Has it only been a week? It feels like it's been more than a week since I emailed. (Checks calendar.) Nope...only been a week.

I'd like to say that I've lost all sense of time due to a mad-cap adventure of some sort, but the most adventurous thing I've done in the last week was my laundry.

Which is sort of an adventure since I started the whole nomad thing after a lifetime of having my own washer in dryer conveniently located somewhere in the same house I lived in....and never needing a bag of quarters to do it.

But-- laundry is certainly not the sort of "adventure" that warrants forgetting how long a week is.

Which means that the time loss I'm experiencing is either due to being abducted by aliens (picture me carefully considering this possibility) or because I've spent the last week pulling all-nighters to finish the next Moonshine Ridge Mountain Man book...

Spoiler alert: It is not done.

But it does have a lovely cover:

Well, that's not entirely true. I did get it done. Then I decided it was awful, called our characters together for a serious chat, and promptly started over again.

This time around, everyone is taking it much more seriously and I'm excited to say that it's almost done! Again.

This is the story of how Meadow Diaz avoids a Bigfoot encounter, escapes a wildfire, and falls for her brother's ex-best friend who is her number one sworn enemy and worst-ever co-worker.

It's also the story of Osprey "Ozzie" Lancaster who didn't expect to become a main character when I first mentioned him back in Surrender to the Mountain Man but as soon as I realized he'd been pining over his ex-buddy's younger sister since they were teenagers, I knew he deserved his happily ever after.

Even if he has to fight a Sasquatch to get it.

2nd spoiler alert: He does not have to actually fight a Sasquatch; although, that might have been preferable to fighting his old buddy and Meadow's older brother, Mesa.

Mountain Man's Treasure has an expected release date of January 31.

~Rocklyn