So, the other day, I was re-editing... lie number one: I was NOT "re-editing." I was sifting through books looking for pull quotes-- those enticing little tidbits you see included in author social media posts.

Every time I do one of these projects, I think I'm "just going to real fast like" sit down, page through a book, grab a few good lines and be done.

Every time I do one of these projects, I end up reading the entire book as if I'm not the one who wrote it.

Every time I do one of these projects, I end up rediscovering one of my own books... as if I'm not the one who wrote it.

This week was Ankle Deep in Sugar, book 2 of the Taste of Sugar series.

Have y'all read these? Because it turns out that they DO NOT SUCK!

As a result of my project, Colter Meyers is my current book boyfriend. Why did I ever let him go? (Oh yeah, because I fell for the guy in the next book... and the book after that, and the book after that...)

You can find the paperback on Amazon

I often overlook the Taste of Sugar series because it was conceived from some rough times in my own life, the first chapter of Ankle Deep brings back vivid memories of a miserable trip to a Dollar Tree store when I was very sick and very much could not afford real Nyquil.

However, I don't have any exes whose mother's made good soup, and as much as the idea appealed enough to me at the time to yes-- I actually did get online and discover the world of sugar baby services that are available out there-- I didn't go get a sugar daddy.

I had first had the idea for the series while I was toiling away on a small hobby ranch in the middle of nowhere under the July sun in 113 degree weather, feeding cows because I'd largely run out of better options, (yes, the cow guy was also cute, but decidedly not happily ever after material;) but didn't actually sit down and start writing them until last 2019 after a different guy turned out to be a sociopath with problematic boundary issues... which is why book 3 of the Sugar series deviates from the first two. I was definitely writing my way out of my own troubles in that one!

So, I have a tendency to remember the Sugar series as not that great.

Spoiler alert: They're really pretty good. <-- NOT a lie!

Other lies for this week are that I "totally forgot" last week's email. It was more like I fell into bed, sore and exhausted at the end of the day and didn't have the energy to get back up and write an email before I fell asleep.

And also-- everything is going according to plan! I'm not at all behind schedule on all things personal and authorly, this is exactly how I expected it to go.

*This is not how I expected it to go. I thought I'd have the trailer rebuild done by now and I'd be sitting down at my new desk to fully immerse myself in Caspian's story. What desk?! The back half of the trailer is still a black hole of tools and building supplies.

We had a couple weeks of erratic weather that kept me from making progress on the trailer, which is how I ended up re-reading my own books.

After the flowers I just planted got nearly annihilated in last night's freak hail storm, the weather people are now threatening me with two weeks of sunny weather in the 90s.

So who knows? Next week I might be all excited about my new desk... but probably not; there are a lot of things to get finished before I get to the desk.

1. Join the new reader group over on FB. It's a good place to ask me questions like, "Hey Rox, when do you think you'll start writing books again and stop boring us with your construction projects?" or "Wait, some guy was STALKING you? And not in a sexy, dark romance way? I need more details."
2. Scroll down and check out this month's freebie from author Jaycee Wolfe.

May Freebie