This *is* the March (and April) newsletter you're looking for.

February and March were super busy months for me. A new job, a last minute trip to see besties, a writing retreat, and a trip to LA meant I had to ruthlessly prioritize when it came to my computer time. And March’s newsletter was a casualty of that prioritization (so is this one, a little bit, too). Read on to find out more, but let’s check in with what I’ve been reading first.

Reading

Long car drives and flights made for lots of audiobook listening in February and March, in particular. Bolded lines are five-star, go put this on your TBR now reads.

• Dear Reader by Mary O'Connell

• Late Bloomer Mazey Eddings

• Keep This Off the Record by Arden Joy

• Mr. Nice Spy by Tiana Smith

• Not You Again by Ingrid Pierce

• This Ends in Embers by Kamilah Cole

• How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

• First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison

• Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

• Hardly Strangers by A.C. Robinson

• When in Rome by Sarah Adams

• The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

• Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

• The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest

• On Screen & Off Again by Caitlin Cross

Writing

The main reason I skipped sending out a March newsletter is because I’ve been spending as much writing time as I can focused on revising my current WIP, The Racing Line. It really feels like the strange time portal of projects. I’m putting pressure on myself to work work work on it as fast fast fast as I can to get it out there before the wave of Formula 1 sports romances has come and gone. But then, when I pull back from the project a little, I remind myself that this is actually moving pretty quickly (for me, in comparison to my first novel).

Thanks to the Instagram story highlight I’ve been adding to throughout the project, I reminded myself that I only really started putting pen to paper on this in mid-September 2024. I hit my first wordcount goal of 40K 5 months later in early February and closed out the first draft with 62K words at the end of that month. In the month and a week since, I’ve revised over 90% of the book and added 20K words in the process. I feel really confident that I’ll have those revisions done and the whole book in the hands of some beta readers in the next week or two.

In less than the time it takes to bake a human, I’ve created characters, a world, a story, and gone back and done revisions to it. That’s actually not too damn bad at all.

… and Randomness

Skipping the randomness this month to get back to those revisions! I’ll see you next month with, hopefully, a more substantial update and a fully completed book!