing here.)

Is there a song called, I am my own worst enemy??

If there isn’t, I should try writing it J

Okay, back on track…

So, yes, we now have a book about cowboys.

As for my next two books, The Unofficial Story of Kyle B. Johnston, and book 2 of The Council, which will be titled, A Werewolf’s Moon, they are being written! I have no release dates yet, and no idea what the covers look like. But when I do, of course I will tell everyone! Even the poor mailman who deals with my spider-ridden mailbox!

YEEHAAA!!