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It's time for summer vacation.

4/28/2015

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There's buckets of news to share, but I only get to spill a little of it today. Glynn and I are committed to a family project in May, none of which I can talk about until the wonderfulness is complete, but the whole thing starts shortly after May Day and runs past Memorial Day. So there goes much of next month.
 
Writing-wise, we've passed the mid-point of Blackhearted Bride, our kind-of sequel to The Runaway Mail Order Bride, and we're both liking it so much, we want to write more about the novel's hero, Quincy Fix. But we're setting the manuscript aside, despite our joy, because it's time we finish another, long-delayed project. One Bride for Seven Brothers came out two years, as of next month, and people have been asking for a follow-up story almost since publication.
 
Yes, I know, the story ends in such a way that almost everyone wonders if a sequel will follow. Everyone except us, evidently; we thought we'd just leave things to the readers' imagination. After several nudges from some very nice (and patient) other folks, we realized there was some interest in how we'd continue the story. Our readers' imaginations are alive and well but those same readers wanted to know if our imaginations still worked.
 
So, as I mentioned last time, Glynn and I threw some ideas back and forth, liked where things were going, decided to write up a full outline, and came up with pages of material. The Good Witch looked them over, gave her stamp of approval, and said this: "You have to write The 5th Brother."
 
"We will. We'll finish Blackhearted, then --"
 
"Hell, no," my friend said. "I've waited long enough. I want to know what happens with Flora, and her new life. Once you're done with 6th Brother, then you need to do 5th Brother, then...whatever you want, but all of the brothers. A series of novellas, one after the other. You guys write so slow, you have to focus. You have to finish it."
 
I didn't tell her, we were in mid-plot for The 5th Brother already. (I didn't tell her because she'd would want to read it, and I'm not ready for her to read it. From here on out, she waits for the pages like everyone else.) But Glynn and I talked, and we think she's right. We need to roll up our sleeves and complete "all of the brothers".
 
Which is how we plan to spend our summer. First, family terrificness, then, a laser-like focus on Flora and her husbands. Since G.W. is right, even short projects take us forever to complete, I've decided to give myself a little more writing time. I'm stepping away from posting on this website until at least two of the sequels are complete. I'll jump back in once we're good to go. If you're interested in knowing when the stories are done, but don't want to have to swing by this place every few weeks, join my newsletter list ***here*** and I'll drop you a line.
 
Happy summer, everyone.


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Finally, I get to share.

4/13/2015

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So I mentioned somewhere along the line that I came up with a ridiculous story title that made me laugh. If you've noticed the cover image on this post, then you know the kind of name play that makes me want to giggle. When I told Glynn the name, I thought he'd laugh, too.
 
He frowned. "We don't have time to write this," he said, which was true. We're past the halfway point in our follow-up to Runaway Mail Order Bride and it's going nicely; and we've FINALLY done a full outline for the sequel to One Bride for Seven Brothers -- and we'd both like The 6th Brother to appear in the next month or so. (Not the greatest title, I know. We'll think of something.)
 
But now that I'd thought of this really silly title, I wanted to use it. And I wanted to use it as soon as possible because...well, because. The Good Witch says "because" is all the explanation a person needs when there's no other explanation to offer. She says her kids understand this, so why shouldn't Glynn?
 
But I had a plan, see, to pull BB&K together rather quickly. A couple of years ago, when Glynn and I first started writing romances, we did a little novella called Carole's Christmas. Another take-off on A Christmas Carol wasn't the freshest idea, even if our tale had lots of sexiness and a surprisingly well-built Tiny Tim at the finish. Our version was probably the 400th sexy romance based on the Dickens' classic (check it out, you'll be surprised), but it sold a few copies at Christmas and, then, like the Ghost of Christmas Past, sales and reader interest vanished for the rest of the year. I thought the novella was pretty good, and a couple of reviewers agreed with me, but I was never completely happy with the piece.
 
Here's why: (*spoiler*) Carole ended up with the charming, sensitive guy at the end of the novella. I really wanted her to end up with Dell, the Irish bad boy who was totally wrong for her. Except when they were in bed.

With a rewrite, I could change the ending, so I rolled up my sleeves to see if I could make sense of such a thing. In a tip o' the hat to Bell, Book and Candle, I set the story in the past (BB&C took place in the late 1950s; BB&K takes place in the early 1960s), I moved the location closer to Greenwich Village, I added a publisher to the mix of boyfriends, and sprinkled the whole thing with a touch of magic as well as a couple of thousand new words. 
 
Did I succeed in making the bad boy a good guy? If you're a member of Kindle Unlimited, you can find out for free. Belle, Book & Kendell appeared on Amazon just a couple of days ago.
 
Now, back to the brides I go....

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