There's all this stuff in my head...: Random Thoughts: I feel like ranting

Okay so it looks like I fell off the planet. Promise - I'm still here. The last four years have been ... hard. There's no other word for it. Everything is fine. I'm fine, but I've been the caregiver of my mom who has Dementia. Between her needs, work, etc I seem to have lost control of my time. I am still writing and am trying hard to get back to my blog.

In case you weren't aware Phaze and HSWF which where under the Mundania Umbrella have closed. I was smart enough to get my titles back before all this happened. I'm happy to say the three books I sold to HSWF have been picked up by Melange Books and are available through their Satin Books imprint. I have even sold a new title to them called Magical Quest due out in 2022

I have also been lucky enough to find a publisher for my Vespian Way series. I'm now with Blushing Books under the name of Bethany Drake. I have five titles out with them right now and am close to submitting two more. There's Desire's Destiny, Desire's Duty and Desire's Promise. Then there is two in my werewolf series, Tears of the Queen and Legend of the Tears. I have just finished the rough draft of the third book in the series and have plans for a fourth one the moment I submit it.

I'll probably still be sporadic here on the blog. Unless I win the lottery and can hire someone to help me I can't avoid it, but know I'm still here still working hard in the background and am hoping to do better at keeping my blog alive.

Barb:)

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Random Thoughts: I feel like ranting

I have these days when I just want to scream. things don't go right. Maybe it's the weather and maybe it's me. Not sure why it seems to build up and build up until I hit a point where I want to explode.

Thank goodness I have writing to fall back on when this happens. I think I might just go mad if I didn't. I can step out of this world for a few hours and escape to the world I created. I think this is one of the reasons why I don't write the deep dark stories.

I want a good book that makes me smile. I want to read a book that makes me want to go back to it because I love the larger than life characters, and the wonderful interaction between them. I look for humor, a good plot and I like to think I put all that in my books.

I want my reader to escape from the world that drives them crazy.