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Day in the Life of a Romance Author and a Giveaway

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The romanticized life of an author goes something like this:

You write one book. It becomes a bestseller. They make it into a movie. You spend the rest of your life in a bathrobe drinking whiskey at noon, having an existential crisis in a beautiful house you don’t deserve, and never writing again.

You are tortured.

You are famous.

Someone is always in love with you for reasons that are unclear.

Maybe some people… like Hank Moody in that show Californication.

But not THIS mo-fo.

MY FULL-TIME AUTHOR LIFE plays out a little somthin’ like this:

You write 12 books in a year. You sleep 4 hours a night. You are your own marketing department, IT department, graphic designer, social media manager, mail room, and customer service. No one is making your book into a movie.

You are not tortured. You are tired.

You are much too busy to notice if anyone loves you, not to mention EXTREMELY PRECIOUS about your books, so you don’t actually care.

Allow me to present a real, actual, legit day in the life of a full-time author…

1:30 AM — Woken up because I am a doorman for two dogs who have never paid rent and also live rent-free in my head 24/7. One of them weighs 130 pounds and has the audacity to look impatient about it.

1:33 AM — Back in bed. Brain immediately loads every single thing I didn’t finish this week. Not gently. Like a browser with 47 tabs opening at once.

1:34 AM — This is because I looked up the words “vibe coding” last weekend and I’m now convinced I can change the world with a swarm of AI agents working in parallel. New pets living rent free in my house, except they get a credit card and live on my Mac Studio.

2:33 AM — Accepting that 4.73 hours of sleep is a win not a loss, I get up and make coffee. It’s morning now. I have declared it. “Let’s Hurt Tonight” is playing on repeat in the background.

2:45 AM — Pat myself on the back for finishing book 6 of Book of Legion yesterday with a cliffhanger that will make people hate me.

This is the actual time right now as I write this, but my days are so predictable I can write the rest of this in advance and be right.

2:50 AM — It’s release day for Scars and Promises so I write a blog post, make a graphic, rinse, repeat for newsletter and social posts. Then put them aside to publish later.

4:30 AM — Do international ARC and giveaway winner mail. Find all the addresses, pack books and print postage.

5:15 AM — Make more coffee. Go down a rabbit hole about things you can’t talk about on the internet. Spend 6 hours asking Claude to explain why the world is so stupid while watching YouTube. This is the most productive part of my day and I will not be taking questions.

6:30 AM – Publish blog post and dive back into the rabbit hole…

9:32 AM – Lay-about dogs start demanding breakfast. Cook for them and tell them ‘all dogs are good‘.

11:45 AM – Realize the post office that is only open 2 hours and 45 minutes a day is closed now so maybe I’ll send that mail tomorrow. Mail-order groceries because clearly my life is too busy and my work too important to actually go to a grocery store.

11:46 AM – Decide to actually do something productive—not writing. The official rule is you don’t have to write the day after you finish a book so I make graphics for project that doesn’t exist yet and has no chance of affecting my bank account, but fuck it, I make them anyway.

3:25 PM – Discover I forgot to send the newsletter. Hurriedly do that.

4:57 PM – Lay-about dogs start demanding dinner and I haven’t eaten all day, so I cook for me too.

6:00 PM – More YouTube, more Claude.

7:30 PM – Decide to plot book 7 in Book of Legion for Monday while promising to get to the post office ‘some day’.

9:50-ish PM – Sleep.

1:30 AM — Wake up because I am a doorman for two dogs who have never pay rent and also live rent-free in my head 24/7.

1:50 AM – Accept that 4.09 hours of sleep is a win not a loss, get up and make coffee. “Let’s Hurt Tonight” is still playing on repeat in the background…

This is the life.

No bathrobe. No whiskey at noon. No movie deal. Just two dogs, a coffee addiction, a Mac Studio full of AI agents I can’t control, and a song called “Let’s Hurt Tonight” on infinite repeat.

And somehow — SOMEHOW — it works.

Allow me to present to you MY PROOF

Scars and Promises is LIVE

And every bit of this weird, complicated life I live on repeat IS FUCKING WORTH IT when I hit publish on a series like this!

Savannah has to face the facts. The Ashbys don’t protect people. They devour innocence and call it charity. 

The Badlands MC don’t even know the meaning of the word charity.

Everything is earned. Every act of kindness comes with a price.

Outlaws don’t care about feelings, they care about brotherhood.

How far will you go for the club.

How much will you give for the patch.

It better be everything, or there will be consequences.

Property of.

Infected brand.

Angels and demons.

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The backside of twenty-three?

The cruelest thing hope ever did was show up.

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Legion’s MC is called BADLANDS

If you were the Pres of an outlaw Biker MC, WHAT WOULD YOU CALL YOUR CLUB? 

 

MY ANSWER

I’D CALL MINE

KILL YOUR DARLINGS MC

What’s Yours?

 

 

159 Responses

  7. Salty Sleighers. Salty because I live near the Gulf of Mexico and it’s salty here. Sleighers because my bike is my sleigh and it’s a pun on the word Slay.

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    1. Red Rock Sirens – female only. I live in Utah. FYI…I love OneRepublic and am excited to see them in Idaho at the end of this month. Love that you referenced their song and it plays on repeat 🤣.

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  13. Ngl the first thing that popped in my head is ‘We Are MC’ but that’s fucking stupid lmao 🤣 How about ‘Tulips MC’? Like two lips, an all female MC??? …..dear God someone else please name my MC bc clearly I’m terrible at this hahahaha

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  25. Lethal Angels MC. Just ask my husband. There are times he has to take my silverware away from me when we go out to eat because little bitches don’t know how to behave 😈😈

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  48. Maybe Preach MC
    This is not something I’ve ever given a thought to, lol!
    I appreciate the look into your life. It exhausts me, lol! 💗

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  60. As a nod to a book title of yours, and because the name is freaking awesome; I’d name my club, The Booty Hunter’s MC.

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  63. I am really bad at coming up with names for anything. Ugh . . . Nothing is coming to mind.
    . . .
    . . .
    Hellfire Riders? Or would it be Hell Fire Riders?

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  64. Trying to come up with a clever name for all women biker club, but I’m late to the party apparently. Have you heard of the “We Do Not Care Club”? How about we call it No Fucks To Give Club!

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  66. To Hell and Back MC
    Junkyard Demons MC
    The Damned MC
    Blood Brothers MC
    Hellfire MC
    Hell Raisers MC
    Ghost Riders MC
    Sinners Reign MC
    Devils Own MC
    Raptors MC
    Crypt Keepers MC
    Kill Switch MC
    Tombstone MC
    Blackheart Killers MC

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  80. My MC would be called the “Paperback Outlaws”. I think they would all be avid readers, and a pretty amazing MC.

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  87. Personal Summer MC—it would be for pre-, post-, and in-the-midst-of-it-menopausal women who need to ride like the wind to cool off during hot flashes!

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  96. Ginger Snaps MC or Ginger Snapped MC and we would all have red hair. Because everybody knows gingers be crazy.

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  100. I’m really lame because all I can think of is The Bitches Are Back, à la Elton John. Yeah, lame.

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  101. The Brain Fog Bandits
    The MSfits
    The Neuro Knights

    I have Progressive MS and it being March . MS Awareness Month!

    Thanks!

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  111. Daughters of Destruction..All female MC..

    Demons of Hell MC

    I am so Bad at this..lol..
    Thankyou so much for the chance.

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  133. I’m going Greek:

    Sirens Call MC
    Medusa’s Vengance MC
    Cerebus MC
    Hounds of Hades MC
    Charon’s Deliverance MC

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  141. I’m tried from reading all that. You get as much sleep as I do but are a hell of a lot more productive with your live. I’ve said for years I don’t k now how you do it and I still don’t but thank god you do cause I wouldn’t have any thing to do and I’d probably watch a lot more TV but I love to read instead.
    Okay so what was the question?
    Oh yes since we can’t sleep I would call my MC
    Rest in Peace
    Could mean a couple different things so it will get people talking.

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Book of Legion – 5

SKULLS AND LACE

Every prayer gets answered. Not all of them are from God.

Their love story has always been impossible—ranch heiress and outlaw biker, angel and demon, the girl in white dresses and the man covered in biblical warfare tattoos.

Savannah’s life is content. Her engagement to a senator’s son is brand. Everything has been managed, controlled, and performed to perfection.

Legion’s life is hell. His family was destroyed long before he was born. His ending predetermined long before he met the Little Ashby Princess in a silo.

They’ve been stealing moments since they were teenagers, burning for each other in a world that keeps demanding they choose sides.

Now it’s time.

Necessary reckoning.

Spectacular collision.

Brutal reality.

 

Time to burn it down, boys.

 

SKULLS AND LACE

 

Every prayer gets answered. Not all of them are from God.

 

Inside the pages you can expect:
🏍️⛓️🔥 Outlaw Biker Romance

💎🖤🔧 Rich Girl / Poor Boy

⛓️🔒🖤 Property Of

🖤🥀⚔️ Morally Gray/Anti-Hero MMC

🔥👁️⛓️ Obsessed/Possessive MMC

🚫❤️🥀 Forbidden Love

👑💍🖤 Only Her

🖤⚔️👑 Only Him

💕🏠💫 Childhood Sweethearts

⚔️🔪💀 Touch Her and Die

🔥🌶️🥵 Primal Spice

🤫🔐🖤 Secret Relationship

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Book of Legion – 4

Smoke and Honey

Always on the outside lookin’ in.

 

In this war between heaven and hell, someone has to bleed. Legion Kane understands this to his core. He’s spent his whole life being trailer trash with no future.

Savannah Ashby was a dream. Perfection wrapped up in designer prairie dresses and equestrian boots. An angel to his demon.

And now, she’s his savior.

But salvation looks a lot like surrender when you’re recovering under the Ashby roof. Sleeping in their guest room. Eating at their table. Watching Mercy get everything he never could’ve given her—ponies, new clothes, a bedroom with a door that locks from the inside.

Hardest part is… spoiled looks good on his baby sister.

And Ashby money is something Legion will never have.

Ponies and presents.

Princess in training.

Dynasty wealth.

Always on the outside lookin’ in.

Some men weren’t built to stay.

SMOKE AND HONEY

Where the right side of the tracks meets the wrong side of everything.

 

Inside the pages you can expect:

🏍️⛓️🔥 Outlaw Biker Romance

💎🖤🔧 Rich Girl / Poor Boy

⛓️🔒🖤 Property Of

🖤🥀⚔️ Morally Gray/Anti-Hero MMC

🔥👁️⛓️ Obsessed/Possessive MMC

🚫❤️🥀 Forbidden Love

👑💍🖤 Only Her

🖤⚔️👑 Only Him

💕🏠💫 Childhood Sweethearts

⚔️🔪💀 Touch Her and Die

🔥🌶️🥵 Primal Spice

🤫🔐🖤 Secret Relationship

Book of Legion – 3

Scars and Promises

The cruelest thing hope ever did was show up.

Two families.

One blood, one found.

Eleanor Ashby became obsessed with Legion Kane the day he was born. The evidence is in the vault—thousands of photos spanning two decades, all bound up in a book with his name on it.

Savannah has to face the facts. The Ashbys don’t protect people. They devour innocence and call it charity. Even Colt—the one she thought was the good brother—proves it.

The Badlands MC don’t even know the meaning of the word charity.

Everything is earned. Every act of kindness comes with a price.

Outlaws don’t care about feelings, they care about brotherhood.

How far will you go for the club.

How much will you give for the patch.

It better be everything, or there will be consequences.

Property of.

Infected brand.

Angels and demons.

The backside of twenty-three?

SCARS AND PROMISES

The cruelest thing hope ever did was show up.

 

Inside the pages you can expect:

🏍️⛓️🔥 Outlaw Biker Romance

💎🖤🔧 Rich Girl / Poor Boy

⛓️🔒🖤 Property Of

🖤🥀⚔️ Morally Gray/Anti-Hero MMC

🔥👁️⛓️ Obsessed/Possessive MMC

🚫❤️🥀 Forbidden Love

👑💍🖤 Only Her

🖤⚔️👑 Only Him

💕🏠💫 Childhood Sweethearts

⚔️🔪💀 Touch Her and Die

🔥🌶️🥵 Primal Spice

🤫🔐🖤 Secret Relationship

Book of Legion – 2

Blood and Grace

Down on your knees—it’s time to choose sides.

Forty-seven thousand acres of Ashby land. Six generations of Montana dynasty. And one daughter who was never going to be allowed to choose a man called Legion.

They were caught at the silo at midnight. Same place they’ve been hookin’ up for years.

What happened at the silo should’ve ended them. Her family made sure of it. But violence doesn’t kill what they have. It only makes the bond stronger.

Now Savannah has to prove what it means to stand by her man and Legion has to convince forty-seven patched members of the Badlands MC that protecting her will be worth it.

Outlaw clubhouse.

Public claiming.

Loyalty test.

Church At Dawn.

 

BLOOD AND GRACE

 

Down on your knees—it’s time to choose sides.

 

Inside the pages you can expect:
🏍️⛓️🔥 Outlaw Biker Romance
💎🖤🔧 Rich Girl / Poor Boy
⛓️🔒🖤 Property Of
🖤🥀⚔️ Morally Gray/Anti-Hero MMC
🔥👁️⛓️ Obsessed/Possessive MMC
🚫❤️🥀 Forbidden Love
👑💍🖤 Only Her
🖤⚔️👑 Only Him
💕🏠💫 Childhood Sweethearts
⚔️🔪💀 Touch Her and Die
🔥🌶️🥵 Primal Spice
🤫🔐🖤 Secret Relationship

Book of Legion – 1

DUST AND FLOWERS

Their secret just became everyone's problem.

Savannah Ashby has been photographed 70,000 times—-every smile, every outfit, every moment of her perfect ranch heiress life has been documented on social media by her dead mother’s cameras.

Legion Kane came out of Whitefall Prison with nothin’ but an expired driver‘s license, $27 in his wallet, and a name that means biblical demon possession.

She wears another man’s three-carat diamond.

He wears a fresh MC brand burned into his chest.

They’ve been meeting in secret at an abandoned silo since they were kids.

Now her family wants him dead, his MC wants him loyal, and the only thing that matters is what happens when she meets him at midnight, whisperin’ his name like a prayer.

 

Montana badlands.

Outlaw bikers.

Ranch royalty.

War is coming.

 

DUST AND FLOWERS

 

Their secret just became everyone’s problem.

Please note: This is the first book in an ongoing serial. Every novella ends on a cliff. Novellas will release weekly through book five.

Inside the pages you can expect:
🏍️⛓️🔥 Outlaw Biker Romance
💎🖤🔧 Rich Girl/Poor Boy
⛓️🔒🖤 Property Of
🖤🥀⚔️ Morally Gray/Anti-Hero MMC
🔥👁️⛓️ Obsessed/Possessive MMC
🚫❤️🥀 Forbidden Love
👑💍🖤 Only Her
🖤⚔️👑 Only Him
💕🏠💫 Childhood Sweethearts
⚔️🔪💀 Touch Her and Die
🔥🌶️🥵 Primal Spice
🤫🔐🖤 Secret Relationship

 

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