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Wednesday Work in Progress
How about a little naked Adam Levine? 🙂
I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at Leaving Home. A little bit of work in progress from me.
Excerpt: (copyright c. 2012 T.A. Chase)
Leaving home was an integral part of growing up. It was an important step to discovering who a man was to become. Peter Skinner understood that, yet he couldn’t help feeling sad as he carried the last few boxes out to Yancey’s truck.
Sad because moving out meant he’d cut his last ties to the family he’d thought would love him forever. Peter snorted silently. He should’ve known that once he told the truth, they’d turn their backs faster than a Quarter Horse cutting a steer from a herd. His grandfather ruled the Skinner clan with an iron fist, and if he said Peter must be shunned, the rest would go along with his decree.
“Do you have everything, Peter?” Yancey helped him put the boxes in the back of the vehicle.
He looked back at the house where he grew up, and sighed. “No. I got everything I want to keep. They can throw the rest of it away for all I care.”
“Throw it away? Your parents would really do that?” Yancey frowned. “That seems a little harsh.”
“You’ve met my grandfather right? You’ve seen how he treated Les and Tony. He wasn’t happy about it when I acknowledged any of you existed. Then I had the nerve to start working for Les.” His laugh was harsh. “Yes, they’ll throw away anything that will remind them of me. Trust me. I saw them do that with my dad’s younger brother. He didn’t do what Grandfather wanted, and he left. No one’s seen or heard from him since.”
Peter remembered hearing his parents fight over it when he was little. His father had removed all the pictures featuring his brother from the walls and albums. Peter’s mother hadn’t wanted to do that. Of course, Grandfather hadn’t liked Mother either, so she would have gone against anything he said.
Which was why Peter had been surprised when she stood right beside his father and told him to leave. It had crushed him, causing his heart to break and question his plan to be honest. He’d run to Max, who held him while he cried. Then Max had explained that the best families were the ones they built for themselves.
Wishing for a Home cover…
Here’s the new cover for Wishing for a Home. 🙂 I think all of the new covers are great. Definitely know they belong together, don’t you? I’ll have to go and check to see when it’ll be out.
I plan on finishing The Whore of New Slum today, and filling out the forms before sending it in. I’ve already started Leaving Home, Peter’s story. That one will be done by the end of Dec. along with at least one short story. (keeping my fingers crossed on that)
I hope you all have a great Monday. 🙂
End of the month already?
I’ll be sharing a new cover next Monday. 🙂 Yay!
Well, I have to fill in the middle part of my steampunk story, and I’m hoping to get it done today, but I’m not sure if I can. If not, I’ll have to ask for an extension…just a short one..lol. As soon as The Whore of New Slum is done, I’ll be starting the next Home book-Leaving Home (Peter’s story) and a short story titled Reserved for Him. The short story goes to Total e-Bound as well. So I have a bunch of new stories coming out next year at TeB as well as a few old stories being re-released.
I hope you all have a great weekend. 🙂 I’ll be writing my fingers to the bone. (Not really, but I’ll be writing as much as possible…lol)
New Cover….
This is the new cover for the re-release of Where the Devil Dances. It’ll be out next year in the first couple of months. I don’t have my calendar up to give you an exact date…lol. You can check it out on the my site. 🙂
Also, No Going Home has been re-released by Total e-Bound. If you hadn’t picked it up when it was available before. 🙂 There isn’t anything new added to this version, just re-edited. So if you already have it, you don’t have to pick it up…unless you want the new cover. The good news is…if you’ve always wanted a print copy of No Going Home, you’ll be able to get one in the next couple of months. I can’t wait to see all the Home books out in print. Yay!
Still working on The Whore of New Slum. I might not get the next installment of the blog story done today. I’m going to try and get as much of The Whore done today as I can. The deadline to sub it is Dec. 1st…and I’d really like to get it done before then. 🙂
Have a great day.
The Vanguard is available…
Now that my brain is functionally close to normal…lol. I can let you know that The Vanguard has been re-released by Total e-Bound today. With a great new cover (not that I didn’t love and adore the cover Anne Cain did for me for the original release) and more editing, it’s a fresh start for the boys. 🙂 Don’t worry though, I didn’t add anything new to it, so if you already have the first version, don’t feel pressured to buy this one. The great news is it’ll be out in print as well. I think in December or January, so that’s awesome. 🙂
If you’d like to check it out, click here and it’ll take you to its page at Total e-Bound. 🙂
I have edits to do on Home of His Own and a final galley to look over for Here Be Dragons. Also, I have to do the next installment for the blog story. I’ll be busy the rest of the day. And hopefully, my late night won’t catch up with me.
Have a great Monday, everyone.
New Cover…
Here’s the new cover for Home of His Own. I think it looks great…and I really can’t wait to see all of the Home books together in print. I think all five of them will look awesome. 🙂 I’m hoping to have all five available to buy at GRL next year.
Well, I’m at GRL in New Mexico. Woot! It’s been great seeing everyone who has come in so far, and there are a bunch arriving in the next day or so that I can’t wait to see again. Yay!
I hope you all are having a great day.
New cover for No Going Home
This is the new cover for No Going Home, which comes out in November from Total e-Bound. I really like it….just as much as I liked the first cover I ever got for it. 🙂
I’m doing the FLE on NGH soon, and it’ll be up for pre-order at some point soon after. Though like I said, I didn’t add anything new to this version. Just some editing and cleaning up of things that were missed the first time around. And the cover is different…lol. I’m not completely sure when it’ll be out in print, but that’s the great news. All of the Home books will be in print as well. Yay! lol
After edits, I have to work on the next installment of Threadbare, and see which of the many stories I need to write will speak to me and let me work on them.
Well, I hope you all have a great Wednesday. I’ll be revealing another new cover on Friday. 🙂
The Installment will be up Tomorrow
My days are screwed up…and somehow I forgot today was Thursday…lol. Don’t worry, there will be an installment up tomorrow for Threadbare Gypsy Souls.
But in case you’re interested, the new version of The Vanguard is up for pre-order at Total e-Bound. Click on the link here to check it out. 🙂
I’ve been having problems getting Steril, from Thieves (which is the last book in The Beasor Chronicles) to talk to me, so I’m going to start working on Leaving Home to see if that might get Steril more vocal about his story. 🙂 Not sure if it’ll work, but at least I’ll have a story working for me. lol
I hope you have a great day…and make sure to stop by tomorrow to see what Nash and Cullen are up to. 😉
From Yesterday is rolling along nicely. As soon as I come up with a blurb, I’ll share it with you. 🙂 News on the Coming Soon front. Looks like we’re going to release Where the Devil Dances in February next year. What that means is Leaving Home, Home Sweet Home, and Stealing Life will be pushed back a month. Don’t worry…they’re still coming out next year, but this gives me a little breathing space for the two haven’t been written yet. Just in case they cause me as much trouble as Tramps did. lol
Well, I’ll be writing soon. Need to get the next installment of my blog story done, and hopefully another 3k on FY. Yay! Have a great Monday.
April’s Over?
Hey check it out. I’m in Total e-Bound’s Author of the Week spotlight, which means if you haven’t picked up one of my books from them yet, they’re 20% off this week. Woo-hoo! Click here to see.
I can’t believe it’s the last day of April all ready. Where the heck has this year gone? I swear the years never seemed to go so fast when I was younger…lol. At times, it seems like I can barely keep up. I’ll be working on Tramps today and for the next week or so to try and get it finished asap. I’d like to get another story done in May, then start on the last two Home books. When those two are done, I have two stories to write for Amber Allure. After they’re finished, I can rearrange my schedule a little to fit in a couple of stories I’ve really been wanting to write. We’ll have to see if my muse cooperates with me…lol. He doesn’t always go in the direction I’d like him to go. Stubborn muse. 🙂
I hope you all have a great Monday, even if it’s the start of the work week.
