Progress How Novel 32

 Book is at 25,547 words.

I've been working on all three books but mostly on The Dragon's Keeper (TDK) and Deadly Flames (DF). So writing has been done, just not a lot on Debts. 

TDK is almost to the final confrontation as is DF.  The 'bad guys' have one final secret to reveal. And that secret could have serious consequences. 

Still haven't done blurbs for any of them. Blurbs are harder than writing the book.  Got to entice enough for them to buy yet not give away too much of the book.  Hint at the story and leave them wanting more. 

I also need a copy for an Amazon ad for TDK. How's this?  She escaped a cruel master. Would becoming the dragon's Servant lead her into even more danger?

Saw this and had to download. I thought it would make a good Urban Fantasy book cover. Though I don't have a book for it myself.  My dragon fantasy isn't this risque. As a matter of  fact my Fallborn books don't have sex in them, though there is intimacy of a sort. Everything is not about sex but relationship and action. 

Progress How Novel 31

 Book 2 of the Ghostwolf Series just passed 25,000 words so officially past half way. 

I've also worked on the other two books. So some writing has been done this last week. Both books are just under 15,000 words.  I probably have about 10,000 words more to go on both, maybe more, before I get to the homestretch on them.  They are both coming up on the final confrontation.

The covers are done, but I have the blurbs to do yet.  That will take some time. The blurbs are harder to do than the book. It has to hook a reader and get them to buy. I'm so terrible at them.  

I also have to do a copy for an ad for the dragon fantasy. A tagline to grab attention. Like the blurb it has to hook a reader and get them to buy.  

I'm working on Debts' cover as well. 

Saw this picture and couldn't resist. It goes with the prophecy mentioned in Debts perfectly. The wolf and the raven. 

I might use it on the cover.   

Detective Hanlan learns that some fairytales are real--and deadly. Will he survive this knowledge or will he become an old wives' tale himself. 

Grab Raven Manor and step into the secret world within our own.

Progress How Novel 30

 Book 2 of Ghostwolf is still under 25,000 words.

I've been finalizing the covers for the next EV companion series and Fallborn books. Got to have congruity. All my series have it with their covers. You should be able to tell at a glance that that book is in that series. The covers are complete.

So not much writing done on Debts right now.

The other two books are 2/3rds of the way done. Been writing a bit on them. Want to get them finished and out. They're only two of the books I have started and partially written on my computer.  I have so many book ideas that if I could put out a book a month I'd be able to for centuries.

I wish I could write a book a month sometimes. Would like to be able to just sit down and type, getting the story out of my head as I see it. But the story fades even as I see it, leaving only a ghost of an idea. So when I sit down to write I scribble down what I can of the scene for that chapter.  Sometimes it is only a sentence, sometimes a whole page. Can take me a whole week or more to flesh out a chapter/scene.  

This is how I write. It is frustrating sometimes when I can't seem to get a scene right or I get writer's block. But that's normal.  Don't let others dictate how you write your book. However you write is right for you.  And as long as you write, it doesn't matter if you only do 200 words or 2,000 words when you sit down to work on your book. 

 

Progress How Novel 29

 Book is still under 25,000 words.

I've been working on book 2 of the Elemental Voice Companion series and the next Fallborn book. So I have been writing, just not on Debts. They are each about 2/3rds done. Maybe I can get them both done by the end of this month and get them out before July, then finish Debts by August, making a record 4 books published in a year. 

Something to strive for.

My new business cards have arrived. Now I have to figure out what to do with hundreds of old cards.

I got a bite on my Elemental Voice Amazon Ad and made a sale. First for the series in over 5 years. I hope they like the book. They were after all my first ones and have all my writing mistakes in them. But I don't want to fix and republish them. I'm computer illiterate and besides I want to leave them au natural, as I wrote them. Mistakes and all. Sentimentality. 

I'm a pantser. Some believe that leads to chaos. But what I do is controlled chaos.  Visions dance in my head and get put down in a book bible to be used when they are called to be. I also keep track in the book bible what actions happened before so I don't forget any follow-up.  I'm told I might be considered a plantser because of this, but I am at heart a pantser. 

But because of my book bibles I can pick up where I left off in books months or years later. Thus the two books I'm working on now. 

 I will get them done!