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It has been a while since I’ve written a WIP Wednesday blog post updating you all on the progress in my writing and what books might be coming soon. Sorry about that. Blogging fell to the wayside a little when I hit a really busy patch with the release of Her Wicked Angel, putting together the Dark and Dangerous boxed set, and editing Kissed by a Dark Prince.

I’m back though, and I thought I would update you on the Eternal Mates series. I’ve just completed the first draft of Claimed by a Demon King. Because of all the interruptions (two book releases) I had a hard time writing this one. It would flow and then it would dry up and I wouldn’t feel like writing. That’s the difficult part of being an author. We all wear so many hats and sometimes it’s hard to switch between them, going from engaging the marketing/promotion side of my brain to the writing side.

This is the second book I’ve written this year where I’ve had to really push myself and somehow find the will to keep writing. It isn’t burn out (which can often be the case for authors when they don’t feel like writing). It was just I had so much other stuff demanding my attention that I found it really difficult to focus on the most important thing–writing!

Still, I have now finished the first draft of Claimed by a Demon King. It came in at 113,000 words in first draft, and that’s a good 23,000 words longer than Kissed by a Dark Prince was when I finished the first draft for that paranormal romance book, which is the first book in the Eternal Mates series. I guarantee that by the time I have edited Claimed by a Demon King, it will probably be closer to 120,000 words. I think that King Thorne of the demons didn’t want to be outdone by Prince Loren of the elves. He wanted a bigger book! Well, he’s certainly getting it.

I’m not sure what I will be writing next. I need to take a look at all my writing plans and the releases I want in 2014 and 2015, and go from there.I won’t be writing anything new before 2014. The plan right now is to work on my website, on switching the Vampires Realm series over to my Felicity Heaton name, and editing Claimed by a Demon King.

My writing target for 2013 was 400,000 words. I surpassed it by writing 440,000 words in 2013. I imagine that next year my target will be around the same figure. I’ll have a couple of books to edit that were already written (Claimed by a Demon King and Guardians of Hades: Ares), but I do also have new books to write, including more in the Vampires Realm, Her Angel, and Eternal Mates series.

I think for now, the muse would like a bit of a siesta in which he can play cards against some of my heroes who are waiting in my head for their book.

Here’s a taste of things to come in Claimed by a Demon King. It could be considered a little spoiler-ish as you’ll know the hero and heroine of the second book.

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