Delay

I hoped I wouldn't have to do this, but as the days and weeks have passed, it's become clear to me that it's inevitable.

I'm not going to finish Perfect Nightmare anytime soon.

Therefore, I've canceled the pre-order.

I know so many of you are looking forward to this book. Trust me, I get it. You guys are incredible, sending me messages all the time checking in on this book and I love hearing from you, but the pressure to get this one JUST RIGHT is, frankly, overwhelming.

I have ADHD and because of it, I struggle to force myself to work on something when my muse just isn't there. I'm also very easily overwhelmed.

The main problem with this book is the timeline and trying to sort out the million and one threads tying all the stories together. This may be a slight spoiler, but Tristen & Waverly's story begins at the same time Beautiful Carnage does and the timeline of Perfect Nightmare's first half takes place over the same timeline as Beautiful Carnage and Sweet Destruction before the second half continues the timeline new.

So, that means that me, with horrible time blindness, has to try and sort through three separate timelines and somehow weave them together.

It's not going well.

The good news: I *AM* making progress on it. I am continuing to work on the story and I do have a strong idea of what's going to happen in this book. I'm not giving up on it, or even stepping away from it. I'm just asking for you to be patient with me a bit longer while I sort through everything in my head.

I know some of you may be asking why I don't just change up the storyline so I can avoid these timeline issues all together and all I can tell you is it's not that simple. For me at least, when a character's story pops into my head, that's it. I can make changes to small parts of it, but the underlying skeleton is what it is.

I don't tell them what their story is, they tell me.

And because of that, I can't change it. The second I sat down and opened up my mind to let Tristen & Waverly's story come to me, I knew what it was going to be (not all the little timeline-ish details but the main, big parts).

That was it.

And so that's what it will be, even if it kills me.

Thank you for sticking with me. I appreciate it more than you'll ever know.

-H