Ava March's Blog, page 14

Basking, Laziness, & a Balding Prince

I hope everyone had a great week and weekend. I spent last Monday tweaking the chapter outline for Convincing Leopold, after that, I didn't do much of anything productive. I basked in the wonderful glow of Beyond Reckless's contract offer and was wonderfully lazy. Watched the finale of Top Chef DC (go Kevin! - my fav pick won) and other misc TV, and read books. I also got a lovely review from Publishers Weekly for my upcoming Evangeline book, so I basked in that for a couple of days.
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Challenge = New Book

Earlier last week, I issued a little challenge to Shawn Lane. As it so happened, we both had ideas for short stories that had snagged our attentions. The challenge was laid down - we'll write them by Sunday 9/12. Shawn finished Manfred's Curse on Friday 9/10. Go Shawn!! I managed to get mine done by Sunday, the deadline. Go me!!

And now I have news to share. *g* That short story already has a home. Beyond Reckless will be available 11/28/10 from Amber Quill Press! It's my first book with...

Pleasures of Somerville Park - Free Story

Pleasures of Somerville Park, a new free short story featuring Arsen and Henry from Object of His Desire, is now available on my website! Click HERE to check it out.
It takes place at Arsen's country estate, Somerville Park (hence the title), and occurs eight months after Object of His Desire. It's got smex (of course) and a bit of angst. You also get to meet Arsen's youngest brother who's trying to convince Arsen he's needed in London.
I even made a little cover for it. Yeah, that's what...

His Client - Release Date

I received a tentative release date for His Client - Jan 4th, 2011. Four months suddenly seems like forever away, but it's nice to finally have a date and it will give me something to look forward to after the holidays. No word yet on Bound Forever, but as I just turned in the book a week ago, it will probably be a bit before I get a date for that one.
I didn't get much writing done over the weekend, but I got a bunch of other 'stuff' done. Finalized artwork for a new Ava postcard - this one ...

Story Behind the Story - Bound to Him

Stats – Received contract offer 9/26/08. Sent in book 2/18/09. Published 4/28/09.

No, it didn't take me 5 months to write it. I'm not that slow. *g* I had other stuff on the writing plate that needed to get done before I could get to Oliver and Vincent's sequel. I checked my notes and from what I can tell, it took me less than 2 months to write the book. In Ava-land, that's really fast for a 30k book.

Little known fact – The original idea for the title was Bound by Love. Before I sent the...

Another One Done

I buckled down this weekend and did it. I finished Bound Forever !! The book is officially in my editor's hands (or rather, in her inbox).

It's my 7th Ava book and my 9th book overall. Seems kind of odd to think I've written so many books, especially since I've been a published author for not quite 2 years. Well, at least 9 seems like a lot to me (it's like nothing compared to some people I know...like Shawn Lane *g*). And the scary thing is I have more than 9 books on the ever-growing...

Convincing Leopold - Coming Soon

Earlier this week, I mentioned some upcoming news that I promised to share later this week. Well, later this week has arrived *g*
Convincing Leopold, the sequel to Convincing Arthur, has been contracted by Loose Id! Release date is TBD, as I haven't written the book yet. My deadline to finish the book is mid-November (yes, and that's my 10th-20th definition of 'mid'), so it won't release until early 2011.
A couple weeks ago, Arthur and Leopold snagged my attention. I had planned to start...

Nearing the Finish Line

I'm home from vacation. Had a wonderful time at the beach house, spotted a couple almost-cookie worthy specimens, and got a ton of writing done on Bound Forever. In fact, I'm working on the last chapter. Well, it's really chapter 5. Since I outline books by chapter before I write them, I can bounce all over the place depending on which scenes I'm feeling at the moment. With this one, I started at the beginning, then jumped to the end and worked my way back. Thus leaving me with chapter 5 to f...

In Search of Beach-Dwelling Cookies

I'm so glad it's the weekend. I've been deep in the writing cave for the past week, and the EDJ has been...well, evil. But it's now the weekend and I'm one happy gal.
Guess where I'm going today? *the cookies are a hint* :) Yep, the beach! Not an ocean beach, but a lake beach. Lake Michigan is a damn big lake, so it's kind of like an ocean beach. I'll admit, I'm not much of a beach gal. I don't lay out in the sun. I tend to go from white to red in the blink of an eye, so I stay under the...

Bouncing thru the Week

It's been a mixed week - bounced from extremely productive to extremely unproductive. Got a ton written on Bound Forever last weekend. I bound and gagged the internal editor and got an amazing amount done. I now only have a 1/3 of the book left to write and I'm on track to finish by mid-August. Go me! :) Then I dropped down to the other end of the productivity spectrum.
It became very obvious to me this week that when I'm not in the mood to write, I allow very bad TV to suck me in. I watched a...