Masquerade Bride will be out April 24!
I decided to put this up on pre-order, so if you want to, you can get this now. I’m so busy that I forget when an author’s new book is out. I need reminders, or I need a pre-order link. Just in case any of you are the same way, I thought I’d keep up with the pre-orders. And if you would rather wait until it’s out, I’ll post the links next month when I do this newsletter.
Essentially, this book is about a young lady who gets the chance to live an alternate life in her quest to find a love match. It’s cute and lighthearted, and it would have a G rating if we rated books. The most that happens in this book is a kiss. I don’t typically write G-rated romances, but I’m now coming to realize there are some plot ideas that work best under this rating.
The Preacher’s Wife is almost done
I am hoping to wrap this one up this month. *fingers crossed* That means I’ll be finishing the first draft. I’ll take a couple of weeks off of this before I make a second draft. After that, I’ll be reaching out to people who help me polish up this book. I like to give people a month to go over the story. That gives us all time to make sure the book is as good as it can get.
I’ll have to update The Wilderness Bride so that it’s back to being Book 1 in the Oregon Series. Give me a month or two on that task. I have other obligations on the table with my family, specifically my special needs’ son. I didn’t realize it was a lot easier when he was in school. Now that he’s an adult and unable to maintain a job, it’s been rough going. That has made it hard to get writing and writing-related tasks done.
I think I’m halfway into The Science of Love
This is Book 2 in the Marriage by Chemistry Series. (Book 1 is The Earl’s Bluestocking Bride.)
I’ve had to do some research on biology since the main characters are looking under microscopes for the cellular structure of cells and such. I learned some of this stuff back in high school. While that part is fine, every time I think about looking under a microscope, I remember that page in my high school textbook that had a picture of a tapeworm in it. Close up, it reminds me of an alien, and thinking of something like that living in a person’s intestine is the thing of nightmares. (And reading “The Parasite Man” in Symphony for Walpurgis: A Collection by Rami Ungar certainly did not help.) I am telling you, that image of the tapeworm still freaks me out to this day. If you’ve never seen the image, consider yourself lucky. Thankfully, very little of this book has to do with cells and microscopes, and I will not insert anything about a tapeworm in it.
Instead, you’ll mostly get a heartwarming romance. Currently, the heroine has slipped the love potion into our hero’s drink, and it’s worked. He is now in love with her. While she is basking in the excitement of it all, she’s also wondering if his love is real and lasting. Hence the plot.
That’s all I have for now. I hope everyone has a great April!
Ruth Ann Nordin's Monthly Newsletter 
Hi Ruth, I’m a new subscriber and I love author newsletters. I collected loads, before gradually unsubscribing and now only now get the ones who I know of and have enjoyed their books.
One major thing about yours, is that I love the covers and these are no exception.
it seems that your have more than one project on the go at once, is that our it is?
See you next month!
Hi, Karen! Glad to see you over here!
Thank you about the covers. I appreciate that a lot because I struggled to learn how to make them. I should say that The Science of Love was a pre-made on the Period Images website. All I did on that was the text. 🙂
I have tried to work on only one book at a time, but I’ll reach a point around the 500-700 word mark in a day and run out of ideas on where to go next in the story. I have tried plotting, but so far, I’ve been unsuccessful keeping to more than one chapter on track. So I wing it. I have found it easiest to write three books at a time. I’ve tried two and four, but those didn’t fit. Some authors can write 2000+ words in one story a day. Some even do 5,000. I don’t know how they do it.
Do you write one book at a time?