Launch Day! Book 3 “Pandora’s Price” is LIVE!
We’re here. We’re at this point… yep, you’ve guessed it:
Today is the day BOOK 3 LAUNCHES!
Just a reminder — my first published book was released July 28-29, 2018. My second published book was released on January 22, 2019. So there was a good six-month window between Book 1 and Book 2, but only a couple of months until Book 3!
Yikes! So it’s been a helluva couple of months…
Publishing vs. “Net New” Writing
I set a high bar for myself with that two-month window between books, and I don’t recommend this to anyone!
I was cutting it VERY close to the deadline, made a crazy dash to do last-minute edits, and hardly had time to promote both the recently-released Book 2 and the upcoming Book 3! So both books suffered from the short timeline.
BUT I had my reasons. I have a semi-cliffhanger in between Books 2 & 3, so I didn’t want toooooo long of a wait, and I also really wanted to get those books out there as they’ve been around forever!
Book 1 was written over 15 years ago, and what eventually became Books 2 & 3 was finished since 2016! Now, it’s a long way from “finished writing” and actually “ready to publish” but YEARS is way too long.
I needed to get those books out there so I could focus on NEW stories, NEW characters!
I haven’t done much “net new” writing in YEARS, because these books occupied SO MUCH of my head space! I’ve revised and re-read and edited and WORKED so much on what I had, that I didn’t even feel possessed to work on stories that aren’t fully there yet.
So I’m really glad to have Book 3 PUBLISHED, LIVE, AVAILABLE, and most importantly — all its “production” is now OVER.
Now… I can actually, really WRITE.
Book 3: Wrapping Up The Series (for now)
Book 3 wraps up the first chunk of this series. I still have at least two more stories in me for this series — Bryan’s & Stacey’s which will be told in Book 4, and Gianni’s & Vicki’s which will be in Book 5 (not yet titled!). I haven’t figured out how it all ends yet, but I know that the MAIN story is done. Thank God.
The main story was Darren and Luisa… the affair that rocked EVERYTHING. It deserved two books, and I made sure it was PROPERLY told. It’s there. It’s out.
My Book 2 & Book 3 couple is a lot more complicated than Book 1’s. With Darren and Luisa, there’s SO much more. It is SO deep and was SO painful to write.
I’m really glad I ended up leaving it on a cliffhanger so readers could BREATHE between books. Because Book 3 moves SO FAST. There’s a natural break while the two main characters barely speak, but when Book 3 starts back up, it is RAW and goes DARK very, very fast. I repeat:
Book 3 is SWIFT. I’m warning you.
I did spend way more time FEELING my Books 2 & 3 characters, reliving scenes and retooling them. My writing is so, so, so much better by Book 3. I see myself. I am all over the place.
I am Luisa and her indecisive heart.
I am Darren and his desperate redemption.
I am Gianni and his quivering soul.
I am Kris and his eternal regret.
I am Nicole and her volatile seduction.
I am “Hart & Cole”.
They are all a part of me. I am a part of them.
They’re out there. All of them.
And this book is their culmination, for now. Their stories are told. FINALLY.
It’s today. It’s out there. It’s published. Woo-hoo!
Three published books, y’all. I’m a frickin’ WRITER, y’all!
(Now I need to stop boasting and hide in a corner and beg my Book 4 couple to talk to me!)
Get both parts of Darren’s & Luisa’s story now on Amazon:
