April was birthday month for me and I happen to still have cake in the fridge. (I may have bought more cake when the first one was done. I can neither confirm, nor deny, these rumors.)

(Not the cake that's currently in the refrigerator. This was brought over by the neighbors...it was delicious, and is long gone.)

I'm also getting started on the next Slow River Valley Ranches book this week, and finding that having cake at my side is a definite motivator.

Note to self: need more cake.

If I can keep my cake supply up; I should have more book news next week.

I've been happy to hear so much positive feedback about Archer and Callie from The Cowboy's Off Limits Option too!

On the back end of this author thing, I've also spent the last week furthering my efforts to get more of my older books available on retailers beside Amazon, and arguing with my website.

The upside is that you can now find The Wild Romance Collection-- consisting of Bush, Wood, Rough, and Bone at All the Places. And you can get to All the Places to find those books by visiting my website at RocklynWrites.net.

More good news-- the pop up to subscribe to the mailing list on the website is 10% less obnoxious now.

And before I deviate on a rant about website design updates-- "All the Places" includes both Everand and Kobo Plus, if you prefer to read in a "one price for a billion books" subscription service similar to Kindle Unlimited (except without holding authors hostage in exclusivity agreements. Just sayin.)

So, if you don't already know that there are other subscription options: Kobo Plus and Everand. They won't (legally) have books that are in KU, but they do have a ton of books that aren't, and it's worth having one of them along with KU if you read a lot.

That's my plug for directing readers to Amazon alternatives.

Now, about the website...We got in a pretty big fight the other night and we still aren't speaking. I'm in a semi-serious market to outsource it to someone who does that sort of thing for a living.

My problem isn't so much that I'm a control freak, per se, so much as that I'm genuinely curious/fascinated/excited about knowing how to do almost everything.

This means that, throughout my (now one year longer) life, I just end up doing everything. It doesn't even occur to me most of the time to hire someone else-- unless it's changing my oil. (FTR: Yes, I totally do know how to do it, and have.) I don't enjoy changing my oil.

Graphic design was the path I was initially headed on waaaayyyy back in the days of gone-before, before I got distracted by another shiny career path and chased that for years. When websites became accessible to small businesses-- I learned how to make one.

Well. At some point, I stopped making websites and website design evolved and now they tell me they're easy to make but they lie. (I mean, yeah, there are tons of "easy" options out there, but I want what I want and it's not one of the easier options.)

But I would also rather invest my money into cake than paying a qualified professional to do the thing they do when I could spend hundreds of hours hyperfocusing on learning how to do it myself while ignoring my responsibilities and raising my blood pressure.

Because I just want to know how to do it.

For what it's worth: Once I feel reasonably confident that I know how to do it-- I will be happy to hire someone else to do it.

Yeah, that's my brain. Yeah, sure, it can be inconvenient, but on the other hand-- have you ever grown your own wheat? Harvested, threshed and winnowed it, ground it into flour in your own grain mill and used it to start your own sourdough starter and made sourdough bread from it in a Dutch oven over coals from a fire you started using wood that you gathered, cut, hauled, split, and seasoned yourself?

I'm going to be so useful when the zombies come. Haha!

That's the rant. Next week, I'll tell you about Lance and Mercy:

What I know so far.

~Rocklyn

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