I was recently traveling and I got an idea for "Ever Darkly Yours," about an underground city covered in water. As many of you know, I got the idea for "The Night the Vampires Came," from a dream I had while I was writing "Darkly Devoted."

I don't think I'm ready to start writing that book yet, but I feel like I'm getting closer. I guess as an author even though I love all my books, there's one book that I clearly love above all the other ones. I think you all know which book that is. 

So recently, I was writing bonus chapters for a couple of my books. I think the one thing I liked best about writing the bonus chapter for "The Night the Vampires Came," was that it was the only book where the last chapter wasn't a kiss between two love interests where they went off into the horizon and found their HEA. 

I honestly don't know if it was a tremendous act of courage or of stupidity that I decided to end "Vampires Came," with a conversation between Ailith and Blake. As I turned my computer off after writing that chapter I have to admit I thought to myself "wow, I can't believe I got to end a story with a conversation between a mother and a son, and it wasn't about either of their love interests."

Of course, now I'm wondering to myself "Am I crazy to end that book with a chapter like that?"

Yes, I might have to delete that chapter one day. It's probably too weird, too hard to understand. But just for one glorious, wonderful second, I got to be me. I mean, the entire point of "Vampire Came," was a cautionary tale about Climate Change and the world we're leaving our children. So, it's probably fitting that it ends with a conversation between a mother and a son.

In the end, being an author is probably all about sneaking little moments like these -- where you get to say what you really feel and write the words you really mean. 

I can't wait to write "Ever Darkly Yours," for you guys one day. But until then, I have several other projects to finish, projects that will likely be easier to sell.

"Ever Darkly Yours," is the project that my mind comes back to repeatedly, that haunts me whenever I have a second to dream. There are many stories I tell to entertain others, but I must say -- "Darkly Devoted" is the series I tell to entertain myself.