I’m breaking in on the Spanking A to Z Blog Challenge to update everyone on the status of the next novel, tentatively titled The Change (I think I’ve finally nailed down a new title too).

If you remembered reading my call for beta readers post, you’ll know I’d planned to have the book drafted and out to betas by … today. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen:/

Due to real life circumstances, I haven’t been able to fly as fast on this manuscript as I’d hoped. I should know better by now than to give any sort of date for completion — something always seems to keep me from making it happen.

Or maybe I’m just an idiot. You pick:)

So, the new plan is to tentatively have this ready for the beta readers hopefully the second week of July. I had really wanted to get this thing published in July, but it’s looking less and less likely at this point. August may be more realistic for publication.
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