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.
