Finally seeing the end of the tunnel. 

We can breathe, we can breathe!

I feel like I've been stuck in the weeds since The Ghost of Forlorn Lane was released last Friday,  November 20th. As I wrote about last time, something didn't go as planned, and we discovered mistakes had been made. We talked about growth, learning lessons. I was going to treat this as a humorous bump in the road... until I had to spend 48 hours of mad editing because my "clean copy" decided to disappear. I couldn't get the new edits to load up,  my WiFi was down, and days went by with virtually no changes appearing on Amazon. And every time I clicked on my reports and saw another paperback had been sold, my anxiety went up.(Because my husband and I had been offering to replace bad copies with the ones that should have gone out in the first place.) Thank heaven that the Kindle version will right itself because I should NEVER feel bad about selling a book!

While all of this was going on, I was still diligently plugging away at polishing up The Ghost of Hidden Lake, and laying down the outline of The Ghost of Chapel Hill. Yes, I know, it's a lot. 

I realize, now that I'm (almost) sure that the RIGHT version is in place, that this hiccup only lasted for 5 days in the entire lifetime of this book. But for a minute I didn't think I was going make it without losing my mind.

I also realize that while these are growing pains and each bump is a lesson learned...sometimes it takes a few knocks before things finally click. 

And the exciting thing for me is, I think that Hidden Lake will go up quicker, and smoother than my first book. I will be so glad to hit that publish button! And I hope it's fairly soon, because I'm anxious to have Jason and Avery pair up, plus they won't quit talking in the background of everything I've been doing the last few days. They have a story to tell and they aren't waiting patiently for me to get to them. They will have their day soon enough! 

Have a safe, fun, and fulfilling Thanksgiving Day tomorrow, although with it being 2020, I'm pretty sure the Alien Invasion is scheduled for tomorrow. I'm kidding. Probably.