Hey…hi…I know. It’s been a while. I just realized it’s been about six months since I have posted anything or provided an update. I get it. I have had immense traffic on my site and my Facebook page. I am assuming my wonderful readers are wondering where I’ve been and more importantly, where is A Flare of Fire, the third book in The Warwick Witches series.

I am happy to tell you that the A Flare of Fire is about halfway done. I am slowly beginning to work on it more consistently. I have had my chapter outlines done for over a year and I know exactly what I want to write to create this book but life has gotten in the way.

My daughter, my baby, is going to university in England. Yup. She is leaving me. Leaving all of us. I think I’ve been in a bit of a depression about it ever since she was accepted back in December and I was kind of trying not to think about it but everything seems to be coming at me like an avalanche since last month when she graduated high school. It’s all become a bit too real. All the paperwork and planning which goes into this extraordinary journey for her has been piling on and we are almost nearing the end of it. I now have to focus on the practical side of it than the emotional side and this has pulled me out of the doldrums.

On the plus side, I planned my breakdown which should occur from mid-September to mid- December…so I got that going for me.

Snapping out this funk has put me, finally, in a much better head space to get back to writing. I am starting to remember the comfort I find when it’s just me and my laptop. Getting lost in my story makes everything around me and inside of me quiet down.

Freya, my new puppy, is still a menace to my society, but she is letting her mom work a bit more. She let’s me know when she’s had enough though. She loves to whine at me and then pounce on my keyboard. I can attest that miniature Australian Shepherds need constant attention and it is hard to be mad at her when her blue eyes look back at mine with such a genuine look of adoration that honestly, I can’t help but melt…okay, maybe I don’t always melt. Maybe I threaten to send her back to the farm she came from, but I would never do that. I have come to love this damn dog even though she drives me nuts.

My daughter thinks Freya and I have a toxic relationship.

Basically. I am writing this post to say bear with me. I’m getting there. I cannot give a date for a release but I can say that A Flare of Fire will be out when it is ready and when I am ready.

~Shannon