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Take a Bow—Rhianna


A random Thursday

April 2008

Boston Massachusetts

I upload my manuscript and wait while the program accepts it. It takes a minute, but I'm rewarded with success. Then I move to the cover. Luckily for me, my artist partner was able to whip this one up for me, even though romance is out of her usual purview.

New to her.

New for me.

I just hope people like it.

After three successful series—an elementary-aged adventure story with eight books, a five-book pre-teen mystery series, and another about the babysitting adventures of a young teen girl—I'm taking a chance.

Amazon has opened self-publishing to the world. And while I'm still neck deep in my next youth adventure series for my publisher under my given name, a more mature plot called to me, so I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and using a different pen name to try something new.

A Romance.

Possibly a series.

But first I have to learn to navigate the world of KDP.

The door to our apartment shuts, and I can hear my thirteen-month-old babbling as her daddy totes her down the hall. I found out I was pregnant with Lacy just before Morgan started kindergarten. We held off for a few years after the colic that lasted forever, and now Edward is an established pediatrician practicing in a popular private practice, so I have more support this round, though I haven't needed it.

Lacy is just like Bailey.

Easy as pie.

"There's my little girl," I say in kid talk as soon as Edward enters my office. "Did you ride with Daddy to do school drop-offs?"

She comes to me easily, smiling and clapping. It's her new thing, so she does it all the time. I bounce her on my knees as Edward leans down to drop a kiss on my cheek.

"You all done?" he asks, eyes flicking to the computer screen.

"Almost," I reply, making a face. "It's a process for sure."

He grins. "Izzy Cullen is going to kill it."

My cheeks burn at his praise, and a nervous chuckle escapes me. "I hope so. At least it didn't cost much if I fail."

"B," he says, pinning me with those sexy greens of his. "I read the book, remember?"

He cocks his head, my entire face flaming as I think back on those roleplay nights we shared as I developed these characters. A billionaire who loves pie and the waitress who served him one night after a particularly ugly argument with his father—a man who controls fifty-one percent of the family company until his son takes a wife.

We did a lot of research.

To make sure certain things worked.

Positions and stuff.

His brow cocks, his grin turning to a smirk. "What's going through that head of yours."

I cover Lacy's ears. "Remembering back to when this one was conceived."

He does this strangled grunting sound that makes me want to strip him naked. "Why don't you take her and give her a snack while I, hopefully, finish uploading this book." My eyes run down his long, lean legs and back up. "It should just about be nap time when that's done."

"It's not very nice to work me up and then pass me the kid," he says, holding out his arms for our daughter. When she giggles happily and holds up her chubby arms, he shifts completely. Gone is the sexy, seductive husband and in his place is the silly father. "There's Daddy's girl." He nibbles at her leg, and she cackles in the most adorable way. "Come on, cute stuff. Let's go make you a snack while Mommy finishes uploading her dirty book."

I gasp before grabbing Morgan's Woolsey the Sheep Beanie Baby and tossing it at his back. It drops to the floor unceremoniously as his chuckle floats down the hallway behind him.

I sigh as I turn back to the computer, my chest light and my heart full. I could never imagine taking such a monumental step without the support of the most important person in my life. My partner in all things, Doctor Edward Cullen is every bit the man I always knew he would be and more.

I'm smiling as I click on the previewer so I can see how my book will look on Kindle devices. A familiar emotion churns in my gut as I see something I'd been working on long before this platform became available poised and ready for distribution.

It's not quite like holding a physical book, but that'll be next.

If this venture is successful.


KDP—Kindle Direct Publishing… Amazon opened publishing up to Indie authors in late 2007.

And, ohhhhhh, take note of that pie plot ;)

See you tmr :)