Hi Rockstars!

Today I'd like you to talk to Me About...Book Hangover:

The great thing about this nomad lifestyle thing is that I now plunk my butt down in some remote place where I usually have zero cell phone signal or data/wifi connection and then I stay there for two weeks before I pack up and move to a new remote, internetless, location.

This is great because I have nothing to do but write and read-- and stare into space. I also drink a lot of water. Sometimes that water is frozen and floating in tequila, but that's a story for another newsletter.

I just finished one of the many books in my Kindle library and was less than pleased to find myself in a bit of a funk for several hours afterward.

See, the thing is, I don't like book hangover. I don't want book hangover any more than I want tequila hangover.

It's one of the reasons I gravitate toward the type of books I do-- short, low angst, and insta-love. I don't want to invest too heavily in a long, drawn out story line. I don't want to delve too deeply into the characters. I don't need to know their wounds. I don't want to get too involved in their tragic backstories that make them think they are unworthy of love.

Just give me some hot sex and an easy path to happily ever after.

Then I want to close the book (and I loathe the way Kindle always wants to deprive me of the last 2% of every book. And yes, I am that person who stays till the very end of the credits after movies,) and then I want to sigh and think, "awww, that was nice."

And then? I want to go on with my life.

I do not want to think about that book or those characters for hours or days or weeks. I want to feel content that they are existing in some alternate universe, happily going on about their lives with very little conflict making them second guess taking that leap of faith on I Do.

I don't want to worry about them. I don't want to find myself driving to the dentist or selecting produce at the grocery store, distracted by my psychoanalysis of their character flaws, the mistakes they made along the way to their happily ever after, I don't want to find myself putting too much energy into all the ways I wanted it to go differently.

Which is probably fairly evident in the books I write. Am I right?

So, this afternoon, while I boiled water for tea and glared menacingly at the little chipmunk that keeps trying to sneak into the trailer when I'm not looking, and thinking about how this book I'd just read left me feeling...feelings; I thought of you and wondered how do you feel about book hangover?

I know there are readers who absolutely love it and seek it out. But since you're Rocklyn Ryder readers, I wondered if you like to live in a book for days or weeks (or months or years) after finishing it? Or do you prefer to leave books in the books when you finish them?

Send me an email! I must know!

But remember-- I'm not off grid for weeks at a time, so it might be awhile before you hear back from me!

~Rox

Have you read the new Modern Match-Maker book yet?

Grab Jack and Vanessa's story on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited!

In the meantime...

The next match-maker book is on the way! I even have the cover early, so I'll give you a sneak peek at that in a few days when I'm a little more sure of these characters-- they're giving Raven some serious issues! And that is all I'm going to say for now!

If you've ready a Solid Plan and loved it, I'd love it if you dropped a review on the 'Zon for it! And shouted it out from the rooftops, of course, but I assume you already do that! ;-)