Happy New Year
Photo by: Yours Truly. 2013’s tulips were lovely. There are something like 300 bulbs in the fridge so 2014 promises to be another banner tulip year. They’ll go in the ground soon and come early Spring I will have pictures! And vases of tulips in the house, too.
Happy New Year!
2012 turned out to be a year of ups and downs, more than usual, I think. My son graduated from High School and then went off to college. O_o
My day job turned out to be stressful in ways that aren’t good. It’s sapped time and energy from my writing.
I turned down a contract offer from NY.
I published my first independently written novel; My Darkest Passion, Book 5 in the My Immortals series. It was . . . something to write exactly what I wanted to write. I’d catch myself thinking, can’t do that! And then I’d realize I could. So I did. My editor edited for my story. Not for the market.
I took a serious look at some short, super dirty stories, some of which were written years ago. And I realized they could be out there making money for me, written exactly the way I wanted. One of the reasons I’ve not looked more seriously at the commercial erotica market is the language — words I feel writers are being asked to use. Words that make a lot of erotica/erotic romance feel cookie cutter and forced. As if vocabulary matters more than what sex means to the characters. I spent a fairly brief amount of time polishing etc and got them out there with words that were right for what I wanted to do. That’s the stories in Whispers, Collection No. 1.
Yes, there will be a Collection No. 2. Including continuations of the characters in Inigo The Magician and the world in My Goblin Boyfriend. And new stories. Some of the other stories hanging around needed more work than the 5 I put out.
The sequel to Lord Ruin continues to go much more slowly than I want it to. (See: Day Job, supra) It’s really at critical mass right now–enough words that really, the story is done, and I just need to make it work. It will work. It will be done. But I won’t put it out there until it’s ready.
Books You Should see From Me in 2014
Kind of in order.
My Dangerous Pleasure, My Immortals Book 4 (Reverted, re-issued with few, if any changes.) I know hardly anyone read this book, but I like it a lot because I got away with a lot. Because, I suspect, my publisher had already given up on the series. (When your editor sends you an ENTIRE CASE of Arcs they found weeks after release you know nobody gave a damn about the book.)
Lord Ruin Sequel
A novella in the My Immortals world
Whispers, Collection No. 2
A novella for Hester and Camber from Not Proper Enough
My Immortals, Book 6.
Resolved!
Not much.
Write more.
Possibly eat less chocolate. Or less of something else so I can keep chocolate levels optimum.
Write balls to the wall. Everything on the page.
What about you?
