I've had a bit of a revamp around here. I got bored with the white and decided to go with something more in keeping with the darker aspects of my work that I've been leaning toward lately. Sort of combining my "old" self (Charley Oweson) with the newer, m/m self (Sarah Masters). I love writing dark books, but it remains to be seen if the darker work will be taken as well as my other m/m. We'll see.

The last two books of the Blinded series—Wildfire and Shimmer—are at the formatters, so they should be available soon. Scared is with two beta readers, so that novel will be sent to the publishers shortly. A single title, Grafton's Point, in the Dreams & Desires anthology, the proceeds going to a battered women's shelter, will also be available soon. As for WIPs…at the moment I have four books on the go. One for EC, one for who knows where, one co-authoring with Jaime Samms, and an m/m. You'd think with 4 to choose from I'd have the urge to write at least one of them, but I don't. So, I might well start a new short today just so I keep up with my chapter a day regime that I've been sticking to for the past two weeks now. It's working well, although some days the procrastination fairy does sit on my shoulder and prod me to do other things. Like she did this morning by making me re-do this site. Bless her…

I'm on a bit of a downer today, but ho hum, such is life, and I'm sure I'll knock myself out of it in an hour or two. Sometimes life throws a curveball and makes me wonder what the fuck the point is with certain things, and I ask myself whether I need to take a new direction. Still, I'll plod along as usual, see if anything changes—God, I'm always saying that!—and then if it doesn't, I'll think about making some changes of my own. Sometimes it's like I'm beating a dead horse, know what I mean? I reckon it can apply to anything in life: When do you decide enough is enough? When do you say, "Right, that's it! Fuck this for a game of soldiers!"

Yeah, it's to do with writing, my career, whether all this hard work is worth the virtual paper it's written on. But…that's a story for another day. I think I'm just tired, may possibly need a break after hammering out Scared. Unfortunately, I never know when to quit until I burn out. So maybe I just need to either start a new book or go and do something else for a week or two. Avoid manuscripts like the plague. Um, yeah. That's likely…

Whatever you're doing today, I hope it's a good one, and if you need to reflect, like me, I hope you come to the best solution for you. One that makes you happy. TTFN, loves!