Actually, many things tickle me this week. To begin with, The Reluctant Wife will finally—finally—go live on Wednesday. That makes five published novels and three novellas. I’m celebrating on Saturday with friends who also have new books this spring. We’re calling our party Love Speaks (that would be from Loves Labor Lost). We plan to let our heroes and heroines speak for themselves and Will Shakespeare himself may turn up. Maybe. Join us for games, prizes, and a laugh.
In addition, my friends have so rallied around me for this release that the book and I will appear on fifteen different blogs this week not counting my own and The Teatime Tattler. Some are interviews, some are announcements, and some are little essays. I write about everything from the building of Government House in Calcutta to meteor showers! All fifteen have excerpts and there are three or four different excerpts among them. Hunt them out. Or just watch my Facebook page for links. That’s two things. Some others are:
- I’m planting potatoes, carrots and beets this week. Finally. It was a long winter and a crazy spring.
- Sunday was Shakespeare’s birthday. Do the happy dance now.
- My grandson is reading Hamlet. How sweet is that? He’s eleven and in sixth grade.
- Dangerous Works, my very first book, will be **FREE** Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
- I plan to post excerpts from A Holiday in Bath on Thursday.
- The Bluestocking Belles’ Anthology Holly and Hopeful Hearts is up for a RONE award! We’ll need our readers to vote this week. You have to register with InDTale, but it’s a great magazine and you’ll be glad you did.
- I’m going over an itinerary for driving through the Highlands (yes Scotland!) in June.
- Beloved and I are going to museums on Thursday. He just doesn’t know it yet.<GRIN>
Honestly folks, this whole writing gig tickles me. When people ask me what I do I love answering, “I write romance novels.” I hand out my business cards while their jaws are still dropping. It isn’t what people expected of me and that just, well, tickles me.
This last thing isn’t on the list, but I’m glad I’m doing it. I’m back on my daily writing schedule. I’m currently working on a piece the Belles’ next anthology. How does a story set in war-torn France in 1916 sound? It will be quite a week.
But first, coffee. Hmm. Maybe this week calls for the celebratory kind.
I do hope your visit to Scotland will include a visit to the island of Iona with its fascinating history of the part it played in Celtic Christianity.
You have a lot to be tickled about this week. I’m sending best wishes for all 2017 has in store for you. May you have a wonderful trip to Scotland. I’ll certainly continue to read your books and follow you and the other Belles too!