Sorry folks. I took a brief detour from the writing to put this newsletter together, only to fall down the proverbial rabbit hole and lose hours of my life to going through my email lists and try to make some sense of the way I have them sorted.

Naturally, they aren't sorted very well and a day and half (and one email to tech support) later, I could use a stiff drink.

I have people who have never confirmed their email address-- so those people simply aren't with us. Which hurts my heart because I'm sure the biggest culprit behind that is that those confirmation emails have a pesky tendency to end up in SPAM folders where not everyone finds them...and, of course, I have zero way of telling those people to go look in their SPAM folder.

I have a weird list of people in some sort of limbo-- that aren't assigned to one of the mailing lists at all and the mailing service software won't let me put them on a list (hello, tech support!) and that's just weird and frustrating all the way around.

And I have new subscribers (HI! Welcome to the madness!) that got here from somewhere else and are probably wondering now if my mailing list is somewhere they want to be. (It is! I promise!)

What I wanted to do was to show you the cover for the new Match-Maker Romance book! So let's do that, shall we?

Not too shabby. Amirite? But man! "Promising" is a long word!

Wonder what we're working with in this book? Well, we've got a super rich dude who needed to get married ASAP in order to make sure he-- and his mom-- stayed super rich.

And that means we've got a match-maker who is having a melt-down over the news that one of her happy couples has filed for divorce now that their marriage-of-convenience isn't needed anymore! (Of course, Raven didn't know it was a fake marriage!)

And that means...we've got a confused-but-stubborn couple with broken hearts that only a really badass match-maker can fix.

I, for one, can't wait to see how Raven does it.

Oh, the personal life! LOL! That's an adventure in itself!

Well it looks like my little converted camper trailer is going to spend the winter in storage and it looks like (crosses fingers) I'll be spending the winter in Washington D.C.

No. Nothing even remotely politically motivated to that destination. It just happens to be the place that the bestie has landed an assignment and since we're both California girls, we're looking forward to getting a taste of that big city, east coast, but-why-does-it-have-to-be-in-the-dead-of-winter?! living.

Bestie is looking forward to a New York City side trip to do what she's calling "the full Sex in the City tour" and I'm not going to pretend to be too cool for that.

Disclaimer: There will be no high heels, no trips to Prada, and no sex. Probably. I can't make any promises.

I'm going to get back to the book writing-- it's way more fun than the email sorting.

If you have advice or suggestions for a couple of small town girls visiting the DC/NYC area-- let me know! We can use all the help we can get!

~Rox