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!!
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