tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post418478735819607438..comments2024-03-19T03:17:41.287-04:00Comments on Pimp My Novel: Prithee, Inform Me: Your WIPUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-21665125463669986742010-08-11T16:49:14.005-04:002010-08-11T16:49:14.005-04:00Haha, talk about late to the party. But holy hell ...Haha, talk about late to the party. But holy hell -- @ Reesha, I REALLY want to read yours. I'll watch for it on bookstore shelves, soon, no doubt. ;)<br /><br />I write historical fiction. In negotiations with an agent re: this novel I have been slaving over for three years. It's about an affair between a gay French painter and a banking heir in late Victorian England, and their ties to the Cleveland Street Scandal. At risk are the banking heir's marriage and reputation, and the painter's career. What will they choose?<br /><br />I've also begun outlining a sure-to-be thick and heavy (le sigh) novel about a troop of Chicago actors in 1900, who write a show so shocking and violent that they become a national scandal and sensation. The actor/manager of the group has a bitter public rival in a haunted minister with a secret identity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-70852669169344046042010-08-03T22:03:06.007-04:002010-08-03T22:03:06.007-04:00Late to the party, as usual. But in my defence I w...Late to the party, as usual. But in my defence I was writing :)<br /><br />I write science fiction, fantasy and women's fiction - all with a touch of horror /creepy stuff.<br /><br />Current project is my second novel a steampunk/fantasy/adventure novel (What would happen if our world revolved around magic that came from plants and animals? And said plants and animals were not pleased). <br /><br />First novel is a science fiction/adventure novel and is out to final readers before being sent out to publishers this fall (At the end of the next ice age, the pacifist descendants of super soldiers must come face to face with their heritage and their future). <br /><br />Cheers. http://www.tinahunter.caAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-2886475795058989352010-08-03T09:51:30.612-04:002010-08-03T09:51:30.612-04:00Apologies to all for the double post. Please delet...Apologies to all for the double post. Please delete the second.lirelouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04640776051602615517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-68067878269892548862010-08-02T17:38:35.482-04:002010-08-02T17:38:35.482-04:00Mine has pretensions of upmarket historical ficti...Mine has pretensions of upmarket historical fiction: In January 1967, Galen St. Cyr, a former Peace Corps worker turned draftee, turned Special Forces volunteer, turned Infantry lieutenant, returns to Vietnam from three months in hospital to lead a hundred odd Jarai tribal irregulars against the North Vietnamese Army. This small behind the lines band of brothers includes three Americans, one Australian, and two Vietnamese special forces sergeants, in addition to the tribesmen. <br />While commanding this company, he meets Rahlen H’nek, a Jarai beauty whose brother is the real commander. Both are the children of an assassinated officer of the United Front for the Struggle of Oppressed Races (FULRO), a Montagnard independence movement, and both are FULRO officers. FULRO is, in fact calling for a revolt, and it is H’nek’s task to take the entire 2,000 tribal paratroops of the MIKE Force into that revolt.<br />Charlie Regter is St. Cyr’s commander. He is frankly sick of Vietnam, and wants to get home while he still has a wife and family to return to. But his best friend and mentor, Lieutenant Colonel ‘Pappy’ Green, has suckered him into commanding the MIKE Force. Green is aware that FULRO is planning a revolt, and he needs Regter’s long experience with the tribes to stop it. Their problem is that a new leader named ‘Me Sao’ had shown up in the MIKE Force, and no one knows his true identity. <br />The Vietnamese are also aware of the revolt plans, and have sent in a Vietnamese special forces officer named Ton That Ngoc. Ngoc and Regter have despised each other since 1957, and their relations are prickly at best. Regter’s plan is to identify Me Sao and drive him out before the revolt, while Ngoc’s plan is to co-opt or kill him. As if that is not enough, a rift within FULRO’s own ranks brings in a fresh battalion of recruits from Cambodia, whose leader, Romah Dot, has his own reasons to kill Me Sao.<br />Meanwhile, there is a war on. As St. Cyr’s men rescue villagers and hunt Viet Cong and NVA regulars, Me Sao continues to extend his control in the MIKE Force through Rahlen H’nek, his great-granddaughter. Rather than an actual person, Me Sao is a spirit who speaks to H’nek in her dreams. As the MIKE Force intelligence sergeant explains to Regter: ‘Hey Boss, it’s all mumbo-jumbo to us, but to several hundred thousand Animists who believe that each human being had three souls, it makes perfect sense.”<br />Unfortunately for Me Sao, the North Vietnamese Army has its own plans, and on the eve of the revolt, they move in and occupy the Duc Het Special Forces camp. Galen St. Cyr, who has survived eight hard months of combat, Vietnamese plots, trumped up rape charges, and the massacre of five U.S. Army rangers at the hands of his own men, must now rally his small team to lead a company of tribesmen into battle who only hours earlier were willing to kill him. What he doesn’t know is that H’nek the medium has passed on Me Sao’s order to kill St. Cyr to her own assassin, while H’nek the lover has promised to marry a Jarai rival if he will guard St. Cyr’ life.<br />So it is on Duc Het’s twin hills, over three days in August 1968, that the best laid plans of mice, men, and a woman, ‘gang aft agleigh’.lirelouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04640776051602615517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-40203120313225343352010-08-02T17:36:35.606-04:002010-08-02T17:36:35.606-04:00Mine has pretensions of upmarket historical ficti...Mine has pretensions of upmarket historical fiction: In January 1967, Galen St. Cyr, a former Peace Corps worker turned draftee, turned Special Forces volunteer, turned Infantry lieutenant, returns to Vietnam from three months in hospital to lead a hundred odd Jarai tribal irregulars against the North Vietnamese Army. This small behind the lines band of brothers includes three Americans, one Australian, and two Vietnamese special forces sergeants, in addition to the tribesmen. <br />While commanding this company, he meets Rahlen H’nek, a Jarai beauty whose brother is the real commander. Both are the children of an assassinated officer of the United Front for the Struggle of Oppressed Races (FULRO), a Montagnard independence movement, and both are FULRO officers. FULRO is, in fact calling for a revolt, and it is H’nek’s task to take the entire 2,000 tribal paratroops of the MIKE Force into that revolt.<br />Charlie Regter is St. Cyr’s commander. He is frankly sick of Vietnam, and wants to get home while he still has a wife and family to return to. But his best friend and mentor, Lieutenant Colonel ‘Pappy’ Green, has suckered him into commanding the MIKE Force. Green is aware that FULRO is planning a revolt, and he needs Regter’s long experience with the tribes to stop it. Their problem is that a new leader named ‘Me Sao’ had shown up in the MIKE Force, and no one knows his true identity. <br />The Vietnamese are also aware of the revolt plans, and have sent in a Vietnamese special forces officer named Ton That Ngoc. Ngoc and Regter have despised each other since 1957, and their relations are prickly at best. Regter’s plan is to identify Me Sao and drive him out before the revolt, while Ngoc’s plan is to co-opt or kill him. As if that is not enough, a rift within FULRO’s own ranks brings in a fresh battalion of recruits from Cambodia, whose leader, Romah Dot, has his own reasons to kill Me Sao.<br />Meanwhile, there is a war on. As St. Cyr’s men rescue villagers and hunt Viet Cong and NVA regulars, Me Sao continues to extend his control in the MIKE Force through Rahlen H’nek, his great-granddaughter. Rather than an actual person, Me Sao is a spirit who speaks to H’nek in her dreams. As the MIKE Force intelligence sergeant explains to Regter: ‘Hey Boss, it’s all mumbo-jumbo to us, but to several hundred thousand Animists who believe that each human being had three souls, it makes perfect sense.”<br />Unfortunately for Me Sao, the North Vietnamese Army has its own plans, and on the eve of the revolt, they move in and occupy the Duc Het Special Forces camp. Galen St. Cyr, who has survived eight hard months of combat, Vietnamese plots, trumped up rape charges, and the massacre of five U.S. Army rangers at the hands of his own men, must now rally his small team to lead a company of tribesmen into battle who only hours earlier were willing to kill him. What he doesn’t know is that H’nek the medium has passed on Me Sao’s order to kill St. Cyr to her own assassin, while H’nek the lover has promised to marry a Jarai rival if he will guard St. Cyr’ life.<br />So it is on Duc Het’s twin hills, over three days in August 1968, that the best laid plans of mice, men, and a woman, ‘gang aft agleigh’.lirelouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04640776051602615517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-7777487222110114492010-08-02T10:45:20.471-04:002010-08-02T10:45:20.471-04:00I write MG and YA, steampunk, paranormal and just ...I write MG and YA, steampunk, paranormal and just started a dystopian. <br /><br />Oh, and screenplays. When I want to write for adults, I bust out the screenplays. <br /><br />Also, my word verification for this comment is "crock". <br />Nice.Lily Catehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17732112345439595471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-8502872718313502362010-08-01T02:08:24.351-04:002010-08-01T02:08:24.351-04:00Three novels.
1) 22 drafts; The Lonely Affair of J...Three novels.<br />1) 22 drafts; The Lonely Affair of Jonathan Brady: Through a series of coincidences, Jonathan Brady deludes himself into believing that a prominent socialite is in love with him, especially after she invites him to paint her house. <br /><br />2) 15 drafts; A season for Fools: Rachel’s 11-year-old son accidentally shoots his drunken father dressed as Santa Claus – setting off a chain-reaction of events in a small town.<br /><br />3) 14 drafts; Tropical Moods: The Expatriate: Set in Malaysia over a period of nine days culminating on the eve of the Chinese New Year, Tropical Moods: The Expatriate revolves around six desperate and lonely people whose quiet lives are about to explode. A lady, a prostitute, an expat, an addict, a comedian, a ghost, a suicide, a murder, and a treasure – all are at stake on a tropical island.<br /><br />Plus five screenplays, three soon to make the rounds, two undergoing rewrites in August.<br /><br />My birthday is 3 August, so I know my wish; more importantly, I've dubbed it August Agent Attraction month.<br /><br />Question is, are we doing all that we can right now to help ourselves get to where we want to be? If the answer is no, what are we going to do about it other than blogging about it here? <br />Wishing and hoping only goes so far...been there, done that. We all have. Time to get serious...<br /><br />Good luck to all of us, and here's to keeping our dreams alive! Others have done it, so can we!Borneo Expat Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15657806224924444058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-52478339710765685392010-07-30T17:54:53.984-04:002010-07-30T17:54:53.984-04:00It's still too early for me to be talking at l...It's still too early for me to be talking at length about my WIP; this is nothing more than a filler post that I'll use to get regular email updates about how all of you fine people are doing.<br /><br />Carry on :pBrad Jaegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12672047492091058737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-57896133584876878542010-07-30T17:39:48.400-04:002010-07-30T17:39:48.400-04:00Late to the party, so I'll keep it simple.
Be...Late to the party, so I'll keep it simple.<br /><br />Been querying agents since the beginning of July 2010 for my third completed novel and have, so far, received a handful of ms requests. Started writing my fourth novel this week. Both are YA.<br /><br />If you're curious... My first novel is SF and my second is WF. I never queried the first; I queried the second earlier this year with no success. Both are now shelved until I have the time/energy/focus for heavy-duty rewrites.Lydia Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15328254761920829040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-54628548586946877562010-07-30T11:23:03.253-04:002010-07-30T11:23:03.253-04:00Wow. After 68 comments, should I even post? Well, ...Wow. After 68 comments, should I even post? Well, at least I'll be number 69, and that's always fun.<br /><br />My WIP is called Hero Games. A small group of Beta testers for a new virtual reality game receive their packages of equipment and eagerly go in to design their superhero character and go explore the virtual city. What they don't (yet) know is that the city isn't virtual. The characters they have created are running around the real world of New York City, stopping crime and having fun. Until one of the players encounters a glitch in the programming that allows him to change the rules. Suddenly, it's much less of a game than they thought and everyone must work together before anyone else gets hurt.<br /><br />The "fun" problem I'm encountering? In addition to the usual plot and character development work, it isn't easy to juggle a DOZEN main characters! And, each of those has one or two game characters! So it's quite a challenge, but I'm enjoying the struggle.<br /><br />This is not my first novel to write, but hopefully it'll be the second one I finish! I've been shopping around a couple of short stories, and my only (thus far) completed novel, On Common Ground. I've had a few nibbles, but so far, no bites. That's a fun one with a police woman, her (former) guardian angel, and a half-breed demon as the protagonists. Let me tell you, those three are not natural friends! But you do what you have to when you've got a dead-beat demon dad and the Angelic Guard out for your throats!<br /><br />If you want to meet some of the characters for Hero Games or On Common Ground, look for the Bonus Material in the novels section of my site: www.davidjace.comJacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13923175310269099458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-66227982777484082582010-07-30T09:09:11.262-04:002010-07-30T09:09:11.262-04:00I write stories about teenagers. Sometimes YA, som...I write stories about teenagers. Sometimes YA, sometimes adult fantasy.<br /><br />My current WIP is about a girl who befriends a magical creature who is helping her do favors for a boy she has a crush on, but the creature has a secret agenda she doesn't know about.<br /><br />The MS I'm querying is about a dead boy with super powers and his band of other dead kids with super powers. It's a humorous YA.<br /><br />My first MS is about time travel, secret societies, love, and failure. Oh, and eating people.Christi Goddardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08590491851753709622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-64821579345786027512010-07-30T00:39:36.193-04:002010-07-30T00:39:36.193-04:00dang... i would read every one of these.....
uh,...dang... i would read every one of these.....<br /><br />uh, i have 3 that are dear to my heart as of now. the completed one that i'm querying is a SF novel about a geneticist who becomes part of her own experiment (w/o her consent). she's genetically altered with panther DNA, and has no memories of her before-life. she can't control her panther urges. and worst of all, the lead scientists seem to know her from that before-life. she tries to uncover those relationships, theoretically without killing those involved.<br /><br />my current WIP is fantasy. it's centered around 4 characters from 3 completely different backgrounds. one is a jaded priestess for a religion she can't believe in, one is a disgraced and disabled soldier, and the other 2 are members of a subjected race trying to find each other again. they're all connected by an emperor who's nothing more than a pawn. oh, and the subjected race's ancestral spirits are reeking havoc on their homeland. <br /><br />the last one is a paranormal thriller (i guess. it might end up being a little darkly humorous as well) about an FBI agent with the paranormal division who is seeking a murderous spirit. aided by her dead ex-husband who is trying to atone for his mistakes while alive, duke has to figure out the spirit's motive and try to stop it before it claims another victim. she gets help from a criminologist that her ex doesn't like. that's about as far as i've gotten...lexcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094072290983267178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-12249545225539921882010-07-30T00:22:29.113-04:002010-07-30T00:22:29.113-04:00I just published my latest political thriller, The...I just published my latest political thriller, The Brink, and I'm neck deep in marketing it. Aye-ye-ye. It's easy to let the marketing overwhelm you, just gotta stick to the marketing plan. But then again, nobody teaches writers how to be one-person marketing machines. A part of my effort is doing an (almost) daily blog about book marketing. It's at www.markfadden.wordpress.com. And thanks for 'Pimp My Novel' Eric. Fantastic stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-16632607299185155742010-07-29T23:43:13.340-04:002010-07-29T23:43:13.340-04:00I'm enthroned in the paranormal romance and fa...I'm enthroned in the paranormal romance and fantasy romance genre. Though my short stories tend to be less romance, and more just fantasy or horror.<br /><br />I have one WIP in the final draft stages. Tightening up some sections before submitting it to my publisher.<br /><br />My main WIP is a fantasy romance, about 2/3s of the way done. I'm really loving this one, because I'm kind of working through some themes about good, and evil, and balance.<br /><br />I finished one piece through my blog, doing it a post at a time. It was really seat-of-my-pants and needs a lot of work in the rewrite.<br /><br />I've got various short stories too. An erotic piece with my main characters from my published novel. A haunted house story. A story about 2013, and what it will be like after the 2012 apocalypse. And an assassin story for an anthology.<br /><br />So, quite a few things on my plate. With a day job, it sure makes everything interesting.Raven Corinn Carlukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06014248975870886289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-44822107009641716552010-07-29T22:29:47.711-04:002010-07-29T22:29:47.711-04:00WIP: A web of conspiracy holds a small boy's f...WIP: A web of conspiracy holds a small boy's fate in thrall, for his soul has been damned to a taint that slowly but surely turns him into a monster. Jason Arneil struggles to free himself from the lies and deception that threaten to damn him and, in doing so, must flee his island home and journey by ship to Port Vedic in the hope that someone there might discover a cure for his curse. But in that bustling city, he finds only answers that threaten madness and a desperate choice between two forms of damnation.Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-42364062699627358462010-07-29T20:55:38.181-04:002010-07-29T20:55:38.181-04:00WIP #1: "Engineered Intuition," a histor...WIP #1: "Engineered Intuition," a historical sci-fi, is in its final drafts. Forced to flee with London Towne, her employer, Amelia Chase confronts clones, dodges death, and faces bandits... all without a corset! Whether she stays alive long enough to figure out who's bad, what they want, and why they want it, depends on intuition, engineered or otherwise.<br /><br />WIP #2: "Shift," a paranormal romance, is being written.<br /><br />And then I have a few other projects going as well :)Beth Overmyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04820441246149409581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-38039016796393363032010-07-29T19:59:31.700-04:002010-07-29T19:59:31.700-04:00We're a busy bunch!
WIP 1: An historical, Cam...We're a busy bunch!<br /><br />WIP 1: An historical, <i>Cameliard Rising</i>, about Guinevere's mom that's made it to the acquisitions table twice without being acquired.<br /><br />WIP 2: A science thriller, <i>Sector C</i>, I'm currently pitching: When a cloning project reintroduces the pandemic that wiped out the Ice Age megabeasts, a veterinarian and a CDC investigator battle to keep humans from becoming the next target for extinction.Phoenix Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290349031002504007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-72465860764126550372010-07-29T18:27:21.173-04:002010-07-29T18:27:21.173-04:00I haven't really settled on one type of genre ...I haven't really settled on one type of genre to write. I guess you can say that I'm still searching for a home for the themes I like dwelling on/writing about. I used to say early on that I enjoy writing about the dark side of relationships, but I've strayed so far from that, that I can't say for certain what them I enjoy writing about.<br /><br />I do have a couple of partials that I'm looking to complete, each one based on a badly written short story that I decided to regut and rewrite.<br /><br />One is about a woman's last three days on earth, as told in flashback form at modern day version of limbo (being a governmental agency), with a little romance thrown in on the side.<br /><br />The other partial is about a marriage in which the wife cheats on the husband with another woman, of which I self pubbed a very short version of it (that I tidied and cleaned).<br /><br />The one competed W.i.P. I have, of which a journalist/writer friend of mine is doing a first read through for me, is about a woman who is in debt to a loan shark. She is given exactly one week to raise the necessary founds, and while spending time in the park searching the want ads, meets a person who introduces her to the easiest way of earning what she needs: adult movies.<br /><br />The interesting twist in this story is that the lead character has a symbiont, to which she gradually introduces her to both the pleasures and pain of the real world and of the adult movie industry.<br /><br />Best thing about this W.i.P. is that it can be tweaked in about an hours time or so, to make more explicit if need be.G. B. Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09783331838434598963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-86827717974595879022010-07-29T18:21:54.359-04:002010-07-29T18:21:54.359-04:00It's pretty cool to see what everyone is up to...It's pretty cool to see what everyone is up to. I've been in my cave too long.<br /><br />I just finished the third book in a series of four paranormal romances. But it occurred to me that the books really lent themselves to upscale erotica. Or is it romantica? Paranormal erotica?<br /><br />At any rate, I just finished converting the first book and it's on its first thorough edit. I have the query letter ready to go as soon as the novel is. Here's the letter:<br /><br /><br />Nigel has found his key. In his world, a man’s search for his perfect telepathic fit – his key – can take hundreds of years. He discovers Elizabeth, an eccentric young photographer whose ancient cameras are held together with duct tape and paper clips, days before a portal will arrive to return him to the alternate reality he calls home. <br /><br />For Nigel, a Hendrix-riffing cellist who can see exactly what Elizabeth wants him to be, seducing her is the easy part. He entices her with the promise of immortality in his utopian world. He charms her with childlike play and overwhelms her with raw sensuality. But his attempts to persuade her to join him grow increasingly desperate as the clock counts down, and Nigel realizes Elizabeth will never agree to leave her terminally ill younger sister. She is Jessica’s only means of financial and emotional support since the death of their parents six years previously. <br /><br />Elizabeth follows Nigel to the portal site, where she plans to kiss her lover goodbye. But at the last moment, he drags her through the portal and inadvertently drops them into a dangerous world where the only safety lies in a hidden colony by the sea. They are joined on the way there by Nigel’s brother, and an uneasy triangle develops. As the betrayals and secrets accumulate, Elizabeth must decide whether she can find love and grant forgiveness in this frightening new reality.<br /><br />End o' letter. <br /><br />Good luck to everyone. My blog is at http://hilaryhelton.squarespace.com/ if anyone would like to drop by for a visit.Hilaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01937272651217529356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-5058942713359152342010-07-29T18:13:09.881-04:002010-07-29T18:13:09.881-04:00I'm still really fascinated by vampires, despi...I'm still really fascinated by vampires, despite the ridiculous number of vampire themed books out there. <br /><br />I have 260 pages of my ms written and it begins in present day L.A. after a war between two sanctions of vampires has wiped out most of the western hemisphere. Nora was already homeless and struck with a tragic few years before people started getting their throats ripped out while bringing in their groceries. A year later she's still alive, but barely. She's starving, tired and injured and when she gets cornered in an attic she thinks its over.<br />Her savior comes in the form of little fresh faced Lila, a vampire over six hundred years old, though she barely looks twelve. Lila befriends the withdrawn Nora and brings her to stay with her in a house full of the same creatures Nora's spent a year fighting off.<br /><br />The war is the defining element of the story, but I have no idea whether this would qualify as YA or adult. Nora is a few months shy of nineteen when the story begins, which puts it close to the YA category, but there's fighting and violence and death- everything else that comes with a war.<br /><br />So I have no idea.Megan Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11176772484150176951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-35257039336747754032010-07-29T18:10:12.840-04:002010-07-29T18:10:12.840-04:00I write romance. I've been writing on and off ...I write romance. I've been writing on and off for almost 10 years, seriously for three. I'm currently working on a paranormal romance which is about 40% done.LorelieLonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15220062855253889790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-60243884608045454572010-07-29T18:00:17.078-04:002010-07-29T18:00:17.078-04:00This is so cool! I love reading about what people ...This is so cool! I love reading about what people are writing -- thanks for the most excellent excuse to procrastinate, Eric!<br /><br />I write paranormal and fantasy romance but kinda fell into being published in erotic romance with Red Sage.... go figure, LOL. I have a space opera being released in December, and a paranormal rom-com in their up-and-coming Secrets Volume 30 anthology.<br /><br />I've just contracted my 5th book with them -- a fantasy that I wrote a couple of years back, that my editor convinced me would work as an erotic romance. I'm currently reworking it and becoming extremely familiar with the delete key: have to get 95,000 words down to about 75,000... neeeearly there! *sobs piteously*<br /><br />Other than that, when I need a break from erotic stuff -- as you do ;-) -- I'm reworking a paranormal YA that's done pretty well in contests, and will be pitching it to an agent at our RWNZ conference next month. Thought it might be interesting to change the male protagonist to a female and mix things up a bit -- nothing like a challenge, huh? O_0<br /><br />After that, we'll see. I might have a go at writing *gasp* a "normal" story rather than a paranormal.... but I'm not holding my breath. That aforementioned paranormal rom-com was supposed to be "normal" too! Seems I just can't help myself. Got that whole twisted world-view going on, LOL.Maree Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11329496105174788219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-57744737314118905712010-07-29T16:40:15.854-04:002010-07-29T16:40:15.854-04:00I'm working on revisions for my YA (new adult)...I'm working on revisions for my YA (new adult) contemporary, COFFEE & DONUTS, about an 18year old waitress in an airport coffee shop. <br />I've been querying for a few weeks and have an agent currently reviewing a partial. Keep your fingers crossed for me... I'm really excited about this story!!PK HREZOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11650153097981426833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-89127208934802418132010-07-29T16:25:31.247-04:002010-07-29T16:25:31.247-04:00I write because I have nothing better to do. Every...I write because I have nothing better to do. Everything I did for money, I hated. I was good at them too, but nothing is better than writing. <br /><br />What I write is good and I'll keep sending it out there, not with an empty-headed belief that someday my prince will come. No, with the surety I have nothing better to do. If I did, I would have done better somewhere else already. <br /><br />I wrote stuff I love and one of these days, you'll love it too.<br /><br />So in the meantime, visit my blog and I'll keep you entertained. The other side of the coin with Nathan, Janet, Rachelle … pick a blog … any blog … take their daily advise and be realistic … you'll never make it.<br /><br />Balderdash … I'm born and bred Brooklyn, beat down the streets of Bed Sty while Billy Joel was still hiding in Long Island … Hell … I survived Washington Heights in the 80's when you all thought it was part of Harlem or the Bronx.<br /><br />I'll leave you with a post … When You Wish upon a Star … <br /><br />Wouldn't it be nice if the world were as simple as a wish?<br /><br />Twinkle, twinkle, little star and each night a thousand stars come out to greet us. Up above the world so high one shoots across the heavens and blazes the way to our secret desires.<br /><br />Out there in the universe somewhere, our wishes fly on gossamer wings. Tie your dreams to the tale of a kite or float them above the clouds. Watch as they slide over the rainbow and shimmer inside a silver moonbeam.<br /><br />The original journal of Ramblings, written over thirty years ago, filled pages with a young mother's angst and daily folly. It was but one of several journals and diaries, those secret pages where I might steal away and tell my troubles to … <br /><br />Well I suppose to you. <br /><br />Makes no difference<br />Who you are with fOIS<br /><br /> visit me: http://ramblingsfromtheleft.wordpress.com/fOIS In The Cityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347958777030988677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733835506387656648.post-14745789484200656792010-07-29T16:20:08.729-04:002010-07-29T16:20:08.729-04:00My current WIP is a fantasy romance set in a newly...My current WIP is a fantasy romance set in a newly independent land a thousand years after the Gods’ Wars. A royal marriage to bring port access may be derailed by his dark past and her anonymous stalker. Meanwhile, the rise of a forbidden magic of unmaking may draw the Gods’ interest to their world -- and destroy it.<br /><br />I have a day job, so it's going more slowly than I like. Fortunately, I have a long commute!<br /><br />BessBesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16797372752669500683noreply@blogger.com