New Release Tuesday! Midnight Under the Magnolia

It's been awhile. 
My brain pretty much went into hibernation throughout the first four and a half months of my pregnancy. Suffering from constant nausea and narcolepsy is hard on the creative process. We're almost at five months now and my energy has returned, to some extent at least, and I can sit at my desk for more than twenty minutes before the need for sleep overwhelms me. Thanks to this burst in energy I was finally able to finish Dacie Mae: Midnight Under the Magnolia (it went live today!) and get started on The Devil's Children: The von Strassenberg Saga, book 4. It's my goal to have book 4 done before my May 13 due date. 

I blame this guy. Boy #4

After that, we'll see if I will get any work done during the first month. My husband will be away for that first whole month. Can't be helped. I've done it before, having been a newly single mom when my third son was born, but I've never tried to write a book and chauffeur three older boys while raising a baby on my own. And I'm ten years older than I was then. All I can promise is that I will try to keep getting the stories out. We can hope this kid won't be a colicky insomniac like my oldest son. That would be excellent. 
In the meantime, enjoy Dacie Mae and brush up on your von Strassenberg history because more twists and revelations are coming!

Red Pen Reader

I used to be a red pen reader. You know? One of those readers who fancies herself a grammar Nazi who could be a hotshot editor if she really wanted to be? 
And then I wrote my first novel. And tried to edit my first novel which was 90k words long. I even had several highly respected, extremely intelligent friends help me edit my novel. That was three years and five dozen edits ago. And you know what? There are probably still mistakes in Filter. 
There's a big difference between reading a novel with fresh eyes, just picking it up off the shelf and scanning it....and struggling through writing it for six months and then trying to convince yourself to read what has become the bane of your existence. My novels and I fight like siblings. It's awful. 
I liken editing my novels to trying to get stones out of the garden. No matter how many times you plow or turn the soil over, there's always another stone lurking somewhere in the dirt. 
That's all very understandable. 
But sometimes, sometimes, I do something very stupid. Sometimes my brain glazes over certain points because it figures that those points must be right because who would get THAT wrong because it's not complicated to get it right. 
What I'm trying to say is that I made a big boo-boo in the first edition of Lipstick & Bolsheviks. It is proof that even I get confused by this massive, tangled family tree. 
I suppose now is a good time to 'fess up. 
I'm just glad my BFF caught it before it went into print! I was just about to click on APPROVE FILES! Ack!

Lipstick & Bolsheviks, How It Will Go

I've had some questions about how book 3 will work, considering it is being released in two parts. 
Part one of Lipstick and Bolsheviks will be released within days. 
My full-length novels are always priced at $2.99 upon release. 

As part one is only the length of a novella, it will be available for .99. 

Part two will be priced at $1.99 upon release. The combined novel will contain both parts and be priced at $2.99.  

The physical copy will not be available until both parts are complete and properly formatted. 

My apologies for the confusion but I blame Katie, who wanted her own spotlight.

You only think you know him

 A lot of you have formed opinions on the matter of William III v. Peter.

I would be careful with that if I were you. Young Peter von Strassenberg is revealing himself...