Kiss Carson - Fantasy Romance Author

A Week to Go! A week to go before the biggest retail shopping time of the year is over. Don't get me wrong, I love this time of the year - I can eat what I want and blame it on Christmas. I love the pretty Christmas lights and decorations. I also know there is a "reason for the season" but as my family have never been religious, I don't attend mass or church functions. I also don't get a white Christmas - nor have I ever! I live in Queensland, Australia, and yesterday it reached 41.2 degrees Celsius. I have to admit that it was above average for my area. It usually only gets to about 32 degrees Celsius - but BOY is it humid! One day last week it was 96% humidity - and it was awful. We're all hoping for a wet January to counteract the hot, dry December. At one point there were 115 bush fires burning in South East Queensland alone. My husband and I like to work in the garden - well...my husband likes to work in the garden, just sit and watch and blog. Th...

It's That Time of Year Christmas time is a busy time for us all - Christmas shopping, extra shifts at work, entertaining friends and family, eating...Writing? Most of the time writing takes a back seat to all things life . Husband. Kids. Work. Study. Not particularly in that order, and the Holiday Season is no exception. However, I have to keep plowing through and pat myself on the back when I reach a writing milestone. At the moment my manuscript is at 45000 words and it seems to be perpetually stuck there, no matter how much more I write. So, my goal this week is to make it to 55000 words. At that word count the book should be finished and ready for advance reader review. Well, maybe not completely finished - there's always the rewrite! I haven't started my Christmas shopping. I need to buy small items to send to Sydney for 'the mothers'. I have three grandchildren to buy for, not to mention my own three children and husband...Gift cards always com...

Kiss Carson Blog - 2.0 Well...Here I am, ready to start again. I have deleted all my previous posts - well, it had been two years since I last blogged. The struggle to stay centered, and focused, on my writing is ever present. My mind wanders. My finances demand the influx of a paid job (the same job I've had for 15 years). My state of being fluctuates constantly. I close my office door and walk by day after day pretending it doesn't exist. There is no computer in there. There are no manuscripts that need completing. I don't look at my Facebook. I don't check my emails. I am not really a writer. BUT! I am a writer. And I have fans out there in cyberspace. SUPER FANS - according to my writer friends, and these super fans are waiting for a new book from me. I receive emails from these lovely people asking when, and I give them a date. I give myself a well needed ego boost and i sit down, writing, writing, writing. Then life kicks in again. I close my office do...