Sales, deals, + revision torment

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Jul 16, 2024

Howdy hey, pardner 🤠,

This heat is making me absolutely unhinged and irritable omg okay everthings okay here we go.

Let’s start with the yummy stuff! The Plus One ebook is ON SALE TODAY ONLY for $2.99! We’ve got brother’s best friend, they’ve hated each other since childhood, and suddenly have to fake date to make her ex jealous???? Oh and Jude Bailey goes from down bad to going down nonstop. What’s not to love.

For my UK besties, Late Bloomer is on sale for all of July for only 99p!!!

And just a soft reminder that if you’re financially able, shopping through indie bookstores is a fabulous way to support small businesses! I know the price is a few dollars higher but it does a lot to support bookstores!

Life Updates

I got married!!! It was awesome!

I honestly have so much I want to say about the day, and even more about how awesome the honeymoon in Portugal was, and I have all intentions of one day sharing all the cool shit we did and some recommendations of hidden gems. Unfortunately, both of my jobs have thrown me for some loops lately and I’m also fighting for my life in revision hell on two books so I’m going to save the fun details for a future letter.

Speaking of Revision Hell…

Good god am I experiencing creative freeze-up! It’s so bad, and I’m not quite sure what to do. For a bit of context, I’ve been working on a book that was supposed to, originally, come out early next year. This book has been a beast and I’ve rewritten it and reworked it so many times, and sent it through my amazing critique partners, and I still have this grating knowing that it isn’t right. I’ve even stepped away from it, writing what will be my next release Well, Actually (summer 2025, I posted more info about it here on my IG), which was a night and day difference in drafting experience than my beastly book. I made the mistake of revisiting The Beast (affectionate… kind of) while I was waiting on developmental edits for Well, Actually and boy do I regret that. Again, I feel so stuck and frozen because I know something is off, but I can’t tell what and it’s made me scared to dig in on Well, Actually and play with revisions.

I heard something recently about how fear is the greatest killer of creativity, and that is the cold hard truth. Being afraid to play and toy with words negates the whole point of writing, which, at least to me, is taking risks and discovering what happens. I’m not sure how to get out of this vice and push through, but one thing I have been trying is reading a bunch of thriller and horror novels. It isn’t doing a lot to spark inspiration for my fluffy romances but it at least takes my mind away from ruminating on these stories, and distraction tends to be the best medicine for me ha!

Where to Buy

Signed copies of my books are available, as always, at Malaprops.

Late Bloomer is available wherever books are sold, and it would mean so much to me if you would pick up a copy or grab from your library! You’d also be doing me a massive solid if you’d take a moment to review LB on various retail sites (I promise not to read!) Barnes & Noble | Amazon | Kobo | Apple | Walmart | Target | Goodreads |