In Transition

I’m in transition. We’re getting packed up and hoping to move this weekend. (TODAY if we can swing it!) I just turned a book in. I’m thinking about my next one. (my next TWO to be honest…) I’m also expecting my first phone call with my Berkley editor at the beginning of September, and with that, my revisions for my single title length romance.

Summer is ending. School is starting. This is truly the Season of Change around here.

I’m looking forward to all of it, though. (Okay, not the packing and shclepping boxes! Ugh!) My oldest son is in first grade this year, and it will be his first day going to school all day. I’m feeling optimistic about his chances (he had a rough Kindergarten year, but the teacher he has this year for 1st Grade is exceptionally good with boys like him!) and excited to see what changes come his way as a result of being in school all day.

I’ll still have the younger two at home, so no, it’s not a big break for me. 😉

I’m also looking forward to this new world of balancing two publishers, and writing two very different kinds of books. Already, I’m finding the process with Berkley to be very different. There are cover meetings scheduled for my novella and my single title and by then I need to have provided them with character descriptions, a brief synopsis, and cover and title ideas. I do a similar thing for Harlequin. For every book I or my editor (usually me now!) fills out an art fact sheet with this info. (though I don’t give title suggestions) Still, this is different, and I’m really excited about it!

With Harlequin, I just turned in my second book in my Secret Heirs of Powerful Men series. It’s a series about men coming into fatherhood unexpectedly. Powerful men, as you might have guessed by the title. And yes, those babies be secret. (But being my books they’re a little wonky. Surrogacy, adoption, pregnant virgins, oh my!)

Next I’m starting a book for Presents that I’m lovingly calling The Geek Billionaire’s Rival. Both my hero and heroine are big in the computer industry…and they are both geeks. 😉 My editor hasn’t exactly signed off on this idea yet, so we’ll see. 😉

And I will be doing all this from my new office! In my new house! I’m hoping having an office in the house won’t be too…much…louder. :/ Right now, I’m in a little converted shed in the yard. But our current house is 900 sq ft and even though my office is outside…I still hear the noise from inside sometimes! The new house is much bigger, and the office is on the opposite end of the house to where most of the action will take place. It’s also MASSIVE. I’m going to have so much room for books! And a couch.

I also have a book on shelves in North American right now, which is always exciting! (Hajar’s Hidden Legacy)

So that’s what’s happening with me!