Love Cover

I released my book cover for Love on tiktok last week! Totally on a whim, I didn’t want to release it until the book was available on Amazon and Goodreads, but I couldn’t wait. I’ve been so excited to show you all this book collection, and once the first one is available on Amazon and Goodreads, I will also be releasing the covers and release dates for the following three books on each of those platforms plus my website. Well, maybe not all three of the others. But definitely the next two. The last one (book 4) is going to have a slight subtitle change, and I need my cover artist to alter that for me first.

I missed last week’s blog post with no excuses aside from I was just tired of writing. I felt like I had gotten a lot of writing done that past week, and I did not want to write any more.

As a side note regarding audiobooks, I noticed something: even the audiobooks that I enjoy, there are always sections in the middle—multiple, large sections—that I don’t listen to. I simply cannot pay attention to the entire thing. My mind is always on something else, and by the time I’m paying attention again, I can’t tell you what happened within the last ten minutes or more of the audiobook.

I also don’t remember audiobooks as well as reading the words of books, and that’s not going to work for me. I retain the information a lot better if I’m reading it in black and white—ebook or physical.

At this point, audiobooks, specifically any fictional audiobooks, are not for me. I can say that nonfiction is better, because when I’m listening to it, I think of it more like listening to a documentary (which I do constantly; there is usually something nonfiction—whether a podcast or documentary—playing on my phone while I’m doing something around the house). But even then, there are sometimes sections in the middle where the narrator just loses me as a listener.

Reading Recommendations

I noticed several booktokers that began their “10 Before the End” challenge near the beginning of November. When this happened, I looked at my reading goal for the year and realized that I was 25 books behind on my reading goal of 60 books. Needless to say, I realized that most of my time this year has been spent writing the first two books in The Barrenmire Lights collection. Now that book is complete and book two is over halfway complete, I buckled down… and I have read nine books in the last three weeks. That is a record for me, something I don’t think I even did last year.

I’ll put my current reads below, but I’ll give you my top recommendations of the few books I’ve read here, as several of the past nine have been mentioned in prior blog posts:

Beneath These Shadows by Meghan March – two people meet in front of a tattoo studio in Louisiana during Mardi Gras week. Chaos ensues as both of them have secrets their keeping… and those secrets clash come the end.

My Valentine’s Virus by A Darang – two hackers compete online for the number one spot. One they chat in real-time, they put each other to the test: whoever finds who first, gets to do whatever they want to them.

Pretty Dark Vows by Callie Rose – female finds her way to the only three men she believes can help find her sister. Needless to say, sexual tension is in the air between her and each of the men, but as they get closer, the rule becomes: no fucking.

My Current Read

I DNF’d one book before I started reading this one, simply because I’m trying to reach my reading goal for the year, and I cannot waste any time on a book that doesn’t capture my attention within the first couple chapters. I set it aside, as I do with all of the books I DNF, into a folder on my Goodreads titled “Abandoned” hoping that I’ll get to them again someday.

My current romance read is Owned by Fate by Tessa Bailey – this one is a pretty simple concept: MMC owns a BDSM club and never leaves his office. FMC goes inside uninterested with awful expectations and initially doesn’t want to be involved. The two of them have insane chemistry and cannot resist each other.