Progress How Novel 79

 

I'm welcoming the month but not the heat. It's been hot enough for blood to boil. And we got the rest of this month and August to go yet. September is usually cooler, at least lower humidity. We'll see this year. 

I've been trying to finish Emergent, the Time-Lost book. But my muse is being her fickle self and working on a new vella more than Emergent. It's a rough first draft of a Romantasy I did years ago. She just clumped to it and won't let it go. And she won't even edit it. She just adds a bit here and there when I upload an episode. I open Emergent and she ignores it. I'm behind and I need to get Emergent done but she blithely talks about the new Vella. :sigh:

I've been looking for more in-person events near me but when you're in nowhere Missouri and most of the events are on the East & West coasts...Well it makes the travel prohibitive.  And I really don't know where or how to look for the events. You can't just enter 'cons' or 'in-person events' in the search bar.

My Elemental Voice omnibus is out in paperback and hardback. It has the first three books in it. If you want to check out the hardcover Elements of a Shaman. 

 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 this blog.  I have a tentative date to start. But then all that depends on my muse. So put your email and the name(s) in a comment.

My T.L stories (Ghostwolf, Fallborn, and Time-Lost) 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. Those Three series will stay on Ingram but I don't know about the rest of my T.L. Books that I'm writing on Vella.  They may stay in KDP for awhile.   

 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.

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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