Kilting Me Softly

Well, here it is. The moment I've been waiting for a looong time. My first cover of my first book with Ellora's Cave.

HUGE GIRLY SQUEAL!!!
I don't have a release date as I've yet to begin edits but I promise to post updates as they come to me. 

The cover artist is the talented Fiona Jayde. Check out her stuff. You'll be amazed.  http://fionajaydemedia.com

Writing Rewriting and Writing Some More

The last couple of weeks have been pretty intense. Lots of writing and rewriting. I turned in two manuscripts to my editor at Ellora's Cave and have been working on cleaning up the next one while brainstorming on another for the other series. Did that make sense? Rereading...

Okay. It sorta did but not really. I'm working on two series. One is three books long. So far. It could grow but I'm not sure how just yet. That's the one I'm brainstorming on. The other series is five books long, maybe six. And it has a spin-off I'm gonna pitch some time in the future once I get these under my belt.

That made better sense. Yes! Sleep is good. I've yet to get my edits but I'm SO nervous about them. The Insecurity Imps are having a blast at my expense. You know them. They dance around flinging insults at you like monkey poo.

You hide behind your monitor in the hopes you can dodge a few but the whole time you're thinking, are they right? What if the stories suck? What if they suck so bad they cause a vacuum and suck everything into them and leave me sitting there as the sole reason the universe got sucked into my suck vacuum in the first sucky place. You get the idea. My other half is a Suck-U-bus. I don't like her!

So I keep writing, hoping the imps and the succubus will just grow annoyed and go bother someone else. Or get sucked into someone else's suckage.

Image courtesy of a seriously awesome website for dogs and cats. http://www.obeythepurebreed.com/

Blood Oranges

Got the word this evening that Breathless Press accepted my vampire short story "Blood Oranges" for their Crimson vampire anthology.

That's two anthologies! Woot!

Below is kind a visual representation of how I feel. The leather sculpture is a work by artist Rayna Masters. Isn't it beautiful?
More of her work can be found at  www.raynamasters.com. Check her out.

Ravaged Volume 1 - Available Now

  

Well, it's the big day. The first volume of Ravaged is available for purchase. Available at Breathless Press! Congrats to all my fellow Ravaged authors! 

Crimson

I submitted my short story "Blood Oranges" to Breathless Press' Crimson Anthology today.  It features a hero who is a vampire fruit bat and a heroine who owns a fruit orchard.

Here are some images of fruit bats.

This one is eating oranges!

A bell pepper I think. Look how cute!

Check out those wings.

 

This one looks like a wolf with wings.

 Truly vampiric.

Series Titles

A couple of days ago, I submitted my title ideas for both of my series to my editor, the fab April Chapman.

It's official. Both were approved! : D

Look out world. Sexy Scots and Hot Hybrids are coming your way!!!

Eight Is My Favorite Number Or Why I Always Loved Friday The 13th

In the coming future Ellora's Cave will be publishing not one story/book but TWO series of mine for a total of eight books.

http://www.ask8ball.net/

Happy, happy, joy, joy! : D

Eight!