Very excited

My next book, Breaking The Covenants is proceeding apace.

Celina made a trailer for it. I've never had a trailer before. :)



Breaking The Covenants will be released April 24th from Aspen Mountain Press.

Been too long

Sorry.

But I've had a major case of the winter blahs.

Not much to report. The second book of The Vampire Covenants Trilogy, Warding The Covenants proceeds apace. Celina and I are a little over 50,000 words into it.

We should be receiving line edits for Breaking The Covenants soon. It will be released by Aspen Mountain Press on Friday, April 24, 2009. Yay!

That's it for now. Later.

Hooray!

We got the contract for Breaking The Covenants.

I'm really excited about this. It's my first novel. And it's damned good.

Here's the blurb for it.

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The German vampire Gunther von Wittersheim has a problem: he’s fallen in love with the English Lady Marguerite Giffard and his greatest immortal enemy knows about it. Alphonse de Brunel is also a vampire, and ruthless enough to use the human girl as a weapon against his foe. When de Brunel captures Marguerite and turns her into a vampire against her will, Gunther swears to destroy him.

But vampires are bound by the Covenants, a code of law enforced by the mysterious and most powerful of the vampire Elders. If Gunther kills de Brunel, the Conclave will destroy him. Marguerite must find a way to keep Gunther’s thirst for revenge from leading him to his death. When they pursue de Brunel to St. Petersburg, they find themselves caught up in a revolution that pits vampire against vampire. Can they find a way to capture de Brunel and return him to the Conclave before the violence in Russia sweeps them up? Or will they, too, fall prey to the breaking of the Covenants?

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It's been a real slice working with my co-author, Celina Summers.

Time to do an update

Well, Breaking The Covenants went out to several beta readers and the feedback was positive. I'd say we have a winner.

I did have to rewrite my opening scene. Well, I didn't have to but Celina thought it would be a good idea. She was right. I was winging it the first time and didn't have a clear idea of Gunther's character. This time turned out much better.

We've submitted a partial to the publisher that suggested the project, Aspen Mountain Press. I'm pretty sure we'll get a contract out of it.

That's it for now. I'll try to post on a more regular basis.

Edits are started

For Breaking The Covenants.

We've got a request for a partial and I'm pretty sure we'll get a contract from it.

Going to be a busy weekend though.

Finished!

The first draft for Breaking The Covenants is finished. 115K words.

Now come the polishing.

I really like how Celina set up for the next one.

Update

Somehow I managed to pound out 2,300 words on Breaking The Covenants yesterday. I'm pretty pleased with that.

I'm figuring that including what my co-author wrote the book is 110,000 words now. Yay! The end (of the first draft) is in sight.

I don't have anything planned for that today so I think I'll work on my menage erotic romance I'm calling Among The Stacks as one of the characters is a rather repressed librarian. Not to worry. She's anything but repressed by the end of it.

New review

For In The Dark.

Desiree at Enchanting Reviews just loved it.

Yay me.

A quick report

My latest writing project, Breaking The Covenants continues apace.

As of this morning it stands at about 96,000 words.

Yay me.

Things are good

I seem to have, for the moment, rediscovered useful sleeping habits. It's so nice not wandering around in a haze of fatigue.

The project I'm working on with Celina Summers is proceeding apace. The story has gone places I've never expected, probably because we're both pansters. But we have the plot firmed up. And we've decided that it is the first book of a trilogy.

The title of the first book is going to be Breaking The Covenants. This is because the background of the story centers around the covenants that vampires live by, and the consequences of breaking them.

It's a great story and I'm very flattered that Celina agreed to work with me.

I love it

When people say nice things about my work. Especially when they are people I like or admire.

Last night I was doing an author's chat with my co-author, Celina Summers.

She had just read my latest e-book, Gillian's Place. She said it was one of the five best books she read this year.

That made me feel good.

Update

Things seem to be turning around.

I've gotten back into the habit of sleeping all night. Damn, that's nice.

And my new writing project is coming along nicely. It's hard keeping up with my co-author though. She's a bleeding writing machine. *wink*

Life's good.

Yay me!

My latest e-book, Gillian's Place, has been nominated for Best Contemporary / Suspense Erotic Romance - Fall 2008 at Night Owl Romance.

If you're so inclined you can vote for it here.

This was cool

An interview with my vampires, George Belleveau and Diane Patterson.

Also I found a photo recently that is pretty much exactly how I imagine Diane to look.



A few years older and not quite as Goth, but her hair color, face and body are spot on.

Oops.

It's been a week since I last posted anything. Sorry.

Actually things have been good. I've actually typed Fin on a first draft. That's the first time since early May. That feels good. My critique partners like it too.

I'll finish polishing and submitting it to Literotica today.

Tomorrow night is a play party, the first time I've ever been to one.

I'm ready. I did some shopping for equipment last Friday and today.

Last Friday I got a good pair of leather cuffs and a very nice wire crop.

Today was peripheral stuff, black t-shirts (I do want the right ambiance), some salve for sore spots, tissues for wiping tears and wet towelettes for cleaning welts and that. Also clothespins. You can guess what those are for.

While I was at the hardware store getting the clothespins I discovered they were right next to the chain dispensers. Needless to say that gave me ideas. I'm not sure if I'm going to go with the gold covered or the thin with somewhat sharp edges.

Oh well. Plenty of time to decide.

Life's good.

Sigh

Decided to start raining and hard. There goes this afternoon's yard work. It's hard to get caught up.

So I'll write.

I've got three works I'm wandering between. A BDSM story entitled Bound In Roses, a romance I'm calling Sheena From Tallahassee and a menage romance with the tentative title of Among The Stacks.

That should keep me busy.

A new review

For my latest e-book, Gillian's Place

WitchGiggles at An Alternative Read just loved it. She had wonderful things to say about my work.

That really made my day. *grin*

Hooray for me!

I really do seem to have shaken off the blues.

I got nearly 1,300 words of writing done today. Yay!

I'm quite pleased with myself.

Just to make sure…

I post today here's an update on my life.

I finished the second chapter of my first novel last night. Tentatively titled Among The Stacks it's a menage romance featuring a librarian, a writer and a professor of English Literature. Just to show that being intellectual doesn't mean you can't have fun.

I'll try to get some more yard work done. With only a set of clippers and the fact that nothing's been done for months means the best I can do is make a large dent in it. If it doesn't rain, again.

I'll be doing promo over at Brenda Williamson's Romance Party group on Yahoo today. It's the third anniversary of her loop and is throwing a big to-do to celebrate.

One of my publishers, Aspen Mountain Press, is having a publisher's day at the Literary Nymphs Yahoo group so I'll be posting there as well.

Now if the guy using the floor sander on the first floor would just finish up so I could have some quiet.

First review

For my latest e-book, Gillian's Place.

And Diana at Night Owl Romance says it's a keeper!

That should keep my heart light for a while.