Meandering On Monday with Janet Lane Walters #MFRWauthor #BooksWeLoveAuthor

Meander 1 - A new year has begun and let's hope the dark clouds cast at the end of last year go away. Life is a matter of changes but some of the changes aren't ones we like or want. So one must hope things become better.

Meander 2 - I've read a lot of books last year. Many of them are from my friends. Kat Attalla is one of my favorites. Love her Married to a Prince series. Wendy Marcus really wowed me with her contemporary romance, not so much the new adult one but it was a novella and sometimes novellas end too abruptly for me. Jen Probst always makes me laugh and hot. Steph and I can't remember her writer's name kept me on edge. Carly Phillips has some hot new stories. There are others, too many to mention but to all my writer friends, keep writing and I'll try to keep reading.

Meander 3 - My writing. I complained about moving my study to the second floor but during the move, I found a partial mss that's really good and rather different. It's maybe a fantasy or maybe something else. Now called The Goddesses of Solunda. I'm working on it and realizing it will end up somewhere between 65,000 and 80,000 words. Glad all but the last six chapters have been rewritten so I should be able to finish it by March. The interesting thing is this was written so long ago the copy I have is on yellow paper and is a carbon copy. Remember those. I barely do. Computers have made writing so much easier.

Meandering On Monday with Janet Lane Walters

First meander is about the books I've been reading or rather about the authors. James Rollins is a master of suspenseful writing. In his latest he really followed the rule of get the characters in trouble and then up the ante. I was so sure all my favorites were in deep trouble and they were. I've really invested emotions in the Sigma team and have followed them since the first adventure. So hats off to him. In a totally different kind of writing I also read Wendy Marcus' story about Nurse Scarlet. Emotion in a different vein and a nice sexy read about a nurse and doctor who care for children. Dealing with events of the past drive both of them to face emotions. So from fear to love my reading hit a lot of highs.

Second meander is about the cicadas that hum during the day. I remember 17 years ago and how my granddaughter and her friend freaked out about the "bugs" and how they wouldn't wait for the school bus. I drove them to school. Now they're back and the friend is here going to grad school. She's braver now but I didn't tell my granddaughter they are back. Hopefully she'll becoming to join the friend in the attic and go to school as well.

Meander three is about my writing. I'm winding down Shattered Dreams and have begun slowly, the next story while I'm typing the chapters of Shattered Dreams. This one is called A Spice Seduction and is the last of the Seduction series. These characters share a past but right now I've begiun chapter 1 and the rough draft promises some interesting turns. Hope to finish the first before the end of the month and the second in three months or less and then do a second Moonchild story. One will see if I'm biting off more than I can chew. Great cliche.

Thursday's Who I'm Reading = Wendy Marcus

As a former nurse and a writer who has been known to write medical romances, lately I've been reading Wendy Marcus' step into the world of the hospital. You can find her books here http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_12?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=wendy+marcus&sprefix=Wendy+Marcus%2Caps%2C131

Though Wendy has written three so far, I'm sure there are more stories that will enthrall readers who love to read about nurses and doctors, or just nurses and the choices they make both in and out of the hospital. Of the three I've read, Once a Good Girl is my favorite but the other two aren't far behind in the favorite category.

So if you like nurses as heroines, try one of Wendy's. Sit backm read and enjoy.