If Love is a Loaded Gun is live!

I started writing the Haven series early this year. Since then, I've learned so much about the publishing process (and know there's still lots to learn).

I'm a longtime writer... I've just never dreamed of publishing until this year. Not really publishing, anyway. I never thought of logistics or how it might go, but rather, stuck to the stories I created and the characters I found in them.

Juggling the administrative tasks that go along with writing itself is a new experience for me, and it makes me nervous as hell... but ever since I put up the preorder for If Love is a Loaded Gun, I wake up and go to bed feeling a kind of excitement I've never really felt before. That sounds corny, I know, but it's true.Seeing the cover for this book, figuring out how to use Instagram (I know that makes me sound old), setting up a Goodreads Author account, etc.

I definitely have a newfound appreciation for authors who manage to figure all this stuff out, and make it look so easy.

Anyway... I'm currently in the midst of writing the third Haven book, and taking my time to edit the second one. In all my years of writing, I never planned on writing a five book series. This one is proving to be a challenge that I both love and dread.

Really, I should be writing that right now, instead of drafting a blog post. I've never had a blog online before, and I'm not much of a person who journals (though I've tried it out and failed spectacularly).

The current editing status of If Want is an Open Wound is going well. Galen and Eleanor have taken me to places I never imagined they would. (My writing process involves writing down any large or small note that pops into my head, but I always have the big picture planned out beforehand.) Seeing how their little moments and details sum up is making them grow on me in a way they honestly didn't before.

Not that I didn't already love them. Of course I do. I'm just saying, they're not what I expected. They're better. And I hope anyone who read their story one day loves them as much as I do. Drafting the third book and having Serita, Finn, Eleanor, and Galen crop up has me excited to tell all these stories over the course of the next year.

Lots of love, Grace.