Said city officials held a grudge and messed with Kent whenever they could. I included some of their shenanigans in my rockstar romance, Tempting Beat. ...And I may have killed one or two of them.
All in all, I really hope Kent's family and I honored him the best we could. And I will put in my will a request to scatter my ashes on the hillside with him.
The grieving process is the hardest thing I've dealt with. I try to stay busy so that I don't disassociate or have flashbacks of the tree crashing through our house and coming down on top of us.
And then I received some terrible news that I'd suspected and dreaded:
My wonderful dream home will be going up for sale as soon as it's rebuilt, and right now, I'm not in the position to buy it.
In edition to that heartbreaking news, the temporary housing that the insurance is paying for is waaaaay out of our price range. So we have less than a month to find somewhere else to live.
Right when I'm in the middle of searching for a third job. And right in the beginning of tourist season, when prices are sky high. And, of course, right when I am still struggling with my mental health in light of the awfulness that happened.
I want to again thank those of you who donated to the GoFundMe That has helped us survive these past 5 months.
But part of me is still praying for a miracle that I can get my home back. Maybe one of my books will go viral on Booktok like Colleen Hoover. I dunno.
Anyway, enough of the sad stuff.
Now onto the good news!
My agent has read my epic coming of age horror, The Graveyard Girls, and her notes and phone call weren't as dire as I'd feared, in that I'm not going to have to do extensive rewrites. Just some very practical trimming and tweaks that will indeed make this stronger and reinforce my whole purpose for The Graveyard Girls.
And once I finish that, she'll do the deep-edits and then starts shopping it. I had two dreams of getting a seven-figure deal on this book. So maybe that will come true!
Either way, I am glad we got a step further in finding a home for what I feel is the most important thing I've ever written.
In the meantime, I'm doing everything I can to boost my horror pen name.
I just turned in my short story for the upcoming Highway of Haunts anthology from Parlor Ghost Press (Coming in October!)
And I was interviewed by the Delight in Fright podcast! Check it out HERE! |