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Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess – Number 4 bestseller at Fictionwise! (sci-fi romance ebook)

I can’t believe it but my eyes aren’t deceiving me! My new short sci-fi romance story, Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess has landed at Number 4 in the overall bestsellers list at Fictionwise.com and Number 2 in romance!! It’s also number 1 in the short stories and under a dollar list. I’m so thrilled!

Also, this week you can get 25% off the cover price so it’s only $0.74!!

Check it out!! http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook67530.htm

Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess by Felicity Heaton
Captain Lyra II, known as Balt to his family, is one of the famed sons of Lyra, the handsome princes with passionate hearts that every girl in the galaxy wants to catch. The second eldest son, he’s content with the freedom and adventure that life in deep space and the Lyran Imperial Army offers him. What he isn’t content with is the current situation he’s found himself in. Not only has he been forced to stop at a backwater port for supplies, but he’s leaving with more than he expected!

Kayla is a slave but can still vaguely recall what it had been like to be free. It’s something she believes that she’ll never taste again, and when she finds herself handed over like the piece of property she is to a complete stranger, a Lyran prince no less, she’s convinced her life is about to get a lot worse. Taken onboard his ship, she quickly finds herself torn between fulfilling a promise she made to her friends when she was young, and falling for his chivalry and good looks.

Balt, not wanting a woman as his slave and not wanting to become the laughing stock of the admirals, intends to dump Kayla at the first decent planet he comes across, but as he starts to learn more about her, he finds it harder to fight his growing attraction to her. A passionate kiss from her only makes things worse.

When Minervan mercenaries demand he hand her over, he discovers her true heritage and realises that things are more complicated than he’d believed. Will Balt let her go, sending her into a life as a pleasure whore for the highest bidder, or will he fight to protect her? Will Kayla take revenge for her people, the Terrans, who were almost exterminated when Lyra destroyed the Earth system? Can love between a prince and an enslaved princess ever have a fairytale ending?

http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook67530.htm

off to shout and squee!

Felicity

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Challenges for the year

Wow, we’re almost halfway through the year now. June is fast approaching and I’m planning on challenging myself somewhat for the rest of the year. I think it’ll be a fun thing to do and it might clear up the backlog of stories that I’ve got in my head and make room for some new ones.

I was considering challenging myself to write 60000 words a month for the next 6 months. So from June 1st, I’ll be hoping to clock up 60k each month, and get some editing done too as well as continuing to learn Japanese and all my other stuff I do (like maintaining websites). I think the editing is likely to be the one that will get in the way and threaten achieving this goal each month. I will have to do editing while I write or I’ll end up with a massive stack of editing to do come end of December and that will get me nowhere.

I have a whole bunch of stories that I’d like to get written. There’s several Vampires Realm stories included in those, all novel length except the Hyperion Eternity shorts that I plan to finish. See, five of those to write and that makes 50k already!

I have to finish the Sons of Lyra series. With two of the stories to finish off, I have at least another 13k there. Add to that the fact that I’m toying with the idea of writing a second generation Daughters of Lyra series for the children of the brothers I wrote about, and that will be another 60k.

Plus, I have a couple of ideas for Nocturne Bites submissions. That’s another 30k.

See, I’m racking it up already, and I haven’t even got to the novels yet!

Oh, I also have a short story to write for an anthology, as well as a Christmas story that I’m writing. That’s probably a combined 40k there.

Heavens! Maybe I need to ensure I break the monthly target, huh? That way, I can get all these stories in my head written. Of course, writing all these only clears the way for more stories that I have planned. Basically, I’ll get rid of 1 and another 2 will come along to replace it. I wish I could spend more time writing but full time work is a necessity and something that I love. Still, even with the full time work, I could probably push up to 80-100k a month out if I don’t have to edit.

Of course… all this blog writing will just slow me down. J/k! I’ll keep track of my progress on this blog…

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Of Blood and Snow – vampire romance story

This week, I finished writing Of Blood and Snow which is currently being posted as a free serial on one of my websites. It was 31 chapters in the end and 98000 words. I’ve only reached chapter 22 in my posting of this story. It’s great to have it finished. I need to edit these final chapters now to get them ready for posting and then I need to decide what to do with the story. I’ve never promised that it would always remain a free story, and I think it’s a story that is very sellable and people would buy it. It’s always a tough decision to make, especially because I’ve enjoyed posting it and getting feedback from readers about it.

This week, I also finished editing the second story in my Sons of Lyra mini-series. Oddly, it ended up being precisely the same length as the first story, Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess, which is available from Fictionwise at a discount of 15% right now – http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook67530.htm

I still need to finish writing the 3rd and 4th stories in the series. I’m also toying with writing a Daughters of Lyra series for this generation of sons children. I’ll see how popular these ones get before I make a decision. It will basically be set 20-25 years on from this series. I’m seriously considering it though.

Off to update my website. I’ve got some programming bits and bobs that I want to do to it… fancy stuff.

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Out Now! Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess (sci-fi romance ebook)

Out Now! New sci-fi romance ebook by Felicity Heaton…

Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess - Sci-Fi Romance Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess
Captain Lyra II, known as Balt to his family, is one of the famed sons of Lyra, the handsome princes with passionate hearts that every girl in the galaxy wants to catch. The second eldest son, he’s content with the freedom and adventure that life in deep space and the Lyran Imperial Army offers him. What he isn’t content with is the current situation he’s found himself in. Not only has he been forced to stop at a backwater port for supplies, but he’s leaving with more than he expected!

Kayla is a slave but can still vaguely recall what it had been like to be free. It’s something she believes that she’ll never taste again, and when she finds herself handed over like the piece of property she is to a complete stranger, a Lyran prince no less, she’s convinced her life is about to get a lot worse. Taken onboard his ship, she quickly finds herself torn between fulfilling a promise she made to her friends when she was young, and falling for his chivalry and good looks.

Balt, not wanting a woman as his slave and not wanting to become the laughing stock of the admirals, intends to dump Kayla at the first decent planet he comes across, but as he starts to learn more about her, he finds it harder to fight his growing attraction to her. A passionate kiss from her only makes things worse. When Minervan mercenaries demand he hand her over, he discovers her true heritage and realises that things are more complicated than he’d believed.

Will Balt let her go, sending her into a life as a pleasure whore for the highest bidder, or will he fight to protect her? Will Kayla take revenge for her people, the Terrans, who were almost exterminated when Lyra destroyed the Earth system? Can love between a prince and an enslaved princess ever have a fairytale ending?

Price: $0.99

Buy now or read an excerpt at Alinar Publishing

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