I have a love/hate relationship with August. It's really nice here, sunny and hot, not much rain, I get a lot of good food out of my garden, and camp is over yet we still have a month until school starts. But, August signals the end of summer which always makes me a little sad. I love autumn, but winter here is the pits, so I like to remain as far away from it as possible. We're hoping for a late fall and even later winter this year because my kids had to wear jackets for most of June.
In life news, my three-year-old broke her tibia and is in a full cast until August 26. She was knocked over by a bigger kid and it was really a fluke, but alas a hard cast it is. It's definitely changing our August plans (no more beach!) but we have some great, accessible places to go to keep all the kids entertained. MOVING ON! Let's do a what am I reading/ what am I writing post! Reading: In the past few weeks, I've read The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan (LOVE IT), Hunt the Moon by Kari Cole (Also, a big love), Toxic Desire by Robin Lovett (THIS BOOK IS BANANAS), and the first novella in the Spellbound in Sleepy Hallow trilogy (eh, it was okay). I'm currently reading The Duke and I because I slack as a romance author and have never read the Bridgerton books (DON'T THROW THINGS AT ME) and I'm currently listening to Dr. Strange Beard by Penny Reid. My TBR pile includes Summer Magic by T.M Cromer, Game On by Cara Whitney, The Winter Duchess by Jillian Eaton (I might wait a while to read this), It's Only a Scandal If You're Caught by Merry Farmer, The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan, and my aunt sent me So Many Partings by Cathy Cash Spellman which looks amazing but is like 800 pages long and I will probably not read it until autumn. I'm a little weird in that I don't like to read a series straight through. For example, I'll read something in the Brothers Sinister series, then something in May Flowers series, then a paranormal, then back to Courtney Milan, then a contemporary standalone, then a Penny Reid - I like sort of being all over the place. Writing: Dudes, I'm really killing this new series that I am being secretive about. I'm about 1/3 finished, it will be about 300 pages when finished, and I've got the whole series pretty figured out. It has soulmates, witches, curses, a very hot carpenter, and that's all I'm going to say! DON'T ASK ME FOR ANYTHING ELSE! In books I CAN talk about, Something Wicked is back from most of my beta-readers! Overall, lots of positive responses and no major plot points to rework (thankfully, because I did that after my editing stage and it takes a while). ARCs will be up the first week of September and it will be for sale September 20th! I hope you love this autumn romance that was described by one of my readers as "like a Hallmark movie with sex," which was the best compliment, because when I set out to write the Happy Holidays Romances that was the plan! I love a good Hallmark movie, but I'd love 'em even more if they ended with a romp instead of a short, chaste kiss. I hope you are having a relaxing, warm August - soak up every minute of that summer sun! Love always, Lucy
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