I moved :)

Never mind :)

Tall, Dark & Lonely......

Okay, so apparently I missed quite a few mistakes in Tall, Dark & Lonely, but fortunately for me, Maura, who has graciously volunteered to help edit my books, took another look at it and sent me a list of corrections to be made. They're done. The corrected versions will be available shortly :) I apologize for any inconvenience the mistakes caused anyone.

 

On a side note, Maura now has a editors credit in the book :)

 

Thank you again, Maura :)

It's Pay it 4ward Friday :)

So, with the kids sick off and on the last couple of weeks I've been pretty limited on this, but that all changes today. I have a meeting early this morning with a philanthropist foundation to get some ideas on finding resources and ideas on how to go about raising money to aide those in need.  I have a few ideas running through my head already, but I'm waiting to see what they suggest.

What are your ideas? What do you think is a noteworthy cause or need that doesn't get the attention that it deserves? If you were to raise money for charity where would you want the money to go?

Let's see......

The newest Pyte book is almost done :)

It is not the book that belongs to the excerpt in the back of Without Regret, but the next book in the continuing story.

The next Neighbor From Hell book is halfway done and is currently being checked over to make sure that it's worthy of the NFH title. Once i get feedback I will set back to work on it :)

After reading most of the reviews for my books I thought I should say a few things:

A Humble Heart is in no way meant to be funny so if you're looking for a fun relaxing book, this isn't it. This is meant to be a little bit dramatic, a little thrilling and basically a fairy tale for adults, especially women like Dana who may not have chosen well in life and deserve a second chance with the man of her dreams. I wrote this story when I was going through a pretty bad time. I guess you could say it was an unrealistic dream, but something that kept me going. It might not be the "favorite" book out there, but it has a special spot in my heart because of what it did for me. For those of you who are wondering if Edward will find out that he was the influence for Christian........yes.

The Pyte, Sentinel and Immortal series are not the NFH series. What I mean is that they are not written to be light, funny reads. They have funny parts, but nothing like the NFH series so if you're looking for an amusing light read these probably aren't for you. The EMS and the Hollywood Heart Novels starting with A Reclusive Heart and on are probably a better fit for you.

I've read a lot of your comments, some flattering and some that had me cringing. I appreciate both and have actually taken a lot of your comments to heart and applied the advice to my new books. That being said, I will say that I can't unfortunately tailor each book to every single person out there. I just can't. I'm sorry, but there is no perfect book out there that will please every single person. There's nothing I can do about that. I'll continue to do my best to publish enjoyable stories and hope that they manage to make someone smile.

Thanks for listening :)

Probably should mention....

The leads for the new Neighbor from Hell book are actually Connor O'Neil and Rory James. The name Shia wasn't working because of the name confusion so things were changed around. The name Connor is more fitting for this character anyway, trust me. The book is coming along rather nicely so I'm hoping to have it out soon.

 

FYI, the Bradfords just might make an appearance in this book :)

First Pay it 4ward Friday is here :)

It's Pay it 4ward Friday and I'm checking in :)

I started small this week and kept it pretty simple, but hopefully the act was passed along. This week with Pay it 4ward Friday in mind I stopped or slowed down enough to allow a car that was waiting to pull onto the road do just that.

I'm not sure if I'm alone in this, but waiting to pull onto a road can be pretty stressful, especially if you have a car behind you getting impatient and no one's willing to stop or slow down long enough so that you can pull out onto the road. What makes it worse is when there's a long line of cars and you're force to take a chance and pull onto the road when it's pretty tight. I've seen dozens of near accidents because of this over the years.

So this week I decided that I would hopefully pass some good driving karma around and made it a point to allow drivers waiting on the sidelines to safely pull onto the road or I've slowed down long enough for people to switch lanes in front of me. It's a small act, but a considerate one and hopefully those that I allowed to cut in front of me with copy the act.

 

Well, that's my Pay it 4ward act for the week and one I plan on continuing with. Anyone want to share?

Grammar, spelling and plots, oh my!

So, in case you've ever wonder if authors read the reviews for their books let me put your mind at ease, this one does.

Although I do enjoy reading what you enjoyed, I pay more attention to the negative or rather critical comments. Not that I'm trying to encourage negative comments, I'm really not, but I do look for constructive criticism. For example, many people didn't appreciate the number of times I used Little grasshopper in Playing for Keeps and I'll admit that I just really enjoyed that, but I will be more careful in the future not to go overboard with endearments......even though I really did think that was cute.

Now, the biggest problem, well, not a problem most people claimed, but a slight distraction is some grammar mistakes. I apologize if you found one, it was unintentional, but a result of editing the books on my own. If you find a grammatical problem or anything of that nature, wrong word usage, please feel free to send me an e-mail with a heads up so that I can change it. I would really appreciate it. As far as misspelled words go there shouldn't be any, but I could see how the wrong word was used since my computer has a problem with auto correcting my work. Yes, my computer and I have had many words over the years over this issue. Again, if you spot it please let me know.

The new books hopefully will not have this problem. I have several people who have generously offered their editing services so I hope between all of us that there will be no more mistakes in future books.

 

-R.L.