Vixenwriter

Yes, it’s that day of the week again and there are new excerpts at my messageboard for Reading Between the Lines (my October release from Samhain) and something from Vengeance Due as well!

I’m over halfway done with To Do List and I’m really loving the story and I’ll definitely have it done by deadline (whew!)

Lots of truly fabulous stuff - SO - I’m doing TWO contests (and I’ll even tell you about a third one!)

First of all, I’m going to give you all a week and choose TWO winners  - one will win an ARC of Michelle Pillow’s really excellent ALONG FOR THE RIDE, her October release from Cheek and the second book in her Matthews sisters series (you all need to also read Bit By The Bug, the first book - it’s fab!)

The other winner will receive a copy of any of my available titles in whatever format they’re available in (including my paperbacks!)

All you need to do enter  OVER AT THE DYNAMIC TRIO BLOG!  Click the link and get the details!!! I’ll draw the winners next Tuesday the 18th of September!!

Another contest? Don’t mind if I do! Megan Hart is running a contest and the winner gets all sorts of goodies including a 100 dollar GC to Amazon! Go to her website to check the details!!

Hey, what a great Tuesday! Y’all enjoy your day!

Come Join Me, Shelley Munro and TJ Michaels at the Romance Studio Galleria tonight at 6pm pacific/9 eastern as part of their Wild Wednesday chat series! www.theromancegalleria.com - you’ll need to download a program to use the chat if you haven’t been there before. It’s really fun!

You know the drill, fun, chat and prizes! Come by and say hello!

BTW - We’re supposed to be in the Galleria Cafe. I’m wandering around not knowing what the heck is going on. The signage isn’t correct for who is chatting in there.

Nearly finished with my paper edits on Reading Between the Lines. It’s always hard to know what a story really is until you let it lie for a week or so and then pick it up again. Thank god it makes sense and flows and all that stuff, LOL. I love this couple, Haley and Conall are a lot of fun and Haley really transforms in some ways from start to finish, she’s got to deal with a lot of stuff so her journey was a challenge to write in an authentic way. I think I did it though!

Threat of Darkness releases on Wednesday from Ellora’s Cave. For everyone who’s written me in the last two years asking when I planned to do a story for Jayce macTavish, who we meet in A Touch of Fae - here you go. This is Jayce’s story along with Mei and Card’s as well. Yes, a menage. I did not plan for this book to be a menage. In fact, I re-wrote it from scratch twice but Card wouldn’t let go of Mei! And once I just threw my hands up and said, “Fine! Just do what you want.” and mumbled about them all being so ungrateful, the story really sped along for me. I suppose there’s a lesson in there about just writing the story that wants to be written. And in truth, I absolutely love this book and it turned out better than I’d even imagined.

To celebrate, A List Mom Day!

Please Join: Lauren Dane, Taige Crenshaw, Robin Rotham and Christine d’Abo as we host the Reader Chat for the sweet spot in the middle of the day on July 24th. Between 8 am pacific/11 eastern and noon pacific/ 3 eastern we’ll have excerpts and prizes from:

With more coming by the day! Mark your calendars and get ready to party with us!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ellorascavechat/

There’s a contest at The Bradford Bunch and The Dynamic Trio - you may want to check that out. And check in tomorrow for a contest here as well!!

70 Days wise - With my faboo numbers, I’m ahead of the numbers and I’m mainly editing right now. I’ll get some word count when I start to input all my edits and I’ll update then. I’ll be back to writing again by mid week.

OH and a tip - when your nearly 3 year old comes up to you and says, “here momma!” look at what she’s giving you before you take it. Just trust me on that…

The Dynamic Trio (me, Shelley Munro and TJ Michaels) are chatting tonight at 6 pm pacific/9 eastern. Come by and say hello!

More freaking snow! I tell you, I am DONE with snow. I want my mild Northwest winter back please. And I want my children back in school.

I’m halfway done with my synopsis for The Others. I hate writing synopsis but as I was just discussing with Anya that writing them helps me see the book like a machine. Helps me focus in on what’s truly important and how to work those elements and forget about the little stuff. It also helps me get focused on the story pacing. These are things I don’t see with such ease when I’m pantsing it. But when I’m pantsing, I’m more open and the story can sneak up on me. I like that.

There are plusses to both approaches I think and as I go on, I learn more and can use more tools to write better books, which certainly doesn’t hurt!

Anyway, I want to be done with this synopsis so I can clear the partial out of my computer and get it to my agent. I know Chased edits will be hitting soon and Threat of Darkness edits are due tomorrow and FLE will be coming for Ascension too. All sorts of stuff! I need to get to Wolf Unbound as well and also write a proposal for the next Spice anthology and do my edits on Stripped and write Making Chase all very soon.

I hope to see you at the chat tonight!

Please join me, TJ Michaels and Shelley Munro for our January Dynamic Trio chat. Tomorrow night we’ll be starting up at 9 eastern/6 pacific in the Maverick Authors chatroom

Samhain Publishing’s own Chrissy Brashear will be our guest for the first 30 - 45 minutes of the chat so if you have questions about publishing or Samhain in particular, head on over!