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January 24, 2022
Gage and Co.
If you’ve been to Amazon recently, you’ll notice a few books of mine are missing, notably the Angels and Assassins series.
Now, don’t freak out…
…or is it too late?
They’ll definitely be back.
There’s just been a change of hands. The publisher returned the rights to the titles, so I simply have to republish them.
Now that I have them, I realize I’ve missed them. I’ve also been feeling a little carpe-diem-sentimental as of late.
So, I was wondering if you guys could help me out with a little feedback.
I created a survey here:
Angels & Assassins SurveyIt’s extremely short, and I’m giving away a $10 Amazon Gift Card.
If you complete the survey here on the blog (instead of my mailing list), let me know in the comments or through DM, email, text message…however you’d like. That way, I can make sure to record your response for the giveaway.
Is it obvious yet that I loved Sesame Street growing up?
January 9, 2022
Breaking The Code – Coming March 7th!
A breeze tossed the lightly curled strands of her hair about. Once upon a time, reaching out to touch her had been second nature. Now, she wielded an invisible electric fence that threatened decapitation.
His fault.
They’d had several months of bliss until she realized that he was purposefully keeping their relationship a secret. When she asked him about it, he’d lied, which was the worst thing he could have possibly done in that moment.
He’d told her that it had to do with football or life or something—it was hard to remember the bullshit excuse. In reality, the issue was complicated. He wanted to be the man she saw inside him. The man she brought out of him. However, another version of him, dark and pessimistic and brooding, kicked that man’s ass and beat him into the ground. Daily. As long as it was a fight he continued to lose, he would never be the man Delilah needed him to be. Not when, one day, she’d be his wife.
“You excited about Johns Hopkins?” Miguel redirected.
The corner of Delilah’s mouth twitched, and another smile touched her mauve-tinted lips. “Excited and nervous. I can’t mess this up.”
“Why not?”
She looked at him as though he’d asked the question in Ancient Sumerian. “Guel, it’s been my dream since forever, and my entire family’s counting on me.”
“We’re all counting on you to do well, but not being perfect and failing are two different things.”
“Miguel Reyes, always looking on the bright side until the bright side shows him a mirror.”
“Was that a compliment?”
She shrugged.
On the outside, he was a pillar of optimism. One of the calmest, most easygoing personalities in professional sports. To see Miguel Reyes without a smile on his face was about as likely as seeing Miguel Reyes standing over a campfire, warming his hands next to a Chupacabra. No one knew, including the people closest to him, that his everlasting joy hid among flocks and wore thick layers of wool to hide the lethal predator that lurked underneath.
He poked her stomach, needing a reason to touch her. “Can I come see you in Baltimore? I can fly out, spend some time with my girl.”
She poked him back. “I’m not your girl anymore. Besides, what would you fly all the way up from Charlotte to do with a stressed-out med student?”
“Come inside you.”
December 22, 2021
A Couple of Announcements
I don’t know how much you all have heard of or about Vella, but I don’t know that I have enough of a readership that enjoys serials for JG to be profitable on the Vella platform. KDP keeps giving out bonuses for publishing content via Vella, and I believe they’re doing it because they have to. For the sake of transparency, I’ve made $20 in four months.
Honestly, I’m still deciding what to do with it. It’s taking away my time from writing Breaking The Code and the 3rd book in the International Mafia series, and I don’t want to keep you guys waiting for those, especially when one reader on IG guessed the hero and heroine because she’s a super sleuth.
I do love writing JG, so I’ll be keeping you all updated on my plans. Trust that I won’t keep you all on a cliffhanger. When I tell you, I’m so not a fan of cliffhangers.
#2Breaking The Code’s release date is now March 7th!
(which also happens to be my father’s birthday)
The pre-order and cover reveal are on January 9th!
I pushed the release back a tad to give me a little more time to get my health together as I haven’t exactly been doing well.
I’m definitely going to get better as I’m determined as an m'fer. But I’m not in a good place with my health and some other things, and I haven’t been for a while, so I need to stop playing around. The holidays are also a particularly stressful time for me as all family’s not good family, and I’m sure many of you know what I mean.
Unfortunately.
On a lighter note, the Breaking the Code cover is
December 8, 2021
WIP: Breaking The Code
I'll be doing the cover reveal for Breaking the Code in January.
She swiveled back to the laptop. As her fingers flew over the keyboard, he leaned his elbow on the desktop and watched her type while flipping through responses in his brain. He couldn’t believe more than fifteen years had passed since the four of them used to hang out together in the Daniels’ sprawling backyard. Even the eleven years since the family took him and Carson with them on a trip to Disney World down in Orlando, Florida felt like they’d gone by in a blur. They’d all been kids. Now, just like that, they were adults with responsibilities.
Carson and O.B. were married. He had a facial hair that he had to constantly get trimmed to keep it low when, in middle school, he would have sold his left kidney for peach fuzz. Raina owned several fitness centers, modeled, conducted international trainings in clinical physiology, and was opening an eating disorder clinic in Charlotte. Delilah was applying to medical school, shadowing physicians, had developed curves at some point, and cared about makeup and manicures as equally as she did her academic pursuits. It literally felt like one day, they were arguing and fighting with each other, trampling on Mr. and Mrs. Daniels’ last nerves. The next day, they were here.
Blinking, all of a sudden, became precarious. One blink, and Delilah could be gone—as well as the rest of their Chapel Hill clique. His thoughts singling her out made sense because she was sitting right in front of him.
“What kind of perfume are you wearing?” He leaned forward to get a stronger whiff. “Something that smells like…I actually don’t know what that is.”
“It’s a new fragrance I’m trying. Sampled it at Ulta.” She arched her neck. “Nice, right?”
The tip of his nose brushed her neck. “Very.”
Is it ever really innocent?
October 13, 2021
Book Chat/Catch Up
Hello, my pretties.
How about a Book Chat?
We can talk Moonlight Retribution or Prince of the Brotherhood as well as what I have planned next. I'm scheduling it for this Saturday, 10/16 at 7pm EST on Google Hangouts.
Link to the Book ChatI know scheduling on a Saturday evening is telling on myself a little, but yes…I have no life.
However, I did want to do it this Sunday, but my sister somehow roped me into going painting with penises. I know how that sounds…and it's exactly what it is. It's a painting class where naked men walk around (I'm not sure if we're painting them, their "churros," or something arbitrary like a Golden Delicious apple, tbh) while they pour you your choice of alcoholic beverage. Personally, I tend to lean toward a robust Welch’s Concord Grape Juice. Red.
As a romance novelist whose books include a steamy scene or six two, I probably shouldn't disclose this, but I am terrified of naked men. Not sure why. A man with a towel wrapped around his waist that hits just above his knee, I'm fine. Anything higher or lower up top, it's like the movie Jaws.
That fear is why we're going.
I'm also doing book research.
Now, in all fairness, it's not the "turkey leg" that's the problem.
I enjoy…barbecue.
It's the whole bird that I struggle with.
The whole bird.
October 11, 2021
Giveaway Winners
Hi!
I’ve chosen the winners for both giveaways, and I’ve already emailed you if you’ve been picked!
Giveaway #1 winner: Congratulations, LaTasha!
Giveaway #2 winner: Congratulations, Michelle!
September 21, 2021
Moonlight Giveaway #2
Play Now!!I’ll also be hosting a Moonlight Retribution/Let’s catch up chat. Details to come.
It’s Release Day!
“Barely touched you, sweetheart. You’re that eager for me? Thought you had somewhere to go.”
READ NOW
September 14, 2021
One Week Left!
“Of course, Pavel. But what about you? Is there anything I can do for you?”
The slightest hint of red bloomed over the bridge of his nose. “Watching out for my little boy is a request for me.”
“But you also had something else in mind.”
“I didn’t.”
“Behavioral analysis was my career. On top of that, your girl’s got a doctorate in clinical psych with interdisciplinary work in behavioral neuroscience. I know what you want.”
“You’re my girl?”
Embarrassment needled the skin on her face. “It’s an expression.”
He leaned toward her, his fresh-out-of-the-shower scent giving her a fervent sort of high, and trapped the corner of his bottom lip between his teeth. It then slipped from his mouth so slowly, she had to stop herself from leaning forward for a lick.
“What do I want, then?” he asked. “You used to be a profiler. Profile me.”
September 10, 2021
Moonlight Giveaway
I’m hosting a giveaway!
To prepare us all for Pavel’s story, I’m hosting a couple of giveaways. Thank you, everyone, for the feedback I’ve received about the gifts/items readers would like. The second giveaway starts on Moonlight Retribution’s release day.
09.21.2021Giveaway #1: What’s up for grabs?$15 Amazon gift cardSwag bag – rum punch candle (Eija’s recipe from Prince of the Brotherhood), bookmarks, gourmet candy, dagger earrings, etc.Framed signed book cover poster (book of choice).Have a secondary character in a book named after you.Signed Prince of the Brotherhood copy.Giveaway #2: What’s up for grabs?$15 Amazon gift cardChoice of quote mugSwag bag – Armani code wax melts (Giorgio’s scent), wine glass charms, etc.Print copy of all the After the End stories.Have a main character in a book named after you.Signed Moonlight Retribution.If you’re already signed up for my newsletter, you’re in (but you can still play anyway). How well do you know K. Walker books?…or maybe you’re a really good guesser. Play Now!!I’ll also be hosting a Moonlight Retribution/Let’s catch up chat. Details to come.Hands down, my favorite suggestion that I KNEW I had to include was naming a character after one of you. It will be my blankety-blanking HONOR.
