Motivation...

Lately, it's been a little hard to come by. I took a week off not long ago to do some things with the kids. I should have known better--If I don't stick to a steady writing schedule, I fall behind and it takes me weeks to start writing again. It isn't that I don't want to be writing. I do. It isn't that my characters have stopped talking to me. They haven't. It's just that I've suddenly found so many more things I'd rather be doing. Like vegging on the couch watching horror movies with the boys. I have a few projects that need to be finished in the next couple of weeks--maybe that's part of the problem. Does anyone else ever go through this? If so, how do you deal with it? How do you get your motivation back again? Anyway...I'm plugging along on my paranormal chick lit, slower than usual but the pace is steady. Though I usually prefer to write darker, I'm having a lot of fun with this one. Hopefully I'll have some good news to share soon. Lis:)

Series spinoffs and new (to me) genres

For the past 2 1/2 years, I'd always said that the Dark Promises series would be over with book 5. Once Wil's story was told, I would be able to put the characters aside and move on to something else. But apparently that isn't so. Wil's book is finished and in the hands of my wonderful editor, but the stories are not. So in the fall I'll be working on a spinoff series--and get this--it'll be futuristic. Something I've never written before, and I'm finding the whole idea to be a bit daunting. Intriguing, but daunting all the same. On the publishing front, I've recently sold to Changeling Press--Night Creatures, erotic horror. I'm really excited about this one, since I wrote horror for ten years before I moved on to romance. Combining the two genres was a lot of fun, and I already have a couple ideas for some new stories. Next month, Nothing Personal is being released from Cerridwen Press. I just posted the awesome cover on my website. I'll be posting some excerpts from all my upcoming books in my newsletter. That's all for now. Until next time... Lis:)