Good morning friends and book lovers!

I’m headed home today; it’s a ten-hour drive, and there’s also a time change to take into account. Worth it to spend time not only with my kid but my cousins, too.

On to former books of the day!

Elise Kova, A Duel with the Vampire Lord

Gina L Carroll, The Grandest Garden

Myah Ariel, When I Think of You

Kristina Forest, The Love Lyric

Nora Nguyen, Adam and Evie’s Matchmaking Tour

Five more books for you to check out… I hope you’re learning as much as I am about the amazing books out there, and how easy it is to overlook… just so many.

Have a great week, everyone!

Good morning, friends!

You’re reading this, but I’m off visiting my youngest and the cat/house sitter is manning the fort. Yes, it’s weird to think of strangers in my home. Have you ever used a cat/house sitter who’s been someone you don’t know?

Let’s catch up on the former books of the day, shall we?

Mellanie Szereto, Comma Kaze

K O’Neill, A Song for You and I

Alex Willan, Unicorns are the Worst

Melanie Conklin, Crushed

Nick Butterworth, Trixie the Witch’s Cat

That’s it! Fun stuff to check out, so get busy reading!

Hey, friends! I’m writing this early, as I’m with my youngest today and we are probably offline, doing stuff together.

Writing: I may have worked on something last night, after I got to my temporary digs. I may not have; it’s a long drive from home to kid! But it’s also great for thinking, and I come up with a lot of plot points and ideas as I drive. I love road trips.

Editing: Nope. Spent the day in the car. I love my clients, but I get to come first a couple times a year, and a good road trip is my method of choice. I am thankful I live in an area where I can road trip so easily.

Book of the Day: You know there is one!
Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retoldby Bolu Babalola

Not gonna lie. You fill my ko-fi today, I’ll put it into my belly or my gas tank!
Reminder that if you’re an author struggling with Beta Readers, or you’re a Beta Reader, my Guide to Beta Reading is at my ko-fi, and you can name your price. Seriously. I just want it to help people, so don’t feel guilty about not making a donation. If I wanted to make it generate income, I’d have put a charge on it. Instead, pay what you’d like and I really don’t care. (Just know that PayPal takes the first 50c in fees, so maybe don’t pick that amount? You’re just paying a billionaire at that point.)

Tomorrow and Wednesday are for catching up on books that so far have only been listed on Facebook, so be sure to check those titles out.

Yes! Populated is being featured at Kobo for the next two weeks. Go grab a copy while the price is low. (This is ebook form only, of course. I WISH I could sell print copies this cheaply!)

I’m headed out to see my youngest, so it’s a long day behind the wheel for me. And last I checked, it was looking like a rainy spring weekend.

Ask me if I care. I don’t. I’m gonna see my kid and spend time with her at this temporary stop on her path. Plus animals!

As always, I have a house sitter, so give up THOSE thoughts. Besides, I don’t have anything of value. I just spent it all on my renovation!

Writing: Still working on the standalone! Yinz and y’all are going to love it. I love Priscilla and Errick and what’s this? I’m giving up details?

Editing: On hold, of course, until Monday, when I’m back from my road trip adventures. Whee!

Book of the Day: Love is a War Song, by Danica Nava

That’s all I got, since I’m not here and scheduled this out. As always, if you appreciate me and the Book of the Day, feel free to buy me a Ko-fi.

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I’m getting ready for the housesitter, which means focused, intense work on my To Do List today, including a short edit. And at some point, I’ve got to pack, since I’m leaving the house early, early, early tomorrow. Like, before breakfast early.

I should probably do more than give the route a cursory look.

Writing: More progress on the standalone. I had just hit a groove last night when a family member called. Like… aaah! NOW??? We hung up with ten minutes left in my nightly writing time. Needless to say, I didn’t get much done in those final ten minutes.
Oh! Hey! Safe House is on sale this month. Ebook only, and across all retailers.

Editing: As I mentioned, I’ve got a short editing project. Yes, I’ll edit your newsletters and their magnets. Of course! I take care of my clients, which to me means including back cover copy in the cost of your overall edit. Hell, yesterday one of my clients texted me for help with verbage for her website… her non-writing website.

I take care of my clients.

Book of the Day: Does Blake Keep the Secret, by Lindsay Anne Priest, Tacom Creative Studio, and Amanda Boyers

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It’s my birthday month! And like always, I only want one thing… book royalties! Be they from Hoopla or Libby or online sales or in-person sales, I don’t care. Buy my books.

Okay, I won’t say no to Umber Chocolates, either.

Editing: Still waiting on five manuscripts, still working on other stuff. But I found out yesterday in a pretty unprofessional way that a job I’d been asked to do was yanked out from under me. That was hurtful and sad, and please don’t treat others this way.
I’m writing it off as “when people show you who they are, believe them” moment and moving forward with a reminder that this is why editing samples are VITAL to a good author-editor relationship.

Writing: Still focused on the standalone! I hit a moment yesterday that I hadn’t seen coming — just one of those small one-liners that make me laugh, not a huge plot point. It was pretty glorious.

And now, the moment you’re all waiting for… The Book of the Day.
No one’s chimed in yet and said, “Hey, I know what the common theme is!” so keep thinking, and keep checking back for every day’s book of the day, with weekends continuing to be catch-up from when I was posting exclusively at Facebook.
Out on a Limb, by Hannah Bonam-Young

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Didn’t see this one coming, but I am NOT going to complain…
Legacy was my best-selling book over the weekend!

I moderated a panel at my local library over the weekend and while it wasn’t an event designed to sell books, and while most people in the audience thanked us and then left, a couple of us had sales. And I was lucky enough to encounter readers who needed the latest installment of the Tales from the Sheep Farm. Thanks, friends!

Writing: Over the weekend, the standalone got the most attention. I’m having to do more than tweaks but less than significant rewrites, but that’s why I delayed the release; I’d originally been hoping to have this book ready to put in readers’ hands at Books Books Books in September, but some books can’t be rushed. Either this one or the next Tale from the Sheep Farm will be out in April 2026. You read this here first.

Oh! Be sure to sign up for my newsletter! April is my birthday month, and that always means goodies for my newsletter subscribers!

Editing: Nothing to say. I’m still waiting on clients to send their manuscripts. This is the downside to telling authors to Send When Ready!

Book of the Day: Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi

End of the month reminder if you use Hoopla or Libby! If you haven’t maxed out your borrows, check out an indie author’s book! Mine or someone else’s… it doesn’t matter. The point is to use your library to help give them circulation numbers, to expose yourself to something new and wonderful, and the reason you want an indie author’s book is because many of us get paid for each check-out. Everyone wins.

And, of course, if you’re jamming on the Book of the Day and these short updates and would like to say thanks but don’t need a book to read (WHAT???), my ko-fi remains open so you can buy me a (figurative) bottle of fountain pen ink. I’ll actually use it for operational expenses around here, in interests of full transparency. But also? I use my fountain pens (I’m up to 11) when I edit, so that ink is an operational expense!

I’m looking at my media files and WOW there’s a lot. I could add extra books of the day, just by recycling those old book covers. And that’s only the books I’m confident fit the criteria!

As I’m writing this, in advance, there’s nothing on my calendar. I might be settling in for a day of writing, but I’m definitely doing my accounting, since we sold books yesterday at the end of the panel discussion. Not gonna lie, I always wish I’d sold more, convinced more readers to give my books a try. Hopefully more will take advantage of Hoopla and Libby and do just that!

On to the catch-up list of Books of the Day!

Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

AJ Sass, Ana on the Edge

Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

Regina Sage, Ocean’s Embrace

Mariah Ankenman, Perfect Imperfections

There you go! There’s the next five!

Go forth and read! Remember that libraries are treasures that need to be used in order to keep their luster. There’s zero shame in not buying books and borrowing them instead — in fact, it’s good for you, it’s good for your library’s circulation numbers, and it’s good for your community.

It’s March 29, Saturday, and although I’m scheduling this post in advance, I can tell you that I’m at Northland Library, in the Pittsburgh area, today to moderate a panel with a bunch of writers. Our topic is Talking Flirty, and I’m leading the group through a discussion about how what we write — genre and category, both — affects the sexytimes we put in our books.

Now, to catch up on more Books of the Day from the past…

CK Chau, Good Fortune

Millie Belizaire, Black Girls are not Allowed to Kill Themselves

KJ Charles, An Unsuitable Heir

Grace Draven, Phoenix Unbound

Jessica Love, Julian is a Mermaid

Interesting list, huh? What I’m up to should be coming clearer… If not, holler and I’ll tell ya!

I got a call to restock copies of Maybe the Bird Will Rise at Blythe Books, the Pittsburgh-based used bookstore that also champions local authors.

I shouldn’t be so surprised. I wrote a really good book. One thing I’ve noticed at in-person events is the way the right readers gravitate toward my covers. It’s cool to watch.

In a way, it’s cooler to get restock messages. And one day, I will be in the store when someone gravitates toward the book and decides to buy it without talking to me about it first!

Editing: Still waiting on five edits. Five!
But at least this gives me the time today to run out to Blythe Books for the restock. Pittsburgh book lovers! Might I be leaving other titles too?

Writing: I got a lot done yesterday on the standalone. The storyline has changed subtly, so I’ve got to deal with that.
I’ve also been working on another typo check of Safe House, along with a reader’s group guide. Look for those when I can afford a website refresh. Another reason I hate waiting on manuscripts!

Book of the Day:
I know this is what you come here for, so here it is!
Darius the Great is Not Okay, by Adib Khorram

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I don’t know why, but Thursday is the hardest day of my week. I’m always draggy and content to eat leftovers from the freezer rather than cook.

Same for you? Let me know!

Writing: Before dinner, I worked on the short piece I’ve mentioned. It’ll be for sale in my online Payhip store ONLY once it’s done and ready. After dinner, I kept working on the standalone. I’m really pleased with it and how it’s coming together. It’s a complex story, with growth for both main characters, although very very differently.

Editing: STILL between edits. I’m climbing walls. I’m an editor, and I’m waiting on at least four manuscripts. But I want my clients to send their manuscripts when they are ready, not on some artificial schedule that they’ve rushed to meet. So it’s usually overindulge or famine over here.

Book of the Day: Nainai’s Mountain by Livia Blackburne and Joey Chou

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I truly hate being between edits. Y’all can fix that, I’m sure.

Writing: I had a meeting last night at the temple, so I only got a bit of writing in, but I worked on a short piece that’ll be available only at my direct store.

Book of the Day: Pardon my Frenchie by Farrah Rochon

That’s it! No real plans for the day — I need a good tea ball and some ice trays, so if you have recs, I’m all ears! — and am hoping for some serious writing today/tonight.

Last December — because construction takes twice as long as they promise it will — I started a massive construction project on my house. New siding, new roof, new deck. No pictures for privacy’s sake.

Today’s the second scheduled day of punch list items. The end is in sight!

By the way, they’d promised me 11 weeks, and last time I worked with this contractor, they’d come in ahead of schedule, so I’m not stressed about the delays. They’ve all been justified and I’ve been very taken care of.

Writing: I developed a horrific migraine around noon, so no writing happened. That’s not common.

Editing: I’m still between edits, gosh darn it. Whenever the economy slows and book sales tank, authors stop using editors — and sometimes stop writing entirely because they need that income.
I promise you, authors, you’ll be glad you coughed up the cost for an edit, and not just because you’re helping support someone else’s small business.

And since I know this is actually what you’re here for…
Book of the Day:
We Could be So Good, by Cat Sebastian

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WHAT a weekend event!

It was the first ever adult book fair at Lolev Brewery, brought to us by Eeeek Creative and what an awesome time. I hit a few milestones: I sold out of a title! (I’d only had three, so maybe this doesn’t count?)
It was my highest earning show, but the second-highest number of books sold. (That’s because I’m selling the Trevolution books cheap… be sure you get yours before they are gone! No more print copies!)

Planning a book fair? I work with a group of authors and am glad to connect you not only to myself, but to the group as well.

Writing:
I’m working on a couple different manuscripts right now, just kind of skipping from one to the next as I’m inspired. I need to pull up a short story I’d written and get it ready to be my 2026 newsletter magnet. (If you’re not on my author newsletter, why not? You get a free story that’s only available via my newsletter, and only for one calendar year.)

Editing:
I’m writing this Sunday afternoon and still waiting for manuscripts to land in my inbox. So I’m working on my To Do list instead.

Book of the Day:
Their Just Desserts by Alechia Dow and Tracy Badua

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I feel like I should be making notes about editing (I take weekends off) and writing (I’m probably doing some), but at the same time, I’m scheduling these out so I have no idea what I’m up to. Something writerly!

Here’s five more past Books of the Day for you:
CJ Sansom, Sovereign

Raquel V. Reyes, Mambo, Mayhem, and Murder

Marisa J. Taylor, Shari Last (Editor), Fernanda Monteiro (Illustrator), DIVERSITY to Me

Jennifer L Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

Robin Feiner and Beck Feiner, Clyde the Greyhound

The general intent is to take weekends off, since I like to sleep in on Saturdays, if I’m not at a book event, and just have down time on the weekends.
Speaking of book events! I’m at Lolev Brewery here in Pittsburgh today for an Adult Book Fair. Making new fans, networking with other authors, hanging out, and checking out the beer and other crafters. Gonna be a good time.

But I want to catch up on the Book of the Day that I’ve been posting up to now, since these books deserve more attention. So I’ll be listing them, oldest to newest, a few each weekend until we’re caught up. Check them out!

Jaye Wells, Dirty Magic

Susan Helene Gottfried (hey, that’s me!), ShapeShifter: The Demo Tapes (Year 1)

Beverly Jenkins, To Catch a Raven

Charnelle Pinkney Barlow and Jodie Patterson, Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope

Poncho Bosque, Chronicles of Heroes

Let me know if you can figure out what all these books have in common, and if you have suggestions for future Books of the Day!

I’m trying to think of why we moved away from blogging and over to content sites like Substack and Medium and every other site that’s come before and will come after. And for me, I think it’s the STUFF that goes with it.

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Like everything else, we’ve enshittified blogging, this time in the name of visibility and making ourselves into influencers.

I’m over it. Because the kind of influencer that I want to be is the kind who influences through her books.

So I’m playing with this new idea. Just simple blog posts, usually daily. (I’m, as Brian Goulet says, unreliably committing to this idea, but I also think it’s worthwhile.) The book of the day, cross-posted from the West of Mars Fans page at FB, because I want to own my own content. A word about editing, a word about writing.

Kind of a daily journal, but… maybe not.

I don’t know. We’ll see how this goes.

So…

Today’s Book of the Day:
The Princess Protection Program by Alex London

Editing: I’m between edits and of course immediately bored. I’m waiting on four different manuscripts right now, so if you need me, better get in touch FAST, since I work first in-first out.
Writing: Cut 4k out of the standalone last night. (What? You haven’t heard I’m working on a standalone? Well, I am.) Still not sure if I can center it fully enough on the couple to make it a romance and not a love story.

And that’s it. Sunny but cold today, here at West of Mars.

Have a good one, and if you’ve got a Book of the Day for me, let me hear it.

Long story short, I was hanging out with a bunch of book fans — romance fans, in fact — yesterday and the subject of working-class people in books came up.

The person talking about how great it is to see working-class heroes who are also billionaires was super eloquent. She cut through my privilege with a well-sharpened sword, talking about how what makes these books so attractive is the idea that billionaire-level privilege will allow working-class people to never have to worry about being taken care of, financially, again.

And I get that. I do. It’s a lovely goal, one every single one of us should live as our personal truth. To be taking care of financially. Hard stop on that idea. Every single one of us deserves that. (Well, except for the fascists, of course. They can spend time experiencing what too many of us do.)

But I’m also going to argue that if you’re a billionaire, you’re not a working-class person. You’re a billionaire with a working-class job. And that  is something entirely different.

So once again — back to the point I’d made that she was responding to — we tend to not see true working-class heroes in the pages of romance. TRUE working-class heroes. People who are struggling to pay their bills and take care of themselves, their families, their friends, their communities. We don’t romanticize the people who get up in the morning and put on work clothes and do the hard labor.

And I argue that we should.

These people populate the world of my current fiction project, Tales from the Sheep Farm.

And I’m glad I made that choice.

The past two months — with another on the schedule yet — I’ve been having massive work done on my house. I can talk about the racial makeup of the various crews who’ve worked on the different parts, about how each group has been very different from the last, and more, but the one thing that has struck me, as Freya Cat and I have watched from inside the house as the exterior has been taken down to the studs and rebuilt (fun times in winter, let me tell you!), the one thing that has struck me through this all is how incredibly skilled these various men have been.

Even on the days when members of one crew are teaching members of another, or when the original demolition crew showed up and had never done this type of work before, so they took the time to figure it out and learn, what they were doing used skills I couldn’t even imagine.

There’s real craftsmanship in what they do. Yes, even the demolition! They’ve had to work around my existing landscaping, on a house built into a hillside, without doing damage to what’s underneath or to each other or to larger parts of my property.

And yet… that’s still not represented much in fiction. Oh, you’ll see it in literary fiction. I’ve seen it pretty often in mysteries (Liz Milliron‘s books are phenomenal for that), too.

But romance?

Nope.

I love the genre. I do. So c’mon romance friends. Enough of the billionaires with working class jobs. Let’s see working class people with honor and dignity.

I don’t write romance, either. But I see working class people, even though I’m not one of you. But I do respect you and I am in awe of your skills and your various expertise, and I’m well aware of how vital you are to a healthy economy and a healthy society.

Pick up some of the Tales from the Sheep Farm books and see what I mean. I’m striving to give honor and dignity to all of my characters, including those we’re set up to not initially like. (Oh, wait until you get your hands on Legacy… talk about a billionaire fall from grace!)

If you’d like to go right to the buy links, here you go: http://Books2Read.com/Susan-Helene-Gottfried

People are treasures too.

A client reached out to me a week or so ago. They are disabled, and they were reading a book in which the main character becomes disabled and then, this:

Thing that gets me: When the character can handle seemingly anything and can heal so quick.

The problem wasn’t suspension of disbelief but how that made them feel: diminished, incapable, weak by comparison.

And know what? My client wasn’t wrong. In fact, they had a very very valid point–which is why I’m writing about it today.

Here’s what I said to my client:

The problem here is the plot. It needs an able-bodied heroine instead if it being a plot built around the hero’s disabilities.

I almost heard the aha despite the miles between us.

This is something I think many of us — writers, editors, readers, and more — take for granted. That unless we live with a disability, we don’t know how hard it is. And maybe there’s a bit of naive hope and expectation that we’ll just… magically heal and stop being hurt or injured or… disabled.

(I ran into this attitude a lot after my bike injury, and certainly when each of my kids severed toxic relationships with their dad. “Oh, maybe one day they’ll reconcile.”)

I get it. It’s awkward and uncomfortable when the people we’re talking about — be them your friend’s kids (or the kids of an acquaintance) or a character in a book — aren’t at their best. Look at how much that message of being the best is wrapped into fiction (books, TV, and movies). Think about how the Chosen One is an entire plot line of its own, and how it is always always always a misfit who finds belonging by becoming The Chosen One. How they rise above and become the, if not perfect then able-bodied, savior.

We don’t want to see our characters struggle with something simple like their health. We want them to be perfect, the sort of hero/heroine/savior we would be in their place. We need them to be capable of everything that gets thrown at them… even when that “everything” is something only an able-bodied character can face.

So if you’re going to write a disabled character — or maybe more to the point with my client’s book, if you’re going to disable your character as part of the story — make sure that the plot adapts for their disability. Whatever that looks like.

Your disabled character deserves their happy ending and their love interest and their triumph, too. It just may not look like the triumph of an able-bodied person. And that’s okay. In fact, it’s great because it treats the disability as a disability and not a quick plot twist.

Authors, editors, this invites you to push yourself and your creativity. Find new ways for the hero/main character to triumph. Work with the character’s disability, be it existing before the book opens or something that happens along the way. Adapt the plot so the character doesn’t magically heal in ways that leave other disabled readers longing for the same thing to happen in their lives.

For many of us, there won’t be a magic bullet to restore our health. We can’t magically regrow limbs, we can’t have our eyesight restored, our pancreas doesn’t magically begin helping digest food, our blood pressure doesn’t mysteriously doing things that leave us suddenly unconscious, we aren’t bedridden for days with migraines.

If you’re going to put disabilities into your plots, be sure you’re going to alter the plot to make space for your character’s limitations.

Don’t write an able-bodied plot for a disabled character. Don’t magically heal them; it’s not the kind gesture you think it is when your reader would love nothing more than for that to happen to them, but then reality smacks them in the face.

Disabilities are important to show in fiction, of course. Which is why it’s also important to not magically heal the disability. Instead, change the plot.

You just might get a better book for it.

I’m in the middle of a huge house renovation. And I mean huge… new exterior, new roof, new deck, new skylights. It’s amazingly and heartbreakingly expensive, but it’s gotta get done.

So that got me thinking about houses and homes and what makes a great big box with a bunch of divider walls into first a house, and then a home. How weird is it to have our own bedrooms, our own home offices–and this, of course, gets me thinking about my (many) fantasy clients and how ubiquitous houses and bedrooms are. How privacy matters, no matter what the society… or does it? What sort of shared values across the current-day earth are we transporting into our fiction? How about expectations of the way we live? Fancy fireplaces and columns holding up the roof over our front entry, what kind of flooring we have in our kitchens, our bathrooms, our bedrooms…

These are the things I think about when I’m not editing. (It’s a darn good argument for keeping me busy, no?)

…and then LA caught on fire. And LA burned. And people lost homes they’ve lived in for generations. Generations!

That took on a new resonance. There’s a mention in Legacy, Tales from the Sheep Farm Book Five, that people who live in the historically working class neighborhood of Woolslayer pass their homes down through the generations and the stuff that accumulates through the decades and lifetimes, stuff that needs to be cleared out, but… yeah. Knowing that people (maybe even you) actually do live this way gives me a new perspective in the face of such loss.

What is it that defines how we live? Is it our sports memorabilia? Our couches, our various tables and desks, our good china? Is it the neighborhood, the size of the house, the approval of our neighbors, the landscaping, the length of your lawn?

Or is it something that transcends a physical structure? Is our home the people we let into our lives, the people we can trust and turn to for good and bad? Is it a feeling of belonging and nothing more? Is “home” our values and the way we live our lives and approach each day? Is it the memories we build in a place?

There’s even a cliche that goes “Home is where the heart is” — but try telling that to the people in LA who have lost their homes — and a piece of their hearts along with it. That argues pretty convincingly for memories and human connection and the feeling of safety and belonging, but is that all it is? I mean… it gets back to the fact that a house is nothing more than a box with a bunch of interior dividers.

What about the community? The people in LA and the people in West North Carolina (Hey, I still see you, friends! I haven’t forgotten you) would argue that’s absolutely part of what defines home. It explains why they are going to rebuild, why they may do it even without the financial assistance of an insurance industry that’s unable to keep up with the destruction of the planet, either through funding or through policy. “This is our home,” they say, and they don’t mean only the house.

What is the essence that defines home?

There are no right answers or wrong answers. I’m sure a sociologist or anthropologist or even an archeologist has tackled some of this, and of course I’d love to chat with someone who has and get their perspectives.

Just something to think about in your own fiction.

And if you’re so inclined to donate, reminder that the story I wrote for the Western North Carolina anthology is still available to you for a donation. $10 for each volume and $50 for the omnibus. My story, “In Search of Culinary Excellence” is in the Contemporary Fiction and LGBTQ volumes, because it features everyone’s favorite executive assistant, Taylor Alexander. And Sima Shaikovsky. Don’t forget her.

Don’t forget the people of LA and WNC, either. Or the others… people who’ve lost their homes and are struggling to live without permanent and safe housing.

I’m always glad to contribute to a charity anthology, to an auction, to whatever… just reach out. I’m always glad to help.

In the meantime, if you’ve got thoughts about home and what that word means, I’d love to hear them.