Harley Q. Turner (Author)

Yes that's exactly what they are: excuses. My computer is finally back up and running after a child managed to break my monitor. I'm on the mend from Lyme disease, although these headaches are murder. I don't wish them on anyone. The pain from a migraine isn't as bad as a Lyme disease headache, and the fact that I have had NO relief from it since it started over a week ago isn't helping my opinion on them. It seems like every time I get on here, I am coming up with some excuse as to why Saving Avalon is not out yet. The book is finished. It's edited. It's mostly formatted. Why am I not releasing it yet? I don't have an answer for that. This will be the first book published since I lost my grandma, but I don't think that's it. It's not the fact that I'm worried about what a turn to fantasy would do to my book sales either. I'm not entirely sure why I am stalling. I have so many things going on right now. I'm trying to be ...

As most of my readers should already know, I have taken a break from my usual writing to work on a fantasy series. Book One of Saving Avalon is finished and will be available within the next couple of weeks. I have a couple chapters written of book two, but there is where my dilemma lies. I keep finding myself thinking back to a certain character of one of my older books. I also said that I would eventually return to the Self Inflicted series, but I believe Rory and Liam's story is pretty much wrapped up. It's Gabe that I can't get off my mind. His story isn't finished. It has barely even started. Now since I am currently in the middle of Saving Avalon (and I have readers waiting for this story), I really can't abandon that project to return to Gabe's story, but I can't keep working on Saving Avalon when I have other stories filling my head. I'm at the point where I don't know what to do. I don't have much time to write anymore, and when I do...

I don't know how other people do it. How do other families manage to juggle schedules for seven people and not feel like pulling their hair out?!? I had a board meeting for my daughter's hockey team yesterday. All of the other mothers were talking about all the camps and other hockey related things their daughters are doing over the summer. I felt bad, because I told my daughter she would be taking the summer off of hockey this year. My son is playing softball and we need to focus on his sports for awhile. Now that I know she will be playing with an older team (13 and 14 year olds and she is only 11) next year, I regret that decision. What if she is further behind the other girls? What if she decides to give up? My son is loving softball. He never showed any interest in sports until I volunteered both of the older children as bat boys for the Beloit Snappers minor league baseball team. He loves it. My daughter hated it. With is being such a struggle with just the two chil...