Imagine

Good morning, my Lovelies!

You know I'm going to ask how y'all are doing, but I know, if you're like me, exactly how complicated that answer is. But, I wouldn't be me if I didn't check with you before I started talking about me! So, how ya doing? Hanging in there?

Me? I'll be honest. I'm not that great right now.

I've repeatedly tried to keep my socials from being political, from expressing my opinions about things. It appears that is no longer an option. 

I cannot and will not support the current administration in the US. I never have supported these fucked up ideas and never will. What is happening is NOT okay!

Have y'all ever heard the saying "Freedom isn't free?" Well, it isn't. We've seen this time and again throughout history.

Let me tell you, this is NOT what my friends and family fought and died for. The price they paid is far too high for this administration to come in and shit on them, to shit on all of us. They're killing people in cold blood for doing nothing more than observing and documenting what's happening. They're killing people just because they're there.

And they're killing the American spirit because they know the best way to get what they want is to break us over and over again until we're too weak to fight back.

All of this is going on and we're supposed to just go about our daily lives as if it's no big deal. We're supposed to accept all of this and just carry on as if it's normal!

Going to the grocery is a struggle. Going to work is a struggle. Trying to do ANYTHING right now is a struggle!

Y'all... I have this book coming out in March and I need to be promoting it. I need to be promoting and marketing all my other books. I need to be writing. I need to be doing so many things, and I can't find it within myself to do a damn thing. It's so disheartening.

I'm afraid, truly afraid that my launch for Blood Moon Bayou is going to be a dismal disaster. Of course, I write a law enforcement book and have it scheduled to launch in the middle of all of this!

My friends have tried to comfort me with the knowledge that this book has a badass female FBI agent who closes cold cases. That she's one of the good ones because she helps to find murderers, hunting them down one by one. So, while yes, it's law enforcement, it's definitely got some good vibes.

However, even though my book is law enforcement, I will not be marketing it that way. I can't. It's hard enough to get people to read my books. If I specifically say this book has police in it, it is doomed to fail before it ever gets a chance!

My depression has been at an all-time high over the past few months - for a multitude of reasons. And knowing that my book baby stands a high chance of falling through the cracks is NOT helping matters.

Let me close out this blog with this...

I adore all my followers. I love to interact with you. But if you think what is happening in the USA is okay?

Please see yourself out. If you come on my socials spouting some right-wing bullshit, you will be blocked.

Now... Because I need people to get excited about Blood Moon Bayou, I'm putting the blurb here for you. I'm so excited for this book, to share this story with you, and I just hope that you guys are excited for it, too. (I should have the book cover to share in the next couple of weeks!) So, if my spicy murder mystery with a hint of supernatural set in the fantastially historical and musically exciting city of New Orleans sounds good to you, keep reading!

Blood Moon Bayou

Some loves never die. Some murders refuse to stay buried.

Swamp tour guide Beau Landry has lived his whole life in the shadow of his mother’s unsolved murder—and the guilt of being the one who found her. He’s sunshine on the surface, haunted underneath… until an FBI agent enters his world with dangerous questions and eyes that see too much.

Adeline Tate doesn’t miss patterns. A cold-case closer with a reputation for ending killers’ games, she knows Beau’s mother wasn’t the serial killer’s first victim—or his last. The clock is ticking, the body count is rising, and getting close to Beau may be the key to stopping him.

Their attraction is instant. Consuming. Familiar in ways that defy logic—and death.

As evil circles closer and the past bleeds into the present, Beau and Addy must decide what they’re willing to risk: their hearts, their lives… or a love that’s survived lifetimes.

Alright, my Lovelies! That is all for now! Would you do a favor for me? Would you pull up Imagine by John Lennon and truly listen to what he wrote, to what he sings about? Would you do that for me?

Just imagine...

Until next time and always...

Have courage. Be kind. Be happy!

Much peace, love, empathy, and human kindness from me to you,

Shelly (a/k/a Dawn Love)

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