March 11, 2024

Fool Me TwiceSeries of Table Contents | Chapter 43 | Chapter 44
Other Updates: The Last Time | folklore

Hello 🙂 I’m scheduling this update on Sunday just to make sure it’s ready. I’m finally starting to feel better physically, but I’m worried about going back to work on Tuesday. I just know the kids are going to be going to be off the walls because I’ve never been out three days in a row before (I’ve never even been out TWO days). I can’t even begin to think what my desk looks like. AND I have conferences on Wednesday night, so I’m just — yikes.

Anyway. I decided to be realistic with my time and my energy. I’m really sorry, but I’m just not going to get to Flash Fiction at all from last week or this upcoming week. I pushed myself to get the #Liason week stories out (I cannot believe I was literally up until 11 PM working on The Last Time the night before I tested positive for Covid — like, what.) I posted four chapters of a new novel, 17 short stories and 30k of a short story — I think I can forgive myself for skipping two updates. I’m replacing it with an update of FMT instead.

Not only am I going to be stupidly behind at work, I lost a lot of time editing FMT chapters (the final round of typos I was going to finish up this weekend), so I want to spend this week working on that so I can FINALLY just schedule the chapters and move on with my life and other projects, especially focusing on These Small Hours.

I hope you guys are enjoying Fool Me Twice so far. I’m not getting a lot of hits on it here or at FF.net yet, so I guess I’m a little nervous that maybe I waited too long to continue the series and people have lost interest in this. The rest of the series won’t take nearly as long, and I definitely want feedback from you guys since it’s such an ensemble heavy story. Anyway, I hope you remember to use the thumbs up to let me know you were here and read the chapter 🙂

March 8, 2024

Update Links
Fool Me Twice, Series of Table Contents | Chapter 41 | Chapter 42
Other Updates: The Last Time | folklore

Hey! I went to the doctor yesterday morning and got my Covid diagnosis confirmed. I was hoping I’d feel better by the end of the day to write, but I really wasn’t. So I decided to schedule FMT chapters and post a second chapter I wasn’t planning on. Plus, Chapter 42 has preview snippets from next week!

I have to update my Recently Update page but I’m still not feeling great. The fever keeps coming and going, but I feel better now than I did this morning. Hopefully after some more rest (I didn’t sleep well last night but I stocked up on meds today).

If I’m feeling better tonight, I’ll come back for Flash Fiction, but I definitely expect something this weekend. I hope. I’m out of work through Monday, so I’ve got some time to rest and recharge.

See you when I see you!

March 6, 2024

Update Link: The Last Time

I hope no one is disappointed, but I’m postponing Flash Fiction. I have a low grade fever and what feels like a nasty cold coming on, so I decided to just take the night off (and call out tomorrow). That being said, I was planning to release this story tomorrow anyway, so we’ll just switch 😛 

Heath Update, 9:52 PM: I tested positive for Covid on a home test, and am going to a doctor tomorrow to confirm. Hopefully it’s mild and getting some meds in me tomorrow will sort things out, but obviously Flash Fic may end up being pushed. 

You didn’t think the surprises were done this week, did you? The Liason fanbase continued our Billboard celebration with TWO more mobile billboards. More than 900 fans contributed to this project! Don’t forget you can also buy Liason Anniversary mugs, with $2 of each sale going to The Smile Train, and one of our lovely leaders, Teri, is matching funds up to $500, so let’s show everyone how amazing this fanbase is!

And that brings me to my continued contributions with the first “single” from my Crimson Swift: Red collection. You might remember The Last Time from my 2022 Summer Flash Fiction series. I ended up putting it on hiatus for a few reasons, one of which was that it dealt with Alan’s death, and I was writing at the same time my friend passed from cancer, so I really just needed to take a break.

But it was a natural choice to join the Red collection as the “featured” story (the longest story by far — it’s 30k!). I’ve cleaned up and edited Scenes 1-36, and then finished writing scenes 37-57. I hope you enjoy!

I’ll see you tomorrow for Flash Fiction, and then on Friday for more Fool Me Twice. And maybe, just maybe, there may be a surprise or two up my sleeve this weekend. We’re celebrating the return of Liason in style, and I’m eager to do my part!

 

March 4, 2024

Update Link: Fool Me TwiceChapter 39 | Chapter 40

In Case You Missed Itfolklore, a Taylor Swift inspired short-story collection with a story for each track.

Hey!! I’m popping in with a rare double email today because I’m just so excited about the celebration we kicked off today!

FIRST, we’re selling Liason mugs with $2 of every sale going to charity. Check them out!  We sent mugs to Steve, Becky, Hudson, the writers, the execs at GH, ABC AND Disney!

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, a group of us go together and planned a mobile billboard! It went to Prospect Park (the GH studios), ABC, and Disney exec offices, and traveled to other places in LA!

Stay tuned! We have an awesome year ahead of us!!

Update Link: Fool Me Twice, Chapter 39 | Chapter 40

In Case You Missed It: folklore, a Taylor Swift inspired short-story collection with a story for each track.

Why I’m Excited for Jason’s Return — At Least Right Now

*waves frantically* This might be one of the most exciting and hotly anticipated days for Liason fans since October 2017 when our couple had that amazing reunion at the PCPD lockup. If you’re a regular viewer of the show, you know Jason’s last return was not well-received due to TERRIBLE writing, but everyone mostly agrees that the only relationship that wasn’t torched was with Elizabeth and Jake. In fact, Jason and Elizabeth were sharing scenes together in July, and he was planning to hide another dead body for her.

Plus!!! Jason’s return is being penned ENTIRELY by our new head writers, Patrick Mulcahey and Elizabeth Korte. I know Korte is known as a Carly fan, but she also used to be known as an amazing Elizabeth writer — along with Michelle Val Jean, Korte CREATED Liason — it was her idea to put them together. And Patrick was a writer back in the late 90s — he penned several of our favorite early Liason scenes like the park after they met at Jake’s and the lucky quarter episode.

AAAND there’s a spoiler that an old face from the past shows up on Liz’s doorstep — we know from spoiler pictures that Jason is going to be in a gun fight — is it SO far-fetched to speculate that just maybe our HW are mining Liason history?

Now of course, my excitement could fade, but I loved this couple for half my life, so there’s no reason not to get a little excited right now 😛 PLUS YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW THE BEST PART — Liason fans have planned a HUGE surprise for Steve’s first air date. Stay tuned on Twitter around 9 AM today (March 4) and follow our anniversary tag #25YearsOfLiason! I’ll post more info on Wednesday when I do Flash Fiction.

Taylor Swift Short Story Collections

Yesterday, I did a surprise “album” drop, posting a collection 17 short stories, each one inspired by a Taylor Swift song from folklore, the album she surprised us in July 2020. If you missed it, I’ve linked it above.

I plan to write a collection for each one of her albums, but I probably won’t do an entire collection at a time — this was special because I was launching the series and because of Steve’s return. I’m not really sure how to approach the other 9 albums (soon to be 10). Doing one album at a time, doing whatever song inspires me, etc. I’ll play it by ear for now, but it was a lot of fun and kind of crazy to be keeping this a secret from all by the top tier Patreons for the last two weeks. If you have any idea for any songs, please feel free to let me know!!

Fool Me Twice & These Small Hours

AND FINALLY, we get to the reason I’m posting today! I took a bit of a break from other projects to get this done, so I’m going back to finishing my posting draft edit (all of March’s chapters are good to go) for Fool Me Twice Book 2 and the alpha draft for These Small Hours. I hope you think the break was worth it 😛

I’m beyond excited to be launching Book 2 on the day Steve returns, and a little sad I won’t get to see the Jason/Drew relationship I wrote in Book 2 (and 3!). Billy’s loss is profound, and the Drew recast is awful. But I’m glad our Drew lives on in stories and in our memories.

Chapters will be posted on Mondays and Fridays. Sometimes 2, sometimes 1. It just depends on the chapter I’m posting that week and where I want to leave you for cliffhangers 😛

March 3, 2024

Update Link: folklore

For the last two weeks, I have been feverishly working on absolutely insane project and I’ve finished just in time! Steve returns tomorrow, and what better way for me to celebrate the potential return of our couple than with 17 short stories!

Each story was inspired by lyrics from Taylor Swift’s folklore, and I very much wanted this first “album” drop to be just like how Taylor gave us the album back in 2020 out of nowhere, completely done and launched. I’m planning to do a short story collection for each album, but more on that when we talk later tomorrow with Fool Me Twice.

told you March was going to be wild!

February 28, 2024

Update Link: Hits Different – Part 23

Hope everyone is having a great week! I’m working hard on getting FMT’s final round of typo cleanups finished. I’m excited for you guys to start reading Book 2, and for everything else I’m planning next month! See you on Monday!

February 26, 2024

Update Link: Fool Me Twice, Book 2: Ashes to Ashes – Teaser

Hello! I’m so excited to finally share with you some sneak peeks from Fool Me Twice, Book 2 and announce the official release date! Chapters will be posted on Monday and Friday beginning on March 4 (the day Steve returns!). I’ll be posting 2 chapters a week for a few weeks until the story picks up steam, and then the updates will vary a little bit. 1 chapter on Monday, then 2 on Friday, or 2 on Monday, then 1 on Friday. I wanted to break the updates at good cliffhangers 🙂

Enjoy the sneak peek at upcoming scenes! I’m so excited that we finally get to return to this! I hope you’re as excited as I am!

See you on Wednesday for Flash Fiction!

Catch up with Book 1 now!

February 21, 2024

Update Link: Hits Different – Part 22

Production Schedule | Posting Schedule

February feels like it’s taking FOREVER. And there’s still another week! Like WHAT.

Lots of things happening behind the scenes here at CG. March is going to be an insanely productive month, half of which you guys don’t even know about yet, but you will as soon as I can manage it. I took the results of the survey and developed a posting schedule for Fool Me Twice, Book 2 that will take us from March 11 through June 12. I’m hopeful that These Small Hours will be ready by mid July.

We’ll be wrapping up Hits Different  in the first week of May. For classified reasons, I don’t anticipate any double updates for the next two months, other than MAYBE during spring break in April.

I’m SO excited for the week of March 4! Steve’s first week back and a lot of great #Liason stuff happening. Make sure you’re following that hashtag and our special anniversary tag, #25YearsOfLiason. We’ll be welcoming Steve back, Liason style 😛

See you next week!

February 14, 2024

Update Link: Hits Different – Part 21

Hope everyone is having a good week! Sorry this is late. I’m tutoring my nephew in math, and we had to review his study guide tonight. Do you know they call it “decomposing” fractions now which messed me up, lol. I feel like we just used words like simplify and reduce, but that’s why I don’t teach this for a living.

I caught a minor cold — mostly a sore throat and stuffy head. I took off today, hoping it would help. Last thing I needed was to spend six hours on my feet, speaking. I just have to get through tomorrow and Friday is a half day (and our music day so it’s really laid back).

I wrote a lot over the weekend, but slowed down this week — not surprising since I got a little sick. I usually get sick this time of year, so hoping it’s just something minor. I’m still able to get through FMT, and I’m about halfway through the draft. Tentative release date is March 11, I’ll have more details on the schedule in another week or two.