For everyone who's been following along for the last few months, you know that I've been rebuilding the tiny trailer that I pretend is a wicked cool Sprinter van for my "vanlife without a van" nomad lifestyle.

For everyone who's been following along for the last five years, you know I've been doing that whole nomad lifestyle thing in a little trailer that I built out myself back in 2021-- right after BFF and I got back from Alaska.

And for everyone who's been following along for more than 5 years-- you know I'm a total "squirrel" personality who tends to go through these dips in my writing schedule where I wander off to do something totally non-authorly until I sit back down and go back to live in one of my imaginary worlds.

Well... I looked at the calendar yesterday for some reason. The digital calendar app that has all my author notes on it. The one that said I was going to release the first book in a "new series" this week.

Talk about feeling like you got punched in the gut. The whole rest of my day was shot to hell and I had to venture to our local DQ for ice cream to make myself feel better.

I must have been feeling pretty ambitious when I filled out the calendar with my expected writing schedule for the year-- or I hadn't yet realized I was going to tear my home apart and rebuild it.

Apparently, sometime back in December/January, I thought I'd have the entire Rogue Ops series done by now AND have figured out what I was writing after that-- the note on the calendar literally says "NS1 Release," which stands for "new series."

Then I was overcome by a wave of determined optimism and declared that I will get back to Rogue Ops by the end of this month and start releasing again in July... do not hold me to that!

Because everything writerly depends on getting the house put back together.

What's on the top of your refrigerator?

Glitter and power tools-- my perfect day.

Someday I'll upgrade to DeWalt-- but I really wanted the router and the miter saw, which were not going to be in the budget if I got the DeWalt tools this go-round. (deep, heartfelt sigh)

Temperatures landed in the mid-90s for a few days here and I was compelled to jump ahead to the air conditioning project-- which is just a window AC for when I'm stationary for long periods of time like I am now. I'm waiting on Amazon right now.

I'm also waiting on FedEx to bring me a bigger, better house battery to run said AC unit, while I am in no way (whistles innocently) considering all new solar panels just because the new ones are smaller now and I could fit 1,000 watts on the trailer instead of the 600 I have now.

No. I'm not doing it! I want the fancy new, shade-tolerant, bi-facial panels that are still too big to fit more than 600 watts of.

Also... I would like to stop spending money and start writing books again. And also, get back on the road because staying in one place so long is making me anxious.

Next week, I should be much farther along on this construction project and, hopefully, even have a temporary desk in the new writing cave space.

The final desk is part of the countertop project and the countertop project is an ambitious undertaking involving that massive wood carving burr you see on the angle grinder in the photo-- and a lot more glitter than is shown with it. And it is the last project in the reno, so we're still aways out from that yet.

Actual Book News: I really will be at the keyboard soon to finish the Rogue Ops boys, but come Christmas, whatever I'm working on at the time will get set aside for a new Match Maker series.

I miss Raven and Jessica so much and I'm excited that Raven has new stories to share with me-- and you.

And I'll be back in Slow River Valley to visit another one of the ranch families there soon too. I think it'll be the Savage brothers of the UnU, which is the ranch we know the least about, so it's the one I'm most curious to get to.

Have you read the Men of the Delta O? (hmm, looks like I need to add the bundled set to the website.) Slow River Ranches is set in the same world of Moonshine Ridge and those books are still in Kindle Unlimited. And there is a bundle of all four books available on Amazon, apparently updating the website is getting added to the to-do list.

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