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Hello dear readers. Today is Monday, June 13, and we are nearly half way through this month. Many, many, many of you have been wondering why Silver Flame (book 3 of Vampire Girl) isn’t out yet, and when you can expect it to be out and why it isn’t out on preorder.

First, thank you SO MUCH for your excitement about this series. It’s so inspiring and we are a bit awed by how hugely popular Vampire Girl has become in such a short time. WOW! The first book launched in April. Midnight Star, book 2, launched in May, and we are working our tails off to get Silver Flame, book 3, out this month.

We originally hoped for an early June launch. That didn’t happen. Now we are pushing HARD for a late June launch, but we won’t know the date until we are closer to having it ready.

We did a talking about some of this if you want to check out it. But here’s the quickie explanation. First, we both got really sick. Nearly two weeks of cloudy brain, sinus infection, coughing out our lungs and just feeling pretty miserable. We tried to work through it, but it wasn’t very effective.

Second, we have an awesome opportunity to pitch the VG series to a big tv network, but that meant writing a pilot script and concept very quickly. Will this lead pan out? We have no idea. But we didn’t want to take any chances of losing an incredible chance at getting these books made into a television series. We will let you know the MOMENT anything is tangible with this. But we finished the script and concept and are doing final edits on it to send it over. FINGERS CROSSED!

Third, we’ve had some personal family court stuff we are in the middle of that has lasted MUCH longer than we thought possible. It’s taken its toll on our time and finances and mental focus. The good news is it’s nearly over. Fingers crossed on that one too.

Also, on the family front, we had a tremendous amount of end of school activities for our three daughters. It seems the older they get, the busier we get with their school events!

And finally, (and this is a biggie) we hit a snag in writing Silver Flame. Namely, the original story we outlined and began writing wasn’t working. At all. Great ideas but it didn’t fit with the character motivations or storyline. It wasn’t the kind of epic story we are committed to providing you, our readers. We knew it would not match the quality of the first two books.  So, sadly, we had to scrap the entire thing and start over. This really set us back. But it was worth it. Because we would rather delay the launch of a book than publish something that wasn’t up to our standard. We respect you, as our reader, too much to serve up something that isn’t the best we can possibly make it. 

The good news is, we are feeling better, we’ve finished the pilot script, our court stuff is wrapping up, the kids are out of school for the summer and enjoying days of sun and swimming, and we are DEFINITELY on the right track with the new rewrite of Silver Flame. You will get your Vampire Girl fix soon!

We will also be offering a preview of chapter 1 soon, so stay tuned for that!

Because we are cutting this to the wire. We are launching the moment it’s edited and ready. This is also why there is no preorder. We’d have to delay launch by a few weeks if we wanted to do a preorder, and we know you want it NOW! Yesterday, even! So we want to get it to you the moment it’s ready. I promise we will announce here, on , and our , the moment we have a launch date.

In the interim, we are going offline for a week or two in order to focus entirely on getting this book done and polished and into your hands. We’ll be scheduling some Facebook posts to keep you all engaged, and we’ll check on those when we return to the land of the interwebs, but it’s time to remove all distractions for a bit and make this happen. We know you want the next book, and we want you to have it. We are so excited about this series, about where it’s going, and about the reader feedback we’ve receieved.

All we ask is that you give us a little more time to get you the best book we can write. Be patient with us, and I promise, you’ll get your Fen and Ari and Asher and Ace soon!

In the meantime, have you checked out our other books? If not, this would be the time. You might start with (first book in the complete Forbidden Trilogy), or (first book in the Nightfall Chronicles.) If you don’t mind more adult content, you might enjoy the Seduced Saga under our pen name of Alex Lux, beginning with . Our sites might only have Amazon links listed, but these books are now all available on iBooks, B&N and Kobo as well. A quick search should pull them up. (We’ll be updating our website links as soon as we get Silver Flame out!)

For those who haven’t started Vampire Girl yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. Check out the trailer and buy links .

Okay, that’s the big update. Thanks for being patient. We love you and we are doing our very best to get these books out to you quickly, but anytime you have a publishing schedule of a book a month, there are going to be snags. Just know, we are working hard for you. XOXO

Happy Reading,

Lux & Dmytry Karpov Kinrade