What a lucky day! If you believe in that stuff. Here on top of this moun­tain I’m just hap­py that we got some much need­ed rain. The wild­fire that’s mak­ing us all smell like we’re camp­ing is 55% con­tained, and the rain has GOT to help. Keep it com­ing, clouds!

Favorite Song of the Week ~ From The Piano Guys. Though it’s one guy with a piano, and one guy with a cel­lo, and the video I’m shar­ing has just the cel­lo guy, but work with me here. You’ll like this.

Work in Progress News ~ Plug­ging away on Dean. I keep flip flop­ping on the begin­ning. There’s a thou­sand word scene that I just can’t decide whether it should go or stay. I just need to move on and fig­ure it out in the end. What I real­ly need is focus.

Book News ~ I got the Wyoming Solace print gal­leys in my email! That’s good news, because it’s my first pub­lish­er print­ed paper­back. Bad news because I had to read that book about eight times dur­ing edits, and now I have to read it again. Sigh.

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ No idea what this means: “gwendy.at pic” Anyone??

What I’m read­ing ~ On July Fourth, All Romance Ebooks was hav­ing a 50% rebate sale. I might have acci­den­tal­ly went a bit over­board on my pur­chas­es, but there’s nev­er any regret when a yum­my ebook is involved. I picked up A Few Good Men because I love every­thing Cat John­son writes. This one is about a romance author and mil­i­tary man pen palling. Turns out this is book #7 in a series, which means I’ve got a lot to catch up on!

Hero Quote ~ From Jake, the hero in Retreat, my con­tem­po­rary west­ern reunion romance:

“It’s crazy to pre­tend we don’t remem­ber, or for you to even pre­tend that you haven’t seen me naked.”

Speak­ing of Retreat, and like Wyoming Solace, the real life area the two books were set, the foothills of the Snowy Range Moun­tains has been ablaze for about a week. Right now the fire is 55% con­tained, and the recent rain should be help­ing. Keep up those rain dances, folks!