I slept through Wednesday. The whole thing.

Frankly, it was glorious, but it means my internal calendar is off a day now. I didn't get this newsletter sent out before the weekend and I didn't get my current work in progress done by the weekend either.

If you recall, I celebrated the new year with a case of Covid. It could have been worse. Really, I'm grateful, I am. But I am not bouncing back like many of my friends who've gotten sick have.

I've been "well" for over a week now but I'm still sleeping a lot, I get worn out with just light exercise, and it's like my body is trying to make up for every night of my life when I didn't get to sleep at least nine hours.

This is not helping me check things off my to-do list and I'm getting grumpy about it.

In the personal life, you may know that I bought a little cargo trailer as part of my 2020 day-job loss pandemic pity party and spent the summer of 2021 building it (mostly) into the cutest little travel trailer.

I still have some things to finish up in here (I live in it full time now) and I'd hoped to have those projects wrapped up before the end of 2021.

But it rained non-stop here for two weeks, Mom spent most of December in the hospital (she's OK, but she is neither young nor healthy,) and then I got the plague; so instead of being parked in the Arizona desert among my rubber tramp people right now, I remain camped in Mom's driveway.

Mom is thrilled that I'm still here.

And while all this has been slowing me down in my personal life, I've been spending the awake times working on my plans for authorly world domination.

The second bundled set of Match-Maker romances is compiled, edited, and just needs to be formatted now!

So I mean, it's not like something new, but it's been on the to-do list for nearly a year now and I'm excited to be so close to having it done and out of the way.

Book nine (A Total Sweetheart) in the series got a few revisions along the way as well. I've always been aware that the hero of the book wasn't a favorite-- he just never really let the reader see how deep his change of heart was.

The updated version needs one more editorial pass before the book gets updated on the Amazon store so if you haven't read it-- or don't remember it-- you still have a few days to check out the original version. Then you can compare them and let me know if if I made it better or worse.

So that's the current status update on what's going on in Roxie world. I know it's not very exciting, but I'm trying to get back in the habit of staying in touch...and if you follow me on social media, you know I suck at keeping up with it!

WHILE YOU WAIT on me to write something new (soon! New stuff is coming soon!)

Many of you know I'm a total Frankie Love fan girl Frankie recently took her entire catalogue out of Kindle Unlimited and her books are now available on multiple store fronts and she just released the first book in her new series-- which is her first new release as a "wide" author!

Of course I gobbled up the first in series on release day! (You can grab Rough and Tumble from Amazon here.)

Coming Home to the Mountain is classic Frankie small town, mountain man, candy and it's gonna kill me to have to wait for the whole series to be available.

It's not in KU, so if you're a die hard KU reader, you'll be sitting this one out-- but if you haven't fallen in love with Frankie Love yet, here's a chance to see what I read when I should be writing my own stuff!

(Spoiler alert: I am not a prolific fiction reader. GASP! The horror! I know, right? so I don't shirk my writing by reading other books often and I'm not a great source of author/book recommendations. Sorry/not sorry: I've always preferred to make up my own stories.)

That's a lot of words with out a photo to go with them. Sorry folks. I'll have pictures to go with the next email!

~Rox