I Love You, Always

~ nataliecward ~ Leave a comment

Ok, so I know Luke’s book has been a long time coming….trust me, it feels like a really long time that I’ve been writing him…and actually, it’s been 2 years.

Anyway, the good news is, he is finally finished! 

And I’m so relieved about this, that I thought I’d share this with you…not a teaser because I’ve done so many of those already. This is a deleted scene.

I have loads of them because I wrote so much of I Love You to Death from Luke’s POV back when I was writing it from Ash’s POV. But I Love You, Always is not a re-telling of I Love You to Death, it’s a different story, so a lot of it didn’t make the cut. 

And now that I Love You, Always is done, there’s also a lot of other scenes that got cut in the editing process because they didn’t quite fit, or re-written because they weren’t quite right.


Anyway, here is one of those scenes…hope you enjoy.

Asha is still asleep as I slide into bed, but she stirs when I pull her body against mine. “You okay?” she asks, her voice heavy with sleep.
I take a deep breath. “Can’t sleep,” I whisper, knowing this is only going to mean she won’t be able to either.
“Want to talk?” she murmurs, rolling over in my arms so she’s facing me. “You been drinking?” she asks as I press a kiss to her lips.
“Yeah, just had a couple with Pete,” I whisper, my hand smoothing over her hair and running down her back to her waist.
“Did it help?” she asks, and I know that’s the only thing she cares about here.
I shrug. “I don’t know, maybe,” I admit. “He tells me I should talk to you.”
I watch as Ash pulls back a little, her eyes open and watching me now. I can tell she’s still sleepy, but she’s focused on this, on getting me to talk. “Pete’s a smart guy,” she says, an eyebrow raised.
I laugh now, leaning in to kiss her. “I know, he really is.”

Stubborn Love

~ nataliecward ~ Leave a comment

Ok…the next book. Here is my beautiful new cover designed by Sarah Hansen at Okay Creations. I love this so much!!

Stubborn Love is a companion novel to I Love You to Death. It is Mia & Jared’s story but features overlapping characters, events and timelines.

My plan is to release it September 2013.

Confession time.

~ nataliecward ~ Leave a comment

So, I have a little confession to make about this first draft I finally finished. Remember I posted on Facebook, that karaoke song of mine…The Reason…remember I told you I had a teeny tiny confession to make? Well here goes…

  1. Luke is a stubborn arse…really
  2. Because Luke is a stubborn arse, it’s hard for me to sit down and just finish his book. Because I’m a crazy person, I actually need these characters inside my head talking to me…he’s not.
  3. Two other people were jumping up and down and yelling at me though…I’d already started their story months ago and they were getting antsy for me to finish it…that’s what I did.
  4. Did I mention Luke’s a stubborn arse?
  5. Remember that other ending I posted yesterday? Where Ash says, “He’s stubborn remember?”  see, even she knows he’s a stubborn arse
  6. But she also said this, “Jared doesn’t live with us anymore because now he lives with Mia. She left Chicago when everything changed with them, when they finally sorted all their shit out, but that’s for them to tell you about.”

That is for them to tell you and guess what, they want to…So, after that long rambling confession, the take home message is this;

Luke’s book is not next…

Jared & Mia’s is…

Sorry…I really do plan to finish Luke’s book…their story just needs to be told first…