Hi friends,

Wow! We already have three five-star reviews on Searching for Sanctuary, our book 3 that came out last Friday: Barb G, L Stratton and Kixfan – You are the best!

Thank you so much!!

Barb said, “This whole series is a great read. Love the characters and the storyline. Keeps you wanting the next book! Nice character development.”

L Stratton: “This is a really good read from start to finish. It is hard to put down.. Perfectly written with great characters.”

and Kixfan: “Great book. Very entertaining read.”

Your support really encourages us to keep writing more books, so thank you!

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Is Cash King? Be Prepared Tip #4

Quick story: A friend was driving into town to run some errands including a stop at the gas station. Halfway there, the traffic lights flickered. When he got to the gas station, he couldn’t buy any gas. Even though a back-up generator had the pumps working, they had no connection to the financial institutions, so his credit card and checks were no good. They were only accepting cash.

In the first hours after an emergency, when electricity is out, credit cards and checks quickly quit working and only cash is accepted. It will suddenly be too late to run to an ATM to withdraw funds.

So it’s a good idea to keep a decent amount of cash on hand, including a collection of smaller bills to make change and buy small items.

Also, consider stashing some in your vehicles for emergencies, too.

Recommendations for how much cash to keep on hand varies from an amount equal to three or four days of your normal spending, up to $1k-$2k.

What do you think? How much would be prudent to have enough to last until the power comes back on? Obviously there will be a big difference between a short power outage and a major disaster that requires evacuation.

And other trade goods might come in handy, food, ammunition, silver coins, etc. I’d love to hear your ideas.

Be safe out there!

Thanks again for all your amazing support! You’re the best!

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Misty’s Writing Update:

We finished writing book 6 this week!!

We’re pretending there isn’t any editing (I call it grumblediting) ahead of us so we can celebrate and grin for a little. 😀

After that, we’ll finish the editing up with as little grumbling as possible. And then we’ll pick up our Virus post-apoc series and see how fast we can finish the trilogy and get it out to you.

If you remember, we had books 1 & 2 done when we got this great opportunity to write with Mike Kraus. So, we’ll be finishing them and writing the third in the next month or two. We’re hoping to do a fun, free prequel to go with the series, too, so we’ll let you readers know first, when it’s available.

Also, there should be some awesome promotions around August when the sixth book in the Aftermath series comes out, so watch for those!

Enjoy reading this week!

— Misty 🙂