It's the New Year!
I don't do resolutions as they don't seem to last out the month. But I do make short-term goals for my writing. This year I'm going to be concentrating on Kindle Vella.
That doesn't mean I won't be writing on my WIPs though. 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. But I plan to put my T.L. books on Vella as you can publish the Vella as a book once it is finished. I think this is the best way to get at least my T.L. books out. My Tina Books I'll still be writing as well just slower I think since I won't be doing them on Vella. I have way more T.L. Books in my queue than Tina Books.
Bone Whisperer is still at 19 chapters on Vella 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 was less for November as I had less reads so it does indeed have something to do with reads. We shall see about December.
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 whenever my muse let's me finish it.
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.
My T.L stories are on Ingram Spark.. 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 'd like to try to finish 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. I'll be working on them while I do Vella. Then I have 2 books that have been in the queue for awhile that I want to get out. Probably on Vella to begin with.
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.
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