Series Sucker...

I'm a sucker for a series...

and I LOVE when I discover one where there is more than one book out so I can dive from book #1 right into book #2. The Rachel Carver series is exactly that kind. Rachel Carver is smart, strong while also tender, in the middle of a huge life transition and a little broken--the best kind of character. I loved getting to know her in AMONG THE DEAD and then it was like having dinner with an old friend in DOWN THE BROKEN ROAD. ('cause i read it in one sitting) 

Check them out if you haven't already. Plus, the author, Jason, is a really nice guy. That matters, doesn't it?! (It should… ;)

I've lost count...

I'm reworking a book that I published 5 years ago. This is not something I recommend ever doing, but here I am. I don't consider myself a perfectionist. I think it would be near impossible to ever send a book out if I was obsessed with perfection. Which doesn't exist, by the way. There's always some little thing that comes up after the book is out. Or sometimes multiple little things... Like dozens of them.

But this book is different. Written after I left Penguin Putnam and before I came to publish with Thomas & Mercer, it was a lone venture. And I don't recommend those. It takes eyes--multiple sets of them--to make a book great. And it takes another set of hands to pry it away from you so that it can go out into the world.

You're not supposed to look back after that.

But I have to.

Just this once.

And then I'll be done... For real.