Authors, Kai Strand & LA Dragoni

Would you sacrifice everything for love? My new release for the adults among us, is available TODAY! Yay. A life must be lost. Who will make the ultimate sacrifice?   Lawson lives a simple life: a job at a brewery, and his basketball and hockey leagues. Even his eccentric lifelong friend and roommate—who is intent on discovering time travel—doesn’t complicate things. Then Jory appears. Lawson feels an immediate attraction to her, yet their attempts at dating end with him thinking it just isn’t meant to be. But Jory refuses to give up.   When one date ends tragically, Lawson turns to his best friend and the experimental time travel program he’s invented. But, no matter what he does, each time the reset ends with a loss.   It’s clear…a life must be lost, and Lawson is prepared to give his for Jory. But he isn’t the only one playing with time.   Will he spare Jory by forfeiting his own life? Or will someone else make the ultimate sacrifice? Buy ...

It’s like we realized November is National Novel Writing Month when we chose this month’s topic. Huh. To me this is an extension of last month’s topic of Career vs Hobby. One of the most difficult aspects of being an author – of it being a career vs it being your hobby – is that you finish the dang book. How many people have partial books on their hard drive? A LOT. Even career authors have partial books; a.k.a. works in progress, or WIPs. But a career author makes a habit of finishing them. There is an abandon point in every book. For me it is usually somewhere in the middle. Usually near the end of the middle. Middles are really hard. In my mind, they feel like I’m trudging waist deep through a thick bog. Peat is gathering around my legs and hips making the progress more and more difficult and finally I have to think, This book so being so difficult. Is this worth it? That’s where you either abandon the book because you can’t see a way to the end, and you stay a hobbyist....