It’s been a busy few weeks for me and I’ve fallen off my usual blogging schedule. I’ve been super busy writing new stories, and proofing or editing other ones. All of them are vampire romance books!
At the moment, I’m working hard towards getting the four novellas in my Vampire Erotic Theatre series completed in first draft. I have book one (Covet) and book two (Crave) completed in first draft now, and I will work on writing Seduce and Enslave once I have done the second draft of the next Vampires Realm novel, Masquerade.
I have finally proofed Heart of Darkness, which is a stand alone vampire romance novel that will be out on October 22nd in Ebook format, and hopefully out in paperback shortly afterwards. Heart of Darkness now has a blurb too so you can finally learn more about the book!
Heart of Darkness
Felicity Heaton
A vampire prince on a four hundred year old mission to avenge his murdered sister…
Aleksandr Nemov won’t stop until the last of the vampire hunter’s progeny is wiped from the Earth. Each kill has stolen a piece of his humanity, pushing him towards the black abyss all vampires hold within their hearts. Now he is teetering on the edge, close to devolving into a beast, and time is running out as he tracks the last hunter to Prague. There he finds a beautiful woman who could be his one chance for salvation, but is it already too late for him?
A vampire guard who will do whatever it takes to protect those she loves…
Elise is dedicated to her duty. It’s the only thing she has left. All that changes when she meets Aleksandr in Prague and her master grants him permission to stay at her bloodline’s mansion. She knows all about Aleksandr but none of it prepares her for how she feels when the legendary prince’s hunt becomes one for her heart. Elise battles him with all of her strength but can she stop herself from falling for the handsome hunter? When he reveals the depth of the corruption in his soul, will she have the strength to face the pain in her past and do whatever it takes to save him?
This book will be released on October 22nd, so there’s not too long to wait for it now!
I’ve proofed Heart of Darkness and now I’m getting the formats ready for adding them to sites just before the release day and putting together the paperback cover and inside so I can get that created too.
Next on my list is Masquerade second draft, which is the tenth book in my popular Vampires Realm series. I’ve let the book sit for a while whilst I proofed Heart of Darkness and wrote Covet and Crave. Now I’m ready to get going on it. It’s all printed out on A4 paper at the moment, waiting for me to do my initial read through. Once that’s done and I’ve put all my comments and change ideas into my word document, I’ll get cracking on the second draft. It’ll probably take me a few weeks. This means that it won’t be released until early 2012. I know people are waiting for the next Vampires Realm book but it’s really important that what I give you is the best it can be and that means taking my time over it rather than rushing to get it out there. Sorry about that. It is coming though, promise. It will probably be out in January rather than December, so only a month’s delay. It’ll be worth the wait. I’m hoping to get another Vampires Realm story written soon so I can keep rolling with the series and eventually release two books a year for it. I have around another 10-15 ideas for Vampires Realm stories so there’s plenty to keep me going.
I’m going to be having a little more time between novel releases in the future. Part of it is about giving myself enough time to effectively promote each novel, but it is also about giving myself more time in general. I just need to allow a little more time with my schedule so I can keep on track with everything else being an author entails too, like blog posts, networking, promotion, etc. At the moment I’m just not allowing enough time for those things and it’s really important that I start doing that so I can continue to build my author name and reach new readers with my stories. I really have been slacking on that front recently. There’s a lot of things that I should be giving priority to that would benefit me but I just haven’t had the time. I’ve been a full time author for over six months now so I need to get my schedule sorted and working for me, and get it all back on track. As much as I would love to spend every day either writing or editing, it just isn’t possible. Everything else needs to be done too and I’m not famous enough that I have a PA to do all the other stuff for me. Lol. Besides, I really enjoy getting out there and talking about my books and sharing with you guys.
In other news, I’ve heard back from the editor at the Spanish publisher who have offered me a contract for translating the Her Angel series in Spain. I got back to them with some requests for changes to the contract the other week and it seems they’re happy to accommodate most of my requests. We’re discussing a February 2012 release date for the anthology of Her Dark Angel, Her Fallen Angel and Her Warrior Angel in Spanish (ebook and paperback) which is exciting. They’re very excited about the series and I’m hoping this can pave the way for other books being translated into Spanish, and perhaps other languages too.
Right. I’m off to do the final corrections to Heart of Darkness and then get cracking on creating the different formats for my website, Amazon, Smashwords, CreateSpace etc!
