A couple of weeks ago, I promised to send out an email "next week" and now "next week" is officially last week now and even though I'm deathly allergic to something here and I haven't been able to breathe in four days...I thought maybe I oughta send out that email I promised before "last week" becomes "several weeks ago."

OK. When I said I haven't been able to breathe for the last four days...I mean, obviously I've been able to breathe enough to stay alive. No guarantees that it has been sufficient to keep adequate supplies of oxygen flowing to my brain. You've been warned.

If you've been around for awhile, you already know that real life has been a constant whirlwind for me over the last several years and 2022 was not about to be outdone by 2016-21, apparently.

My real life is the most entertaining, dramatic, suspenseful, thriller, mystery, romantic comedy, action adventure story of all time. It's even been known to have a few explosions (just the other day, the neighbors were convinced we'd been shooting at their house...and folks, no one at my mother's house has ever shot anything at someone else's house. Not even the hose when the neighbor's house was on fire!*)

So-- writing adorable romance novellas has been incredibly slow going.

That's it. That's my entire point. I'm procrastinating the heck out of writing because I'm distracted by real life.

In between the explosions, the stalkers, the homeless drifting, and some fantastic scenery-- I'm working on adding new books to the match-maker series.

I'll keep you updated along the way so you don't miss anything, promise.

~Rox

*TBF: There was no one at Mom's house when the next door neighbor's house burned down. We think it was planned that way.**

**Three of my mother's neighbors "accidentally" burned their houses to the ground within a few years of one another. Two of them have very nice, new homes on the block now. One of them couldn't convince his insurance company that it was an accident.

My mother lives in an "interesting" neighborhood.

The recent explosion may or may not have been the result of too much gasoline added to an innocent bon fire.