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Vampires Realm – Masquerade

I was supposed to have planned the next Vampires Realm story this weekend, as well as doing a lot of other writing related work, but took a little me time in the end and read some books instead (Terry Pratchett, not romance books) as I needed to unwind a bit. I’ll be planning the story this week instead, and also the next novella in the Vampires Realm series too.

The one I’ll be starting to write next week is Masquerade (although the title might change), which is going to be centred around the Creator’s Day ball and focuses on two Venia guards. The hero and heroine are usually at loggerheads with each other (apologies if that doesn’t translate across the pond/around the world — it means they’re basically fighting / arguing all the time) but everything changes after they don masks for the ball, working undercover to protect the important dignitaries of the seven pure bloodlines. Cue misunderstandings, one of them not knowing it was the other one they were with at the ball, and a lot of danger and action. Quite a lot to squeeze into a novella. Plus, we’ll be catching up with some of the vampires from my previous stories, and meeting a few from future novels.

The next one after this is Hunter’s Moon and this time it’s a werewolf/vampire romance novella. Won’t say too much about it but there’ll be plenty of conflict and a show of alpha maleness towards the end.

I’m writing Masquerade for it to come out in January. Short notice again but my crazy 11 stories in 2011 isn’t going to wait for anyone, especially me. The muse is up for a writing frenzy, but he’ll get lazy once he realises that the natural order of things is for an editing frenzy to following the writing part… and I have a stack of books sitting in the to be edited pile.

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Vampire for Christmas – Cover!

I have been industrious this morning and have made the cover for my November seasonal release, Vampire For Christmas…

Pretty?

I wanted it to be warm but sexy. I think it sort of accomplishes that. He’s giving her booby a hefty squeeze though. Honk honk. She doesn’t seem to mind.

I haven’t written the blurb for it yet but I’ll get it done soon while the story is still fresh in my mind.

I have a slew of covers to make for next year. It’s good getting back into the act though.

What do you think?

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Vampire for Christmas – vampire romance seasonal release

Well, before I could really get into posting about the story I was writing for Christmas, the story is all written in first draft and done. That’s one of the downsides to writing novellas and short stories. As soon as I’ve started writing them, I’ve finished, and I don’t post much about them on my blog because of it.

I started writing the first draft of Vampire for Christmas on Monday, and finished it on Thursday. It’s a vampire romance novella (25000 words) with a sexy vampire hero called Rafe and a sassy vampire hunter heroine, Shannon. They’re partners at a demon hunting agency and as much as Shannon likes to pretend she hates Rafe, she’s falling for him pretty hard. Hard enough that she doesn’t want this last mission to be… well… their last mission. Two years of working with Shannon is enough to have Rafe crazy about her, and he’s determined to show her that they belong together, and to make her overcome her denial about her feelings for him. It takes a slimy monster and some serious soul-searching, but it might just work out good in the end.

I’m pretty pleased with the result. The tension is good, the UST is there too, and the slimy demon provides room for amusement (what’s not funny about a heroic vampire rushing in to save the day only to slide harmlessly off his enemy and land in a pile of goo on his face?). I think readers will enjoy it, and while it has a serious side too (with the heroine overcoming her past horrific encounter with a vampire in order to accept her feelings for Rafe, a less horrific more sexy and evil-to-all-but-Shannon vampire), it’s a warm fuzzy light sort of romance, with a bit of heat thrown in. Perfect for keeping readers warm in winter!

Now all I’ve got to do is edit the beast. It’ll have to sit for a bit before I dive into doing the second draft but the release day for this one is already looming. I want to get it out in November. As soon as I have the cover and blurb, I’ll post it.

Oh, and it’s a stand alone, so will be released under my Felicity Heaton name. Yes, yes, it’s about time we had another F E Heaton release… say something in the Vampires Realm series. Well, that’s what I’m working on next 🙂

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Stories finished and new stories started

I got distracted this weekend blogging about my 11 books in 2011 challenge, and forgot to post about my progress with writing.

Her Warrior Angel is finished in first draft now. I completed it on Wednesday, but it’s not quite perfect. I know I have a few issues with the final chapter to resolve during the second draft, but it’ll be easy to address them then rather than tinker with it now. Better to move on to other projects and let it sit for a bit so I can gain some perspective on the issues. It’s nothing major. Just a few things need ironing out and writing better, and I need to check for repetition.

Her Fallen Angel is in much better shape now after final tweaks. I wanted to make sure that the conflict came through and things weren’t overly easy for them. It’s ready for the final polish and proof now, and will hit the deadline for release on October 16th.

I’ve started writing a new story this morning. Vampire for Christmas is my seasonal offering for the year. I’m hoping to get it written in first draft this week and then edited and ready for release in November. That’s a short deadline but I only decided to do a seasonal piece just the other week, so I didn’t really get much notice myself. Sometimes I have to roll with the muse. He wants to write a paranormal Christmas story, so I’ll write one. I have the plot down for it, and just need to write the beast. It’ll probably be another novella, topping out around 30,000 words. It’s a vampire piece, obviously, but the heroine is human and a hunter no less. I like toying with vampire / vampire hunter relationships. I won’t give too much away about it though. It’ll spoil the festive surprise! I have a whopping 1500 words of it written as of this morning, but I’ll hopefully be up to around the 6000 word mark by the time I get home from work.

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Hyperion – Vampires Realm paranormal romance series

It’s interesting to look at the comments on my previous post about what I should write next in my Vampires Realm paranormal romance series. You can read the post here if you would like to offer your opinion. All comments welcome: http://bit.ly/cO6bua

A large proportion of people are asking for Hyperion’s story to be next. I never realised the impact that Hyperion had, but a lot of you seem to really love him. I know that Candy does, because she’s adored him from the moment I wrote him and first showed him to her. Heck, Spellbound was written for her too, so it had to have a cameo by her favourite VR vampire!

So, I’m intrigued now. What is it that draws you to Hyperion? Is it his snarky side? The way he takes great amusement from others misfortune in love? Or that you all think he’s hiding a very sensitive side to him and you want to see it?

Has Eternity: The Beginning, the free short story I wrote about his turning, given you a glimpse of a different side to him, the side he hides beneath his impenetrable armour (and only really shows to his sister) and you want to meet the woman who can bring this strong vampire to his knees?

Surely all the mystery that you like so much about him would disappear if I wrote his novel? Or perhaps you’d love him even more?

All this Hyperion love has tempted me into continuing the Eternity series of short free stories charting Hyperion’s history. I think if I write his novel, I would have to write them, so you would know how he reached the point where he is today. I abandoned writing them because there wasn’t much interest in him at the time. But now I’m tempted to continue.

Would you all love to learn more about his past before you see his present?

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werewolf romance book idea

The muse is being very kind to me since I started gearing up to write again. This time he’s given me inspiration for a new werewolf romance book. It’ll probably be a novella, and both the rather headstrong and independent heroine and the hero are werewolves. I won’t say too much about it except that it’ll probably turn out rather sexy and explosive. I love it when the muse gives me strong heroines who aren’t about to let a man walk all over them. Of course, the hero is a total alpha and he’s not about to take no for an answer either… and then there’s the competition for him… another alpha male who shares his intention–to make the heroine his. Of course, both men have a reason for wanting to make the heroine theirs, and when she finds out, she’s not going to be a happy gal!

It’s quite exciting. I now have four ideas for novellas bubbling away in my head. Two are stories in the Vampires Realm series, and two are stand alone stories. I reckon they’ll all be 25-40,000 words each. Of course, they’re all paranormal romance books. The muse is on a real paranormal romance kick at the moment. We have pairings of vampire/vampire, werewolf/vampire, this werewolf/werewolf one, and a cat-shifter/shifter-hunter one. I’ll probably write them all by the end of the year in at least first draft. They’ll probably be released next year… if the muse is kind and lets me write them fast and get them edited (I have to edit some novels too, and I have a few new novels to write, so time is limited).

Any of those pairings sound interesting to you?

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Vampires Realm stories – what’s next?

A lovely reader emailed me yesterday asking all manner of questions about the Vampires Realm series. I was thrilled to have someone ask me about River and Ineru, and whether they would ever have their story written. I have notes for it, as I do for quite a few Vampires Realm series stories, but it wasn’t actually on my list of stories to write soon.

She also asked about Hyperion and whether he would have his own love, and his own story too. He does have his own love, a true love that he has never forgotten since meeting and then leaving her. She’s mentioned in Winter’s Kiss. He only mentions her by whispering her name – Sakura.

The reader got me thinking about the series last night and what stories I have notes for and want to write for it. There’s a few novels to write, and I have some novellas. The novellas mainly introduce new characters into the Vampires Realm series. The novels deal with the stories of those characters we have already met in previous stories, or have heard about. I’m sure I’ll manage to somehow bring more stories to life via these stories too, dropping hints at things to come and such. There’s definitely some of that in Midnight.

So now I’m thinking about Vampires Realm and I really want to get writing the next vampire romance in this series. This is either because I’m rejuvenated and excited by the series (which I am) or because the muse is so cranky because I haven’t written anything in weeks as I’ve been doing my website redesign work that he’s desperate for me to write anything and this seems like a pretty good chance for that to happen! (maybe a little of that too).

It’s opinion time. The novellas I have planned will definitely get written this year/next year, but I have a slew of novels not in the Vampires Realm series that I want to write too. I could probably squeeze a couple of Vampires Realm novels in to my writing schedule for next year though. So, what do you think I should choose as the novels to write? Here’s a rundown.

Blood Moon
Mia and Dmitri’s story about how they met and came to be together. Historical vampire/werewolf romance.

Midnight
Oneiric’s (in Seventh Circle) story about how he met Clare/Eve and the terrible mess they found themselves in, and got themselves (and a lot of the world) out of.

Forever After
Ineru and River’s story about a love that transcends time as River is reincarnated over and over until he finally finds his way back to Ineru. But will he love her now that he’s a vampire hunter?

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Hyperion and Sakura’s story. Hyperion falls in love with a young geisha, only to have to leave her when she discovers that he’s a vampire. What will he do when she returns to him as part of the eastern party he must entertain at his mansion? Can he win her heart again now that she has become a vampire? Did she do it so she would find him one day?

What shall I write?

Read about the Vampires Realm series at http://www.vampiresrealm.com and http://www.felicityheaton.com

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Review for Winter’s Kiss – werewolf / vampire romance novel

The lovely Melissa at Spellboundbybooks.com won a copy of Winter’s Kiss a few months ago and kindly posted a review on her website!

Melissa said:
“There is so much inner turmoil with each character all throughout the book.  Winter has a duty to his Lord and falling for a girl who is a werewolf is a big no-no in the vampire community, punishable by death.  Nika has just been turned into a werewolf against her will, and watched her village and father die.  She falls in love with Winter and can’t understand what is stopping them being together. 

A fabulous book told in third person present tense, in both Nika and Winter’s POV.  Winter’s Kiss is a tale of forbidden love destined to fail and well worth the read.  (Theres a bit of violence and a raunchy sex scene too)”

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The tales of the mansion near Nika’s remote Russian village say that its lord drinks blood to live and that the guards are dead men walking, but that doesn’t stop Nika from falling for one of them—a man who seemingly hasn’t changed in twenty years, a man she wishes would be hers. One snowy spring night, her world and his collide when she is attacked by wolves and he rides in on a black horse to rescue her. But her knight in shining armour is far from saintly. He is a vampire, and she is becoming a werewolf, and love between such species is forbidden—the penalty death.

Winter is a commander of the Validus, the most powerful vampire bloodline in Europe. Faithful to his family and his lord since his turning one thousand years ago, he follows the law to the letter and places duty above all else, but his resolve is about to be tested in the most painful way and his world shaken beyond salvation. The girl he watched grow into a woman, a woman who has stolen his heart, is now a werewolf and his dream of making her his has been shattered. Only vengeance can be his now or the Law Keepers will hunt him down and kill both him and Nika.

But Winter’s plan to take Nika home to her family only leads to her witnessing the destruction of her village and the death of her father at the hands of the werewolf trying to claim her, and Winter finds that he can’t leave her. His heart demands that he protects Nika from the werewolf, Willem, by killing him and that he finds her a new home, somewhere she will be safe without him, for he must even protect her from himself. But Nika tempts him more than he can bear and it isn’t long before he finds himself treading the knife’s edge between upholding the law and succumbing to desire.

Nika does everything in her power to convince Winter to stay with her, to go against the laws and risk death, but in the end will she have done enough? When they reach the last bastion of the werewolves, will Winter leave her with her kin? Will the nights they spend together change his heart and his mind, or will she spend eternity dreaming of Winter’s kiss?

THE VAMPIRES REALM STORIES ALL STAND ALONE AND DO NOT NEED TO BE READ IN ORDER. THEY ARE LINKED ONLY BY THE WORLD IN WHICH THEY ARE SET. IF YOU ENJOY THIS STORY, BE SURE TO READ THE OTHERS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS DARK AND PASSIONATE WORLD.

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Free short vampire romance story – A Day in the Life: Lilith

The fifth story in my A Day in the Life series is now online and available to read. This time we’re catching up with the strong and beautiful Lilith from Seventh Circle in the Vampires Realm series and her lover & sire, Lincoln. If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Lilith after the end of her story and how she faced the dark new world she entered into, here’s your chance to find out! This story is a free short vampire romance following on from Seventh Circle.

Read it now: http://bit.ly/cJhYm6

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Final chapter of my FREE vampire romance novel, Of Blood and Snow!

I’ve had a great time posting this story serially for everyone and I really hope that you’ve all enjoyed it. This is the final chapter! It’s both exciting and a little sad. I really have enjoyed posting this and communicating with you all. Perhaps I’ll have to offer up another story in this way at some point.

So, what sort of ending awaits Scarlet and Corazon, and Troy?

Read it now: http://bit.ly/cxaTGh

Felicity x

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