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Sons of Lyra: Runaway Hearts – Out Now!! (sci-fi romance ebook)

Posted on 15th June 2008 by Felicity Heaton

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

Sons of Lyra: Runaway Hearts
Heir Prince Lyra I hates his life, and itâ€™s only getting worse. Not only do Sebastianâ€™s parents force him to remain on Lyra Prime with them and control his life, now theyâ€™ve gone and arranged his marriage. Unable to stand the thought of getting married before heâ€™s seen the stars as his three younger brothers do and tasted adventure, he decides to run away. Only thatâ€™s not as easy as it sounds when youâ€™re one of the infamously handsome sons of Lyra.

Terea needs to get away. Sheâ€™s had it with men and her family. When she spots a man who looks as though he has a little money, she sees her chance and pickpockets him. The only trouble is, heâ€™s quicker than her. Before she knows whatâ€™s happening, sheâ€™s been caught and is agreeing to leave the planet with him. Anything to escape Lyra Prime and her future there.

Tereaâ€™s plan to escape Sebastian when theyâ€™ve left the planet behind is shattered when he cleans himself up and changes on her, losing his naive air and becoming a confident and dangerously sexy man. A bottle of the strongest alcohol available is her last resort, but getting him drunk to the point of passing out means sheâ€™ll have to drink too, and before she knows what sheâ€™s doing, sheâ€™s sitting astride his lap feeding him the alcohol and kissing him.

When the ship is forced to stop and boarded by Minervan military looking for him, will Sebastian hand himself over to protect Terea? Will Terea stand by and let the man sheâ€™s falling for get hurt or will she sacrifice herself and return to her family for the sake of saving him? Will two runaway hearts find the freedom theyâ€™re searching for in each otherâ€™s arms?

Price: $0.99

Buy now or read an excerpt at Alinar Publishing

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Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess – Number 1 in Romance on Fictionwise.com

Posted on 24th May 2008 by Felicity Heaton

Woot! My science fiction romance short story ebook, Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess, is now NUMBER 1 in Romance on Fictionwise.com! Not only that, but it’s still holding the Number 1 spots in Short Stories and Under a Dollar, and I’ve moved up to be Number 7 in the Bestseller Authors Recent list! Check it out!!!

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Number 3 bestseller on Fictionwise!

Posted on 20th May 2008 by Felicity Heaton

Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess is now number 3 in the recent bestsellers list on Fictionwise.com!!

I can’t believe it’s gone up another position. I don’t expect to reach number 1 since the new Laurell K Hamilton book is taking pre-orders at a ridiculous price, but maybe it could knock the number 1 romance off the top spot and claim it for it’s own.

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

This is rather exciting.

I’m also number 13 in the bestselling authors recent list.

🙂

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

Posted on 20th May 2008 by Felicity Heaton

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.

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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Book of the Vampire / VR Novel

Posted on 19th May 2008 by Felicity Heaton

My sister’s boyfriend works for a book printer and sometimes gets to bring home sample books. I’ve had a how to draw book from him and also a manga, but never anything as cool as this. Today he came around and dropped off “Book of the Vampire” by Nigel Suckling. It’s probably out now or due out soon. Nigel is the UKs bigwig on vampires. The book is basically a look at the history of the vampire and the legends that it came from. It looks really interesting so far and I can’t wait to get into it. It’s bound to inspire me to write different types of vampires. I probably can’t go any darker with them as I already write rather dark vampires as it is, but it will help me lend new twists to them.

I’ve edited 100 pages of VR Novel so far this week. It’s really just a proof read now to pick up mistakes and fix some little things. I think that I’ll have finished the proof read by this weekend and will be able to move onto writing the synopsis, which isn’t going to be fun!

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Challenges for the year

Posted on 18th May 2008 by Felicity Heaton

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

Posted on 17th May 2008 by Felicity Heaton

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)

Posted on 11th May 2008 by Felicity Heaton

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

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, heâ€™s content with the freedom and adventure that life in deep space and the Lyran Imperial Army offers him. What he isnâ€™t content with is the current situation heâ€™s found himself in. Not only has he been forced to stop at a backwater port for supplies, but heâ€™s leaving with more than he expected!

Kayla is a slave but can still vaguely recall what it had been like to be free. Itâ€™s something she believes that sheâ€™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, sheâ€™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 heâ€™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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Sci-Fi Romance Story

Posted on 2nd April 2008 by Felicity Heaton

It’s been a while since I posted, and since I’m going away on holiday shortly, I thought it would be a good time to write about what I’ve been doing. Unfortunately I’ve been so busy with work that I haven’t had much time for writing my romance ebooks, but I’m hoping to work out a schedule that allows me to do all the things that I want to do.

Right now, I’m writing my first Sci-Fi Romance ebook. It’s only a short story, but I think it will be a good one and it might possibly lead to me writing more Science Fiction romance. I’ve always loved sci-fi stories and movies, and it has always been one of the genres I most wanted to explore, so I’m really excited about writing this story. It’s only going to be around ten thousand words and I haven’t decided what to do with it yet. Either it will be a part of an upcoming anthology at Alinar Publishing, or will be a short story for sale on Fictionwise and Alinar.

I’m also editing my mysterious VR Novel, the next Vampires Realm story. I still haven’t decided what to do with it, but I’d like to try submitting it to agents or publishers. I doubt they’d have me, but I want to give it a shot just to test the waters. You never know, I might find a publisher who is looking for a dark vampire romance / paranormal romance / urban fantasy novel and likes my voice and style. I do want to write more of my Vampires Realm series stories but I don’t have the time right now. I might write the next Eternity story soon, which will be a free ebook like the first one.

As well as editing and writing a new story, I’m also working on my free vampire romance serial story, Of Blood and Snow. It’s going down really well and we’re up to chapter 18 on my free stories site – Romance After Dark.

That’s all for now!

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VR novel is now complete…

Posted on 23rd February 2008 by Felicity Heaton

Well, last week on Valentine’s Day I finished the first draft of VR Novel. What a romantic day to finish writing it! I thought it was rather sweet.

The future of this story still isn’t set. Right now I need to shift my focus away from it for a while to finish writing Of Blood and Snow, my free serial vampire romance novel. That’s already reached 75000 words and I’ve still got another 30k or so to write.

I’m quite pleased with the first draft of VR Novel. It came out better than expected considering the odd hiccup I had with it and the muse. The ending changed a little, but I didn’t mind. I think this new ending is an improvement and I’m sure one that will be well received by everyone. It’s a very happy ever after.

It ended up being longer than I expected considering that I had my doubts that it would even reach the 80k mark.