New release and the flu

Some good news! My new book It Feels Like Dancing is now available on Smashwords and Amazon.

This release was despite having three weeks of illness running through my house. My kids all got the flu and my husband got bronchitis. I had a four day cold at the beginning of it all and another at the end to bookend the wave of illness.

In spite of all that, I managed to contact my editor and get It Feels Like Dancing edited, revised, and a final edit. Once that was done, I agonized over the cover. My ideas were all over the map but the images I found just didn't quite fit. I finally found something that I felt emphasized the focal point of the book, simple and elegant.

Other than my revisions I've been working on my sci-fi novel a bit. I have three unfinished erotica pieces I just haven't put the time into. I'd like to change that this week now that the kids are all back to school and I have 3 mornings a week to myself. The other two I go to school and work on my own homework.

Within the last month or so I also started another new hobby- fish keeping. I have two small tanks running and plan to start a third, much larger tank in a few months once I have a little more experience. I have been reading a lot online and watching a lot of YouTube videos on fish keeping in the past month or so. I learned about fishless cycling, substrates, and plants. So I did a fishless cycle, I used special substrates for each tank, and I am using live plants. My chemical testing is on point and I have one tank fully stocked as of this week. I'm waiting for a seller to contact me about some shrimp tomorrow for my other tank. If that falls through- I'm going to give e-Bay a try.

Slow progress is still progress - and a giveaway

Happy New Year! Here's to hoping for a happy, healthy, and productive year!

My erotica on request is still moving along at well over 10k words. I plan to work on it later this evening and see if I can't connect where the story is now to the ending. It will be a pretty interesting feat since I'm not 100% sure which ending to use. Heh. It will be nice to finish it. I think it might be able to be released near the end of February, or maybe early March.

On that front, I also revised another erotica piece I've been working on. A BDSM FF short, roughly 3100 words. I finished up what I wanted to change due to suggestions from beta readers and I have sent it off for content editing a little while ago. Hopefully I'm on track to release it by the end of the month, but it may be dipping into February.

I have been working on my sci-fi novel this week. I changed a large piece of the beginning and I am adding additional content today. That's what I'm working on in the first part of today. I just took a break to check social media and realized I haven't updated my blog in a while.

In my personal life, I am exceptionally excited about a new pet, well, pets, that I'm getting at the end of the month. We are getting new carpet in the office on Friday and once that's done I'm setting up a new fish tank. It will take 2-3 weeks to cycle but then I will have fish- in time for my birthday next month. I can hardly wait. I have my tank, my substrate, and my non-live decorations (I plan to have it live-planted). My water test kit is supposed to arrive today, too. I have the fish and shrimp I want all picked out- I'll just have to cycle the tank. Next weekend can't come fast enough. I guess I'll have to throw myself into my work to make the time seem to pass quickly!

As for the giveaway- I'm giving away 5 copies of Goddess Julia: Heels. You can enter to win via this link: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/cd67c870b711a530  As of this posting there are still 3 copies that have not been awarded. Good luck!