Romance & Wackiness

11/18/2015 Current Word Count: I still don’t know.

That being said, I’m sure it’s a fair amount, probably close to 10k by now. Lucia and Angelo are naked, now I just need to get Hope and Eddie there. Sexy fun times are ahead! I really actually should work on this a little more than I have been lately – but there’s this other novel taking up my time. Yes. NOVEL. Not a short story. But this…

11/13/15 Current Word Count: I haven’t a clue!

This one… well… it’s not about Clint and Stevie anymore. They’re going to be the Spring, and my final, contribution. I decided instead that I wanted to write about a tattoo artist. D.L. Hungerford asked if someone could write an accountant into their story so Mandy and Val can get a little time off and not have to worry about paychecks.

So my MMC is…

8/3/2015 Current Word Count: 628

This one is another one that I’m working on for the Bowman’s Inn anthologies, this one for the Winter volume. Here, we follow Clint, a rodeo clown who made an appearance in my Summer story, Perfect Ten, back to the Inn where he meets – for the second time – the blond bachelorette from the rodeo earlier that summer. Stevie split with her fiancee after she caught…

10/9/2015 Current Word Count: 8173

IT’S DONE!!! Yes. I’m SCREAMING IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS! Now to get it into the template and send it off to the publisher! Publication date is approximately the end of the month, closer to Halloween than previously expected, but that’s okay! I finished SHIFT! Okay. Now that I’ve got that out of my system, here’s the artwork!

I promise to keep everyone updated on…

9/29/2015 Current Word Count: 7977

Have I ever mentioned how much I loath editing? Well… I do. Why? Because killing my darlings is just no fun. On the other hand, it’s a much better story when it comes out. Sort of like taking a car to the carwash. Okay. I’m back off to rewrite one of the scenes. It wasn’t urgent enough, tense enough. Then I just need to finish editing the last scene, and we’re…

9/27/2015

Another crit in today, this one from DL Hungerford! I’m in the middle of editing, but I’ll apply your comments as well! There aren’t many but I do like them!

9/25/2015 Current Word Count: 7821

Two more crits today, one from MissWrite, another from Ash Litton! Great comments, ladies! Now I’m off to compile my notes and start editing this sucker!

9/24/2015 Current Word Count: 7821

First…

9/23/2015 Current Word Count: 7821

Woe is me. Actually, today is a day for celebrating. FIRST DRAFT COMPLETE!!! And it’s been posted up on Scrib for critique. I have to say, waiting for those critiques to come in is agonizing. It’s horrible. It’s wonderful. It’s scary. It’s exciting. Kind of like Christmas morning. (And the lead-up to it!) But the biggest part of Christmas morning is the not…

Current Word Count: 2401

It’s always interesting when you write a conversation between two characters who will never see each other again only to find out that character is vital to the story, and will show up again – on a rather regular basis, even though it’s just a short story. Yep. That happened. She just rescued a homeless kid and got a meal in his stomach for the first time in four days.…

8/30/2015 Current Word Count: 1,190

So… I guess she’s not really a redhead. You know, I was up by 3k more than what I had last time. But alas, there was sum fun had by Scrivener – first problem ever from the program. I closed it up on Wednesday night, and on Thursday morning, the file had reverted to what it was three days before. Not just one day before, but three.So I’m working on getting those…

8/21/2015 Current Word Count: 235

Okay, so we all know I got Rafe drunk on Sunday night. And he spilled his guts. Well he only spilled most of them. He divulged a little more to me on Tuesday after write-in. This isn’t his story. It’s Nikeela and Felix’s. Nik is a shifter. She’s a redhead. She shifts into a fox. Lix… my goodness, Lix. He’s taken a few licks as a prison guard. But he’s risen…

8/17/2015 Current Word Count: 3470

Okay, so I think I’ve got it figured out. I realized last week that Rafe isn’t necessarily a jump in with both feet without testing the water first kind of guy. He’s one of those people who likes to sit back and think things through a hundred ways over before deciding on what plan of action is best. Which is why he gets frustrated with Vella as much as he does –…

8/11/2015 Current Word Count: 3470

Unfortunately, some of those words over-lap. I’ve re-written a couple of scenes a couple times. Why? Because my character won’t talk to me. I can’t write him. Rafe is just giving me a blank stare – probably wondering why I’m pushing him so hard to just… DO something, to just SAY something. No wonder Vella’s always so frustrated with him. Well, it doesn’t help…

8/3/2015 Current Word Count: 1,907

This one popped up on me out of no-where. I don’t write shifter stories, but this one is. And I’m struggling with it a little bit, trying to find the right words for terms and titles within the story. I think I’ve got it figured out, but I still need to kind of piece it together.

Tis that time of the month again! I’m still in that odd state of twiddling my thumbs while I wait for feedback on Ain’t No Angel. But as far as Trouble Makers goes, I’ve been doing some tweaking. I’ve realized that one scene doesn’t belong in the story — it’s better suited to Sammie’s story about Shane (one of the side characters). Oh… And it’s not Trouble Makers anymore. I’ve changed the name to

Already, it’s been one year since Nerdgasm was published. Nerdgasm, in case you missed it, is my debut novel, and my first contribution to the Hearth and Forge world that Misty Carlisle, Becca Patterson, Sammie Maxwell and I write in.

January 15th is an important date to me. It’s the day my grandparents got married before a Navy Chaplain in 1945. Grandma passed away on January 7th, 2010, 8 days…

This summer has been a fun one, I guess. We’re back on at the Y, we’ve been to the beach, we’ve been to the waterpark a couple times, the kids have gone to the cabin with Grammy and Grampy, my daughter is now six and repeating Kindergarten because she wasn’t as ready for it as we thought last year, my son is still eight and has moved on to 3rd grade, school will be starting in just a few weeks,…