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Hunter’s Moon release date change

Posted on 10th January 2011 by Felicity Heaton

The appointment for my ear operation is February 10th… the release date for Hunter’s Moon was February 12th. See the problem here? I don’t think I’m going to be up for much partying or work in the first few days after my ear operation, so I’m shifting the release date for Hunter’s Moon to February 26th. Yes, you’ll have to wait an extra two weeks for the book. Well, Vampires Realm series readers have been waiting for over a year for the next story in the series (non-free) so I guess two weeks more won’t kill you, will it?

The good thing about this is that it also gives me an extra two weeks to work on the story. Nicolae and Tatyana, the hero and heroine, are doing a Winter and Nika (from Winter’s Kiss) and being a pain at the start. There’s a few emotional / response glitches to smooth out. I just feel that I need to get their reactions pinned down at the start, and work in the prospect of them coming to love each other. At the moment, they’re quite set against each other, which makes it difficult to progress their relationship from hate to love in a believable way. Of course, I can’t just do away with their issues about each other. They need them because of the things that have happened in their past / their upbringing. I just need to make sure that they’re not dead set against each other, and there’s leeway for a relationship and feelings to change.

I’m in the polish / third draft phase with the book at the moment. It’s now novel length at almost 62000 words and I still have another fifty pages to edit. There’s a chance that it will creep up to around 65000 words by the time that I’m done with it. I need to go back and re-read the first few chapters to polish them a bit better and get the characters ironed out.

I have to say that the extra two weeks breathing time with Hunter’s Moon is the only good thing to come out of my ear operation. I’m not looking forward to it one bit. I’ve only been put under once before, when I was very young, and I don’t remember it really, but I do know that I didn’t like it. It gave me my phobia of needles because of the way I was handled, and I really don’t want to be knocked out. I guess it’s better than feeling all that pain though!

I’m also having to shift my release schedule for the rest of the year around too. Not the dates, but what books come out on them. I need a bit of breathing room if I’m going to reach my 11 releases in 2011! I’ll post more about that another time.

Have a great week everyone!

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paranormal romance book news

Posted on 20th December 2010 by Felicity Heaton

It’s been snowing heavily here in the UK and it’s chaos. I’ve been unable to get to work because of the snow. I’m hoping that tomorrow the weather will be better and trains will be behaving themselves, and I’ll be able to get into work. If I can’t, I’ll have to work from home as best I can.

I’ve been lapse at updating my blog this weekend because the snow has been so distracting. I swear I spent most of Saturday watching it constantly falling. It was snowing for over 6 hours and we ended up with 8 inches in the end. I spent a large part of Sunday tiring myself out with clearing the drive of snowso my husband and next door neighbour wouldn’t skid into the wall of our house when driving into or out of it. There’s a huge bank of snow along the wall now. It’s very pretty outside, and we have an amazing row of icicles along the entire length of the back of the house, but it’s very inconvenient! My cat thinks so too.

This weekend I posted chapter 2 of Love Immortal. If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for? We’re all snowed in together so we might as well read something good to entertain us while we can’t go about our normal lives, right? You can read the second chapter of this upcoming paranormal romance book at the special blog: http://loveimmortalromancenovel.blogspot.com/2010/12/love-immortal-chapter-2.html

You can read the summary at the blog too: http://loveimmortalromancenovel.blogspot.com/p/about-book.html

If you want to start on chapter one, then visit the chapters list: http://loveimmortalromancenovel.blogspot.com/p/chapters.html

It’s been getting a great reception, which is quite exciting. I have a group of readers who are raring to go on reviewing it for me. I’m looking forward to seeing what they think about the novel. It’s been a while since I released a novel, and this one was a long time in the making.

If you read the chapters, be sure to leave a comment letting me know what you thought about it!

In other news, I’ve finished the second draft of Hunter’s Moon. Hunter’s Moon is the next Vampires Realm series release and it will be available from February 12th 2011, just in time for Valentine’s Day. It’s set away from Europe this time, and follows a Nocens vampire on her mission against the hunters who killed her sire. In deepest Canada, she meets an unlikely ally–an ex-compound werewolf called Nicolae. Can we say forbidden love?

I’ll need to do another edit on the book before it’s ready for proofing and then release. My schedule with this one is going to be rather tight even now that I’ve switched the release date with Love Immortal‘s old one. I can’t imagine I would have had this ready for January 15th! Must have been high on optimism when I decided the original schedule of releases for next year!

I’m really looking forward to releasing Hunter’s Moon. I haven’t had a Vampires Realm release this year, other than the free A Day in the Life stories. I want to get back on track with the series in the next few years. There will be 2 releases in the series next year, and I’m hoping to write 2 more for the following year. Those will probably be longer. Hunter’s Moon is 57000 words, so around short novel length, and Masquerade will likely be around 40000 to 50000 words. I’d like to write another longer novel for the series. I have plenty of them planned. Just need to find the time to write them!

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romance e-book releases in 2011

Posted on 8th December 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I didn’t get a chance to update my blog at the weekend other than posting my new covers, which have received some seriously positive feedback from readers. Thanks to everyone who replied about them. It’s wonderful to hear your views.

I had wanted to talk more about my upcoming releases. 2011 has 11 planned releases, although at the moment there are only 10 definites. They’re all paranormal romance e-books, but there’s a chance that a sci-fi romance novel might sneak its way into the mix. I have so many ideas for stories at the moment that it’s difficult to tell which will be story number 11.

Here’s a breakdown of my planned releases as it stands. This list is subject to change but mostly that means some might get their dates shifted or switched around.

January 15th 2011 – Love ImmortalÂ
Love Immortal is a long paranormal romance novel that mixes vampires,Greek mythology, werewolves, and humans with phenomenal powers into one potent and action-packed book! I think everyone is going to really enjoy this one and I’m very excited about its release. From next week, I’ll be posting a chapter per week at a special blog I’ve set up for the story. Keep your eyes peeled for it!

February 12th 2011 – Hunter’s Moon
Hunter’s Moon will be my Valentine’s Day release of 2011. The next story in the Vampires Realm series, it takes us away from Europe to the wilderness of Canada, where Tatyana, a vampire of the Nocens bloodline of Budapest, finds herself at the mercy of an ex-alpha and ex-compound werewolf, Nicolae. And the guy has a serious chip on his shoulder. Sparks will fly!

March 26th 2011 – Ascension
Ascension is an urban fantasy romance novel, mixing one stubborn half-demon hero, Taig, with his ex-lover and just as stubborn witch heroine, Lealandra. When her life is threatened and her Counter-Balance is killed, Lealandra turns to Taig for protection, but 6 years has done nothing to heal the hurt she caused by leaving him for another man and the coven, and he’s not about to help her without her paying a high price! Lealandra understands why Taig is acting up, but she hasn’t touched another man in all the years they’ve been apart. Her heart has remained constant, and only Taig has been in it. Seeing the pain she caused, Lealandra works to soothe it and hopes to finally help Taig face the issues he has about his demonic heritage and open his heart to her.

May 7th 2011 – Her Guardian Angel
The only novel in the Her Angel series, Her Guardian Angel promises to be a thrill ride from page one. Bringing back all of the angels from the first three novellas, this story is packed full of danger and intrigue, and a hero who will steal your heart. Marcus isn’t interested in his new role of protecting Amelia and posing as her neighbour, but when the two start to grow closer and Marcus discovers that Amelia is about to die, it becomes a race against time to save her life. But will he be successful? Can he stop something that has been foretold?

June 18th 2011 – Masquerade
The second story being released in the Vampires Realm series in 2011, Masquerade follows two elite guards as they battle both the threat of vampire hunters and their apparent hatred for each other to protect the lords and ladies of all the pure bloodlines of Europe at the Creator Day masquerade ball! But hate is so close to love, and a dance whilst hidden behind a mask can lead from one thing to another…

July 30th 2011 – Forbidden Blood
A dark vampire romance novel, Forbidden Blood is set in London and follows the vampire hero, Kearn, as he fights to catch a man he’s been after for three years. His elusive opponent appears before him in a London back street but a young beautiful woman named Amber hinders Kearn and the man escapes. But all is not lost. The enemy has given Amber a taste of his blood in order to control her and if Kearn’s suspicions are correct, he’ll come after her again. A decision to use her as bait turns into a struggle against a dangerous attraction as they fight to defeat the enemy and protect her life.

September 10th 2011 – Darkness & Light
A longer and improved adaptation of my previous and first release in the Tri-Kingdom series, Darkness & Light.

September 10th 2011 – The Night
An improved adaptation of my previous and second release in the Tri-Kingdom series, The Night.

October 22nd 2011 – Heart of Darkness
Set in the beautiful city of Prague in the dead of winter, Heart of Darkness is a novel of passion and possession. Aleksandr, once a prince of his vampire kind, has spent four centuries relentlessly pursuing the relatives of the man who murdered his sister and the constant bloodshed is taking its toll on him, turning him towards the darkness and into the beast all vampires once were. Battling the darkness after killing another hunter, Aleksandr meets Elise, a guard of the Cerny bloodline, and she instantly drives the black from his heart and his mind, restoring his balance. Curiosity about the effect she has on him, and her beauty, drive him to pursue her, but the charm that had once helped him have any woman he wanted fails to have an effect on Elise. If he wants to win her, he will have to change his ways and learn how modern men pursue the women they are falling in love with, but it’s a race against time as the darkness threatens to take control. Only Elise’s love can save him, but even then will it be enough when he faces the last hunter and the end of his vendetta?

December 3rd 2011 – Hellcat
A hunter by trade, he can’t resist the lure of a rare species, but is it wise to fall for a Hellcat? This shape-shifting kitty isn’t about to be caught, certainly not by a hunter, and definitely not by the alpha cat pursuing her across the globe, but the two men might just cancel each other out. It takes little more than a flicker of charm and a sultry smile to win the hunter over, but will he be able to keep her rightful mate off her tail long enough for her to escape? And why the heck is she feeling guilty about using the guy for protection?

Phew, that was a lot of writing! Now I just have to decide which story to write for the eleventh one!

🙂

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Covers for Love Immortal and Hunter’s Moon!

Posted on 4th December 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I’ve just put the finishing touches to the covers for my next two releases and wanted to share them with everyone. I get quite excited when I finish covers 🙂

Love Immortal by Felicity Heaton

First cover up is the one for Love Immortal. Love Immortal is a long novel (157,000 words) and will be released on January 15th 2011, so not long to wait for that one. It mixes immortals, gods, werewolves, vampires and people with amazing powers. It’s action-packed, passionate, thrilling and very romantic.

Next up is the cover for Hunter’s Moon. Hunter’s Moon is the next Vampires Realm story and will be released on February 12th 2011, in time for Valentine’s Day. It’s a novella at around 50,000 words, and has a sexy ex-alpha ex-compound werewolf hero and a female vampire of the Nocens bloodline as the heroine. Sparks will fly when these two get together!

Hunter’s Moon by F E Heaton

I’m not going to ask which you prefer… but I will ask what you think of them? Do you feel more excited about the stories now that you’ve seen the covers?

🙂

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Vampires Realm paranormal romance series

Posted on 19th November 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I’ve been hard at work this week on my Vampires Realm series. I’ve now planned the next story after Hunter’s Moon. Masquerade will feature plenty of familiar faces, and plenty of new faces too. Being set in familiar territory at the Venia mansion, and featuring so many previous characters in the series, it took a bit of research to get everything sorted for the story. I’m pretty much there now and hopefully I can start writing it soon. There’s another story to write before that, and I need to proof Love Immortal and edit Hunter’s Moon too.

Masquerade is pencilled in for a mid-June release, around 6 months after I’ve released Hunter’s Moon. Plenty of time to get the story written and edited. I might need to do some more planning for it, or at least study the previous Vampires Realm stories so I have all my reference material right and know the characters I’ll be bringing into it. It’s quite exciting to write something with the previous characters in it. I’ve always liked the Creator Day masquerade as an idea so it should be fun to write an entire story that revolves around it and the freedom it gives to the vampires of the pure bloodlines.

I wish I could start writing it now, but I have to stick to schedule, no matter how much the muse wants me to swerve off in another direction instead.

I also read the first draft of Hunter’s Moon over this week. I finished that this morning. The story is in good shape but there’s things that I want to fix and improve. There always is when I read a first draft over. It’s better to catch them now than during the polishing stages when deadlines are tighter. I’m away next weekend so I’ll put this story on hold until I return, which is why I’m squeezing in a quick proof of Love Immortal next week.

Love Immortal is the next story due out after Hunter’s Moon. This time it’s a novel… and a big one. I bet you’ve all been missing my novel-length stories! It’s a doozy at 157000 words too. I think everyone is going to love it and I put a lot of work into this one, so much that I have to up my game with all my other stories now to match it.

I’m still hoping that I get some time to read something other than my own stories soon. The flight to Barcelona is only a couple of hours but I might crack open Lara Adrian’s Shades of Midnight. I keep flicking through it and I really want to read it now. I like her Breed series, probably more than I like J R Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Don’t get me wrong, I love the BDB series, but Ward is sort of losing me a bit. Plus, I do prefer Lara Adrian’s style and way of writing. I get confused with the lingo in Ward’s BDB series.

Next year is going to be super-busy for me as I’m going to release 11 stories in 2011… I’ll post an update about that mad master plan soon!

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An admin week for me…

Posted on 14th November 2010 by Felicity Heaton

It feels as though it’s been a bit of an admin week for me. I spent most of the week working on articles and interviews for various sites. A few people have asked me to talk about the Her Angel series, but a couple asked me to write about my journey as a self-publishing / independent author. Now, most of you out there know that I’ve been self-publishing my stories for four years now, since 2006, and in that time I have written around 40 stories… but I don’t like to shout about how well I’ve done or tout what experience I have as though I’m an expert. I prefer to write stories and let them do the talking. Those were the difficult articles for me to write. I was fine when they wanted me to talk about my romance books, but the moment I actually had to write about me, I didn’t know what to put!

As well as writing articles and filling out interviews, I’ve been proofing Her Warrior Angel ahead of its release on November 20th. The schedule for my past few stories has been tight so I’m looking forward to 2011 when I have more time planned in for my stories and the schedule is looking better. I don’t like it when I have to cram in proofing and polishing. It doesn’t feel good.

Next week I’m going to be writing the outline for Her Guardian Angel, the novel in the Her Angel series, and I’ll be doing some research for Masquerade. Masquerade is another Vampires Realm story but unlike Hunter’s Moon, it involves characters that we’ve met before and places we’ve been before in the series, so I have to do some research on what those places look like and refresh my memory about the characters I’m including in this story. There’s quite a few old faces that will be making an appearance. I’m sure it’ll excite everyone to see them again.

After I’ve done some plotting for Her Guardian Angel and Masquerade, I’m going to be proofing Love Immortal. And after that I’m going on holiday! Literally. December is going to be a busy month for me again. I’m going to try to get the second draft of Hunter’s Moon done and also the first draft of Masquerade, although I might switch that out for some reading. I really need to read the stack of novels I was bought for my birthday in April!

I have archery today… I’m looking forward to that. I think I’m getting better at it. I beat the men last week, which is always a nice feeling. Watch out world! I’m deadly with a recurve bow. Maybe I’m channelling my inner vampire hunter.

🙂

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Hunter’s Moon – first draft is now complete

Posted on 8th November 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I meant to post last week that I had finished Hunter’s Moon in first draft. It turned out to be almost 50,000 words in the end.

I’m quite surprised by that. I had chosen to write Hunter’s Moon first rather than Masquerade because I had calculated that it would be the shorter of the two Vampires Realm novellas that I want to release next year. Well, colour me wrong! I had anticipated that Hunter’s Moon, which is a werewolf and vampire romance based in Canada, away from the main stalking ground of the seven pure bloodlines of Europe, would only be around 30-35,000 words. While it has plot and action, it’s more of an emotional story compared with Masquerade, which has lots of emotion too but is more action-based. Lots of fight scenes. It turned out that there were more fight scenes in Hunter’s Moon than I had thought there would be, and it grew to accommodate them. Now I’m left wondering whether Masquerade might turn out to be a novel rather than a novella!

I still have some work to do on the outline of Masquerade, so it’s entirely possible that it will be a novel rather than a novella.

I’m quite pleased with how Hunter’s Moon has turned out though. I think fans of Winter’s Kiss will enjoy it. It has a lot of emotion, turmoil, and will probably have you rooting for the hero & heroine and wishing those pesky laws against such relationships didn’t exist.

Now I just have to let it sit for a while and then come back and tackle the second draft!

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First draft of werewolf / vampire romance e-book is almost done

Posted on 1st November 2010 by Felicity Heaton

Well, I’m almost done with the first draft of Hunter’s Moon, the next Vampires Realm story and a werewolf / vampire romance e-book. In the end, I think it’s going to turn out closer to the 50,000 word mark than 40,000. It was originally supposed to be 30,000 but the plot developed a little as I started writing it and I’m happy with the growth. I think the book supports it. It’s quite an emotional story, but has action too.

I have around 4 chapters to write. I’m currently on 35,423 words and I’m in the middle of a love scene. It’s the all important first time for the hero (a werewolf named Nicolae) and the heroine (a vampire of the Nocens bloodline called Tatyana). Of course, having to write a love scene first thing on a Monday morning isn’t exactly conducive to getting plenty of words written. Progress was a bit slow, but I managed around 1000 words… somehow. That’s half of my normal word count for the morning. Hopefully I’ll be able to get into the love scene at lunch time and get it written. After that, there’s a lot of action, and some biting to write. Yum!

I should probably finish the first draft by Wednesday evening. I hope I do as I have to proof a non-Vampires Realm story, Her Warrior Angel, and get it ready for going on sale on November 20th.

Will post an update when I’m done with Hunter’s Moon.

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Hunter’s Moon – update on my new vampire / werewolf romance book

Posted on 26th October 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I’m making some good progress with the first draft of my new vampire / werewolf romance book, Hunter’s Moon. It’s the next Vampires Realm story, so I’ve been blogging about it over at my Vampires Realm blog.

If you want to read all about Hunter’s Moon, check out my latest post: http://bit.ly/9wGete

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Hunter’s Moon – progress made on the new Vampires Realm story

Posted on 22nd October 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I finally have a new Vampires Realm story in progress. Hunter’s Moon is a paranormal werewolf / vampire romance book that will probably turn out to be around 40,000 words or possibly a bit longer. It’s difficult to judge with this one. At the moment, I’m 12,000 words in and finally in the heroine’s POV. It’s taken three chapters to reach her because she’s been rather worse for wear / close to death so we’ve been with the hero through his process of finding her, taking her back to his cabin, and patching her up. Of course, he’s a little reluctant to help her once he realises that she’s a vampire. Werewolves get a bit cranky about that sort of thing.

If you want to read more about it, I’m posting about it at my Vampires Realm blog:

http://vampiresrealm.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-vampires-realm-story-in-progress.html