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Hello again. I would like to say that July and the beginning of August - historically, my best months for writing - pulled me into the last full-length novel for the In Love and Blood series, but that would be a lie. Schedules did not permit me to finish book 4 by the end of July like I initially wanted, but 10 days into August, and the end is very near. 6 chapters to go, in fact. Once book 4 is done, that will leave me with 1 book to write and then that closes out the series as a whole. I do have 28 short stories and outtakes directly taken from the series and expanded planned that, depending on length, will likely be released in volumes. Yes...volumes. How many? I don't know. Up to three, at least. I hate myself sometimes. No, that's a lie. I actually love how my brain forces me into processing and managing and healing by bringing me characters that are reflections of myself and those around me whom I love. Anyway. Why 28 short stories/outtakes? That's a very specific number, right? Okay, so here's the thing. Unintentionally, by the end of the second book, I realized I had written myself into an interesting quirk. The book starts with a prologue, because in some cases, the inciting event happens before what we see on the pages and that is a theme in this series, and then 28 chapters follow this prologue. 28 chapters, with the 28th being the epilogue. That's literally the title of every 28th chapter in all 3 books that are currently finished, and it will be the title of the 28th chapter in the current book I am finishing now. It will also be the title of the 28th chapter in book 5. That's a lot of 28s. I'm sorry, not sorry. Also, a rarity in my writing journey, I'm giving chapters titles. Part of me started to regret this by book 3, but I'm back to loving it in book 4. There are Easter eggs in chapter titles for book 1 that, someone paying attention, will pick up in books 2, 3, and so on. So, I thought while we all wait for October to come and a more official, firm date is given...I could share a little more about the In Love and Blood series, what it is and what it isn't. This isn't like anything I have written before. I have never told multiple romantic arcs within a single book. Some couples are in their forties and some are 18/19/20, and others are younger teens. I have also never given multiple generations within the same series the way I have with this one. My typical go-to would be to create further series for following generations. But not here. This is a multi-generational saga told over several books. The books are also told in rotating POVs, and yes, always in 3rd person. Don't you know me well enough by now? There are 6 total books - with the 6th being the one to come out in volumes - in the series and I'll try to break them down with varying degrees of info...hopefully without too much spoilers. Book 1 - Made in Love and Blood
Um, so anyway, that is the gist. I have added a few questions and answers below that I think might be warranted and will give further context to me/this series. Are you planning to do promo, BK? - not heavily. ARCs? - book 1 will be free (Amazon not withstanding, they have to price match because they still do not allow authors to control permanent pricing for freebies) and so, that will be your ARCs, loves. Will you be writing more in this world/vein? - I promise nothing and never say never. I love writing but it is time consuming. My oldest will be 17 in January. My youngest of my 4 boys just turned 9. I am busy, I have a life, job, and people who depend on me outside of writing. I am happier because I no longer owe myself to writing. I am proud to have spent over 10 years of my life dedicating myself to my craft and becoming the best at making words go that I can be...but I also have daily nerve pain in the tips of my fingers on my dominant hand as a reminder of how physically demanding doing this is on me. The nerve pain will never go away, in fact, it will only get worse from here. Can we follow you/keep up somehow? Here on this blog and I am duskri123 on X/Twitter. That's it, that's all. So for now, if you want a peek at the cover for book 1 and the blurb, as well as an entire chapter, see the blog post HERE. BUT...I will leave you with this very buzzy moment from book 4 that is only a little spoilerish and a bit NSFW, but it just makes me so happy. Until I have something else to say, dear readers...or October, maybe. XO, BK Earlier,” he said then, “when you were…you had my dick against your pussy after you had been sucking on it, rubbing on me like you were riding me…what did you say to me?”
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The short answer? Around. The longer answer? Eh. I am alive, and well, and often writing. I think those are the most important things to get out of the way because they probably answer a lot of worries, if there are any. Are you still working on - yes, I'm three and a half books deep into a project I really, really, really want to be finished before I hand it over in any part. The time I've taken on this project has allowed me the ability to sit it down, walk away after I poured 380, 000 words into it, and come back and cut 100, 000 out of the first three so it really can be the best it can be. The time has also allowed me to get all but one of the covers done, so when it is finally ready, I'm mere clicks and an upload away from giving you hard dates and a live link for something. Did you delete all your author-related social medias? I did, yeah. I no longer have a desire to be in traditional reader/author spaces and don't particularly see the need professionally beyond marketing which i'm not trying to do. I don't really want to be a face or personality online selling books. Writing is no longer my full-time job, and for that, I am more grateful than I can explain. I forgot to live and actually have a life when telling the next family, and the next, and the next became my everyday life. I love to write, when the desire and inspiration strikes me and very little else interests me except the act of writing; I want to do it. I also have to want to want to do it. If there are readers who care to read what I write, I will find a way to get it to you. I do have a X-slash-Twitter account - duskri123 - that I've had since sometime in 2025 as an account to creep on because I can, but only began tweeting on it in the last couple of months as a public diary where any- and everything is fair game. I'm also not on there, trying to sell books. Be warned. I can't think of any other immediate questions, but I trust if someone has one, they will let me know. If the website looks different or you can't find something, that's because there is nothing to find except the WORLDS page which will eventually be updated to something penname/catalog friendly. There's also a BOOKS page under construction because it's hard to cleanly compile a digital library as big as mine sometimes. I want to work on a website even less than I want to be on social media, but I'll eventually get around to it. I've done this much so far. There's also this blog. Which I may or may not use frequently, to update or link drop, and yeah. That's about it. Some of my Commission World books are changing covers because of various reasons - expiring contracts for some, bad memories for others - so if you see a different looking BK book out in the internet or RL wild, that may be why. A limited number of the original covers exist, with the majority being stocked in my closet for reference. Anyway, I have a goal for October and depending on how my progress looks you'll have something definitive on what's coming next. For now I'll leave you with the paperback wrap of book 1, done by Lee Ching at Undercover Designs, a blurb, and chapter 3 - the prodigal problem... Until next time! XO, BK  |
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