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It is the summer of our discontent. Quarantined nerves are fraying. We’re faced with conflicting information from the very people we need to trust. We’re all working our tails off and puzzles are losing their charm. And insult to injury, it’s starting to get humid. I don’t know about you, but it’s time for an escape.
But how do you escape when you can’t leave home?
Books, of course.
If there was ever a time to set up a private corner of your house, build a small fort, and take a book and flashlight under the blankets, now is it.
Books are the very best escape. It doesn’t matter what you’re into, from the Omegaverse to weighty tomes of war, from light and happy beach reads to wicked mysteries, memoirs or scifi or historicals or romance or YA or horror, books are our way out. There’s a lot of books below for you to think about, books I’m reading, have read, or want to read. I hope one or two pique your interest.
I’ve been reading a biography of Churchill, and the strange parallels to our situation can’t be ignored. We know the face of the enemy, but have no idea how it is camouflaged, nor when it could come for us. But it exists, out there somewhere, lurking.
I know so many of you have been more than inconvenienced by COVID, have been much more personally affected, and my thoughts are with you. All of us stand with you.
We will get through this, friends. Happier days are ahead.
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I’ve been hard at work for the past several months on a new novel, HER DARK LIES, which will be out February 16, 2021. I’m happy to share that since we spoke last, I turned the book into my editor, which means I am now looking forward, testing the waters of What’s Next? I have a secret project that’s nearly finished – more on that soon, I promise – and a short story to write for a cool anthology. I have a solid idea for the next standalone, which I’ll probably start writing in July. We’ve nearly wrapped Season 5 of A Word on Words, and that means I can finally take a breath for a few weeks. I haven’t had a break in months, so I’m going to take a social media sabbatical and try to plow through a stack of books. I’m so, so behind in my reading this year. An emotional staycation is in order.
While I’m away, I’m going to work on my focus, which has been terrible fractured, like everyone else’s, I’m sure. In the meantime, here are the things getting me through.
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