Coming back from a Major Episode of Life
Life happens. And sometimes a lot of it happens at once.
But first, the important things. I have covers to show you! Blade’s Edge and its sequel The Unique Solution, by the incredibly talented Kanaxa:
Okay, back to my major episode of Life. The winter of 2016-2017 was the most severe my town has seen in a long time — in a place where six inches of snow that melts in three days is a lot, we had three feet of snow on the ground for a couple of months.
We lost commercial buildings to roof collapse, including the only grocery store in Oregon-Idaho border town Weiser, Idaho (where my father grew up).
In my own neighborhood, carports and garden sheds succumbed to the snow load, and one of the carports was ours. It collapsed on top of my car, our freezer, the air conditioner, and other stuff we had stored there. Plus the spot where my husband leaves out food for the neighborhood cats. It was an amazing mess.
We got the worst of it cleaned up, repaired and replaced by the end of April, but we’re just now getting the AC motor replaced, and I still have to get the paint on my hood fixed.
We also had the backyard re-landscaped by professionals, because we couldn’t get back there for several months and things went to heck. Also because Spooky Man had wanted to redo it for a decade, and we’re in no shape for that kind of work.
During this time I was also actively looking for a day job, and I found one in a call center where I stayed for four months before I landed a “perfect job” managing localization for commercial printer software.
But enough about Life. I have something important to tell you: I finished the sequel to Blade’s Edge.
Let’s pause and allow that to sink in for a moment, because there have been years when I wasn’t sure I would ever get to The End. I finished it. Happy sigh.
It’s called The Unique Solution, and it’s the redemption of the evil twin, Talyn Penthes. She wasn’t an easy villain to redeem, and this book took nine years from start to finish. Nine. Years. That character fought me every step of the way, but I finally got her story out of my brain.
The second edition (or the Wylde Hare Press edition) of Blade’s Edge will be for sale in ebook as soon as I can get it uploaded to all the retailers. The Unique Solution will be available for pre-order by the end of the week.
Look for paperback versions in a month or so.
Audiobooks are on a longer time horizon. Maybe next year, because there’s a significant learning curve.
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