Jump with joy 
My dear friend Meretta has most excellent news!!
Her romantic suspense RISING SIN (I love that title) is a finalist in the American Title III contest — and I hope everyone out there is going to VOTE! I’ll tell you how as soon as I get the details . Congratulations, friend.
These days are rare in rainforest country. But oh so beautiful. And now I’m wishing I had chosen shimmering bright fall colors for my office. Am I so fickle? Wait … don’t answer that 
Tomorrow, provided my techie survives the Rubble Creek run, my system will go wireless and I can put my butt down in my new office. And if I disappear from cyberspace …
So there you have it — the inspiration for my new office colors. These colors kept me serene, balanced, yet inspired and energized all summer long. The hope is that if I bring them indoors, they will do the same all winter
The ‘after’ pics will hopefully follow Monday, or Tuesday — because I need to get WRITING!!
All the tourists are gone.
Well, they haven’t really — it seems the empty-nester wave has arrived now that the kids are back in school, but their wave is small, and the ‘beaches’ are blissfully empty — and the entire place feels like MINE!!
Thank you so much for the congrats, everyone. Have I mentioned how much I love my editor??
And for those who asked, the first two books are linked. The first features heroine Dr. Emily Carlin — a psychologist and profiler (she’s named after my intrepid webmistress ). Emily comes across the biggest challenge of her professional and personal life when she is contracted to infiltrate the lair of, and profile, the darkly-seductive and notoriously dangerous mercenary Jean-Charles Laroque — Le Diable — who is not quite what meets the eye.
And the second book picks up with Luke Stone, a rough-around-the-edges Australian ex-bodyguard (you can see his bio on this page). Stone has vowed never, ever to take another close protection job, but when it becomes clear that beautiful Asian-American journalist, Jess Chan, will most certainly die if he doesn’t — and soon — he simply doesn’t have a choice. Stone and Jess are lurched into a death-defying race to expose a very sinister organization before that same organization kills Jess. Needless to say … the passion simmers as the tension ratchets up.
Both Stone and Dr. Carlin are working for the Shadow Soldier force introduced in my trilogy and the overall plot arc ties to corruption at the heart of the US spy agency. The working titles are DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, and DANCE WITH THE DRAGON, but I suspect that may well change.
The third book will be a standalone, something a little different
My Path: Rainbow
My Distance: 55:34 mins
My Beat: The Witches Song – Marianne Faithfull
I got news that I sold another three books to Silhouette Romantic Suspense today
Better get that office finished ….
The ‘before’ pic of what will hopefully morph into my new office. Any ideas how to STOP Brunswick from ‘helping’ with everything? I can already foresee soft orange and white fur in my fresh paint job!
And can you guess the color scheme I have chosen? Two colors. And if that’s too easy for .. ahem … one or two of you … can you guess what in nature inspired the scheme? I have photographic evidence of that as well — taken over the summer. Winner gets a copy of A SULTAN’S RANSOM . I have somewhat ambitious plans to post that ‘after’ pic next week.
Victoria Marathon — 19 days to go!!
Honolulu Marathon — 84 days to go.
And yes, I have started tapering the training for marathon — which will be held over the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. The last 10-miler is this Sunday. Then what’s done is done. What’s not is not.
I came within a cat’s whisker of pulling the plug on the whole thing yesterday. I was tired. Mentally defeated. The weather has turned wet and miserable. Logistics were getting waaay complicated since DH has to work that weekend. I was going through that classic self-doubt phase — kind of like when you’re too afraid to send off that manuscript you’ve literally been slaving away on all summer. Because … what if? What if I can’t make it? What if I fail?
But DH took one look at the moaning heap that was me, and said, you HAVE to do it.
“Whyyyyy?” I pleaded. “Why on earth do I want to do this?”
He looked nonplussed. “Because you’ve worked so hard all summer. Because I will think you’re a failure if you don’t.”
Well, that sealed it. Not. But then I got to thinking — the man knows me. He knows I will feel like a failure if I don’t at least try. So …. I’m now officially signed up and booked — hotel and ferry. I have tickets to the carbo load gala dinner and New Balance fashion show, and I’m getting myself psyched. I am visualizing the race as I run now. I can see the finish line. I can feel it … and I’ve asked them to make the following annnoucment as I cross that line in front of the crowds and cameras:
“She may not be fast, but this romance writer can go the distance.”
Welcome to my slice of life in B.C.’s wild and wet coast mountains. This ’running commentary’ offers a small window – often visual — into the life of a romance writer, on the run. Or on skis …
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