We escaped sultry St. Louis over a decade ago to move to sunny and seventies Southern California. We love it here. But this year, apparently, SoCal decided to remind us of what we escaped—a month of heat and humidity. Except now, we’re suffering through it without air conditioning, because sunny and seventies shouldn’t require a/c and we’ve never needed it before!
So, I’m struggling to finish the final edits on book two in the Xanadu Canyon Mysteries. I’m sitting under a ceiling fan with my digital notebook, guzzling icy water, and praying my brain isn’t too fried to find all those gremlins that pop up no matter how many times a book is edited.
And book three. . . my poor characters may never learn my heroine’s parentage if my brain melts!
Oh, and because I obviously have nothing better to do, I’ve reactivated my account at Tiktok and I’m trying to learn YouTube (but I haven’t even figured how to post a playlist). Do you ever venture there? Feel free to tell me everything I’m doing wrong!
And have you seen the cover for the first book in my new mystery series? Does it say “contemporary mystery with historical elements?” There’s a bit of romance too but that was hard to depict on a cover!