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Editing Forbidden Blood – Vampire Romance Novel

Posted on 31st January 2011 by Felicity Heaton

Last week I was mostly editing Forbidden Blood, an upcoming vampire romance novel that should be out around the end of April 2011. Originally, I had intended it to be a light edit, more like a polish than anything else, but it has turned out to be more like a full edit. There’s quite a bit I want to add to the story, layering in more description and information so readers will get more out of the story, and intensifying certain scenes between the vampire hero and human heroine. Because I’m doing a full edit on the story, I was behind schedule at the end of the week. It’s difficult to measure how long edits take, but usually a full edit takes me around the same amount of time as it took to write the first draft, or maybe just a little less.

On Friday, I had reached page 74 out of around 270, and had added around 6000 words into the story. On Saturday, I had an ear appointment in the city, so I went to the area where my husband works (he works on Saturdays) afterwards and went to Starbucks there. I spent 8 hours in Starbucks and managed to get 56 more pages edited, reaching my page 130 goal. It doesn’t sound like much progress, but I actually edited 25000 words of the story, and the amount of words added reached 10000, so the story was then at around 118000 words long.

Sometimes editing is slower than we like it to be, but I guess it’s the price we pay for being thorough. Adding in extra details and information, or improving characters, always takes time, and when I see how many words I’ve added to the story (considering that I’m also taking words away too), I don’t feel as though I’m on a go-slow.

Saturday was an interesting test though. I had wanted to see how many pages / words I could comfortably edit in a full working day ahead of my turning full time author at the end of February. It was good to see that when I’m editing quite harshly, really taking time to craft the words and sharpen the story, that I could get through that many pages. I don’t intend to edit for 8 hours a day though. It was more like seeing what I could accomplish with 4 or 5, as I knew that eight hours would be extremely tiring, and it was. At the end of the evening, I was completely bushed, not fit for anything other than laying on the couch staring at the TV. That’s not how I want to feel at the end of the work day when I’m writing, so I’ll cap my editing at around 4 or 5 hours a day, dependent on how much work I have to do. If I’m pushed for time and desperately need to get an edit turned around quickly, I now know that I could spend a week in Starbucks doing 8 hours a day and get it done (most of my novels are around 80000 to 125000 words).

Unfortunately, it means I’m miles behind on my other work–interviews, articles, guest blogging, sending books out for review, and building my author platform, amongst other things. I have a lot to do between now and Feb 10th when I have my ear op, including preparing content for my Vampires for Valentines month over at the Vampires Realm blog – http://vampiresrealm.blogspot.com – that will see a daily post of goodies for everyone to read in the lead up to the release of Hunter’s Moon.

I’d better get my head down today and crack on with these edits then!

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Plans for 2011 writing and Forbidden Blood

Posted on 21st January 2011 by Felicity Heaton

I’m listing to Pete Murray… he makes me think of beautiful Australia… and sunny Cairns… and steals me away from the frosty chill of London.

Well, having finished the read through of Forbidden Blood, it’s fairly clear that it’s going to be the next book I’ll release after Hunter’s Moon. Forbidden Blood is in good shape, with only minor things to address, so I’ll be able to get the polish edit done on it by the date of my ear operation (February 10th). It’s a novel length vampire romance book, currently around 110,000 words. I’m quite excited about releasing it and I keep thinking about writing another book set in the world I’ve created for it. I think readers will enjoy the story though and I can’t wait to release it.

My never ending schedule change is still in progress too. Now that Forbidden Blood is set as the March 26th release, I have to think about the next one. I have a slot on May 7th that I want to use for a pay-for book rather than a freebie. At the moment, I’m set to release Ascension then, which is a witch / demon paranormal romance book, sort of urban fantasy romance.

I’m still planning to release 11 stories in 2011. 8 of those will be pay-for stories and 3 of them will be free ebooks. I’m going to write two stories for my A Day in the Life series, and another story in my Eternity series (Hyperion’s history – sub-series of the Vampires Realm series). I’m also going to polish up the Eternity covers to have them match the other Vampires Realm ones.

At the moment, we’re looking at this sort of ordering for the pay-for stories, with the release dates flexible:

February 26th 2011 – Hunter’s Moon
The next story in the Vampires Realm series, Hunter’s Moon takes us away from Europe to the wilderness of Canada, where Tatyana, a vampire of the Nocens bloodline of Budapest, finds herself at the mercy of an ex-alpha and ex-compound werewolf, Nicolae. And the guy has a serious chip on his shoulder. Sparks will fly!

March 26th 2011 – Forbidden Blood
A dark vampire romance novel, Forbidden Blood is set in London and follows the vampire hero, Kearn, as he fights to catch a man he’s been after for three years. His elusive opponent appears before him in a London back street but a young beautiful woman named Amber hinders Kearn and the man escapes. But all is not lost. The enemy has given Amber a taste of his blood in order to control her and if Kearn’s suspicions are correct, he’ll come after her again. A decision to use her as bait turns into a struggle against a dangerous attraction as they fight to defeat the enemy and protect her life.

May 7th 2011 – Ascension
Ascension is an urban fantasy romance novel, mixing one stubborn half-demon hero, Taig, with his ex-lover and just as stubborn witch heroine, Lealandra. When her life is threatened and her Counter-Balance is killed, Lealandra turns to Taig for protection, but 6 years has done nothing to heal the hurt she caused by leaving him for another man and the coven, and he’s not about to help her without her paying a high price! Lealandra understands why Taig is acting up, but she hasn’t touched another man in all the years they’ve been apart. Her heart has remained constant, and only Taig has been in it. Seeing the pain she caused, Lealandra works to soothe it and hopes to finally help Taig face the issues he has about his demonic heritage and open his heart to her.

July 30th 2011 – Her Guardian Angel
The only novel in the Her Angel series, Her Guardian Angel promises to be a thrill ride from page one. Bringing back all of the angels from the first three novellas, this story is packed full of danger and intrigue, and a hero who will steal your heart. Marcus isn’t interested in his new role of protecting Amelia and posing as her neighbour, but when the two start to grow closer and Marcus discovers that Amelia is about to die, it becomes a race against time to save her life. But will he be successful? Can he stop something that has been foretold?

September 10th 2011 – Heart of Darkness
Set in the beautiful city of Prague in the dead of winter, Heart of Darkness is a novel of passion and possession. Aleksandr, once a prince of his vampire kind, has spent four centuries relentlessly pursuing the relatives of the man who murdered his sister and the constant bloodshed is taking its toll on him, turning him towards the darkness and into the beast all vampires once were. Battling the darkness after killing another hunter, Aleksandr meets Elise, a guard of the Cerny bloodline, and she instantly drives the black from his heart and his mind, restoring his balance. Curiosity about the effect she has on him, and her beauty, drive him to pursue her, but the charm that had once helped him have any woman he wanted fails to have an effect on Elise. If he wants to win her, he will have to change his ways and learn how modern men pursue the women they are falling in love with, but it’s a race against time as the darkness threatens to take control. Only Elise’s love can save him, but even then will it be enough when he faces the last hunter and the end of his vendetta?

October 22nd 2011 – Masquerade
The second story being released in the Vampires Realm series in 2011, Masquerade follows two elite guards as they battle both the threat of vampire hunters and their apparent hatred for each other to protect the lords and ladies of all the pure bloodlines of Europe at the Creator Day masquerade ball! But hate is so close to love, and a dance whilst hidden behind a mask can lead from one thing to another…

December 3rd 2011 – Hellcat
A hunter by trade, he can’t resist the lure of a rare species, but is it wise to fall for a Hellcat? This shape-shifting kitty isn’t about to be caught, certainly not by a hunter, and definitely not by the alpha cat pursuing her across the globe, but the two men might just cancel each other out. It takes little more than a flicker of charm and a sultry smile to win the hunter over, but will he be able to keep her rightful mate off her tail long enough for her to escape? And why the heck is she feeling guilty about using the guy for protection?

There’ll be the three free ebooks in there somewhere too.

I’ll also be squeezing in time this year to write a new Vampires Realm novel for release in early 2012 and the first couple of stories in my Hades’ Boys series… which isn’t the real title. lol. It’s a series of 7 books about some seriously sexy alpha gods (all brothers – their mamma is very proud of her strapping lads) intent on stopping our world and theirs from colliding! I’ll be releasing all 7 novels over 2012, 2013 and 2014. Expect to be blown away.

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Winter’s Kiss – vampire / werewolf romance book available in paperback!

Posted on 16th January 2011 by Felicity Heaton

Winter’s Kiss, part of my Vampires Realm series, is now available in paperback on Amazon.com. You can get your hands on this vampire / werewolf romance book for only $7.99! At the moment, it’s only available on Amazon.com, but it will go global within the next 6 weeks. I’ll keep you all posted.

Winter’s Kiss
F E Heaton
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 themâ€”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 forbiddenâ€”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 fails and his heart demands that he protects her, both from the werewolf who bit her and from himself. She 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? Will the nights they spend together change his heart and his mind, or will she spend eternity dreaming of Winter’s kiss?

ebook price: $3.99
paperback price: $7.99
genre: paranormal vampire / werewolf romance
length: 78000 words

paperback purchase link:
Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456489895/

e-book purchase links:
My website: http://www.felicityheaton.com/ebooks.php?title=Winter’s%20Kiss
Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Winters-Kiss-Vampires-Realm-ebook/dp/B0035LDN4Q/
Amazon Kindle UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winters-Kiss-Vampires-Realm/dp/B0035LDN4Q/
Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Winters-Kiss/mix-SbRY0TdPE0-Zl8QkcSDTzA/page1.html
Sony Reader Store: http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/f-e-heaton/winters-kiss/_/R-400000000000000254325
Also available at iBookstore

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Hunter’s Moon release date change

Posted on 10th January 2011 by Felicity Heaton

The appointment for my ear operation is February 10th… the release date for Hunter’s Moon was February 12th. See the problem here? I don’t think I’m going to be up for much partying or work in the first few days after my ear operation, so I’m shifting the release date for Hunter’s Moon to February 26th. Yes, you’ll have to wait an extra two weeks for the book. Well, Vampires Realm series readers have been waiting for over a year for the next story in the series (non-free) so I guess two weeks more won’t kill you, will it?

The good thing about this is that it also gives me an extra two weeks to work on the story. Nicolae and Tatyana, the hero and heroine, are doing a Winter and Nika (from Winter’s Kiss) and being a pain at the start. There’s a few emotional / response glitches to smooth out. I just feel that I need to get their reactions pinned down at the start, and work in the prospect of them coming to love each other. At the moment, they’re quite set against each other, which makes it difficult to progress their relationship from hate to love in a believable way. Of course, I can’t just do away with their issues about each other. They need them because of the things that have happened in their past / their upbringing. I just need to make sure that they’re not dead set against each other, and there’s leeway for a relationship and feelings to change.

I’m in the polish / third draft phase with the book at the moment. It’s now novel length at almost 62000 words and I still have another fifty pages to edit. There’s a chance that it will creep up to around 65000 words by the time that I’m done with it. I need to go back and re-read the first few chapters to polish them a bit better and get the characters ironed out.

I have to say that the extra two weeks breathing time with Hunter’s Moon is the only good thing to come out of my ear operation. I’m not looking forward to it one bit. I’ve only been put under once before, when I was very young, and I don’t remember it really, but I do know that I didn’t like it. It gave me my phobia of needles because of the way I was handled, and I really don’t want to be knocked out. I guess it’s better than feeling all that pain though!

I’m also having to shift my release schedule for the rest of the year around too. Not the dates, but what books come out on them. I need a bit of breathing room if I’m going to reach my 11 releases in 2011! I’ll post more about that another time.

Have a great week everyone!

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Her Angel paranormal romance series available in paperback!

Posted on 8th January 2011 by Felicity Heaton

The first three novellas in my acclaimed angel romance series are now available in one handy paperback from Amazon.com for only $9.99!

Her Angel
Felicity Heaton
In our world, there exists another, where angels battle demons to protect mankind. These beautiful men with passionate hearts watch over us, steadfast and strong, loyal to their duty and Heaven, but for three heroes that loyalty is about to be tested by the most powerful force in nature–love.

In Her Dark Angel, Apollyon finally escapes his duty in Hell only to discover that the voice that commanded him to come to Earth wasn’t that of his master, but that of a beautiful 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?

In Her Fallen Angel, Annelie fell for Lukas the moment he walked into her pub three years ago. He’s gorgeous and he’s seriously out of her league, but 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 a fallen angel. Can she help him prove he didn’t commit a terrible crime? Is she brave enough to love an angel?

In Her Warrior Angel, 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. Taylor has spent her whole life protecting London from the lowest demons but working with Einar is her biggest challenge yet. She wants him but she can’t let herself fall for him. The reason why is simple. She’s half demon. He’s an angel. Love between their species is forbidden, but resisting their desire is impossible. Can a love so forbidden ever have a happy ending or are they destined to break each other’s hearts?

Buy it now: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456489836/

Also available as three separate e-books in various formats including PDF, Kindle, Sony eReader, Kobo, and Apple iBookstore
Her Dark Angel – http://www.felicityheaton.com/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel
Her Fallen Angel – http://www.felicityheaton.com/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Fallen%20Angel
Her Warrior Angel – http://www.felicityheaton.com/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Warrior%20Angel

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paranormal romance book news

Posted on 20th December 2010 by Felicity Heaton

It’s been snowing heavily here in the UK and it’s chaos. I’ve been unable to get to work because of the snow. I’m hoping that tomorrow the weather will be better and trains will be behaving themselves, and I’ll be able to get into work. If I can’t, I’ll have to work from home as best I can.

I’ve been lapse at updating my blog this weekend because the snow has been so distracting. I swear I spent most of Saturday watching it constantly falling. It was snowing for over 6 hours and we ended up with 8 inches in the end. I spent a large part of Sunday tiring myself out with clearing the drive of snowso my husband and next door neighbour wouldn’t skid into the wall of our house when driving into or out of it. There’s a huge bank of snow along the wall now. It’s very pretty outside, and we have an amazing row of icicles along the entire length of the back of the house, but it’s very inconvenient! My cat thinks so too.

This weekend I posted chapter 2 of Love Immortal. If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for? We’re all snowed in together so we might as well read something good to entertain us while we can’t go about our normal lives, right? You can read the second chapter of this upcoming paranormal romance book at the special blog: http://loveimmortalromancenovel.blogspot.com/2010/12/love-immortal-chapter-2.html

You can read the summary at the blog too: http://loveimmortalromancenovel.blogspot.com/p/about-book.html

If you want to start on chapter one, then visit the chapters list: http://loveimmortalromancenovel.blogspot.com/p/chapters.html

It’s been getting a great reception, which is quite exciting. I have a group of readers who are raring to go on reviewing it for me. I’m looking forward to seeing what they think about the novel. It’s been a while since I released a novel, and this one was a long time in the making.

If you read the chapters, be sure to leave a comment letting me know what you thought about it!

In other news, I’ve finished the second draft of Hunter’s Moon. Hunter’s Moon is the next Vampires Realm series release and it will be available from February 12th 2011, just in time for Valentine’s Day. It’s set away from Europe this time, and follows a Nocens vampire on her mission against the hunters who killed her sire. In deepest Canada, she meets an unlikely ally–an ex-compound werewolf called Nicolae. Can we say forbidden love?

I’ll need to do another edit on the book before it’s ready for proofing and then release. My schedule with this one is going to be rather tight even now that I’ve switched the release date with Love Immortal‘s old one. I can’t imagine I would have had this ready for January 15th! Must have been high on optimism when I decided the original schedule of releases for next year!

I’m really looking forward to releasing Hunter’s Moon. I haven’t had a Vampires Realm release this year, other than the free A Day in the Life stories. I want to get back on track with the series in the next few years. There will be 2 releases in the series next year, and I’m hoping to write 2 more for the following year. Those will probably be longer. Hunter’s Moon is 57000 words, so around short novel length, and Masquerade will likely be around 40000 to 50000 words. I’d like to write another longer novel for the series. I have plenty of them planned. Just need to find the time to write them!

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Covers for Love Immortal and Hunter’s Moon!

Posted on 4th December 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I’ve just put the finishing touches to the covers for my next two releases and wanted to share them with everyone. I get quite excited when I finish covers 🙂

Love Immortal by Felicity Heaton

First cover up is the one for Love Immortal. Love Immortal is a long novel (157,000 words) and will be released on January 15th 2011, so not long to wait for that one. It mixes immortals, gods, werewolves, vampires and people with amazing powers. It’s action-packed, passionate, thrilling and very romantic.

Next up is the cover for Hunter’s Moon. Hunter’s Moon is the next Vampires Realm story and will be released on February 12th 2011, in time for Valentine’s Day. It’s a novella at around 50,000 words, and has a sexy ex-alpha ex-compound werewolf hero and a female vampire of the Nocens bloodline as the heroine. Sparks will fly when these two get together!

Hunter’s Moon by F E Heaton

I’m not going to ask which you prefer… but I will ask what you think of them? Do you feel more excited about the stories now that you’ve seen the covers?

🙂

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Vampires Realm paranormal romance series

Posted on 19th November 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I’ve been hard at work this week on my Vampires Realm series. I’ve now planned the next story after Hunter’s Moon. Masquerade will feature plenty of familiar faces, and plenty of new faces too. Being set in familiar territory at the Venia mansion, and featuring so many previous characters in the series, it took a bit of research to get everything sorted for the story. I’m pretty much there now and hopefully I can start writing it soon. There’s another story to write before that, and I need to proof Love Immortal and edit Hunter’s Moon too.

Masquerade is pencilled in for a mid-June release, around 6 months after I’ve released Hunter’s Moon. Plenty of time to get the story written and edited. I might need to do some more planning for it, or at least study the previous Vampires Realm stories so I have all my reference material right and know the characters I’ll be bringing into it. It’s quite exciting to write something with the previous characters in it. I’ve always liked the Creator Day masquerade as an idea so it should be fun to write an entire story that revolves around it and the freedom it gives to the vampires of the pure bloodlines.

I wish I could start writing it now, but I have to stick to schedule, no matter how much the muse wants me to swerve off in another direction instead.

I also read the first draft of Hunter’s Moon over this week. I finished that this morning. The story is in good shape but there’s things that I want to fix and improve. There always is when I read a first draft over. It’s better to catch them now than during the polishing stages when deadlines are tighter. I’m away next weekend so I’ll put this story on hold until I return, which is why I’m squeezing in a quick proof of Love Immortal next week.

Love Immortal is the next story due out after Hunter’s Moon. This time it’s a novel… and a big one. I bet you’ve all been missing my novel-length stories! It’s a doozy at 157000 words too. I think everyone is going to love it and I put a lot of work into this one, so much that I have to up my game with all my other stories now to match it.

I’m still hoping that I get some time to read something other than my own stories soon. The flight to Barcelona is only a couple of hours but I might crack open Lara Adrian’s Shades of Midnight. I keep flicking through it and I really want to read it now. I like her Breed series, probably more than I like J R Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Don’t get me wrong, I love the BDB series, but Ward is sort of losing me a bit. Plus, I do prefer Lara Adrian’s style and way of writing. I get confused with the lingo in Ward’s BDB series.

Next year is going to be super-busy for me as I’m going to release 11 stories in 2011… I’ll post an update about that mad master plan soon!

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An admin week for me…

Posted on 14th November 2010 by Felicity Heaton

It feels as though it’s been a bit of an admin week for me. I spent most of the week working on articles and interviews for various sites. A few people have asked me to talk about the Her Angel series, but a couple asked me to write about my journey as a self-publishing / independent author. Now, most of you out there know that I’ve been self-publishing my stories for four years now, since 2006, and in that time I have written around 40 stories… but I don’t like to shout about how well I’ve done or tout what experience I have as though I’m an expert. I prefer to write stories and let them do the talking. Those were the difficult articles for me to write. I was fine when they wanted me to talk about my romance books, but the moment I actually had to write about me, I didn’t know what to put!

As well as writing articles and filling out interviews, I’ve been proofing Her Warrior Angel ahead of its release on November 20th. The schedule for my past few stories has been tight so I’m looking forward to 2011 when I have more time planned in for my stories and the schedule is looking better. I don’t like it when I have to cram in proofing and polishing. It doesn’t feel good.

Next week I’m going to be writing the outline for Her Guardian Angel, the novel in the Her Angel series, and I’ll be doing some research for Masquerade. Masquerade is another Vampires Realm story but unlike Hunter’s Moon, it involves characters that we’ve met before and places we’ve been before in the series, so I have to do some research on what those places look like and refresh my memory about the characters I’m including in this story. There’s quite a few old faces that will be making an appearance. I’m sure it’ll excite everyone to see them again.

After I’ve done some plotting for Her Guardian Angel and Masquerade, I’m going to be proofing Love Immortal. And after that I’m going on holiday! Literally. December is going to be a busy month for me again. I’m going to try to get the second draft of Hunter’s Moon done and also the first draft of Masquerade, although I might switch that out for some reading. I really need to read the stack of novels I was bought for my birthday in April!

I have archery today… I’m looking forward to that. I think I’m getting better at it. I beat the men last week, which is always a nice feeling. Watch out world! I’m deadly with a recurve bow. Maybe I’m channelling my inner vampire hunter.

🙂

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Hunter’s Moon – first draft is now complete

Posted on 8th November 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I meant to post last week that I had finished Hunter’s Moon in first draft. It turned out to be almost 50,000 words in the end.

I’m quite surprised by that. I had chosen to write Hunter’s Moon first rather than Masquerade because I had calculated that it would be the shorter of the two Vampires Realm novellas that I want to release next year. Well, colour me wrong! I had anticipated that Hunter’s Moon, which is a werewolf and vampire romance based in Canada, away from the main stalking ground of the seven pure bloodlines of Europe, would only be around 30-35,000 words. While it has plot and action, it’s more of an emotional story compared with Masquerade, which has lots of emotion too but is more action-based. Lots of fight scenes. It turned out that there were more fight scenes in Hunter’s Moon than I had thought there would be, and it grew to accommodate them. Now I’m left wondering whether Masquerade might turn out to be a novel rather than a novella!

I still have some work to do on the outline of Masquerade, so it’s entirely possible that it will be a novel rather than a novella.

I’m quite pleased with how Hunter’s Moon has turned out though. I think fans of Winter’s Kiss will enjoy it. It has a lot of emotion, turmoil, and will probably have you rooting for the hero & heroine and wishing those pesky laws against such relationships didn’t exist.

Now I just have to let it sit for a while and then come back and tackle the second draft!