🖤I’ve decided to get creative with my newsletter, so I’ve given it a name, The Black Rose. This will be volume one. 🖤
I plan to share music, shows I’m watching, sneak peeks into what I’m currently writing, and funny stories about my life—there always seem to be a few of those lurking around. 🤣
First though, an ad from our sponsor:
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And now for our program:
A good friend of mine introduced me to a show I’d never seen before, A Discovery of Witches. OMG, it’s so good. I want to binge watch the whole thing in one weekend. But alas, I promised myself I wouldn’t, so it looks like it’ll take me a month to get through it. 😊 It’s for the best. When I watch things too quickly, I miss out on details that would’ve deepened the experience.
I won’t give away any spoilers, but I will say one thing: Yes, vampires are still hot. 🖤
I want to send out a huge thank you to my buddy for introducing it to me. I can’t wait to see more.
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My current project is, Entangled, book three in my Tangled Moon series. Here’s a little about it.
Alessandro is a vampire from Ancient Egypt, and Kendra is the strong-willed maternal type. The kind of person you will get ten texts from because you failed to let them know you got home safely.
She loves hard.
These two—my three thousand year old vampire, and my modern woman, are, quite frankly, giving me emotional whiplash. 🤭 Don’t get me wrong. I’m loving every minute of it.
Here’s a sneak peek:
…He stood there over her, fingers on her skin, her hip against his leg; him hard and needing her—wondering why she would care. He could resist her blood, at least for another day, but her body was another matter entirely…
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Now time for a true story:
I attended a Halloween Fest. I thought it would be fun. I thought it would be right down my alley.
Spoiler alert: It wasn’t.
It was a dark and stormy night…
No, really. It was a dark and stormy night.
I was cold, tired, giving out more candy than I could make up for in sales. (Candy is expensive, man!) And the icing on the cake? There was one porta potty for fifty venders. Yeah, figure that one out.
In short, I was so miserable that my man came down to take my place so I could warm up and find a bathroom. I returned half an hour later to find him talking to a pair of good-looking blondes. 😡
Just joking. It wasn’t like that. They were more interested in my work than they were in him. 🤣
Later that night, I made my buddy (the one who introduced me to A Discovery of Witches) promise she would never let me do a night event again.
I don’t know what I was thinking. I hate being out at night, especially when its cold AND raining. It sucked.
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As some of you already know, music is a huge inspiration to me as I write. I wanted to highlight a couple of songs from my playlist:
Night Traveler, I Still Love You ❤️ This one is a tear jerker.
Lost Boy, The Midnight ❤️ And so is this one…
*See end for YouTube links*
That’s all I’ve got for volume one of The Black Rose.
Here’s to many more. 🥂
Unless, of course, I get turned into a vampire, or a werewolf, then this will likely be goodbye. 😉
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Darcy Branwyn 
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