Thought I was finished

I was done with my work in progress Out of the Blue.  Besides typos and minor edits that is.  But I have taken the suggestion of one of my beta readers resulting in the addition of at least another chapter maybe more.  I may ultimately not add this to the book but I might.  I have been writing Out of the Blue for the last nine months, one more won’t kill.  I hope!  It may kill my husband though.

I have decided to do my own cover.  This may be like being your own counsel in court but I am going to chance it.  Feeding the family comes before $200+ covers and $400+ editors.  One day I hope to be able to afford these but currently they are unattainable.  To be honest that’s okay.

My #1linewed Time on Twitter

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Time

My #1linewed from my #wip #OutoftheBlue.

She really doesn’t have any frame of reference for all these times he is referring to.

Her family just functioned with the sun.  They didn’t even have timepieces.

The time is irrelevant as long as I am with you.

I was running out of time.

Drake, I was going to tell you when the time was right.

I was waiting for the best moment but there is no time like the present, huh?

“Your sister’s hurt, this is no time for jokes.”

Blog Share : Erotic Romance vs Erotica (Oh, God, but don’t call it porn) | Cheyenne McCray

As a new writer I struggle with this on.  Am I writing just romance or is it a erotic romance?

When I first started writing erotic romance 13 years ago, this was a constant debate: are erotic romance and erotica the same thing?Not really.

Source: Erotic Romance vs Erotica (but Oh, God, don’t call it porn) | Cheyenne McCray

Blog Share : Getting ready for and conquering #NaNoWriMo | Cheyenne McCray

This sounds like a neat thing to participate in.  It sounds like it would be beneficial to help new writers get focus.

National Novel Writing Month. It’s coming around the corner, and it’s actually a thing, and they have their own website. It’s a pretty neat website and if you’re interested in writing a book in 30 days, I’d recommend checking it out and participating.

Source: Getting ready for and conquering #NaNoWriMo | Cheyenne McCray

My #1linewed Last Line on Twitter

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Last Line

My #1linewed from my #wip #OutoftheBlue.

Prologue

“…Payment for looking the other way when my family took you back in from the outside, back from the human world.”

Ch 1

“I’m already regretting saying, NO.“

Ch 3

 ”…You may have pleasured yourself with these fingers but they are nothing compared to mine and nothing compared to what I want to put inside you.”

Ch 4

“…I just need her here to send with Deacon as payment to his father for the peso’s I owe him.”

Ch 9

…then he downs his wine and plunges straight into ravishing her under the stars.

Ch 10

Her mother would be so disappointed if she knew the language she was picking up from the younger boys she snuck out to hang with at night.

Ch 17

“Because it may react differently with your species.”

“ASS!”

Ch 20

“…I mean it would be like us abandoning polite society and living as wolves.”

Epilogue

“Easy Fido.”  Buddy I can’t look at Callisto I’ve been blinded by Miriam.

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Blog Share : Planning Ahead to Make Your Book Award-Worthy

Some good points here.  I love stuff that helps new authors.

It’s a great feeling to see a book project come full circle — from the initial idea to seeing your work in print. But is there more? Is your book award-worthy?

Source: Planning Ahead to Make Your Book Award-Worthy | Self Publishing News For Self-Publishing Authors

My To Be Read Pile (Well really File)

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My current list of next to be read authors in no particular order other than alphabetical.  And by no means all of them!  This is just a sampling.

Eric Ambler – The Care of Time

Avery Aster – Unscrupulous and Love, Lex

Shelly Bell – Blue Blooded

Thomas K. Carpenter – Revolutionary Magic, Sagan’s Law, The Weight of Gold, The Cageless Zoo and Fires of Alexandria

Mark E. Copper – Hard Duty, Way of the Wolf and the God Decrees

Jason P. Crawford – Chains of Prophecy

Betty Lee Crosby – A Home in Hopeful

Sicily Duval – Desired by the Alpha Bear, Drawn by the Wolf, The Werewolf Army Ranger, She Wolf Montana Bride, The Werewolf Detective, Enemy of the Alpha, Trapped Blood Mates, The Werewolf Kidnapper 2

Davika Fernando – When I see your face

Colleen Gleason – The Bleeding Dusk, Rises the Night

Patty Jansen – Innocence Lost, Fire & Ice, Watcher’s Web and The Peaceful State of War

Kevin Johns – The Green Princess

Donna Joy – The seven Steps to Closure

Jade Kerrion – Perfection Unleashed

Jeremy Laszlo – Children of the After, Here be Monsters and Left Alive #1

Taylor Lavati – The Curse of Betrayal and The Thousand Year Curse

Susan May – Back Again

Alexandra Moody – Tainted

Brenda Novak – Blood in, Blood out

Mary Phisher – It started with Love

Jack Silkstone – Primal Inception

Jessica Sorenson – Shattered Ashes

Mike Wells – Lust, Money & Murder

Joanna Stewart Wentzel – Playing Juliet

Pricilla West – Forbidden Surrender

Trisha Wolfe – The Darkest Part

Blog Share : 5 Publishing Myths every new writer should know!

I have seen some of this helpful information before but it deserves to be repeated and shared repeatedly!  Again those Butterscotch Martini Girls are helping newbys out!

All of us were new at one time and had to learn the hard way what was actually the truth of things in the publishing industry. Lately I’ve heard each of these 5 Myths about the Publishing Industry and hope that this blog will save at least one new or aspiring author the pain and suffering that a lot of us went through before we learned this stuff.

Click here to read the rest from it’s source: 5 Publishing Myths every new writer should know!

My #1linewed First Line on Twitter

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First Line

I hope you enjoy my #1linewed from my #wip #OutoftheBlue.

This one is technically my first line it’s from the Prologue.  I’m certain it will have to be shortened for Twitter.

Callie holds tight to her husband knowing his pride has already decided the outcome of the events getting ready to unfold.

Callisto silently slips through the currents, weaving and bobbing around obstacles in her path.

Drake paces back and forth like a caged wolf; he can’t believe what has just happened with Callisto.

They lay on the couch for a bit just breathing each other in.

Dressed and fully sated both sexually and emotionally they enjoy a light snack.

Drake nervously stands on the pier above where he discovered Callisto just three weeks before.

Blog Share : The Creative Process: getting ideas when you’re stuck

I love this from the Butterscotch Martini Girls.  So helpful!  I recommend all budding authors take a look.

Source: The Creative Process: getting ideas when you’re stuck

There are so many interesting ways for writers to brainstorm and get our motors revved if we’re stalled or just need some fresh new ideas. Not all, but most of the below I’ve done on different occasions, and have been just the right thing to do for that moment. Others I intend to try for the fun of it.

Click here to read on: The Creative Process: getting ideas when you’re stuck

Blog Share: The Iceberg Illusion: Success is an iceberg

 

One day I hope to reach the Illusion!Photo post by @CheyenneMcCray.

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My #1linewed Dialogue on Twitter

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Dialogue

My #1linewed from my #wip #OutoftheBlue.  So far the feedback has been good.

So again I ask you to help me with the jets or better still join me… No Callisto, I will not join you!

“Do men like these?” “Most certainly, men love thongs.”

“We used spears.” “Really?” “Oh, yea!”

“That was some shower, my pearl!” Breathless she says, “Yes it was!”

 

Blog Share : A checklist for aspiring erotic romance writers: | Butterscotch Martini Girls

This is very interesting.  Worth checking out.

Source: A checklist for aspiring erotic romance writers: | Butterscotch Martini Girls

Outlining

Let me start by posing the questioned, Do you outline before you write?  I don’t well at least not in the conventional sense.  I do the digital equivalent of notes written on bar napkins.  I have tidbits in the notes on my cell and laptop.  A heavily disorganized excel sheet that takes me an hour to decipher and whatever notions are bouncing around in my head as I type.  And yes I type, I do not write.