June 30, 2025
Trevor’s Song is about disasters in the titular character’s life, and not just because his best friend commits an act of monogamy.
So… what went wrong?
My garage freezer has finally died. It’s about to be 25, or maybe it already is. So you know, it had a good run. But I am now eating a lot of stuff I’d stuck in there for a rainy day. Thankfully I didn’t lose that much; a well-packed freezer maintains its cold even after the condenser dies!
I had a chip in my windshield repaired last Tuesday, and after being parked outside all day at the Bad Bitch Bazaar, the repair… showed it wasn’t worth what the insurance company paid them. Thankfully I have glass coverage on my policy, but now I have to drive around for a week — including back and forth to the Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival five out of the next seven days (counting today) — with a nice crack right in my field of vision.
And… I chucked ANOTHER 50k words of Absolutely Alyssa, but now I know what didn’t work about it, so yay and let’s go getting this ship right. I only started writing it 20 months ago.
Yep. 20.
I’m telling ya. Litany of disasters.
Y’all better like this damn book once I get done with it!
On a happier note…
I worked on Saturday for a bit and am hoping I can get the first read-through done over the next three days. Then it’ll be a break for the Festival, and then the second read-through. If I’m so lucky.
I’m still waiting on more manuscripts to arrive here. I’m expecting a LOT. I think I’m okay if they don’t show up within days of each other.
Yesterday was the Bad Bitch Bazaar and I had someone come by the show just to get the next book in the Sheep Farm series and WOO HOO! My three friends (, Lainey Davis, and Paige N. Regan and forgive the lack of links; it’s not that I don’t love my friends — I really do! — but I’m running SUPER late here and feeling very stressed) sold INCREDIBLY well. The queers were out, the romance lovers were out, and we were THERE for them. I got compliments on my t-shirt, we got compliments on the vibe in our tent, I had a reader (hello!) come to the show just to get the second book in my series! Woo hoo! So while my friends sold more than I did — which in and of itself is always worth cheering for — I had a heck of a great day.
But yes, I did chuck yet another verison of Authentically Alyssa. Sigh. This BOOK, y’all. DISASTERS. It’s one book. It’s multiple disasters.
The good news is that I figured out what’s bothering me about those earlier attempts, and I’ve fixed that. The first five books? Are all about relationships. This was focusing too much on the job at hand (if you’ve read Legacy, you know what that is, and if you haven’t, why not?), and so I moved the timeline up just a few weeks, got the sticking point out of the way and bam! It feels so much better.
I know. I said that last time.
This book had better be the one that breaks this series open and makes the world sit up and take notice.
Oh, and Populated was the best selling book of the weekend! Woo hoo!
I’m confident Delia Ford will make an appearance in Absolutely Alyssa.
Ugliness, by Moshtari Hilal and Elisabeth Lauffer
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Because, yeah. I’ve still got two disasters to pay for… the new windshield and the new garage freezer. Mutual aid. It’s a thing.
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