Time for New Growth

March was a month filled with cancer. A close friend died of cancer, a friend from high school's husband died from cancer, and I had brain surgery to remove a lesion that might be cancer. Ever since my dad died at the age of 52 of a heart attack, I've always worried that I would have the same fate. It never occurred to me that I might get cancer. Now that the risk looms large, I see that cancer runs in my family pretty prevalently. My father's mother died of stomach cancer at 64 years old. My sister had cervical cancer, but I plane crash killed her. My brother is recovering from lymphoma, and now I may be taking on cancer myself. 

As a result, I've decided to make some major changes in my life and focus on how I want to live for however much longer I have. Getting cancer is not usually an immediate death sentence, and I certainly pray that is not the case for me because I feel like I have a lot more left to give. But, ultimately, God decides how long we are allowed to stay in our human form before we return to pure energy. 

 Life is constantly changing, and sometimes you get a chance for new growth. For me, this means taking a new road. I can't go into this fully at this time, but my focus will become more on my writing and traveling with my beautiful partner, Rosa. 

In the past, my kids, grandkids, and other people have dictated how life was going to go, but it's time I fully take the reins of my life and follow the path of my heart. 

I'm still writing episodes for Suddenly Continued on Kindle Vella. That story's name will be changed to College Hill while the series covers Jamie and P. J.'s college years. I'm not sure what the title will be when the story moves on to Jamie and P. J.'s life after college, but we have a little while before I need to worry about that because I'm still in just the first semester of college for them. I've also decided that at the end of each semester, I'm going to put the story in full book form and release it on Kindle Unlimited for my fans who do not have access to the Kindle Vella. 

Something else that is going to change with Suddenly is the cover. This August will be the 10th anniversary since I originally published Suddenly with Itoh Press, which is now out of business. The cover with the two girls in bathing suits on a boat does not reflect any part of the story, so I'm working with my cover designer for a new cover that will be released in August when I re-release the newly edited version. 

The other thing I'm working on is a possible sequel to Learning to Love Again. I've had several people ask for it, so I'm seriously thinking about how to do that. That story might also start on Kindle Vella. 

A couple of other things that have changed is that I've decided not to try to maintain a newsletter. I don't have enough people interested in reading it, and I think it will be easier for me to post on this blog so anyone interested in what I'm doing can stop by and check it out. 

I just finished reworking my website. It's very basic, with links to my books on Amazon and a link to this blog. This is where I will post information about giveaways and how to register for them. I'm not doing a giveaway this month, but I am going to do one next month to celebrate Mother's Day. I only have two books in which the main characters are mothers from beginning to end, and those are Standing Her Ground and Learning to Love Again. These two books will be featured in the giveaway. I will upload a post on this blog with information about the giveaway and how to win. 

I'm going to wrap this up now with wishes for good health and joy for you all.