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Yes, Snow has been on the loose again this week, sharing his story with me, and generally flipping between sane and just that little bit crazy. The sort of crazy you love about him and have done since the first book in the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series came out.

It’s been a weird week since my last WIP catch up post. I’ve been trying to balance writing Unleash and everything else I need to do in the run up to the release of Bewitch, the fifth book in the series, this weekend and all my usual author stuff with it. It hasn’t been easy, and it has been riddled with ups and downs, and lots of stumbling blocks, but I have made some fantastic progress with the book and I’m flying through it now.

By last Wednesday, I was up to 32000 words of the story down in first draft. I’ve brought that up to 66000 words now. It would have been more, but I had to spend Saturday, part of Sunday, and Monday working on other things so I didn’t get to write on those days. I wrote 10,000 words yesterday, and 13,000 today. Not bad.

At this rate, I will have the book completed in first draft in the first half of next week. That’s a little behind schedule but I was being overly optimistic when planning that schedule. I had predicted last week that it would be 75,000 in total. I think it may edge closer to 80,000 now and probably longer. It’s already longer than Payne’s book, Bewitch, but then I always knew that Snow’s book would be the longest. I am on the downhill slide to the finish now, but still have a few chapters to write and another love scene to add too. Of course, the book will grow as I edit it and layer in some more description and detailed, and heighten everything.

I’m still feeling weird about this being the last book in a series that has really captured my heart and my attention, and I don’t want to leave this world. I’ve decided that I won’t say goodbye to it, just see you later, and I’ll probably be delving back into it again before you know it, unable to stay away from everyone at Vampirerotique.

The first draft of the final book in my Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series is underway!

It’s the one everyone has been waiting for. Yes, Snow is on the loose and he’s finally going to get a female in his life.

I’ve been nervous about writing this book, and those nerves have increased a hundredfold every time I’ve released a book in the series because reader expectations have been rising along with the sheer number of Snow’s fans. I feel I have a high bar to hit with this one, and I’m woman enough to admit that it scares me.

I experienced a similar bout of fear when I began writing Her Demonic Angel, because everyone had said amazing things about Her Guardian Angel, most of the time mentioning that they couldn’t wait to see where things were going to go and that the next book was going to be something awesome. Yes, I suffered nerves. Cold sweats. Complete writer’s block. Okay, not complete, but as complete as I get it. I still wrote, I was just slower and had more doubts about the book.

I’m getting over my nerves about Unleash now though. I think Snow’s book is going to satisfy his fans, although I’m certain that the heroine won’t be receiving much love from readers as she’s stealing Snow’s heart. It’s a very complex relationship, and I see plenty of scenes where readers will be angry with a character in the book, crying for some reason, or just fanning themselves.

I’m 32000 words into the book so far, and we’re just getting going. I’ve completed my outline for it now, taking almost a full day away from writing the book today to get it done. Time constraints and a deadline to start writing the book conspired to have me beginning the first draft without a full outline for the book. I was working with a basic outline of events and sheets of scene notes that were all numbered. It was hard work flitting between that basic outline, to whatever number I had scrawled in the margin next to a certain event. Now I have a full outline, and I couldn’t be happier. I compiled it all today, and added 6000 words of either new notes or changes to make everything fit.

Judging by the outline now, I have around 11 chapters left to write, and that will probably bring the completed first draft up to around 75000 words in total. That’s 11000 longer than Bewitch, and 20000 longer than Seduce. There’s a chance it could end up longer too.

I’ll let you all know how it goes!

I can’t wait to begin sharing snippets with you all!