I meant to post the first installment of my next blog story, but time and work got in the way. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get it up for y’all tomorrow.
This is a wonderful picture of the Irish coast. I love it and since my new story is set in a fictionalized version of Ireland, (more along the lines of a Celtic fairy tale) I thought I’d give you some scenery to look at. 🙂
I’m sure some of you have heard that I’ll be writing an anthology with Lisa Andel and Lila Dubois now. I really need to learn how to say no. lol While my blog story isn’t the short story I’ll be writing for the antho. Our choice of theme for the anthology brought about the idea for the blog story. 😉 We’re doing a Molten Fairy tale theme. Don’t ask when it’ll be out because both Lisa and I have a book or two each that we have to finish. And I’ve been pushing Lila to finish the second in her Zonah series. But probably some time this year is the best you’ll get from me at the moment. lol
Have a great day.
Thursday, March 1st, 2007,
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I have to admit, I’m fed up with snow and cold. Hopefully it’ll start warming up around here soon. Though this is where I’d rather be..on a tropical beach somewhere. 🙂 Doesn’t it look nice?
I’m working on an interesting and different blog story. I’m hoping to be able to start it tomorrow and post through out the month of March…ending it on the last day of March. We’ll see how it works out. Depends on how much else I have going…lol
The other stories are moving along. I’m so close to typing The End on Understanding Forgiveness. That will done tonight. Then I’ll send it to my cps and see what I screwed up because to be honest, something doesn’t feel right about the story. But my cps are great at telling me what I messed up and how to fix it. 🙂
I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday and enjoy the beach like I’m going to do (in my mind anyway.)
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007,
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I got another review yesterday for Angel’s Evolution. 🙂
Stacey at Just Erotic Romance Reviews gave Angel 4 stars and had this to say about the story:
“Written in the first person from the perspective of Angel, Angel’s Evolution staked a place in my heart. I wasn’t expecting the emotions I felt in the midst of this tale…While not overly erotic, Angel’s Evolution was deeply emotional, and TA Chase did a fabulous job with the writing of it.”
Thank you so much, Stacey. I’m thrilled that Angel’s story touched your heart. His voice was so strong, I couldn’t fight him. 🙂
Well, I didn’t finish Understanding Forgiveness like I wanted to yesterday, but I got another 1k written, so I’m closer. Which makes me happy because now I’ve been talked into writing another short story for a Molten anthology with Lisa Andel and Lila Dubois. It should be interesting…lol. I have some other stories to finish as well.
I hope everyone has a great day.
Monday, February 26th, 2007,
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Lila Dubois is the marvelously talented author of
Forbidden, a Molten Silver title from Liquid Silver. She’s my guest blogger today because Rhi wanted to tag her for the 50 fun facts, but Lila doesn’t have a blog. So I was willing to let her borrow mine for the day. *don’t worry. I’ll be back tomorrow. Hopefully with the great news that my short story is done.* Thank you for being nice enough to stop by. 🙂
Here’s Lila’s 50 facts:
1. Height?
5′-7′
2. Have you ever smoked heroin?
Uh… don’t you shoot heroine and smoke crack?
I think they are asking this to see if you know that heroine requires a needle.
3. Do you own a gun?
No. And I’ve protested and lobbied to have them banned.
4. Who would you let eat crackers in your bed?
Um. I don’t even let boys sleep in my bed, why would I let them eat crackers? Maybe the boy I fall in luuuuurve with will turn my brain to mush and I won’t notice him getting stuff all crumby.
5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
OMG YES. Bloodsucking Vampric Bastards. I hate needles.
6. What do you think of hot dogs?
That they made of something gross but taste good, especially if you get them from those people on the street who wrap them in bacon and fry them with onions. So good.Too bad they’re not included on any diet ever.
7. What’s your favorite Christmas song?
Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Tea.
10. Is your bathroom clean?
I’m a girl with her own bathroom, what do you think?
9. Can you do push ups?
If you held a gun to my head.
11. What’s your favorite piece of jewelry?
Hmmmm. Can’t decided on just one. I always wear the tanzanite ring my parents got me for high school graduation and a cool silver ear cuff with a star that wraps over my earlobe that my grandmother got me.
12. Do you like painkillers?When I’m in pain.
13. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
Fine. I’ll admit it. I bite me bottom lip and look at people from under my lashes. I also have boobs and am not afraid to use em.
14. Do you have A.D.D.?
Ohh look! Sparkly! *wanders away*
15. What’s your name?
My real name? It’s not Lila Dubois.
16. Middle Name?
Lila doesn’t have one. Poor Lila. But mine is Marie
17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?
I really want a cookie.
Whose fucking stupid idea was this crash diet?
How freaking many questions are there?
18. Name the last 3 things you bought:
A ticket to a friend’s dance troop’s show that we went to see last night.
Flowers for said friend.
Dinner at Barney’s before the dance show.
19. Who is your favorite visual artist?
Oh my gosh… can’t even decided. Plus I never remember names. Plus it changes minute to minute. I do love Waterhouse. Can’t help myself, I know it’s kinda cheesy but I love his stuff. Um… Nancy Spero. Faith Ringgold- “The flag is bleeding #2”
20. You’re stuck on a deserted island with two other people, who would you want to be stranded with?
Someone with magic powers and a Nobel Prize winner in a humanities category (I’d want someone to talk to.)
21. You’ve won a major award and have thanked your family, who else would you thank?
My roommates and friends
22. Current worry?
Savage isn’t done
23. Current hate?
The Oscars. They have completely f-ed up my whole neighborhood. Tomorrow is going to suck.
24. Favorite place to be?
On my bed relaxing.
25. How did you bring in the New year?
Sitting on the couch with my roommate drunk as all get up.
26. Where would you like to go?
Right now? Uh. Maui would be nice.
27. Do you own slippers?
Yup. A super ugly pair my mother gave me for Christmas.
28. What shirt are you wearing?
My pink baseball style “Radical Feminist” shirt
29. Do you burn or tan?
burn
30. Favorite color(s)?
lavender and teal (but not together)
31. Would you be a pirate?
I would be a totally awesome pirate. I wish I was a Pirate!
32. Are you gay?
No, that’s TA’s thing, I didn’t want to be a copy cat.
33. What songs do you sing in the shower?
Nope
34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a child?
That something would happen to my parents while I was sleeping.
35. What’s in your pockets right now?
No pockets, still wearing PJs.
36. Where are you?
Lying on my bed.
37. Best bed sheets as a child?
Rainbow Bright. She rules. She was doin’ Red Butler
38. Worst injury you’ve ever had?
Broken arm.
39. You’re on a trip around the world and have to select five landmarks to visit, what would you pick?
Machu Pichu (sp?), The Vatican, Chenanceau Cathedral, The Forbidden City and The Berlin Museum
40. How many TVs do you have in your house?
3. All the bedrooms but mine and the living room.
41. Who is your loudest friend?
TA. Just can’t shut that guy up…
42. Who is your quietest friend?
I should get one of these.
43. Does someone have a crush on you?A crush? What are we… 12?
44. Do u wish on shooting stars?No. Not enough time to think of a wish, study all the ramifications, and revise the wish.
45. What is your favorite book? P&P
46. What is your favorite candy?Dark Chocolate Milky Ways
47. What song do/did you want played at your wedding?
Wedding? Why do I have to get married? I didn’t do anything wrong!
48. What song do you want played at your funeral?
No songs. I expect people walking behind my casket wailing and rending their veils like characters from a Greek tragedy.
49. What were you doing at 12AM last night?
Trying to get off my eye make-up. Since I currently look like a $2 whore I don’t think I did such a good job.
50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
That was an f-ed up dream… I wonder if I have any fun email.
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Hope you enjoyed Lila’s answers…and remember we’ll be back to my usually awesome and amazing posts tomorrow. 🙂
Sunday, February 25th, 2007,
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Watched The Prestige last night. It was pretty good. Definitely different from the other magic movie that came out last year..The Illusionist. But that’s okay since Illusionist was more of a romance and this was what revenge costs to two men. Not really sure why Scarlet Johansson was in there for, except to add sex appeal for straight guys, I guess. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale…can you say hot? It was an intriguing look at magicians.
On Wednesday night, I ended up writing 4100 words on Understanding Forgiveness, bringing my total close to 9k. I want to add about 3k more and I think it’ll be done by Sunday night. Then I can focus solely on Tony’s story to get that finished. 🙂 I also wrote the second chapter in the fantasy story that popped into my head the other night. But since I don’t have any plans on adding it to my schedule at the moment, it’ll slowly take shape when I have a little extra time.
I hope everyone has an awesome Friday. I’m looking forward to the weekend.
Friday, February 23rd, 2007,
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Wow..it’s Wednesday all ready? Great. I’m happy about that actually…lol. Means two more days to the weekend.
So the threesome short story I wrote has been accepted by Liquid Silver. We’re just waiting on the contracts. I’m paired with Bonnie Dee and Lisa Andel. Let me tell you, their stories are hot. It’s definitely a Molten book. 😉 Lisa and I are letting Bonnie take the lead on the cover art. She’s already been in touch with April, the art director at LSB. But look for the anthology to be out by June or July. (hopefully…baring any problems)
Stealing Life is being looked over at LSB as well. I’m not worried about them turning it down. They’re really good about taking stories from authors they’ve published before. Just haven’t gotten the official word yet. 🙂 So I’m not going to give you a date for that one’s release yet. Though I know that I’ll be begging Anne Cain to do the cover for it. (If she’s not busy with other things..lol)
Understanding Forgiveness is coming along. I realized the other day though that this might be a sweet story without sex..though there will be some kissing involved. My two heroes just seem to want to take things slow and I don’t want to force the issue if it doesn’t fit in. But who knows? They might surprise me later on in the story. Mason Richardson is my shifter hero. He can change into the form of a snow leopard. Doctor Heinrich Gunther is the other hero. He has a secret eating him up inside. (figuratively and literally) *big grin* I’m a third of the way finished with it…so I’m hoping to have it done sooner rather than later.
Hope everyone has a wonderful wacky Wednesday.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007,
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Well, it’s Monday and another work week has begun. Woo-hoo!
Got some more written on Understanding Forgiveness yesterday. (which is my shifter short story), but I suffer from WADD..commonly known as Writer Attention Deficit Disorder. Meaning..I got a great idea for a new story and had to work on that for a while last night. It’s a fantasy and will be really cool once I get into the meat of the story..lol.
But I hope you all enjoy President’s Day and have a great Monday as well.
Monday, February 19th, 2007,
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I watched Gladiator again for the thousandth time it seems. Of course, I really just watched the fight scenes. The other actors and actresses did a great job, but really it’s all about Crowe for me. 😉
Didn’t do alot of writing yesterday, though I did manage to finish editing Stealing Life and submit that to LSB. Now just waiting to hear back from them. I’m thinking a late summer release for it. And I’m going beg and plead for Anne Cain to do my cover again. Since she’s done such a great job on the last two.
I’m working on Tony’s story now, plus Understanding Forgiveness, a short story for a special anthology the ManLoveRomance group is putting together for Aspen Mountain Press. I don’t have any other details than my story needs to be finished by March/April. I don’t have much longer to go before it’s done. 🙂
Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday.
Sunday, February 18th, 2007,
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I’m sure you’re wondering how do I manage to watch so many movies during the week…lol. I usually watch them while I write. I’m a great multi-tasker. 🙂
The Departed was a good movie. Had a great cast..though my favorite out of the bunch wasn’t in it much. Mark Walhberg. But still Matt Damon and Leonardo De Caprio were good. And it ended well, imo. The bad guy got his. Which makes me happy even though I understand about protraying real life and bad guys not always getting punished for what they do.
Finished up re-working Firebird (or Stealing Life as Lila spilled the beans yesterday about the new title) One of my beta readers made some good suggestions, so I worked them in to the story. They ended making it longer.
Faymas, if you stop by today, contact me. You won my SEx blog contest yesterday. We have to work out what you won. lol. Thanks to everyone who stopped by.
Have a great Friday. 🙂
Friday, February 16th, 2007,
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First off, Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. Enjoy all the chocolate you want. You get a free pass today. 🙂
Watched this movie the other night.
An Inconvenient Truth and I have to say their tagline is pretty close to dead on. “The most terrifying flim you will ever see” Seriously made me think about what we were doing to the planet and how it just might not be able to bounce back like it’s done before. The thought of Greenland disappearing into the North Atlantic gives me chills.
Didn’t get much writing done on anything last night. Decided to take the night off and just watch tv. Since I worked so hard to get Firebird finished, I needed to not think about writing. It was nice, but I’ll be getting back to the new stories that need to be finished. 🙂 Want to get supplying my adoring fans with books to read..lol. 😉
Have a great day. For those of you dealing with snow, I hope you’re warm and safe. Take care of yourselves.
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007,
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