Masquerade and Vampires Realm Series News

This week I’ve been working on the next novel in my popular vampire romance series, Vampires Realm. I’ve made some progress on Masquerade since Monday. I finalised the new improved plot and made the necessary changes to the 30000 words I had already written before my muse decided to introduce some new characters and improved ideas for the story.

Tuesday was a day off this week, but on Wednesday and Thursday I managed to write around 22000 words for the story. I’ve made great progress and I’m really happy with the story so far, and it’s always nice to get past the point where the hero and heroine start to get together. Everything is in motion in the story now so I just need to keep going with the flow. It’s easier said than done though. This morning I was supposed to get up and get on with some blog tour posts and then write another 12000 words. Unfortunately, I woke up really tired and groggy and wasn’t really in the mood to write. The day was against me, and it took me most of the morning to get my blog stuff done and then my sister popped around and before I knew it, it was early afternoon! I wasn’t in the mood to write then, so I headed out and picked up some sketching materials and then did some preliminary designs for the Her Angel series romance trading cards I’ll be making soon.

I’m really pleased with the designs I’ve come up with so far and now I just have to bring them to life. Again, easier said than done! I just hope that my skills as an artist can live up to the ideas I have. I’m going to work on these until they really shine and stand out from the crowd. I have a great idea to make them really unique (other than the fact they’re hand drawn art) and I can’t wait to get them finished and printed now. I’m sure they’ll look fantastic. Plus, as a bonus, I’ll be able to use the images on my mini-site I’m creating for the series and maybe on merchandise too.

Next week, I’ll continue writing Masquerade. I just need to push on with it and not let myself get lazy. I’ll probably hit the coffee shops until it’s done and just focus on it. I think I can have it finished by Wednesday, which would be great. I probably have another 30000 words to write. It’s a shame I wasn’t in the mood to write today, but I don’t feel it was a complete waste of a day as I have my sketches done for the romance trading cards and I came up with more ideas for Her Demonic Angel. It seems angels were pushing for attention today. lol.

I really want to do a second edition for the Prophecy Trilogy, which makes up the first three books in the Vampires Realm series. I wouldn’t change anything major in the story, but I do feel I’ve grown as a writer now and I want to smooth out some of the weaker writing in it and polish it up. The trouble is, the trilogy weighs in at 350000 words, which is a lot of editing time. Because I would want to make some major revisions to the writing to improve it, it would probably take me quite a while. Off the top of my head, around 44 days of work. I don’t really have enough time at the moment. I wish I did because people ask me whether they’ll come out in paperback and I want to say yes, but I don’t want to put them into paperback until I’ve edited them and I’m happier with them. That’s the trouble with writing. The more you write, the more you improve, and the more you look back and go – man, I could have written that better. I take comfort from the fact that people love the Prophecy Trilogy so it can’t have been that bad!

I think this all comes back to the fact that I have too many stories to write and not enough time!

I’m going to get a couple of blog posts written for the Her Angel tour and then call it a night.

About Felicity Heaton

I'm a NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton. In my books I create detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons! If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, Larissa Ione, Kresley Cole, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will love my books too.

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