Candle
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Award the Night
I have a secret. Competition is one of those “things” that I both dread and lust over. It’s a great feeling to win. But with certain anxiety issues and spicy brain issues, not winning is an exercise in squashing that inner critic all to pieces with each rejection.
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Top 10 favorite reviews of 2024
My readers are AWESOME. I’ve gotten so many great reviews for Restore the Night and other books, I just had to recap some of them here. In order to do that, I hand-picked my top ten favorite review comments from 2025. Did your review make the list?
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Like a Ton of Bricks…
In this morning’s writing sprints, the leader casually dropped this sentence, “And you, Miss Calia, have a release tomorrow…” WHAM. It really is real. Restore the Night releases tomorrow. Wow. I almost cried. Again. This book, I swear. This was by far the most coordinated, detailed launch I’ve done. The only thing left on my…
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Reviewing the Night
Early reviews are in! Five stars for Restore the Night! I’m stoked because many of the reviewers are “new to me” readers. They picked up advanced copies from places like BookSirens, BookSprout, or Hidden Gems. If you want to be one of the early readers, the links are
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The Final Bow
This is the last week before “Code Name: Candle” officially becomes known forevermore as the published work, “Restore the Night.” It’s right about now, the last week of release frenzy that I get what I jokingly refer to as the “book hangover.” What it really is combines
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The Wait is Almost Over
The next two months are going to be LIT! In October, Passionate Ink’s charity anthology, Soul Hates, releases October 8th. And in November, Restore the Night, book number 7 (can you believe it?) of the Destroyers MC series releases. Nickel gets his happy ever after. FINALLY
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Candle Easter Egg
I finished Code name: Candle this week. It will publish under the title “Restore the Night” as the latest Hagerstown Destroyers novel. I believe that would put it at lucky number seven, maybe?* One of my earlier blog posts hinted at the playlist for this book. I’d like to share
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Music by Candlelight?
It’s no secret that I LOVE music. But did you know that—as a method writer—I will listen to what my characters listen to? In order to craft realism into my MC’s (main characters in this instance) I will immerse into my characters’ mannerisms & tastes, Candle is no exception.
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Updates, Bookmas, and a new story
In the last few weeks I’ve felt “overwhelmed.” It didn’t seem like I’d been doing a whole lot except writing, but it hit me today why I’ve been experiencing that panicked, “what did I forget?” moments. Instead of innundating you with a post for each, I’ll attempt to summarize
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Candle Sneak Peek
I’ve been in the writing cave. Nickel is getting his own book. He’s been quietly working on the sidelines to make the new club successful. But at what cost? …Maybe… Love? Yeah, he shoved his HEA to the sidelines. Despite that, Rachel falls HARD for the quiet biker with glasses.
