I try to keep everyone up
on the latest with my writing. It seems lately I have had a lot of interest in
Sawyer's Rose and Wyatt's Bounty due to the narrated books being available. And
I have been getting a lot of questions on when the next story will be released
and will there be a story for various characters. And the answer is yes and yes
and yes! There will be plenty more on the McCades with some spin offs of extra
characters....one day.
You guys gotta remember I
work a full time job as an RN Quality Analyst, Monday thru Friday, 8 to 5, and
I have daughters aged 10 and 13 , ad husband (who does way more than I do around this house) and we also have my husband’s mother with
dementia—so no rest for the weary. While my main goal of each day is to
make it to that part if each evening where I can write, somewhere in the
middle are the things that must come first:
Up at 6:00 am
Out the door by 7:15am
Drop one daughter at
elementary school
Drop the other at middle
school
Race to work avoiding cop
who always sits a little store on the corner-listen to books on the way there
and back.
8:15 to 5:00...The Day
Job
5:20 Pick up one kid (the
other buses home)
Home at last.....oh but
wait....there's more
Cook supper
Dishes
Laundry
Feed the pets-2 dogs and
4 guinea pigs
Yard work
House pick up
HOMEWORK HELP
Mail and bills
Baths
Somewhere in the middle
of all this being a mom and wife
9:00pm Off to bed
for the girls
Yipee....WRITING
TIME....and I am exhausted!!! But the weekend is on the way, isn't it hump day
or is it Friday yet?
No whining but you guys
can see I get 1 to 2 hours a night to write if I am not exhausted. Some
weekends I get a lot of writing time, others not so much. But here is what is
in the works:
Dawson's Haven, the third in The McCades of Cheyenne Series is more than half done. I am pushing
hard on this story each night making progress. But I have to take the time to
make this story right so that the character and the readers get the story they
deserve. The gist of this story without giving too much away is: Dawson will be
wrongly accused of a crime and it is the woman who he recently rescued that
will return the favor.
The delay on Dawson’s
Haven is due to me working hard to submit a fully written contemporary story
that I completed in 2013. The Wild Rose Press had a call for contemporary
cowboys and I pulled out a story I had written back then and dusted it off for
several months last year. I have learned a lot since I first started writing in
2011 and so there were some craft issues I had to fix up. Anyway, this story
was contracted by Wild Rose in January 2018 (Yipee!) And edits will begin soon
which means this story All But the Fall
will be out sometime this year if all goes as planned. It is about a horse
stunt jumper on the set of an old west television series who falls for the
nurse consultant on the set. She is running from the past and he is running to her and he is very yummy! And of course he has 2 brothers so more to come on
this series too.
In the meantime, as some
authors know characters sometimes demand to be heard. This time the voice in my
head was Leaning Bear, Dawson's BFF Cheyenne Medicine Man buddy. And so in
less than a week, and I am not by nature a plotter, I mapped out an entire
story for this guy. Not only did I make an outline but I know all the
characters and what happens in every chapter thru the whole story. For a pancer
this is amazing. And then because this darn Medicine Man wouldn’t leave me
alone, I have already written the first two chapters with a goal of this story
following closely after Dawson's story if I can get my act together. In this
book it seems Leaning Bear falls for the school teacher sent to the reservation,
but I can’t tell much more without telling too much. Maybe this story, Paint the Sky, will be a good read in
between Dawson and Evan's stories.
And I do have a full
outline for the 4th McCade brother Evan! Evan's Ransom will follow as soon as I can get these others out
there. The youngest McCade will be loaded with a number of surprises that will
bring something from all the previous stories full circle. Let's just say this youngest McCade brother has a lot of surprises!
And then the big
question! WILL THERE BE A STORY FOR DODGE AND BRETT? When I first started
writing this series, I never expected Dodge to be such a loved character and
the response to her has been huge. I like to say I write romance and I write
the west but truly I think my stories would fall into a family saga genre
easily. With that being said and given the time, I would love to write a story
for Dodge. The requests have been mostly for a current story for them and some
for a story from their past. I am thinking I can accomplish both with a current
story where she and Brett both reflect on the past while they tackle their romance
and all the happenings around them.
And the saga will
continue...everyone loves Zane, Sawyer's son and so do I. But I have not mapped
any story for him yet though I think there is a good possibility he will find
his girl back home on a visit to where he grew up!
Oh and there is still
Hudson Collier, the deputy BFF of Wyatt who has a comically fun way of putting
his words
out there. He ends up the
sheriff in Denver at the end of Wyatt's story. I do believe I have a bit of
story mapped out in my head for this guy but it will be a while.
And while we are at it,
except for a few of my beta reader friends, I will bet you didn’t know unless
you paid good attention in my current stories that I have stories for The Hagen
Brothers. Remember the mention of the horse guys in Sawyer and Wyatt’s stories?
Well, if I can one day get my act together these are full stories I have
written for Adam, Samuel and Will Hagen. I wrote these three stories all in
2011 and 2012 and they need a good deal
of work and story changes, but I would love the chance to rewrite these and get them out there to readers.
Whew…no wonder I am
tired. But for now, back to the story which must get written!
Kim
