I wrote about how my Timeless Mate leads tossed my carefully constructed outline in the trash. This podcast gives a little more background on the why. And why this book has more mythic stakes than just rival Mafia families.

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Everything starts somewhere. My Fated Mates shifter series started with an article in a scientific journal that dredged up a memory, which got tangled up with my whole deal and some writer’s boredom. Some writers might call it a process. I am convinced my muse is Eris, the Greek goddess of Chaos. Oh, and that scientific article: https://www.science.org/content/article/african-golden-jackals-are-actually-golden-wolves In case you’re as geeky as I am. This series has now been living in my head for ten years, even if it has only been published for two. The last book, Timeless Mate, will be out in two more months. I’m really psyched for you all to read it.

Last episode was deep, this one is kind of silly. Balance, life is all about balance. So Fix, Keep, Out the airlock is the perfect balance to all that sincerity. You know the rules, have probably played it before, but not with romance tropes.

Let me know in the comments which you’d fix, keep, or yeet.

Sometimes a book is too important to avoid. Which is how I ended up writing a book about a nonbinary, asexual hacker and the wounded shifter who is their fated mate. I’ve written a fair few fated mate pairings that fought their fates. Ghost and Brennan Tierney are not one of them. These guys’ relationship has built over a couple of books, so when Tierney reveals that Ghost is his fated mate, they’re thrilled, and they lived happily ever after. Okay, that would be a very short book. So no, they’ve got a possibly homicidal, but definitely unhinged banker to the underworld mother to deal with, and Tierney has some work to do to believe he’s worthy of Ghost, for that matter, so does Ghost. In short, the characters may not sound like you, but the feelings and the drama will.

This book stretched me as a writer in ways I didn’t expect, but am supremely grateful for. Both in my writing and in the realization that the Rapid Release/KU nightmare isn’t working for me. I have a day job. If I’m pushing, I can get out 4, maybe 5 books a year. That doesn’t feed KU’s algorithm (which wants more like 12), so my books flounder. I can’t advertise my way out of that situation. So after Uncommon Mate leaves KU on 3/31, books will release first in my own book shop, then release wide to ALL retailers. I know it is going to tank my sales in the beginning, but I’m hopeful that, after some adjustment period, it will change.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the excerpt. If you can tell me where Ghost first shows up and post it in the comments, I’ll give the first one a coupon for a free book of their choice from my catalog.

I promised myself that after I get 12 episodes loaded, I’ll get (make!) a pretty intro and outro for this since most podcasts don’t make it past the 10 episode mark.

So Space? Really? Yeah, really. I’m leaning hard into my nerdy side. I’ve always been a little wonkier than average- hey, I have academic medical research papers to my credit and have done more than my share of technical writing. Hard truth, it uses completely different skills than creative writing. I still pay the bills with writing, only in my day job (Grant Writer), I ask people for millions of dollars, and get it.

But that isn’t why you’re here. If I didn’t say it in the podcast, I’m hoping the Sci-Fi series will be out around mid-year. I’ve still got one more shifter book to finish, and this one, whoo, have a cold drink ready.

Speaking of shifters, book 5 just released in KU. Uncommon Mate will be there until March 31st. I can’t even put it on my own website. Which is a HUGE reason I’m not going to be doing KU anymore. Anyway, have a listen. I’d love to hear your comments on how you read outside of KU.

I’m working on this being an every two weeks kind of thing. I’m hoping to get a couple of episodes loaded in the next few weeks to kick things off. I’m going to be talking about writer stuff but from a reader’s perspective. Kind of the BTS content. All fueled by Hibiscus tea because I’m allergic to caffeine- really! It’s a thing!