Hi ,

I'm back from a short trip to California to visit family. I enjoy going home, but I don't like flying. It's a trait I gave to Jack Valentine. Luckily, my life doesn't involve falling over dead bodies or needing my "fly-pills" to save me from a murderer as Jack did in Truly, Madly, Deadly. 😉 (Was that a spoiler alert? Oh well.)

It's mid-October so that means it's time for me to be thinking about 2024. What I'm going to publish. Events I plan to attend. Cool stuff I want to give you. 

I love planning and especially buying notebooks and planners. Admittedly, I'm not always good on the follow. Still, I've had a pretty good year. Southern Heat came out in audio books, the final Sophie book came out through Harlequin Worldwide Mysteries, and I published two nonfiction author organizer books.

What didn't get done? Oof...where do I start?

• Come to Me, book 4 in Southern Heat
• The Witch and the Professor mystery (this doesn't have a title yet)
• Book 8 in the Valentine Mysteries (I call this Dead Guy in the Boat as a working title...lol).
• Valentine Prequel
• Valentine Between the Books Bonus (between book 1 and 2)
• Donovan series (my NYC series involving billionaire brothers and mermaid lore)

That's just the ideas I thought I'd finish. I still have...

• Paranormal romance involving vampires and angels...sounds cliche but I swear I have an interesting new take on vampires. No...not glitter.
• Time travel story. I'm not sure if this is young adult or not. But my big hurdle is wrapping my head around time travel.
• I have two more Valentine ideas so far, one involving Halloween and a small dog. 
• Another possible Southern Heat story with the brother in book 4 and Jagger's lawyer from book 3.

I'm like Veruca Salt, but instead of wanting all the stuff now, I want to be able to write it all now. 

Do you plan for the following year? Do you start in October too?