This is a little off topic but there are times when you need to vent. I think I've explained that my mom has dementia. It is an ugly awful decease that I hate. I watch my mom fade away a little more every day. Her dementia is different than the classic case. Does it effect her memory? Yes. Yet she knows who I am. I get a lot of I don't know and have learned that she doesn't always understand what we're saying and I have to make sure I use words she can understand.

Being a writer helps right now because I know all about word choice. It just breaks my heart to see her this way.

 Here's a quick update. I have another book coming out. This one is under Barbara Donlon Bradley and through Melange. It's a sequel to A quest for Love which was my very first futuristic romance.

Magical Quest is the working title and it's due out next year!

The Vespian Way:

Well. my publisher changed the covers on my books to make them look uniform. Aren't they pretty?

 So I fell off the face of the planet again. Sorry, Life got in the way but time is my friend again and I hope to make a better effort to show up her more often. First I need to update this page, then start posting again. Bear with me while I get everything up to date.

Barb:)

New Cover!

I have two new covers - A Quest For Love and Desire's Duty I love them both!

A Quest for love will be released by Melange/Satin romance this spring!

Desire's Duty will be released March 7th by Blushing Books/Eclipse!

New Release

Now the craziness starts...I have the new cover of my Vespian Way series. I also have a pen name - Bethany Drake. I have enough trouble writing on this blog so I'm not sure if I'll create a new one, but I'll keep you posted as I get caught up on everything...I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel...

New Release info!

I'm excited to say that I have a lot of news to tell you.

First, as I told you guys a while ago I pulled all my books from Phaze.

Satin Romance, and imprint of Melange Books has accepted three of my titles.

A Portrait in Time is available for prerelease now with the full release on September 25th. I'll post links as soon as I have them.
Here's the cover!

Love on the Run, the sequel to A Portrait in Time, will be available between mid-October  and beginning of November. I have the cover now.

A Quest for Love will be released as well and I'll post the cover as soon as I get it.

In other exciting news I have found a home for my Desire series. Blushing Books has accepted the first two books and I'm getting ready to send in the next two.

They have also accepted a new manuscript called the Tears of the Queen.

Barb:)

Updates

I know I've still been quiet but I have been plugging away. I'm excited to say I have found a home for my desire series plus I have a new book coming out through Blushing Books. The new book is called Tears of the Queen and is a urban fantasy.

A Portrait in Time will be re-released soon. I have the new cover and still waiting for the release date. I'm so happy to know I could find another home for it. When I read through the book after all these years I was pleasantly surprised. I did a good job considering it was my first.

I know I mentioned about me caring for my mom but I didn't mention that she has dementia. One of the reasons why I'll continue to be sporadic in posting. Over all Mom is good, she is cognizant and can do a lot by herself. But I've been busy making sure I have everything ready for when she can't make decisions on her own. 

I hope to get back to hosting authors and advising new writers but right now I'm living day by day trying to get everything back in order so I can fet things back to normal.

Barb:)

What Happened to Barbara Donlon Bradley part 2

So when I stopped writing I worried I wouldn't go back to it. I had finished with the first draft of my tenth book in the Vespian Way series. Normally I do take a break between books, but it's only a few days before I'm right back at it. With this break it was months.  Like I said part of it was morning for the loss of my mother-in-law. It got really hard on us toward the end, and I used writing to escape. Suddenly I didn't have the stress that pushed me to write.

I also haven't been feeling the warm fuzzies from my publisher recently. The sales just haven't been there and it's not from lack of advertising. I've decided to pull my titles. Now my questions are what do I do with them. Should I go the route of self publishing? Should I try to find another publisher? This are big questions and the reason I think I stopped writing. I don't know what to do.

I have no idea on how to self publish, how to find covers, getting ISBN numbers. It's all a bit daunting. So is finding a new publisher. Having to submit this books through another editing process isn't easy. What if the editor doesn't like my writing style?

I'd love to hear from you guys to see what you suggest.  

What happened to Barbara Donlon Bradley?

Actually, nothing.

But I did fall off the radar.  I haven't been posting for what? Six months? And the six months before that I had to push myself to get my interviews up on time.

I needed a break so I took one.

First, let me catch you up to speed.  First lets start with life in general. I was care-giver for my mother-in-law for six years. While we lived with her I started writing my Vespian Way series and wrote nine, almost ten books during that time. I think I wrote to escape because she and I banged heads a lot.

Sometime in June/July of last year I just stopped writing. I think it was my way of morning her passing back in February of 2016. I also picked up a part-time job that has me up at 4:30 in the morning two days a week. Now that might not sound like much, but it actually messes up four days for me because I have to go to bed so darn early the day before and am normally too tired to think the days I work those early hours.

I also have been thinking about leaving my publisher, which is for another blog. So writing wasn't something I wanted to do. I still edited for the publisher I work for, but everything went by the wayside.

I'm glad I did that. I needed to take a step away.

Now I'm ready to get back to it.

Barb:)