This year has been a big year for me. When 2023 rings out on December 31, I will have released five books, including my Trillium Island series. Nobody’s Business came out September 27. Unfinished Business releases October 15 and Strictly Business drops on November 15.

The books feature three estranged siblings, who reconnect after a life-altering event and work together to restore a neglected island resort. Along the way, they each find. I write closed-door romance. I find you can get a lot of sensuality on the page without going into what another sweet romance author once called “docking procedures.” LOL

It Happened In Cannes, a novella that came out in March, is loosely related to this trilogy.

It introduces, Audra, the main character in Nobody’s Business. The books stand alone, but, of course, I’m hoping readers will be so enamored with the Conlans that they will want to read them all.

I may be new to a lot of readers, but I’m not new to publishing.

Between 2000 and 2015, I wrote 36 books and novellas that were published by Harlequin and Entangled. This time around, I decided to go indie. In 2015, the last time I had a new release, I was diagnosed with blood cancer. I was in the middle of writing a book for Entangled at the time, and my life was turned upside down. I was 50 years old, happily married to a wonderful man and the mom to two boys, ages 10 and 15. Everything was going well. And then…cancer.

My creativity was one of the many casualties of my diagnosis.

All my energy was focused on treatments and survival. So, I scrapped that book—my editor and publisher were super understanding and supportive—and shifted into warrior mode.

In the intervening years I had a bone marrow transplant, relapsed twice.

Had a second bone marrow transplant, spent more than eight months of 2019 in the hospital due to complications, and at the tail end of my hospitalization, my husband also relapsed with cancer. I’m happy to report we are both doing well, and we couldn’t be prouder of our boys, who are now 18 and 23.

But, as you can imagine, it has been a very long road back to publishing for me, and the publishing world I left is nothing like the one I’ve re-entered, So, I decided to take some baby steps. I have the English language digital and print rights back to the majority of my books. My releases this year were all previously published by Harlequin, some well over a decade ago.

I spent months updating and, in some cases, rewriting portions of them.

I’m very proud of the result. I also worked with a wonderful cover designer and copy editor before I loaded the books myself onto the Kindle Direct Publishing platform. (Talk about a learning curve! I used to just hit send and let my editor worry about the rest.)

I still hope to write new stories, but as a way of getting back into the game, self-publishing books from my backlist has been the perfect first step for me.

I am so happy to see the stories I created and loved before the disruption of cancer receive new life…kind of like I have.

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