Category: 4. Topaz Heat

Topaz Heat

Topaz Heat is Available Now!

Topaz Heat, Book 3 of the Jewel Trilogy, is now on sale! It is my personal favorite of all three books.

Topaz Heat: Cover Reveal & Blurb

I am SO excited to bring you the cover of the third and final book in the Jewel Trilogy: Topaz Heat.

The Trilogy is Complete!

Thursday night, I finished Topaz Heat. I read through it, made minor changes here and there, laughed and cried with the book (strangely, since I wrote it) then I sent it off to my beta readers. It’s out of my hands now (for the time being).

In my opinion, it’s the best book I’ve written. Hopefully, that will always be my opinion of my most recent book.

The Things I’ve Learned This Week

This week was my first full week totally focused on this new venture as an “official” novelist. I’m working on my trilogy, focusing this week on the first one (Sapphire Ice) and the third one (Topaz Heat). Sapphire publishes this month. I’ve been working on final edits, getting feedback from a set of beta readers, writing the blurb, and working with the cover artist. Gregg has been researching how to publish it and all of the details and nuances involved within that big giant convoluted world (he sends me technical articles in emails titled, “Stuff I Read So That You Don’t Have To” — and when I skim through them I’m reminded of how much I love and adore my husband), and tweaking this blog.

Reading Without Editing

Wednesday and Thursday last week, I re-read Topaz Heat — book 3 of the Jewel Trilogy.  I’d finished the rough draft of it several weeks ago and just tabled it, because I felt like “something” was missing – I just couldn’t really get a grasp on what that “something” was. So, I made a .pdf …

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