Progress How Novel 72

 

It's December!

Man, the year flew by fast. Time to get out my 'Christmas Movies'; Die Hard and The Santa Clause. Going to get a mug of cocoa and watch these traditional movies. It just isn't Christmas without Hans falling off the Tower and Santa falling off Scott's roof.  Then I might watch the first Lethal Weapon movie, that's a nice Christmas movie as well, though not as traditional. :) 

 I'm still doing a contest for Book 5 of Elemental Voice Spirit Talker. I am looking for names of certain characters. The book is in the 'planning' stage, meaning I'm writing the book bible right now and thus doing character names and place names for the book. I need names for the Orro Clan matriarch, her PA, her security chief, and the secondary villain as well as a morally grey assassin. Most are vampires except for the secondary villain. 

Should your name(s) be picked, the name of course will be used and you will be mentioned in the author notes. You may also win a signed book or a signed bookplate. 
I reserve the right to pick more than one group of names or single name so you all have a chance to win.
Comment name(s) on one of my FB posts about this. The contest is open until February 2024. I plan to start writing the book in April for a pub date of December 2024 or January 2025. So put your email and the name(s) in a comment.

Bone Whisperer is still at 19 chapters cause my muse is not being cooperative. And I haven't updated any of the Vellas for the same reason. But my muse and I are going to have a sit down and get some work done. I need to get BW done and published pronto. It's been almost a year I've been working on it.

I'm still getting the hang of vella. But it seems like doing an ongoing one will net me more locked reads. So I'm going to try it. I'm participating in some of the vella groups and getting some reads. There are bonuses to be had as well in Vella. They really don't tell you the criteria for the bonus so I don't know what they look for to increase the bonus. But my bonus did increase 80% for October. We shall see about November.   

IF you want a sneak peak  of  Playground : vella Bone Or you can wait for it to come out as an ebook and get it for $2.99. My T.L. books will probably come out on Vella first before I publish them as ebooks as I'm getting $ as I write doing it that way.

Since I'm doing Vella, I don't know how much I'll get done in my writing queue. I have soo many stories in my head.  But  next two books up: Book 3 of Ghostwolf and Book 5 of  EV.  But as I've said many times my muse is fickle. She may throw a whole new story at me or she may just stick to the vellas. 

I plan to put my T.L stories on Ingram Spark. .Sharon is working on that.  My Tina books will stay on Amazon and in KU but I don't want to keep all my eggs in one basket incase AMZ terminates my account because of piracy. AMZ KDP accounts have been terminated because the book (s) were found on a pirate site. If that happens I don't want all my eggs to be broken. 

 I want to try to concentrate on the Ghostwolf and Elemental Voice series. I need to finish a series and promote the he!! out of it. I have over 14 books out yet not one series completed. So I'm going to try to focus on Ghostwolf and Elemental Voice as they are almost finished. I have 1 additional book in EV and 2 books in Ghostwolf that need to be finished to be complete. A complete series under each of my author names. Then I have 2 books that have been in the queue for awhile that I want to get out. 

However my muse is fickle as I said and I don't know what she will do. Plans mean nothing to her.

In Elemental Voice, the FMC reads the earth like a medium hears the dead and finds buried items--mostly dead bodies--for the local sheriff's office at the beginning in a world where psychics work regularly with law enforcement and vampires live next door. In later books she works with her vampire FBI agent fiance and his partner. If you're interested in checking out these older Elemental UF Books.

In Ghostwolf  the MMC sees the evil humans do to one another every day as a Homicide detective and hates the necessity of his job. But this murder—it raises his hackles. What he uncovers is far more than a pathological motive, it's like something out of a horror movie or a Grimm's fairy tale. Everything points to a supernatural being, a werewolf, as the killer, causing him to doubt himself—and his mysterious new partner. If you're interested in checking out this series  here's the first book Raven Manor

Have you checked out my website yet?  Here is the link: The Rook  Check it out and tour a world where psychics work regularly with the police and vampires live next door, a world where werewolves hide among us and can manipulate energy(magic), two worlds with dragons, and a world where a Time-Lost tries to stop the past from repeating itself.

I will still update these blogs periodically. When new books come out definitely. These are still my babies and I won't desert them. But they'll definitely get dusty. And maybe repetitive. 

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