Welcome to My Monthly Tirade
Ramblings
I want to make lots of money and never have to work
again.
Kathi
There are a lot of people who say this. Me?
I’d like the lots of money part but never having to work again? I’m not so sure I’d like that. I need the interaction with people to give
“character” to my stories.
Do you write about real people?
Yes, but I change the
names to protect the guilty. Most of the
characters in my books are a combo of everyone I meet. There are a few, especially the bad guys and
girls that are people that I’ve encountered over the years who for lack of a
better way of getting back at them without ending up on the FBI list I kill
off. Most of them die horrible deaths or
get what they have coming to them in the end.
But there are a few,
Duncan for example that I keep bringing back book after book that holds a place
in my heart. He is the combination of
all my grandchildren and a few adults that I love. Anyone who’s read Aaron’s Kiss will find him
in the kitchen waiting for the next person to join the kiss.
So I need to work at a
job that puts me in contact with the people we all love to hate or love.
Could I make them
up? I suppose but it’s so much more fun
to have them to be real. The person who
might have cut me off in traffic, the nurse that seemed to be drilling for oil
when she takes my blood or even the boss that makes me want to murder him in
his sleep but can’t. All these are rich
with witty lines and sardonic wits.
So would I like to be
rich enough to not work outside the home?
Sure, would I? Hummmm, ask me in
a year or two and I might have a different answer.
What I’m Working on Now
I write more than one
book at a time. I actually thought that
everyone did that and was surprised to find out they don’t. I have five going right now…maybe six.
The sequel to Force of Nature finds Gordon getting in over his head
with a mate. Alexis has a few secrets of
her own and two aunts that keep poor Phil on the straight and narrow. (Or so they try.)
Gordon has just retired
from the police force to become a part of the growing pack. He’ll answer to two
of his brothers, the Alpha Austin and Dallas the enforcer. He’s excited to start this new
adventure. That is until he meets Alexis
Dark.
She owns a herbal shop
that specializes in soaps and candles she makes. It’s hard enough trying to find time to make
product for the shop and her online business but having her sisters four
children under foot and her two aunts, Gladys and Jessie in the mix she spends
more time with them than she does cooking.
Then there is her
brother-in-law Patrick “Paddy” Booth who now that he’s a werewolf wants more
than she can give.
Book 12 of the Aaron’s Kiss Series is something that I’ve only just
started. My son-in-law Ben asked about
Elizabeth, Mel’s grandmother and how she was created not born. And wondered if I’d write her story.
I
had to take his word for the create part as once I finish a book, I haven’t the
slightest clue what it’s about. When my
publisher wants a blurb I have to go and read the story first like a first time
reader.
Anyway, I decided that he
might have something there and have been working a bit on it. I’m not into much of the story yet but I
think it will work out.
Royce and Kasey have been there for a little while now.
Royce is a friend of
Alexander James. You’ll remember him
from the James Children series. Alex is
Willow’s brother and a cutie with five brothers.
I don’t know if his
brothers will end up in their own book or not yet but maybe. They have a colorful background too and
Royce, of course keeps them in line.
Well, as best he can.
I’ll share a bit of their
story here when I can figure out how to do that. This is a cool program and all
but the print is way tiny for my old eyes and I think I need to enlarge the
type before I try.
Another story is
one that has been brewing for a little while.
I only have a few sentences of it complete but I think it will be
something fun. I can tell you that it’s
about humans and that the sex is as steamy as it gets.
Sometimes I write for the murder.
These are really short stories for system
release. There are days when you just
have to let the meanness out and I do it with words.
And if the person really ticks me off, at some point
I put them into a bigger story and get it published. More fun that way and some of the people who
read my books ask about them. I always
say the same thing, “I have no idea who that person is” and let it go with
that.
