The first Wednesday of every month is the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Posts go up the 1st Wednesday of every month. Check it out here and join if you need support with your writing. Don't forget to stop by and say hi to the co-hosts: PK Hrezo, Pat Garcia, SE White, Lisa Buie Collard, and Diane Burton!

Optional April 7 question - Are you a risk-taker when writing? Do you try something radically different in style/POV/etc. or add controversial topics to your work?

My short but sweet answer: Not really. I do like to do weird things like ask "What if an incubus fell for an asexual?" and turn stuff on their heads a bit, but I'm not sure that's all that risky.

First off, I just want to thank everyone who offered to read and review A Quick Spell. I appreciate it immensely. You can still get in on that by signing up here. Secondly...

2021 YOU AREN'T FIGHTING FAIR!

There's not much to say on the writing front this month. Last month, I was off to a slow but good start, but shortly after my IWSG post, 2021 decided to fight back and it wasn't going to be fair about it.

I lost my day job.

It boils down to I could not work because of surgery so I was fired and someone else hired. Of course, the real kicker there was the prep cook who failed his drug test and went to jail but had his position saved for him. (And yes, we looked into if that was even legal.)

Then hubby got news that he might be out of a job. (As of this writing, it is still in the air if he needs to job hunt or not.) And our health insurance doesn't want to cover the costs of my hospital stay, which is at the heart attack inducing price of 107,000 dollars.

Literally, all this happened the same time. The only good thing was I got my catheter out and I can now move freely without toting around a bag of pee.

I'm trying to find the silver lining. One is I don't have to worry about a stressful job ruining my surgery recovery. The other is it has me thinking about graphic design again. If you look at the top of the page, I re-added the tab for book covers. I still have another month of doctor ordered restrictions, but those restrictions don't stop me from using Gimp.

I really like making book covers, too. It'd be really awesome to have it as a source of income like a day job. *HINTHINT* Check them out not only here but at SPBC, and keep me in mind if you need one. *HINTHINT*

How's life in your neck of the woods? Are you a risk-taking writer? Did you join the A to Z Challenge this year? Do you want a book cover? ;)

​One thing readers may notice when they read Abducted Life is the geek references with Savannah. She wears a Firefly shirt, has Futurama PJs, watches Doctor Who, and there's a reference to Rocky Horror Picture Show. I juxtaposition all that with her being a cheerleader and a popular girl in her high school.

Those two things don't really seem to mix when you look at real life. If left me toying with removing the geek girl parts of Savannah. Maybe I only did it because I'm enthusiastic about that stuff so I can't help but make her that way. In the end, I left Savannah as is because the thought of her being both a geek girl and a popular cheerleader was an interesting character trait that fit her.

Savannah, I hope, comes off as a strong character. She does what she likes and loves what she loves. No alien abduction can change that about her. If anything, it might have made her a little more aggressive about defending her passions.

Of course, it wasn't always like that. Before her life got turned upside down, I saw her as a closet geek girl. In high school, she kept her fan girling to herself. Only one person knew her secret and she trusted him enough to keep it safe. Then she thought she lost him. At the same time she also fell from grace in the popular circles. It left her with only her fandoms for solace, so by the time the story happens, she's no longer cares about popularity or what people think of her geekiness.

Savannah and Evan thought they were safe on earth. They were wrong.

Savannah Janowitz had everything: Popularity. Caring parents. A boy she had loved with all her heart. It was destroyed the night she went missing. When she reappears a year later with no memory and with strange, new abilities, she struggles to fit back into her old life.

Evan Sullivan never believed aliens existed until he and Savannah were abducted. Experimented and mutated by them, he is forced to hide in the shadows and watch Savannah rebuild her life without him. But no matter how hard he tries, he can't stay away from her.

Reunited with Evan, Savannah sees a glimmer of her old life finally return. As they face what was done to them together, they discover aliens aren't the only danger to them. Someone closer to home is watching, waiting for the order to take out the 'alien threat'.

Abducted Life is a sci-fi romance about true love over coming all the odds.

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