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Seventh Circle is coming soon!
Some very kind and lovely person made me a widget for the countdown to the release of Seventh Circle, and I love it!
I’ve added it to the side bar of my blog for all to see… Not long now to go!
Seventh Circle will be out on November 16th on Alinar Publishing and November 17th on Fictionwise. You’ll get a 15% discount for the first week at Fictionwise so I recommend waiting for it to come out there!
If you want to read more about Seventh Circle, visit the website:
http://www.vampiresrealm.com/novel_seventh_circle.php
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Ascension and Arcadian
Many thanks to everyone who kindly read my story codenamed Ascension and gave me feedback on it. Most of you seemed to feel the same about the story as I did – there’s more to it and it deserves to be a novel. Well, because of this feedback, I have decided to turn the short story into a full novel and I’ll be working on writing that next year, along with another story.
The other story is currently codenamed Arcadian. This will be a long paranormal romance that in my mind will be pushing the 100k words mark. Normally my built in length predictor is pretty on the nose. There’s a lot of story in this one, so it may even go over, but it will end up being edited down to 100k if that is the case.
I don’t really want to say much about either story at this point, only that I’ll be working on them in 2009, and that they’re both paranormal romances with a lot of plot. I’ll be writing Arcadian first, and then following that up with Ascension. I have another story or two that I’ll consider writing at the same time as these, but my focus will be on them first and foremost.
As for the future of both these stories, if they turn out as planned then I will submit them to agents and publishers.
Back to work for me. Seventh Circle, the next Vampires Realm novel, is out on November 16th, and I still have a lot of promotion work and stuff to get ready for it.
Happy Halloween everyone!
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New Release – A Promise of Passion by Felicity Heaton
Out Now! New paranormal romance ebook by Felicity Heaton…
A Promise of Passion
A dark, sensual and action packed story of two hearts, united in their passion and desire, but divided by their blood, A Promise of Passion is guaranteed to get your heart racing.
Alicia is a vampire hunter, unable to find a man strong enough to love and accept her for who she is. When Kassian, a tall and seductively handsome vampire walks into her life and vows to protect her, she doesn’t know what to think or feel. His eyes make promises that his searing touch backs up, but she can’t get past the fact that he’s a vampire and the fact that he thinks she’s someone else.
Kassian is certain from the moment he sets eyes on Alicia that she’s the reincarnation of his lost love and sire, and he’ll stop at nothing to convince her and make her his again. A taste of her blood makes him realise his mistake but doesn’t change his feelings or his resolve to have her.
Their mutual attraction is impossible to resist but a moment of passion places Alicia in the path of danger when Seth, the vampire responsible for murdering Kassian’s sire, sets his sights on her. When Alicia is dragged into a game of human sport, how far will Kassian go to protect his love? Can he save her or will history repeat itself?
Price: $0.99
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New stories, and finished stories, and submissions
I’ve been quite busy recently, working through a mixture of writing, editing, and preparing submissions. It’s all a mixture of projects too, most of which will be available next year. Actually, all of it will probably be next year’s releases.
On the writing front, I have finished writing the next Vampires Realm release after Seventh Circle, which will be Winter’s Kiss. Winter’s Kiss follows a Watchman of Validus and a young woman whom he desired to turn. The young woman is attacked by a werewolf and the vampire rescues her but not before she’s been bitten by the werewolf, and essentially turned. It all turns a little frantic after that and there’s lots of my trademark UST 🙂
Speaking of Vampires Realm, I again toyed with the idea of submitting Seventh Circle to agents and publishers, and have (after a lot of preparation including writing a synopsis!) decided against it. It’s so difficult when it’s a story that is part of an ongoing series. I could have changed the story so it was a stand alone, but I didn’t want to do that. When it comes to stories to submit to publishers, I’ll focus on my series I’ll be writing next year instead.
Following the popularity and success of my Sons of Lyra series, I have planned and started writing a Daughters of Lyra series. At the moment, they’re running at a little longer than the Sons of Lyra stories. I think they’ll be an average of 18,000 words. The series follows one daughter from each of the four sons from the first series. I’ve already written two of the stories during my week off dog-sitting last week. I managed to clock in around 34,000 words written which is brilliant. A normal week for me is around 25,000.
The weekend I released Sons of Lyra: Stranded I submitted a second story to Harlequin’s Nocturne Bites series. This time it’s a werewolf story and I’m far more pleased with this submission than the first one I sent. I think this time I sounded more professional and sold the story better, and I do think this story is probably more suited to the line.
I think that’s about all in terms of writing from me. I’ve just discovered that there’s a new episode of Macross Frontier out online and I neeeed to watch it. I’m so addicted!
Here’s some tallys on the stories I finished this week…
Winter’s Kiss
67,726 / 65,000
[104.2%]
67,726 / 65,000
[104.2%]
Daughters of Lyra 1
18,652 / 18,000
[103.6%]
18,652 / 18,000
[103.6%]
Daughters of Lyra 2
23,043 / 18,000
[128%]
23,043 / 18,000
[128%]
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new series in the works
Well, everyone might be wondering why I decided to suddenly begin reading other paranormal romance authors. Normally I don’t pay much heed to what they’re writing. In fact, until I picked up a lot of the books, I only knew rough things about them – like J R Ward wrote vampires, Kresley Cole wrote a mixture of species, Lynsay Sands wrote vampires. That was pretty much the extent of my knowledge. I hadn’t even read excerpts or reviews.
Since the series idea I had was one that I was going to write for pitching to publishers, I decided it was important to check out the competition and see what got them published. I always begin with the first book in a series, the one that they had to pitch and hope it would be picked up.
I’d been planning my new paranormal romance series for about 2 weeks before I decided to do this. I’ve read a few stories now and have mixed feelings about them. I don’t think any of them write better than I do and I think the stories I have planned are just as strong, if not stronger, than the ones I’ve just read. I’m not being conceited. I just think that I’ve reached a point with my writing where I need to give it a shot. A while back I read a Feehan and a L K Hamilton story. Neither blew me away, but I knew my writing wasn’t at a level where I could compete. Now I’ve had a taste of writing series and I’ve found that I’m really good at world building, and that’s very important with series. I’ve also embraced the darker side of paranormal, the side I love to write, by writing some stories in my Vampires Realm series. All in all, I feel I’ve reached a point of “now or never” and if I don’t give it a shot with this new series, I’ll never know whether or not I’m good enough.
Of course, there’s a lot more world building to be done yet. Over the past 2 months, I’ve clocked up around 40+ hours of world building time. That’s basically me mulling over the series, the flaws and the strengths, the powers and the weaknesses, and everything else besides. I’ve got my heroes mapped out to a basic degree, enough that I know them, and my heroines almost figured out. I haven’t touched much on the enemy but I know roughly in my mind what they’ll be like. I have the world and the background pegged, and I’m very happy with how it’s evolving. I can’t really say much more.
I’m going to write all these stories together, back to back, and then edit them. Once the first book is in a polished state, I’ll send it out into the big wide world. I have a belief that having all of the books in the series completed is an advantage and it means that you’re serious about the series. I’m very serious about it. I only wish I could talk about it more!!!
Better go… before I say too much!
🙂
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Hunting down paranormal authors
I’ve bought a few books as research. Sometimes, working in London does have its advantages, especially when you’re as central as I am. I’ve targeted authors who write similar stuff to myself just to see what their first books were like and what level they were writing at (taking into account the editing some of them get, or don’t, but that’s a different matter).
I have, however, come to the conclusion that London either hates Lara Adrian, or she’s banned from bookstores in the capital, as I couldn’t find her stories anywhere. I checked two Border’s, a Waterstones, W H Smith and Blackwells. That’s pretty much all the big name bookstores in the UK, and none of them had her. She wasn’t listed under Fiction, Romance (where they had a separate section) or Horror. I’ll have to buy her book online. It’s probably cheaper there anyway.
Speaking of books in sections. I’m stunned at how inept Waterstones and Blackwells are at putting books in the right places and catering to Romance. Border’s have it right. They’ve got a Romance section and all the big paranormal romance names are there (except Lara Adrian of course!). You’ve got your Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, J R Ward, etc, all neatly laid out with the other Romance novels. Blackwells had everything together, with only separate Crime and Science Fiction. Not even separate Horror for me to check. Waterstones went one worse. Not only did it throw all the paranormal romance authors into Horror (if you ask me, most paranormal romance couldn’t be considered horror!), but when I did find a Romance section, it was big enough to fit around 40 books and was just a bookshelf-cart hybrid… ready to be wheeled off out of sight no doubt!
The most amusing thing about Waterstones was that they didn’t have a proper Romance section (Hello, biggest selling genre?) but they did have a whole bookshelf for Erotica. Idiots.
While in Border’s I noticed something that tickled me. They’ve got a huge display in their Oxford Street store for a new ebook reader called Iliad. It’s chunky, comes in a huge box, and can be yours for just £399!!!! ($800 for our American friends). Well… I can really see that taking off! Not. It’s little wonder that ebooks just can’t compete when people charge ridiculous sums of money for the readers and then cripple us by adding DRM so you can only download it to one bloody machine! (grr)
Enough whinging for now. I’m writing this on my laptop on the train home and I’m supposed to be finishing off a Gothic Romance short for an anthology.
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VR novel is now complete…
Well, last week on Valentine’s Day I finished the first draft of VR Novel. What a romantic day to finish writing it! I thought it was rather sweet.
The future of this story still isn’t set. Right now I need to shift my focus away from it for a while to finish writing Of Blood and Snow, my free serial vampire romance novel. That’s already reached 75000 words and I’ve still got another 30k or so to write.
I’m quite pleased with the first draft of VR Novel. It came out better than expected considering the odd hiccup I had with it and the muse. The ending changed a little, but I didn’t mind. I think this new ending is an improvement and I’m sure one that will be well received by everyone. It’s a very happy ever after.
It ended up being longer than I expected considering that I had my doubts that it would even reach the 80k mark.
VR Novel
103,000 / 90,000
[114.4%]
103,000 / 90,000
[114.4%]
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