I Don't Have a Title For This One
Which is actually a good title. [note to self]
Hello, hello! The last two weeks have flown by! Exciting audio book news ahead.
I have three audiobooks in the process of being picked up by distributors. When Love Comes Calling and Islands are both available right now from Kobo and Walmart! Plus, they are on sale with special launch pricing. And Play It Again, Sam should be available in the next week or so. Eventually, in addition to Kobo and Walmart, they will be available on audiobooks.com, Everand, B&N Audiobooks, Spotify, Tune In, Baker & Taylor (for libraries), and Overdrive. These three books were created using AI narration from Eleven Labs. Right now I’m reserving AI narration for my stand alone books. I hope to get Tomorrow up very soon!
As for my series books, I’m trying out human narrators on Brothers in Arms. Right now The Courage to Love is with the narrator. Unfortunately the first narrator had to pull out due to a family emergency, so I had to hire another narrator, which has set me back a little on the release. I’m still hoping to have it out in either June or July. But with my big Japan trip in June, it may get pushed back to July.
I’m still working on some picture books, and my middle grade time travel book is coming along nicely! But I’ve also started working on my next romance, which is a dark romcom based very loosely on “what if Deadpool and Wolverine were just normal people, but they’re hitmen. And one of their girlfriends is into both of them.” So a real grumpy/sunshine vibe with lots of action and jokes. I’m having a blast plotting it! P.S. Don’t be surprised if part of it takes place in Tokyo.
In other news, apparently my son shared with his college art class what I do for a living, and they were all very interested. lol One of them told him I could make a killing writing gay romances. Yes, my son was unaware that I already write gay romance. Is anyone else’s kid completely clueless about what they do for a living? And I once again won the easter egg hunt—not as a hunter but as the hider. My kids, who are way too old for easter egg hunts and we don’t care—could not find all the eggs I hid. I’ve still got it. Sneaky to the core.
I’m about to start a sample edit (a few pages of editing on a project to see if we—the editor and author—fit well and can work together). The book is a mystery and it sounds fun so I’m intrigued.
My Favorite Things This Week:
I hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend. My daughter came home from college for a few days, so that was fun. My son (the soon to be chef) made an amazing quiche Lorraine, and I made some delicious strawberries and cream scones. They were so easy and so yummy! Highly recommend.
I’m watching a new show on Netflix called North of North. It’s super Canadian, about a young Inuk woman in Nunavut who is in the middle of a divorce in her tiny town and she’s trying to recreate herself. It’s a comedy, and my husband (Canadian) and I are really enjoying it.
I finally watched the new Nosferatu and I really liked it. It was scary and gory and super atmospheric. My Canadian husband is also Austrian/German, so those vibes hit for us, too. Johnny Depp’s daughter was one of the leads, and she was actually really good. So many times in the movie we were yelling at the t.v. screen, “No! This is a really bad idea!” lol
Quote of the Week:
“A bird is safe in its nest—but that is not what its wings are made for.”
Amit Ray