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Revision Phase

 I have been struggling for the past month-and-a-half on book revisions. My new novel had to be put on hold for a bit while I struggle to catch up on these revisions. I'm completely rewriting my first book series under my old penname since that series continues to sell. I'm appalled at how poorly written it was back in 2012, and shocked that readers are still finding it and reading it. So, I'm completely rewriting the entire series of "Diary of a Teenage Mom" because my writing skills have seriously improved over the years, and I cringe at the early books. I'm still working on book 1. I'm also stuck in a revision of another nonfiction book that is a troublesome inconvenience but again, that has continually sold over the past 19 years when I'd not even been aware it was still in circulation. I've made sure it was unpublished in November when I realized where those random royalty payments were coming from. I know that seems counterproductive, to cut ...
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New Novel - Saturday January 24, 2026

 Dear Diary, This month has been a bit of chaos, and looking back on it, I can't even pinpoint how I managed to get basically nothing done on my new novel that I'd planned to have finished by the end of this month. I suppose one issue could be that I had four novels I'd wanted to write and couldn't decide on which one to begin first, so I kind of began them all, and basically wrote five chapters, but they were all first chapters for five different books. Yes, I know I'd said there were four I'd wanted to write. But once I get started, the ideas keep coming, and now I have a mile-long 'to write' list. It seems every time I tell someone the title or show them a cover concept of what I'm working on, I feel like it is completed somehow and then I cannot seem to find the willpower to actually work on it. Or maybe I've just been lazy. There is that. And I guess I have been. I really appreciate all the readers that have stuck with my work over the years...
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