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The stories behind the stories.
IT’S RAINING MEN
Coming at you February 11, 2025.
This is the first book in the Greatest Hits of Greater Wick series, which will all be spoofing off of songs. I got inspired for this one when hearing “It’s Raining Men” in the car one day. It’s undeniably a fun song, and I got to imagining men literally falling from the sky and instead of picturing regular men, what if they were all romance hero tropes: pirates, military men, criminals, rockstars, cowboys, etc. And liking magic like I do, I thought what if they were all conjured from a witches’ spell. And what if there was a regular woman who got caught up in the whole thing.
I started this book after I finished The Color of Trauma. I was like, hey, this idea has serious commercial potential. I mean just hearing that romance heroes literally fall from the sky, don’t you want to read it? So, that was the next book I sent through my critique group.
Then I gained some marketing sense and realized I needed to work the Psychic Colors series first. So I shelved this one and continued the series. But mid-2024, I felt stuck with The Color of Rage and shifted gears, unearthing this chucklefest of a novel. It was both better and worse than I remembered.
I made some radical changes (and mundane ones too) and put it through professionals edits and came out with a book I’m pretty happy with overall. The cast of characters is still just so delightful. I love the guys so much.
THE COLOR OF TRAUMA
I started this book as a camp NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in 2017. It wasn’t my only project, and I didn’t work on it constantly, but it’s still been a long journey. It won the 2019 Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Manuscript Project, a contest judged by librarians. After that, I revised it. Twice. Then the revised version won the 2020 Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project (a contest for self-published works) also judged by librarians. By the time I won, I was already revising again, this time with a professional editor.
I finally indie published this book August 30, 2021.
THE COLOR OF BETRAYAL
For my second book, I wanted to start moving the series into more paranormal territories. The series is linked by Chicago and psychic supernatural stuff, but the protagonists and circumstances will be different for each book. Betrayal is about spies and how far someone might go for atonement.
Kiera and Dean from The Color of Trauma have secondary roles in this one, and they were very fun to revisit. Kiera is one of my favorite people in the world, even if she is fictional.
Published October 31, 2022
THE COLOR OF SHAME
Third book in the series, completing a trilogy! This is linked to The Color of Betrayal through Sara. Sara has escaped The Agency. Or has she? Because when Beckett Convery discovers that she’s immune to memory magic, he wants to study her gift to learn the trick, and he’s got the connections to make it happen.
I had some fun bringing Kiera, Jolene, and Cass into this story.
Published November 14, 2023
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THE COLOR OF RAGE- 2024
