I’ve been hard at work this week on my Vampires Realm<\/i> series. I’ve now planned the next story after Hunter’s Moon<\/b>. Masquerade <\/b>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<\/b> and edit Hunter’s Moon<\/b> too.<\/p>\n
Masquerade <\/b>is pencilled in for a mid-June release, around 6 months after I’ve released Hunter’s Moon<\/b>. 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<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I also read the first draft of Hunter’s Moon<\/b> 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<\/b> next week.<\/p>\n
Love Immortal<\/b> is the next story due out after Hunter’s Moon<\/b>. 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading