Next!

I started Mortal Voice II.

I was working on Flames and suddenly this scene for chapt. 1 of MVII flashed before my eyes. So I wrote it down, of course. Now I'm working on three books right now: MVII, Flames, & Tail.

MVII starts out at a crime scene, just like MV. Slid right into the case. The woman has been missing for 36 days and the family still holds out hope--well, most of them. Jaci finds a skull, but it's not the woman's. However, the woman's body is there, mummified.  What is strange though to Jaci is that the land is weirdly silent. It doesn't give her a lot of information, just the basics of the woman's death and no more. And the land feels hollow, empty. Not what she's used to. Something is wrong.  And Jaci means to find out what caused this.

Tail is almost done. I had the confrontation with the king and Beka. Only it turned out to have more of a twist than I originally thought. :)

I added a few pages in Flames. Nick and Sara have met with Seb, the wedding planner. So that can be checked off. And another fire has happened but it's not their arsonist, just someone taking advantage of the fires for his own edge.

Still working on Mortal's blurb.

Don't know when Z is for ghouls or My Orange Crush (Toby's book) will be coming out.  But be on the look out. Sharon has them and may publish at any time.

Writing a blurb

 

Here is the definition of a blurb from a dictionary.

 

blurb

[blərb]

 

NOUN

blurbs (plural noun)

1. a short description of a book, movie, or other product written for promotional purposes and appearing on the cover of a book or in an advertisement.

 

Sounds easy, but it's not.

 

You don't want to give away too much of the book, but you want to hook the attention of the reader.

 

I'm working on the blurb for Mortal Voice and I keep redoing it 'cause I don't like the little bit that I've come up with. I don't want it to sound like a romance novel or sound too much like the Elemental Voice series either since it is neither.

 

What I have so far:

 

Necro-Covery recovers missing persons, presumed dead. Our investigator has skilled consultants, including one of the nation's top forensic anthropologist, to help him sluice out clues. We guarantee results.

So states Jaci Travers and Paul Rooney's business.

 

I wrote four short blurbs and erased all but this one. I'm still working on the blurb 'cause even though I like this one it still isn't right so still working.

 

Jaci and Paul get called to a track of land to do her 'thing' 'cause the sheriff needs evidence fast on a man he has in holding since you can only hold a person without charging them for 24 hours. She leads them to remains of 7 women. The sheriff also has a case that has been haunting him for 10 years that he decides to ask her to look at. It turns out that both killers had the same secret, loosely linking the cases. A victim's father makes a business proposal that would make Paul and Jaci's dreams come true. Is it for real or will it be snatched away by the negative PR sure to come from the one killer's case? 

 

Got to make a blurb out of this bit. I like the last two sentences so I think I'll keep them the way they are but I got to figure out the rest.

 

 

Tail is at the confrontation of Beka, the King, and Hawk with a surprise visitor. The King is going to get a surprise himself before Hawk fires him up. I think Tail will be around 35-37,000 words. instead of 50,000. Though I'll be editing it after I finish so I might add some words.

 

I wrote a few pages in Flames.

 

Like I said I plan to get Flames and Tail out this year.

 

Waters and Mortal II is next on my list to work on after I get Flames and Tail out. Air/Wind and Mortal III are next after that. Then Deadly Aether to finish out the Elemental voice and companion series. My Fallborn dragon books will just have to fall in there somewhere if I can't work on the others.

 

Then there's my Alliance books and the Time-Lost books, and standalone dragon books. I've got lots to work on. And all of them need blurbs.

 

What have I gotten myself into!  :)

 

a slice of dialogue

Mortal Voice is done!

Not entirely happy with the way it ended, but I was already over my projective word count. And any more would just degenerate.

Rounded up the cases and interjected a bit of future connectiveness.

You shall see in a future book.

I got three planned so far. Mortal, After long silence, and Earth Bound. I have the covers for all three done, but I need to work on blurbs and Bios for them.  Especially Mortal since it's coming out this year now that it's done.

I need to finish Flames and Tail.

Tail is almost finished just the confrontations to go and the ending. Right now the meeting with the queen is happening, then the confrontation of the armies at the Pass will come. While they're fighting, the evil man will snatch Beka, causing Hawk to follow. Thus begins the main confrontation.

So 15,000 to 20,000 more words should finish Tail.

Flames is still in the beginning stages. Only a little over 5,000 words in. Though it's a novelette it still needs a lot more words than that! :)

These two need to get out this coming year.

Toby's book and my zombie dribble is coming out too this year. Sharon has them and is working on them. They'll come out first.

Waters and Air/Wind need to come out in the next year as well if I'm going to make the deadline I set  by my 50th birthday. I don't think I'll make it but I'm going to try.

Just a bit of colloguy

Chapt. 15 in Mortal!

Almost done. Just clearing up the cases and setting up the second book. Everyone is taking their leave of Jaci and Paul, even though it's the two of them that are leaving. So far their business dream is on its way to being realized and their personal life seems to be on track.

Paul proposed to Jaci.

They haven't had much time to make wedding plans past that.

Mortal Voice is different from my Elemental Voice series. No vampires in society or psychics helping the police openly.. Her 'gift' is slightly different too.  Though man-made things still block her contact with the Earth(Gaea).

Her fearlessness is the same though. Hard to be afraid when you're protected by a powerful elemental. When she is in touch with the Earth(Gaea) she knows she is safeguarded, though she can be killed by a gun or knife, but the Earth will save her from harm if it can. It can cause an earthquake or open a hole beneath the 'bad guy' in a field or cause a tree to fall in the forest.  rocks to fall, etc.

I also made it so Jaci is the 'author' of my Elemental Voice series.  I want to stir up a little interest in them. I got a small core of readers, but of course I want to expand.

The next book in the Mortal series will  be a bit different. Only  one case to begin with a older cold case that ties in.  A 'recent' disappearance is tied in with an older mysterious disappearance. The 'recent' was on the trail of the old and someone didn't want that old one found.

That's why I called it: After long silence.

Treasure might be involved as well, though not what one would expect. Nor necessarily how.

I always love a bit of a twist somewhere.

Sharon said she'd get my ebook Z is for Ghoul out soon. It's just a little dribble about the zombie apocalypse that wouldn't leave me alone so I just wrote it straight out. About 3,000 words so not a big read.