You know, I went to my local NaNoWriMo 2014 “Thank God It’s Over!” dinner last night, and my ML (who is a great girl and a friend!) and I both got to saying how we’re just really bad at blogging.  I decided I was going to update this thing, even though I do it sporadically.

On October 26, 2014, I finished writing my 7th novel, A Recipe for Love.  6 days later, I was busy working on my NaNoWriMo book! 🙂  15 days after THAT, my first draft of Roads To Love was done!  For the past two days, I’ve been working on edits to Roads To Love, because I plan on putting it up on Amazon’s Kindle page as soon as I have it to my liking!  I’ve read some not-so-great free or almost-free books lately, and I figure that my stuff is at LEAST half as good as those, plus those were supposed “bestselling authors”, so what do I have to lose?

I’ve been really excited about this endeavor with RTL.  See, I decided to do a four story compilation about best friends, and I went into my writing notes and picked four ideas that I’d never been able to completely flesh out.  With each story in the book coming in at approximately 12,500 words, it was perfect to get out smaller versions of the originally envisioned tales.  I also have a clear idea of what I want the cover to be, and I can photoshop it myself or use the Amazon cover creator when I’m ready to go.  Eventually I’ll have to figure out how to put it onto iBooks and the other platforms, but I’m okay with it being Kindle-only to start!

Other than that, I’ve really enjoyed the company I’ve shared over the past month.  I’ve been going to the write-ins near me like I did last year, but this year our group felt very tight-knit and we all really got along well.  There were some old faces and some new, and together we got a lot of work done!  At least 4 of the people who I know went to the write-ins I was at joined me in the winners’ circle, and that feels great to have others succeed with me.  As I said, I also went to the “TGIO” dinner last night, and everybody had something really interesting to read over our Italian dinners at the Spaghetti Warehouse!  It has been almost 10 years since I’ve been there, and I was pleased to see they now offer gluten-free pasta, which I heartily enjoyed.

Things are also beginning to look up at my “real” job, though I haven’t been there since the 18th of November; I spent the 19th through the 28th traveling over to London and Cardiff!  It was my first time in Cardiff, and it was a beautiful city!  I got really inspired over this trip, and I’m hoping that my next book will be set either in the London neighborhood where I stay during my visits, or maybe even in Cardiff in the area I walked through on my way back from the Bay to the Cardiff Central rail station.

I hope you all have also been having as good of times as I seem to be having after my gorgeous vacation, and I really hope I will remember to write here again soon!

Until next time,
Kate