Updates!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to take a minute to give you all an update on what's going on with me these days. First, we just took a trip back to the US to visit friends and family, which was a lot of fun. It's amazing how my kids, who are fluent in English and Dutch and who only speak Dutch to each other when here, immediately switched to speaking (and arguing) in English as soon as we hit American soil! This week, kids are back to school and pretty much everything is back to normal except for having to go on a pumpkin hunt today. Apparently, the country is out of pumpkins! We have sad little things to carve, but so goes life...

As far as work, Theirs To Take has just gone to audio! I have some FREE listening codes so message me or leave a comment if you'd like one in exchange for a review (stars only are fine on Audible, you don't have to write anything up). If you don't know how to listen to these, it's super easy. Just download the Audible app on your phone - and make sure the earbuds don't fall out when you're out and about... could be embarrassing, depending! If you click on the cover, you'll be redirected to Amazon.

In addition to this, I am just now wrapping up a new book which won't be released until early January. More to come on that. For now, I'll just say it's a Dark Romantic Suspense with a captive scenario. I kind of love those. :D Okay, more to come on that in the next week or so.

For now, I'm off to take my daughter to a birthday party but I hope you're all doing well and I will try to check in more often. Or at least send out little notes here and there to let you know that I'm alive...

Have a great rest of your week!

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What's Up With Natasha? Where The Heck Has She Been?

I feel as though I have been silent forever. We just wrapped up summer break a few weeks ago and my kids have started school. My older daughter just started middle school and she has so much homework now, it's like hours and hours of it and she seems to like me to sit with her through these endless hours. And the homework is, of course, in Dutch, so for me to help means translating to make sure I understand what they're talking about... My husband did order me the answer book for math, bless him. I realize I'm not on social media much either but I just have to choose what I do with the time I have, and for me, it's writing the books. 

Okay, work stuff! I missed the one year anniversary of Given to the Savage! Not surprising considering I miss our wedding anniversary and have every year since we were married. So goes life. But, Given to the Savage is now one year (and a few weeks) old and I'm thrilled to say it's now available in paperback as well as audio and ebook! Oh, speaking of which, if anyone would like to try Audible and would like a FREE audio code for Given to the Savage, let me know. I have a few and would be happy to give them out until they run out. I only ask that you review the audio version once you're finished listening to it! Just star reviews are fine, no text required on Audible.

Can I talk about Given to the Savage for a moment? I'm going to anyway, but being polite. This book was a milestone for me. It was the first darker book I'd written and it's probably always going to be my baby. My daughter likes me to tell her the story (PG version) and with that one, her eyes fill up with tears when I get to the part where Rowan is being sent out of the colony and she always tells me 'mom, can you go to the end now real quick'. So sweet. Anyhow, she's become my plotting partner. I tell her my story ideas and if she listens wide eyed without interrupting, I start writing! But back to Savage — for months after it published, I struggled with what I wanted to write and I realized just a few months ago that it felt natural for me to tell a darker tale not for the sake of the dark, but for the ability to better explore the characters and give them space to be whoever they develop into without restraints.

Moving on. I'm a rambler by nature, in case you had not noticed. Coming up! I am planning on releasing a Dark Paranormal Romance later this month. I'd been going back and forth about writing contemporary or paranormal, but honestly, I just needed a break from contemporary and I'm glad I took it because I'm currently working on a contemporary and feel re-energized for the break. Hopefully, you all enjoy the paranormal. More to come on that soon.

That's it for me! Hope you are all doing really really well!

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