It's still TGIF.

And I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it.
I'm about lose control, and I think I like it.

Finally!

Kristin

Through tears of joy ...

I make this announcement.

PRE-ORDER of my second published novel, THE PROMISE, starts on December 9th!

So excited, relieved, grateful, happy ...

Kristin

I am so pleased with the final copy of THE PROMISE.

Thank you, Heidi!

Kristin

So close ... we're so close to announcing the release date of THE PROMISE. We're waiting to hear back on one last materials issue, and the minute we get the all's good, I'll release the date. Since I've/we've had to wait a bit longer than anticipated, I've talked my publisher and my publicist into some fun stuff that we'll announce with the date, you know--contests, giveaways--fun stuff like that.

Until then, I'd like to share one of my favorite musician's singing one of my favorite songs. Some dear people in my life are dealing with quite a bit right now, and this song has been on my mind the past couple of days. I can't get the words out of my head. The lyrics are poignant and so fitting, today and everyday. Enjoy.

You'll feel better right away
Don't take much to do
Sell you pride
They say in every life
They say the rain must fall
Just like pouring rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine.
Oh yes
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine
Yeah, all right
Everybody, everybody
Shower the people you love with love.

Things are looking up.

And can I say, finally?
~ Physically, I think I might actually be getting better ... for real this time. Please, keep your fingers crossed for my immune system.

~ I finished the second book of my latest series, STEPPING STONES.

It's a very good series, different, romantic ... and almost TOO realistic. Fingers crossed that the third book is as fun to write as the first two were.

~ My publisher says they should have on OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE for THE PROMISE by Friday. This Friday! Fingers crossed again, with fervor please. They will be offering a pre-order as well. I'll let you know when all this takes place.

Until then, happy reading.

Kristin

Where have I been, you ask?

I've been down for the count ... since before Labor Day ... with a horrible chest infection. HORRIBLE with a capital H. This illness has knocked me for a loop, a loop I'm still struggling to get out of.

My doc says I have Viral Pericarditis. Good times. And the clincher is that if it was Bacterial Pericarditis, I'd probably be similarly sick BUT I would've been able to take an antibiotic. More good times.

So for now, I'm still in recovery mode. I'm putting this blog on hold until I have the release date for THE PROMISE, which is being announced next week. Now that really is a good time!

Kristin

Ugh.

I'm about to begin a very uncomfortable part of the novel I'm currently writing and I have to say, writing the "uncomfortable stuff" isn't my favorite. Creating an outline for a story line is easy. Yet when it comes to the depth, intensity, and seriousness of the conflicts my characters go through, that unpleasantness isn't felt until I'm writing it.
The second book of my latest series, STEPPING STONES, is no different. It'd be so much easier, more fun, more enjoyable to keep my stories light and happy, but that's not fiction. That's not romance or fantasy. And like every novel I've written, at least once during the process I say to myself, "I wish they hadn't done that," or, "I wish it didn't have to be that way."
I know, it's my story. But at a point that changes and it becomes "their" story; Brynn, Cori, Meagan, Landrie, and Aniston's. Other authors will attest to this, to the story being so big--in and of itself (<-Idiom, er ... WORD OF THE WEEK)--that regardless of desire, they have to write it through to fruition for the mere sake of it.

With STEPPING STONES, I'm there and I'm already tired.

Kristin

Ps. Some less-exhausting news - THE PROMISE is in the queue at the printing press. We're literally just a few short weeks away from release. YES!