December 11, 2018

It took a bit longer than I had hoped, but book #1's 2nd edition is finished and available.

The 2nd edition contains fixed typos (though I'm sure I still missed some 😕), as well as changes in descriptions, days and dates, and a few other odds and ends to make sure book #1 fits well with books #2 and #3.

Now, book #4 has been giving me headaches, but I had an epiphany the other day. I realized what I should be doing, and, like usual, I'm excited about what I've figured out. However, this has created a situation where I am now working on book #4 and two spin-off books.

Brittany

November 20, 2018

Just a quick update on the second edition of book #1.

I'm proofreading the physical copy of book #1. The book will be available shortly.

Brittany

November 2, 2018

Book #1 will be offline for an undetermined amount of time. I finished my official 2nd edition and now have to recheck the book.

Kindle is online.

Brittany

October 31, 2018

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Autumn is here! It's one of my favorite seasons (along with winter, spring, and summer - seriously, I can't choose 😊).

I recently completed a chapter for book #4 that was difficult to write. It's going to need a lot of work. With the first draft of that chapter completed, though, I’ve made a breakthrough. Hopefully the rest of the book will be easier to write.

I’m also working on a second edition of book #1. While it still won’t be perfect, there have been changes I’ve been wanting to make for quite some time.

For Halloween, I thought I’d post a Halloween memory from my childhood.

When I was five or six, one of my older sisters (I have three) was in charge of taking me trick-or-treating. My costume was a princess. I was a princess quite a bit for Halloween, whether it was a generic costume, or an official Disney Snow White costume, that was my go-to disguise.

I’m a shy person to strangers. I’m loud, opinionated, and obnoxious to friends and family, but if I don’t know you I’m not someone who can easily go up to people and start a conversation. (As a child, we have the luxury of adults recognizing that we’re shy, but as an adult I just look grumpy and angry to strangers.) What does this have to do with trick-or-treating? If I went up to door by myself, I had the hardest time saying, “Trick or treat!” I remember just mouthing the words a lot. Even though I didn’t like strangers, Halloween was the one night I felt perfectly fine attaching myself to a group of children I didn’t know and following them up to the door. I stood in the back and let them do the work as I mouthed, “Trick or treat!” before accepting my treat. The biggest downside to it all is that, since I was too shy to say, “Trick or treat!” I was also too shy to say, “Thank you.” I was absolutely thankful, so right here, right now, I want to say, “Thank you,” to all my neighbors (even those who gave away pencils, toothbrushes, or pennies 😉).

Back to the Halloween when my sister took my trick-or-treating. I don’t know how far she took me, I don’t know how long I was trick-or-treating. All I remember is that I had to go up to doors by myself. She wasn’t going to take me, and I was confused. Mom would at least take me up to the door. Well, if there was no group of other children for me to attach myself to, I had to suck it up and go for it. I may not like to do things on my own, but if I must, I will (especially if candy is involved). I mustered up my courage and knocked on doors or rang doorbells. I probably still mouthed or whispered, “Trick or treat!” but I did it!

And then, I saw them. Two teenage boys. Their costumes? Bloody victims from slasher movies. I was scared!! I don’t know if my sister knew these boys, they must have been around her age, but I was NOT going up to any door with them. I tried to tell my sister. I protested. We had caught up with them and she sent me up to the next door with them. At this is house I know FOR SURE I didn’t say, “Trick or treat!” for I just stared at these boys, wearing the scariest costumes I had ever seen. I don’t even know if I collected my candy (almost positive I did, though – I mean, I needed a reward after that).

This Halloween memory has always stood out in my mind and I wanted to share it for fun and nostalgia.

Have a safe night everyone!

Brittany

July 27, 2018

Haven't posted an update in awhile.

I've been having fun with writer's block!! Yay!!!

Although, I'm writing again.

Book #4 and the spin-off are still very much in the works.

Brittany

March 6, 2018

So, I've made substantial progress on book 4, yet my characters are fighting with me. I've written scenes I don't want to just throw away, yet I just might have to. I seem to always reach this stage. I've nearly written the whole thing and I'm not feeling it - my characters aren't feeling it.

Rather than scrap the whole thing, I'm going to take some time away from it.

While I'm doing that, I'm going back to an older story of mine that I've always liked. I'm setting it in the same universe as Kavanagh Supernatural Investigators and am excited to go back and *hopefully* make the writing more mature. It's not like my writing is the best, but looking over this final draft from ten years ago is making me cringe 😊.

Brittany