I was too tired last night to blog about my progress on the first draft of the next novel in my Her Angel romance series, Her Demonic Angel. Writing so much over the past three days really drained me and I needed to get away from work and just relax for a while. Having said that, it was gone 6pm when I stopped working. I really need to get the work/life balance thing sorted.

Her Demonic Angel is coming along nicely now and I’m 33000 words into it, and we’re making progress with not just the plot but the romance too. Veiron is everything I had expected him to be and more. He’s wicked, has a mind as dirty as his mouth, kicks arse, and is fuelled by cold fury and bent on revenge. Erin is giving him a run for his money though. This smart-mouthed sassy woman isn’t about to let the tall hunk of handsome get away with trying to resist her.

It was hard to stop writing yesterday even when I knew that I had to because if I hadn’t the Post Office would have closed and people would have been waiting another couple of days for their prizes! I think the reluctance to stop was because I had Erin putting on her brave face and giving Veiron a speech about his true demonic angel form not scaring her and demanding to see it again. Go Erin. I sense a kiss scene in the near future.

I had to stop though. I had written around 6000 words by 1pm yesterday before I was struck by a severe case of the yawns. I hate it when fatigue just sweeps in and knocks me on my backside like that. I had a break and a coffee and that woke me up enough to continue, but by the time I had reached 10500 words, I knew I was done for the day. There’s really no point in writing when your mind is spiralling down to zombie level. That benefits no one.

The book is really coming along though, and thanks to everyone’s kind words and pep talks about not being brought down by my apprehension about this book not living up to the last one in the series, I am feeling very bright and positive about it. Marcus and Veiron are two very different heroes and I have to treat them like that, and the stories too. Her Demonic Angel is not Her Guardian Angel, although the plot is just as grand and the twists just as huge.

Thankfully I have an idea about where the series is going to go after Her Demonic Angel and who is going to be at the helm of that book. I intend to wrap up the game and level the playing field in the next book so any story after that starts a new thread in this world.

I sometimes think writing is easy, and I’m sure that readers sometimes think that it’s a pretty sweet life, but when you approach it with the vigor and determination that I do, it becomes clear that writing can be hard, very tiring both physically and mentally, and if you don’t have the support of readers who weigh in when you have a heartfelt moan/confession about your feelings, then it can be difficult. It’s the mental fatigue that always gets me.

My husband often ends the day saying things like “Use your words” to me when I can’t speak for stumbling and saying the wrong thing. I always tell him that I save my words for my books. By the end of a writing day, all my words are gone 🙂

Still, 33000 words done on Her Demonic Angel means that I’m 27% done with the book. That brings my total word count for the year up nicely to 111500 which is also 27% of my target word count for the year.

Since returning from Barcelona on Thursday night, I’ve been busy with the Her Angel series. I skimmed through Her Guardian Angel to read the Veiron parts and remind myself of everything that happened in the book, and to remind myself of each character too. I haven’t written anything in the Her Angel series since Her Guardian Angel came out last year, so I’m a bit rusty when it comes to the world and the characters.

I wrote notes for Her Demonic Angel yesterday, printed out those notes and numbered each scene. Then I numbered lots of small white cards and wrote a sentence about the corresponding scene on them. Following that I performed writer’s magic, where I shuffle the cards and somehow they come out in the right order.

I’ve spent the best part of today writing up some other notes and then putting everything into order in the rough outline for the book. There are still some things for me to think about, namely the end and some parts in the middle. It’s mostly together now though. I am tired now but I’m pleased that the story is beginning to take shape. I need to dig out my character bios for the series and create a new one for the heroine, Erin, and update the hero, Veiron, too.

Not all the previous characters in the series will be in this one but there is a reason for that, and it will be mentioned in the book. A few firm favourites will be making appearances, including Amelia and Marcus since Erin is Amelia’s younger sister. Apollyon will have a part to play too.

I’m really hoping that I can get the book outline completed tomorrow so I can begin writing it on Monday. I have 15 writing days until my ear operation comes around and I want the book done by then. This means that I will probably have to write around 8000 words a day. I can manage that. Balancing everything else like blogging, touring, promoting, etc at the same time might drive me crazy, but it is necessary. I’m really not looking forward to my operation so perhaps Veiron and Erin’s action-packed, crazy, and intense love story can keep my mind off it. The upside is, when I complete the first draft of Her Demonic Angel, I’ll probably be around 50% done with my writing word count target for the year!

If you’re not familiar with my best selling Her Angel series, then it’s available in ebook and paperback. Here’s a little more info about the books:

Her Dark Angel
Felicity Heaton
An angel without a mission, Apollyon lives trapped in Hell guarding the bottomless pit. Surrounded by endless darkness, he longs to fly free on Earth once more but his master hasn’t called him in centuries. When the call finally comes, it’s to serve a new master, a beautiful woman he has often watched over, a woman who has always captivated him.

Serenity is shocked when a gorgeous black-winged angel shows up in her city of Paris claiming that she called him when she was only casting a simple vengeance spell. He’s no other than the angel of death! When Apollyon offers to obey her and help her have revenge on her cheating ex-boyfriend, she can’t resist the temptation, but can she resist him? Can an angel as dark as Apollyon ever fall for a mortal woman like her?

Dark, passionate and erotic, Her Dark Angel is a tale of intense desire and deepest forbidden love guaranteed to get your heart racing.

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Her Fallen Angel
Felicity Heaton
Annelie fell for Lukas the moment he walked into her pub three years ago. He’s stunning, his vivid green eyes lending to his otherworldly beauty, but he’s seriously out of her league. When he tells her that she’s beautiful and confesses that he wants her, she can’t resist him and his passionate kiss. She unleashes her desire and seizes the moment and Lukas with both hands. But Lukas has a secret, one that will test Annelie’s love for him and threaten to tear them apart.

He’s an angel.

Annelie can’t believe it when Lukas says that their feelings for each other aren’t a sin, but she can believe his pain when he tells her the reason he’s on Earth. He is fallen, cast out of Heaven as punishment for a crime he didn’t commit. Lukas isn’t about to give up and accept his fate though. He’s determined to prove both his innocence and his love for Annelie, and to show her that the intense passion they share is real.

When Lukas and Apollyon discover who framed him, will he be able to stop them from going after Serenity and Annelie? Will he be able to protect the woman he loves and fly away with her into their forever after?

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Her Warrior Angel
Felicity Heaton
Einar is one of Heaven’s best hunters and he’s on a mission to uncover why an angel was working with demons. When he finds the first demon fighting a beautiful woman named Taylor, he intervenes and saves her life. Taylor has spent her whole life protecting London from the lowest demons and she’s not about to let an angel waltz into her city and take over her job, and she’s certainly not about to fall in love with him, even if he is gorgeous. The reason why she can’t is simple—she’s half demon.

There is no love in this world more forbidden than that between an angel and a demon.

Sense tells Taylor to get out before she gets her heart broken, but she winds up convincing Einar to partner with her instead. Einar is certain that working with Taylor is a bad idea, and not only because he can’t focus when he’s around her, but he can’t let her go. The mission leads them deep into the city’s underworld, where old flames burn Taylor while new flames of passion and fear of the consequences consume them, and the threat of Einar’s demons hangs over them both.

Can a love so forbidden ever have a happy ending or are they destined to break each other’s hearts?

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Her Guardian Angel
Felicity Heaton
A simple mission becomes a fight for survival in this fantastic instalment in the Her Angel series.

A guardian angel dedicated to his duty, Marcus will do whatever Heaven asks of him, but even his loyalty has its limits. When his superior orders him to gain Amelia’s trust through seduction, Marcus starts to question his mission and his feelings for the beautiful woman he has watched over since her birth.

Amelia has gone from one bad relationship to another, so when a gorgeous guy moves in next door looking like Mr Right, she hopes he doesn’t turn out to be another black knight in disguise. But there’s more to Marcus than meets the eye, and when he rescues her from three demonic men, Amelia is thrust into his nightmarish world—a world where God and the Devil exist, and only one angel can save her from death—Marcus, the angel she’s falling in love with.

On the run from demonic angels and the Devil himself, aided by Marcus’s angel friends and their amazing women, fighting for survival against the odds, Marcus and Amelia discover a love that will last forever.

A love so strong it will shake Heaven and Hell.

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