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Blessed Beltane, to those who celebrate. And happy spring to everyone else. We’ve made it through another winter and are now heading into the “May flowers” portion of the poem. Some found it a particularly brutal winter, yet it seems to me that refrain is sung yearly, no matter how the winter turns out to be. I didn’t find it particularly bad. I’ve certainly experienced worse. And we have been conditioned by climate change to now expect 60-degree weather in February, where at one time that was abnormal. But then I don’t like summer, so a little snow and cold doesn’t send me into the tailspin that it does others. 

Don’t get me started on the weather.

Let’s discuss writing, which I haven’t done nearly as much as I would like. In one of my early bios floating out there on the interwebs I described myself as “a giggling idiot for the ages with far too many interests for her limited free time to handle.” And things haven’t changed a whole lot over the years. Which is fine. Keeps the blood flowing. 

I’m still trying to wrangle the book on the man who was falsely accused of being a loan shark for the Chicago mob in the 1960s. I’ve been working with the man’s son, who has been suffering some health concerns, so it’s been slow going. I hope to get it out there soon, because it’s a compelling story. 

I’ve been battling with Amazon in an attempt to get my vampire novels taken down so I can…well put them back up, but under my name. The publisher who published them a decade ago has gone the way of the wind and left me hanging in it. There are two published, but I have many more stories to tell, including two more books in the series, and a finished spin-off featuring two ghost hunters who debut in Ujaali. Remember, I was the one who didn’t have a vampire story to tell, who now can’t stop telling the stories. And I want the stories to be told.

I’m hoping that will be cleared up shortly, so it won’t be too long before you’ll be reading the further adventures of Narain, Ujaali, and a host of others.

That leaves me with the big project I’m working on that I won’t tell you about yet. But it’s going to take a lot of time and energy, and as I state, that part in my bio about having too many interests for my limited free time to handle…well, it comes into play here. But hopefully won’t be too much of an issue. As soon as I know, you’ll know.

That catches you up. April, my birth month, when the rains come. May is when the flowers bloom. Hopefully, my plans will come to fruition soon.