The new BTS e-Mag features a Loose Id book showcase, and one of the books picked was mine. You can read the blurb and an excerpt here, on page 34. I’m really excited about this! If you don’t have the patience to flip through all those pages, the blurb is now also available on the book page, and the excerpt can be found under “Free Reads & Excerpts”.
The Gift of Gravity will be available June 21, at all the usual outlets.
Yes, you guys, I had another depression cycle hitting me right at the beginning of September, and it’s taken almost until now to fully dig my way out of it. I can say with conviction that it was no fun at all and I would as soon not do it again, please and thank you. My medication has gone through some adjustments, which will hopefully help accomplish that goal.
Of course, that means I did no writing for about two months. Now I’m finally back at it, and here’s what I’ve been up to:
Playing For The Other Team is in edits and has a tentative release date of mid-January 2016. I’m quite looking forward to having this one out, as I had a lot of fun writing it. Features devious little sisters, a bit of art and a bit of baseball, explicit t-shirts, and a lot of arguments about graduation gown colors.
The Gift of Gravity is the tentative title of a work in progress, something a bit more on the serious side, featuring a buttoned-up redhead and a mohawked, tattooed reptile aficionado who slowly find their way to each other as they search for a runaway transgender teen.
Then there is an as-of-yet untitled project that I just got started on. So far, there’s sarcasm, and amnesia, and spooky things happening in mirrors!
In other news, my toddler is toddling… and climbing everything, and tearing down any and all barriers, and foiling every freaking attempt we make at keeping him safe and away from life-threatening situations. That kid has no survival instinct. He’s probably broken and now it’s too late for a refund.
New writing endeavor, new protagonist. I thought that after Lysander, who makes an art form out of being contrary, I could handle anything, but nooo. Protag and I are already at odds.
Me: “‘Kay, good plot and all, but this is a romance, so we should probably start working on your love interest.”
Protag: “Oh, he‘s cute!”
Me: “…that’s the antagonist.”
Protag: “Gimme!”
Me: “No! You’re shy and he’s an asshole!”
Protag: “Is there a gentle, vulnerable soul hiding beneath his rough facade?”
Me: “No. That’s not how this book works.”
Protag: “Gimme anyway!”
*headdesk*