A little R&R&R & a whole lot of happy

I almost always have a lot of deadlines, and honestly, that makes me super happy. I wrote for a long time & experienced a lot of rejection before I published my first book. But now people write to ask me about the next book in this or that series and those emails make my day! I’m loving working on so many books, but because my job is fun & I love it so much, I often forget to schedule some time off. After juggling a few manuscripts at a time & working through my weekends for the past three months, something I was trying hard not to do anymore, I was experiencing major burn out. The past week I’ve done very little work and a whole lot of rest, relaxation, and the best thing ever-reading for fun!

Taking this time has made such a difference. I’ve read three awesome books & started a fourth last night, which I plan to read through the weekend. It’s been a great reminder of how much I love reading, something that also had been sidelined the past few months. It’s also been sunny & warm outside & taking a book outside to read in the sunshine is one of my very favorite things 🙂

So I just wanted to take a little time to blog about taking some time for yourself, finding a little more happy, and scheduling some for fun reads. And the nice thing about it is, ideas are starting in the back of my mind, that tingly excitement of a shiny new idea & I’m just about ready to write one of them. After a weekend with my family, which will include pizza & Captain America. I suppose that other superhero is in there, too (and my son is on Team Iron Man, which is starting a heated debate) but I only have eyes for Chris Evans. Or the captain. However you want to put it.

Hope you all have a happy weekend!