Zetta Hunt

If you have read my last post , you know I contracted Lyme Disease, which has made me eternally tired. If you read the post before that, you know that I’d started a new story. Except, being sick caused progress to stop on the story. Which was a bummer. The story takes place at the beach. I love going to the beach. I enjoy listening to the waves hit the shore, the cries of the seagulls and people laughing and having a good time while I sit in the sand watching said waves, seagulls, and people. The reason I love it so much is probably because I don’t live close to any beaches. The closest I’ve got is Lake Erie, and even that is a bit of a hike to get to. Also, if you read my post ‘Pushing Forward-More Stories in the Works’ then you know that after trying to make notes and do an outline of a story, that I finally gave up and just started writing the story with no pre-planning. I was having great fun with it. Then I became dead tired again to the point I didn’t have the energy to do much...

Once again, it’s been a minute since I posted last. At least I’ve been more active with blogging and writing stories this year than I was last year, so I guess I’ll take that little win for now. If you read my Delay in Progress post back in July, then you know I came down with an illness. I thought I was getting better when I posted that. In fact, in some ways I felt better, until I didn’t. Being summer, I’d gotten some sort of insect bite on my one leg before my illness set in. Thought little about it. I did not see what bite me but I just assumed it may have been a spider bite, which I’ve gotten before, no big deal. However, as time went on, I developed other health issues. I was tired all the time, which is nothing new for me, but this was much worse. I’d developed some joint pain, mainly in my hands and jaw. Red patches showed on my skin in various locations. I wondered if a tick had bitten me and I’d contracted Lyme Disease. Finally, I gave in and went to the local urgent care. T...

It felt good to get another story out in the world. If you haven’t already read it, “The Billionaire and the Bookseller” is live on Amazon, so be sure to check it out. Before I pushed it out into the world, I started on my next story. I’m guessing I’m about half-way through it at the time I write this. This will be one of my longest stories yet. Strange how my stories seem to get longer. Maybe one day I’ll write a full-length novel. Probably without meaning to. The last story took me too long to get written. I’d run into a few problems with writing it. A Bit of Process So the last few stories, I usually noodle around with the idea and work out some things before I write the story. Sometimes this is of great help. However, I rarely look back at those notes as I’m writing. This time, I had to look back at them a few times. Mostly because I’d work on the story for a bit, then stopped. Came back to it days or sometimes weeks later and worked on it some more. I hit a roadblock on it. I kep...

Whew! At last another story. A story I'd hoped to get out last month and would of if I hadn't gotten sick. But I'm better now and at long last I pushed my story out into the world. So here it is The Billionaire and the Bookseller is out at last! Regina I’m losing my job, my livelihood, and a career I loved more than anything. Yeah, my jerk of a boss is closing the bookstore I’ve managed for years. My best friend suggested I go out and have some fun. I take her advice and go out dancing. That’s when I met him. A man I know I should stay away from, but I’m drawn to him. I leave him behind the next morning without a backward glance. I’ve learned my lesson the hard way about relationships. Except I can’t get him out of my mind. Why do I feel worse off than I did before? Brayden Work has been stressing me out. I took my best friend’s advice to go out, relax, and have some fun. That’s when I met her. A woman so vivacious, she makes me want to disregard my one-night rule. Only she...

Hey all, I thought I would post something quick to let you know what is holding up progress since I did the cover reveal. Sadly, I came down with some sort of illness that really knocked me down. I haven't been that sick in a long time. The good news is I'm on the mend and well enough to get back to work on things. I had thought I could work on some of it while I was sick, but my muddled mind wasn't having it. I did get plenty of reading in while I was sick. I read a couple of thrillers while I was down, which normally isn't my thing, but both of them turned out to be great reads. One was 'The Girl on the Train' by Paula Hawkins. I'd picked up a copy at the last library books sale, figured since I hadn't read it, why not? I must say it was a good choice. The other one was 'Kill Game' by Dean Wesley Smith. Which was a heck of a fun read. It had plenty of twists and turns that kept me guessing, and had a light fun ending. Like I said, not my normal...

I'm getting closer and closer to releasing another story. The cover is finished so I thought I would share it with you.   I don't have the blurb written, yet. But this is a 'one night leads to more' type story. I'm hard at work at edits on this story, so with any luck I'll have it out soon. If all goes well I hope to have it out later this week or sometimes next week at the latest. I hate to say for sure, because I fear if I gave a specific date, something in my life would blow up and I wouldn't get it out in time. This is why I have yet to do any pre-orders so far. I'm working at getting more organized so hopefully this will change in the near future. In Other News Speaking of getting organized, I am really working hard at that right now. I want to get several more stories written before the end of the year and I'm putting my all into this once again. So there should be much more activity going on around here. I'm also getting together plans for...

I had hoped to get a new story out last month, but obviously that didn't happen. But I'm still working on it, so my plan is to get it out this month. The story is coming along, but needs more work. Actually, I'm trying to put a plan together to get more stories written and out in the near future. In the meantime why not check out Her Holiday Fireworks. Yes, this is me doing a shameless plug for one of my stories. Something I don't do often. But if you haven't read it already you can find it on Amazon for $.99 or free in Kindle Unlimited. So if you want a steamy read check it out.  I hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July.  WILL THEY GET FIREWORKS THIS FOURTH OF JULY OR JUST ANOTHER DUD? Lindsey I hated working holidays. I wanted to be out having a good time with everyone else, not serving up coffee on a hot July day. But when Gavin comes in and invites me to his place to watch the fireworks, I worry that instead of seeing sparks fly, I'll just end up...

  I’m happy to report I’m well underway on a new story. It took me long enough. I tried to get one out before this, but things just didn’t work out that way. I knew if I didn’t get down to work on something, before long, another year (or two) would pass with nothing published. I didn’t want that to happen again. The problem lies in my process. I often tangle myself up trying to figure out the best way to approach a story. There are times I want to do a full outline of a story, other times I just want to dive in and see where I end up. More often than not, I start out strong with either approach, then somehow problems set in. Before I know it, I’m abandoning whatever it was I was working on and moving on to something else. It becomes an endless cycle. The only way I break out of this is to make myself sit down and dig in with determination. That’s where I’m at right now. Usually, it’s a middle road I end up traveling on. I do some back story on my characters, then write up a very br...

  Sometimes I’m lazy. I’d like to think it happens to us all. Maybe it’s human nature, or maybe sometimes I just can’t be bothered. This is something I’ve been thinking about recently in my quest to be more productive and to get my writing career back on track. I realize that there are many times when being lazy is NOT at all justifiable. Go figure. Although, sometimes it is, just ask any cat, but I digress. Lately I’ve been exploring different themes for this humble site of mine. I found several that were nice, but there was a problem. Most of the ones I tried needed a picture in the post. Otherwise, a gawd awful ugly photo placeholder with an even uglier camera image is inserted when no photo is present. The description of one theme I looked at even said, requirements: At least one image per post At least one label per post Really? Well, that’s asking a lot. Especially when you’re feeling like a lazy slug. But then it got me to thinking, is putting a photo in every post such a b...

Old habits die hard, says the old cliche. Like most cliches, there is always truth in it. This last winter I did pretty good. I started blogging again; I wrote and released a new short romance story. At last! I’m on track. . . until I wasn’t. The writing began not to go well, again. I decided that if I updated the look and feel of this blog, it would spur me into action. Now it is April and my last post was in January. Obviously, it didn’t work out too well for me. Day by day, I realized I was slipping back down into the old habits I so desperately wanted to get away from. Old habits die hard. Trying to pull myself back up, I visited this site. The design changes had seemed elegant and refined at the time I did them. Before I finished all of it, I wondered on to other things. The poor blog forgotten, again. Now the design seems cold, almost dark somehow, mostly lifeless. Maybe I should do some more changes? Or is this me procrastinating again? Maybe. Or maybe it’s me trying to rekindle...

This is just a quick post to let you know I'm making progress on another story. Sadly the progress has been slower than I would have liked. Mostly life stuff getting in the way. I'm hoping to get this next story out either by the end of the month or the beginning of February. This time I'll try and give notice before it comes out, instead of like last time and posting, 'oh by the way, here's a story.' In other news, I'll be making design changes to this site. In fact, I may have already started on them by the time you read this. If you've been following along with some of my older posts, then you might recall that I've considered making some design changes to this site some time ago. I plan on starting on those this week. So if you happen by and things look a little wonky, that is why. I've thought of changing platforms, but honestly, I don't really have a real reason to do so. I use Blogger for this site, and I have fun with it and it's ...