Big Changes In My World

I'll get back to updating a little more regularly now. My husband and I put our home up for sale in Florida in late 2017 and in April of 2018, we sold it with a closing at the end of May. Of course, we had to have a tropical storm the day of our closing, damaging one of our cars. But we finally got moved and have since made our home in Knoxville, TN. 

We bought a fixer-upper in a great neighborhood, but after little maintenance for a decade and three years empty, it's a big project. Its saving grace was that the previous owners put in all new windows and sliders, which we have thoroughly enjoyed! The photo is of my office after new floors and paint. Still not fully unboxed, but I love the space. 

I finished novel Blind Mice Bite and it's off to my agent, Paul, and a handful of beta readers before a final rewrite. Billie Mae went into meetings for purchase, but has yet to find a traditional home. The news was encouraging, buyers like the book, the teams just don't know how to market a paranormal that's neither horror nor cozy mystery. It's a bit gritty and real. With ghosts. Blind Mice Bite is much the same, but, of course, totally different in its own way. Maybe with two unrelated books out there of the same type-solid speculative fiction mystery-I'll invent my own genre like Dan Brown did!

Facebook being Facebook, I had an issue that a bot couldn't solve, so now I have a new page! If you're on Facebook, please visit me @elleandrewspattfiction and like my page :-)
And if you like Twitter, I'm @LAndrewsPatt. My Instagram is elleandrewspatt - I need to post there more often, but I'm around. If you like CBD oil and edibles or think you might, hit me up on Facebook @highfreehemp or follow my public posts at my Laura Andrews profile. After experiencing poorly-made CBD oil following cancer and during my daughter's illness, I feel passionate about making sure that others know that high-quality CBD oil makes a huge difference in effectiveness, legality, and some people's and pets' health. No buying CBD at gas stations, peeps! I also have a new policy about transparency. Not hiding behind my pen at this point :-) So come say hello from wherever you hang your social media hat!

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