March is my new year. Sumer is my favorite season and Spring lets me know it’s on its way. January and February still feels like last year to me. I’ve learned to roll with the energy and try to make it as productive as possible. I think about what I did last year that I was happy with, and what I completely neglected. One of the many things on my list for this year is my garden. Even my sad little chives have died. I made my cabbage rolls the other night and had to use dried minced onions. They still were delicious, but I have too many empty pots waiting to be filled with plants. I was so focussed on making my books digital last year, I ignored my garden. I’m going with a lot of flowers this year, and some of my favorite herbs. I tried tomatoes two years ago and they were a lot of work. Those suckers get huge. So in the interest of balance, something I’m lacking, and the reason I chose the theme for this blog in the first place, I’m adding gardening back into the schedule.

And I get to see things like this when I work in the garden. It’s a humming-bird on top of our dolphin fountain. Actually I think I was doing a final read-through of The Pirate and the Puritan which will be available mid-March.

I planned on getting this out earlier in the year, but I decided not to be a crazy lady and ignore my family, my health, and the chives plant I plan to buy to replace sad little chives.

In the mean time, Improper Pleasures will be free on Amazon March 16-March 20, 2013.  I’m pushing the third Pleasures book back to late summer/early fall. I’m working on getting new covers for all the Pleasures books so they’ll be easy to identify. The digital version of The Pirate’s Jewel will be available in July. After that, I’ll be working on a new manuscript that probably won’t be available by the end of the year. Thanks to all the readers who have enjoyed my books and even thanks to the ones who didn’t. At least you gave my work a try, and I’m grateful. It’s still amazing to me that I get to sail with Drew on a pirate ship one day, and romp with James in the gazebo the next.

Today and tomorrow my friend’s erotic vampire novella,  is free on Amazon. Sheri is an evocative writer with a different take on vampire lore.

And turn forward your clock on Saturday. Spring has sprung. And just in case you are like me and are just adjusting to 2013, you are not alone.  According to this article  New Years was celebrated as March 1 until 1752 in Brittain and her American Colonies.

Let me know if I am not alone. When does your New Year get started?