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Funny Friday
hey everyone….been a crazy day and just flying by to give you some yummy eye candy.
It’s been a crazy week. A lot busier than I planned on being.
Heard from Samhain about the Valentine’s anthology for next year. Didn’t get picked, but the editor did tell me that if I wanted to re-write it, adding to it, using the suggestions she made..she’d be happy to look at it again for consideration as a single title book. So I’ll be working on that one this weekend, plus Tony’s story.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Poetry Train…
Another Monday and another poem. This is another one I wrote for my third Home book. I think I’ll have all of Derek’s songs written before I start the book. Haven’t thought of a title for this one yet. I’m terrible at naming my poems. I guess I think it gives what the poem’s about away. 🙂
Your lonely eyes steal my soul
One piece at a time.
Your soft and brittle smile
Breaks and mends my heart.
With strong arms, you
Hold my body tight.
Trembling hands
Touch my heated cheek.
In dreams, I
See your face.
In streets, I
Call your name.
The world tells us
Love is wrong.
Especially when we’re
The ones in love.
Yet through the
Yelling and fighting,
I can still hear
The steady beat of your heart.
It leads me in
A dance
To find freedom in
Your lonely eyes.
It’s still a little rough, but the feeling’s there. 🙂
Hope everyone has a great Monday.
Finally Friday…
I know I usually pimp books on Friday, but I have to admit I don’t feel like it today…lol. Not that there aren’t a ton of good books out there. Must be a lazy day for me. don’t worry…pimping will resume sometime this weekend.
Also, the next installment of The Vanguard will be posted sometime this weekend as well. Last night was really busy and I didn’t get a chance to write it yet…lol.
I did do some work on Tony’s story along with the sequel to the short story I sent to Samhain for consideration and inclusion in their 2008 m/m Valentine’s Day anthology. Haven’t heard back from them yet about it, but I think I still have a few days left before they’ll be notifying people. 🙂
Yesterday, Kimi from Texas asked if I was ever going to write a story for Shade from Angel’s Evolution. I admit that when I wrote AE, I thought about doing a sequel and tell Shade’s story. I’m not ruling the possibility out. I did add a clue or two at the end of the story about Shade. But at the moment, his story isn’t on the schedule. I really want to get all the Home books done first and the Dragon books I’m planning as well. Though with the way things work for me, who’s to say, that tomorrow I won’t be inspired to write Shade’s romance. 🙂
Hope everyone has a great Friday.
Slight Delay
There will be a slight delay in the release of THREE, from what I’ve been told. Liquid Silver had a computer problem and they couldn’t publish this week’s books. So it looks like those two will be pubbed next Monday and ours will be pushed back a week…meaning it’ll be out June 18th. 🙁 Sorry for the delay, everyone, but unfortunately these things happen.
Wrote some more on both The Vanguard and Home of his Own. Plus did some work on a couple other story ideas. My main focus remains Tony’s story. Want to get it finished by the end of June.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday. 🙂
What..Wednesday Again…
Wet Wednesday
So last night, I was happily adding more background story to The Vanguard…earlier in the story than where we are now. 🙂 I actually ended up adding a whole new first chapter. As I was re-reading it, I realized I dropped us right into the story without any real build-up…which is fine for the blog story, but need more for the full story. Anyway, I was typing away..adding little things here and there when Lila (wonderful friend..taskmaster she is) reminds me that I need to get my Valentine’s story finished if I want her to look it over for me before I have to submit it.
Darn it, she’s right. It has to be submitted by June 1 and I don’t want to end up doing it the day before….lol. Not a good impression to make about hitting deadlines. If it gets accepted, it’ll be for a new-to-me publisher, Samhain. If not, I’ll re-work it (which means add more to it) and send it to LSB.
So, I closed Vanguard down and was about to open Out of Bounds when storms blew in. I ended up writing more of the story out in long hand. I’ll be typing it in today to see where I’m at in the story. I’ve got to add a couple of sex scenes (always fun). It needs to be around 25k and I’m at 17k at the moment. There isn’t any doubt I’ll reach the word count needed…though I might go over a little.
Umm…other than that, I didn’t do anything except watch the latest episode of Sopranos (the coolest theme song ever) and the hockey game. Detroit Red Wings won 5-0, but not before Anahiem tried to take Tomas Holmstrom out. The man is the toughest s.o.b. in hockey, imo. His forehead was split open and he probably had a concussion, but he came back after they stitched him up. Just no quit in that man.
Well, I hope you all have a great Wednesday..just keep telling yourself there’s only two more days left before the weekend.
Poetry
Okay, so I noticed on Rhian’s blog that on Mondays, she posts some of her poetry. Then, being the observant person I am, I saw several other people are doing it as well. I thought I can do this. I’ve got tons of bad poetry sitting around my house…lol. I can inflict it on people.
But what I’m posting today isn’t just a poem. It’s part of a WIP I have. The WIP is called His Heart’s Home. The third book in the Home series. (I don’t have Tony’s story finished yet-in case you’re wondering…lol)
His Heart’s Home is the story of Max (whose last name escapes me at the moment). He’s the foreman at Tony’s ranch. Max gets to babysit Derek St. Martin. Derek’s the biggest country star in the music industry at the moment. Derek’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Fame and fortune is eating him alive.
This is a song Derek writes for Max.
Tamed
Not a care in the world,
I ran wild and free.
Believed happiness was
Living only for the moment.
Didn’t need a soul mate
Except for a night.
Never wanted more.
Never saw the point.
You caught my eye,
Standing silent
In a crowd of people
Screaming my name.
A scarred hand
Reached
A soft word
Spoken.
And with a gentle touch,
You tamed me.
With a whispered word,
You chained me.
I haven’t figured out how to link to any of the other people who do this, but if you hop over to Rhian’s, she has a list and if you’re interested in joining in, she has the linky thing where you can get added to the list. 🙂
Hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day.
What to do?
Not much going on today. The sky’s grey and it looks like it’ll be raining before long. I’ve got nothing planned…so it might just be a lazy day.
I’ll write of course and see how much I can get done by the end of the day. Hopefully I’ll be closer to finishing Out of Bounds. Then I’ll do more work on The Vanguard. I have to find out where that story is taking me. Not sure yet.
I got an idea for a new story, so I might even do some work on that one. Not sure about a lot of the plot, but it’ll be a Native American shifter story, so have to do some research on Native American culture.
I hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday…where ever you live. 🙂
Happy Easter
Happy Easter, Everyone. May the day be filled with laughter and fun. Or how about just sunny skies and no snow?
Got my editors for both Stealing Life and Three anthology this past week. So that means we’re on schedule for a June/July release of both of them. 🙂
Did some writing yesterday. Not a ton. Been kind of lazy the last two days. But I’ll get back into the swing of things soon.
Week’s half over..
Hey everyone. It’s getting cold here again. Just when I thought spring was here to stay. Oh well…Stop by SiN and check out my cover for Stealing Life. Anne did another awesome job. There’s a couple excerpts posted there as well.
I did some writing yesterday. I’m at 18k on Home to Stay, but I’ve changed the title…lol. Figures. I’m thinking it’s going to be called Home of his Own. It suits the story better than the original title.
I added another 1k to Magpie and Snake’s story. I was glancing through it on Monday. Inspiration hit and I had to do some work on it. With three stories going at once, it’ll be interesting to see which one I actually end up finishing first. Though more than likely, it’ll be Tony’s story.
Have a great day.
