Yep. Housekeeping time for the blog.
It’s a regular thing with the blog posts removed after a certain period of time. Pages get updated a bit, played with, but not a full spring-clean.
Now is the time.
If you don’t see me for a while, it’s because the doors are closed, the fumigators are in, the cupboards are bare, and the renovation has begun.
Any of you who have done even a small renovation will understand the mess that happens during the process.
Mud and dust, plaster and glass, tools left lying around, taps leaking, doors creaking … it goes on and on until the final stroke of the brush, the last wipe of the glass.
And that’s what I’ll be doing with this site in July – the mid-winter clean, taking everything back to the skeleton and strengthening the foundations and restructuring and shaping and polishing and planing.
I can’t remember how many years I’ve been here with this site, but the feet/fingers are itching, the need to go and do and rove is back, and the only way I can get that out of my system is to change the environment. Mixing up the house isn’t an option (blind dog), so it’s the blog that gets hit.
Things are gonna change.
But I’ll be back. Trust me.
In the meantime, I have a new story finished and due for release in October, and the follow-on story is also under construction, so if you enjoy supernatural crime stories (not police, the other side of the fence), keep an eye out for it.
Description
Meet the man Black. Desperate people with secrets to protect call in the man who deals with problems no one else can or will. He’s the shady negotiator, the Black, whose price may be more than the weight of a soul.
Against his better judgement, Black takes on the case for Liana Benit, who wants to clear her father’s name. Black expects the case to be a quick turnaround. When his man dies, Black takes on the job himself, only to find too much nothing, which must mean something. When a friend needs help with an urgent matter, Black Black hires Ms Benit for her professional and supernatural expertise, and to keep her within his purview, even though she’s dangerous — she has a supernatural gift, and if she gets inside his head and learns his deepest, blackest secrets, he’ll have to deal with her as an enemy.
When he finds what underlies this secret that’s so buried it takes four deaths, a psychic and a double-empath pact to dig it up, will it be the secret so dangerous it tempts him to give up the game?
Oh, the cover? This is the planned cover (art from Pixabay artist)

Yes love the cover, black and red works so well.
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Thanks.
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The cover is certainly in synch with the description. Dark and unsettling, and a bit alluring.
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Oh, I like that – an apt tone for the Black stories. Thank you.
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Good luck with your website update! Blackened Rose’s blurb and cover are great!
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Thank you! I need the help/luck with the site, too.
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My philosophy on blogs is, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t clean it’. That said, you have my deepest respect for the hell you are about to unleash. Be brave. 🙂
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A big hole, dump the rubbish in, cover with fresh soil … looks good from here.
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lmao – need a shovel?
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I have a mini-digger with a good-sized scoop, but thanks – could do with some muscle, though!
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Meh….sorry, back’s playing up. I’m very good at supervising though?
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That’s the dog’s job, she says.
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Rats. Does the dog need an assistant?
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Lots of them, but her word for slaves isn’t assistant
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-sigh- yes, Mogi and the cats share the same vocabulary. I’ll just stay here.
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Great cover! Congrats on the coming book and good luck with blog-housekeeping. 🙂
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Thank you. I like the book stuff, the blog clean-up – not so much, but it has to be done. Things get messy and dust-laden after a while and despite my best efforts to ignore it, there comes a time in the life of every blog house … the mid-year toss-out, dust-up, and spit-n-polish.
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I’m waiting until I run out of room. Ha ha.
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And yours is also beautiful, wistful, dreamy, with sidebars that work to capture the reader, draw them in … oh, my envy is as green as those spring leaves that curl along the edges.
I think I need to do some writing while the poetic flow is there … is that procrastination? You bet!
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Ha ha. Procrastination can be very creative!
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Have a blast. See you on the other side, all bright and shiny. 😀
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Another mountain to climb, so it may take a while, but step by step, always looking to the goal, and there you go … maybe.
Thanks.
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😀
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