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Starting a new week…
Not much to talk about. Nothing happened over the weekend. Just wrote and hung out with my family. I really need to buckle down and get some solid writing done this week. I’m not nearly as far along in Tramps as I wanted to be by now.
Well, I hope you all have a good Monday. I’m going to start writing. 😀
Trying something new
My hubby and I went on Weight Watchers together. He wants to lose a lot of weight. I just want to take a few extra pounds off. But it’s more of a trying to eat healthier and feel better thing. So I’ve been doing Zumba twice a week, and we joined a gym yesterday. We’re heading out in a few minutes for our first workout. Woot! Should be fun…lol. I’ve already lost 5 lbs and only have 30 more to go. ONce I get into the swing of working out every day, I think it’ll be easy to get rid of the weight. But really more than that, I want to tone everything up. It’s getting a little saggy. 😀
Writing yesterday was a bust. I should have started Tramps, but while I got the file open and typed in the name, I didn’t get anything else written. Mostly just vegged again. Oh well. I’ll try again today…lol. I’m not worried about it yet. If I go much longer without writing anything on it, I might have to try a different story and come back to it. Which would screw up my release schedule, so I’m going to try and avoid that. 🙂
Well, I have to go now. Off to the gym. Hopefully there will be some eye candy there, aside from my hubby.
Last Monday in February
Since it’s so close to the end of the month, I thought I’d let you all know what my news is. If you’ve gone to ARe, or really any of the 3rd party sellers-or to Liquid Silver Books website to look for any of my books published by them, you won’t find them. After four great years being published with them and working with them, I decided to take the rights back to all my books. The only two left with LSB at the moment are Where the Devil Dances, and Two for One. Because both of those are published with other authors, I had to wait the full 90 days before I could get those back. Which is fine with me.
Again, I want to emphasize that my decision had nothing to do with Liquid Silver Books. They’re great people, and I loved working with them. I just decided it was time to move my books somewhere else. The purpose behind it is to consolidate my publishers and make it a little less of a search for you, the readers, to find my books. If I have them at three or four publishers instead of six or seven, it’d be quicker…lol.
And the good news is Total e-Bound has decided to pick up the Home series and Stealing Life so far. The other books are under review with them. 🙂 So at the moment, I have release dates for them, barring any unforeseen problem. No Going Home will be re-released Oct. 15th, Home of His Own-Dec. 31st. Wishing for a Home-Jan 28th. Also, I have release dates for the last two books in the series, Leaving Home will be out Feb. 25th and Home Sweet Home will be out March 25th. Stealing Life will be out April 22nd. The other news is all of the Home books will be released in print as well. I added more to Wishing to get it up to the right word count for print. So that’s awesome news.
Now I know you’re all probably grumbling about having to wait until next year for the last two books in the series, but at least you have actual dates to mark on your calendar to look forward to. 🙂 There are six more LSB books that TeB will be taking a look at to see if they want them or not. If not, I do have other options to publishing them, so they will be re-released at some point.
I did a pre-release schedule from Total e-Bound that goes through April of 2013. That makes me happy, and it’s a schedule I can keep without pulling my hair out…lol. I finished From Slavery to Freedom on Friday, and sent it off to my beta reader. Once she’s done, and tells me everything I need to fix, I’ll get it in to my editor at TeB. FStF is scheduled to be released on July 31st. Woot! I’m working on The Deepest Cut at the moment, trying to get it finished as well. We’ll see how far I can get on that before I have to start the second book in The Beasor Chronicles trilogy.
There are plans to take back some other books back from another publisher of mine, but until it actually happens, I’m keeping as silent as I can about that. 🙂 Again, I’m taking my rights back for no other reason than it’s time to move on. It’s been fun working with all my different publishers. Simply time to gather my little ducklings into fewer baskets.
I hope you all have a great day.
Hunk Day
Wow..we’re heading down the homestretch of February, and again, it’s gone by so darn fast. There were some things I meant to do in Feb. but haven’t gotten around to them yet. I might have to push them into March. Ugh!
Anyway, writing is going well. I’m coming down to the last couple of chapters of From Slavery to Freedom. Then it’s on to the next book that needs to be written, plus one or two more that will be worked on as well during the month. Oh, I have good news. I’ve worked out a pre-release schedule with Total e-Bound that stretches all the way into April of next year. I’m so excited to have books with release dates that far in advance. It helps keep me honest about which ones I have to write, and keeps me on a schedule. But I’m also able to fit in other stories for my other pubs as well. 🙂 Which is always good…lol.
Have a great day, everyone.
Famine is here….
Hey everyone, the third book in The Four Horsemen series is out now. Famine can be picked up at Total e-Bound. Just click here to check it out.
Here’s the blurb again:
Saving a dying man might be just what Famine, the Black Horseman, needs to feed his starving heart.
Having been sacrificed by his village shaman, Famine knows what it’s like to do anything to survive. He wanders the world, sowing drought and starvation in his wake. Yet he hates being the Black Horseman more than anything in the world, except the man who ended his life all those centuries ago. Famine never stops doing his job, and never allows himself to fall in love.
Ekundayo wants a better life for himself, so he steals a diamond from the mine where he works. Nothing goes well for him after that, and he finds himself dying in the desert on his way to the border. When he’s rescued by Famine, Ekundayo isn’t sure if his luck has changed or not. The longer he stays in Famine’s company, the more Ekundayo discovers he just might be falling in love with Famine.
One bad choice of Ekundayo’s part, and a future together seems out of reach. Will Famine let his only possibility of love go or will he defy Death himself to keep Ekundayo?
Yay! I’m so excited for all of you to meet Famine. I hope you enjoy him. 🙂
Well, I have to get writing. didn’t actually get much accomplished over the weekend, and I want From Slavery to Freedom done by the end of the week. Of course, it’s gone a little longer than I thought it would…lol. Hope my editor doesn’t mind.
Have a great day, everyone.
sorry
The next installment will be up tomorrow. 😀 Yesterday was a weird day. I got some writing done, but didn’t do a lot and was busy with real life stuff. I’m hoping today will go much smoother. We’ll see. lol
I didn’t sleep well either. Had all these story ideas rolling in my head…or it could have been just one story idea and I was seeing different scenes. I wish I had gotten up and just wrote it all down, but I didn’t, so now I have to hope I remember some of it. I certainly remember the two songs I was hearing when the scenes were happening. I’ll listen to them later on today, and see what returns to me. 🙂
I hope you all have a great day, and tomorrow will be another installment.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Here are some flowers for you. 😀 Unfortunately, the two sets of edits I did yesterday ended up taking up more time than I thought, and by the time I was done, I really didn’t want to do anything else. So I wasn’t able to write the next installment for Raven and Zach. But don’t worry. I’m going to get it done today, so it’ll be up tomorrow for all of you. 😀 I do have more set of edits to do, but the blog story comes first. lol
It’s snowing here, which gives me another good reason to stay home and work instead of running around outside.
Well, I better get to it. Have a great day.
Embraced in Gold Cover
This is the cover for the print version of Embrace My Reflection and Bring Him Gold. Isn’t it so pretty? It will be out some time in March.
Also, Bring Him Gold came out yesterday for those of you who haven’t heard. 🙂 A happy Valentine’s Day story giving us a glimpse into what’s happening with Ronnie and Lucius. Click here to check it out.
I have three sets of edits to do this week, so the next installment of They Walk Among Us might not be available until Wednesday. I really want to get all the edits out of the way, so I can focus on finishing From Slavery to Freedom, work on The Deepest Cut, and two other stories I’d really like to get started and finished asap as well. 🙂 It’s a tall order, but Slavery, DC, and one of the other stories are all halfway done, it’s simply a matter of filling in spots or writing the last few chapters. Only From Yesterday will be started from scratch. We’ll have to see. The new one I added to my schedule needs to be in by the beginning of May, so I might move it to work on in March along with Tramps.
Well, I guess I better get to editing. Yay! I hope you all have a great Monday. 🙂
First Week Gone…
The first full week of February is pretty much over with, and wow…I’m thinking this entire year is going to fly by. Of course, I just keep my head down and write, so I tend to lose track of the days…lol.
But at least my writing is going well. I got another 5k done yesterday, and I’m over halfway done with From Slavery to Freedom. I’m going to slowly start wrapping it up. I’m hoping it’ll be done by the middle of next week. If that happens, then I can finish up The Deepest Cut, and maybe even start working on the next two stories in line. 😀
I have an errand to run first thing this morning, then when it’s done, I’ll be coming home and writing the rest of the day. Woot! See how much I can get done.
I hope you all have a fabulous Friday and an awesome weekend.
Story will be up tomorrow
Sorry. I got caught up in working on my newest story, and trying to get my other short story finished. I didn’t have time to write the next installment of They Walk Among Us, but I’ll do it today. There’ll be one tomorrow, I promise. 🙂
Writing went well yesterday. Got a good start on From Slavery to Freedom, and added another 1k to my short story, which now means I need another 5k before I can consider it long enough…lol.
I hope you all have a great day.
