I told you I was busy writing during the pandemic. And it wasn’t a lie. Recently, From Gunpowder released. It’s a romantic women’s fiction like From Ashes, but with a mystery element to it. It also has a bit of comedy, which I loved writing.

The blurb:

Their case may be getting cold, but their feelings for each other are just warming up.  

When Macie Greene gets a job in the office at the police station, she never expects to be put on a case due to her hyper-observant eyes and ears. After all, she’s just a receptionist. But when she solves a case no one else can, she soon finds herself with a new job, and a new partner—the gorgeous, but standoffish, Tad Simmons.

Tad isn’t thrilled to have his solo gig interrupted by the new hire. He’s spent his entire life trying to prove that, despite his partial blindness, he’s better than anybody else at this game. Macie’s involvement threatens the careful career he’s built for himself. Not only that, but with her weird humor and self-effacing genius, she might even threaten the safe spaces he’s built around his heart.

However, when they both agree that a murder-suicide isn’t what it seems, they’re stuck working together. Trying to find enough proof of a murder-murder before the flicker of feelings between them gets too hot, or the case goes completely cold.

And all they’ve got for witnesses are a few nasty relatives, some boring phone messages, and a missing dog…

Come on, you know it sounds fun…

And then…

And then I decided to give Kindle Vella a try with my next book. Vella is a serialized reading platform (similar to Wattpad or Radish). You read an episode at a time. Like all things serial fiction comes and goes in fashion. Right now it’s in, especially with the younger crowd. And Amazon is giving it a go too. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens both released books this way in magazines and it was wildly popular in their time too.)

Anyway, From Asphalt is available (or becoming available one episode at a time on Kindle Vella, but it will release as a regular book/ebook at the end of September or beginning of October.

Here is the beginning of a blurb for that one:

Paramedic Lance Patterson knows you can’t save everyone. Still, when he notices an injured dog limping along the outskirts of a car accident, he decides that maybe he can save just one more. A visit to the vet and a cool $1000 bill later, Lance has another problem–the beautiful (but standoffish) veterinary assistant that he can’t get out of his head. With an unexpected new dog, a demanding job, and his own mother recovering from a stroke, is it really the right time for love?

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