Ava March's Blog, page 15

Story Behind the Story - Object of His Desire

Stats - Sent in full ms 7/14/08. Received offer 8/21/08. Published 3/17/09.

Almost 6 weeks between submission and the offer…it felt like forever. I have really bad luck when it comes to timing submissions to Samhain. For this one, I sent the full a week or so before RWA Nationals (of course, my editor attended, so she was super busy before, during and after conference). And then she went on a long vacation to Australia. In fact, she read the book on the flight and emailed me with the offer...

Bound Forever

Bound Forever, the third and final book in the Bound series, has a home! It's been contracted by Loose Id, and will come in at novella length. Release date is still TBA, as I am currently writing the book. I'm targeting mid-August to finish it, and I'm hoping it will be able to be released before the end of 2010, but I'll have to wait and see. All depends on the pub schedule.

I worked on the blurb last night, so I'll share it with you. It's not the final version, but it's what I'll turn in.

Story Behind the Story - Got Mistletoe? by Andi Anderson

Got Mistletoe? by Andi Anderson
Stats - Got Mistletoe? was published this past December as part of the Advent Calendar series that Dreamspinner Press publishes every year. When I saw the open call for submissions, I decided to take a chance and write something. I started it on September 11, 2009 and finished it on the 15th. I had just enough time for my sister to do a quick read before I submitted it to Dreamspinner that night. They sent me an email that they had accepted it as part of their s...

Emerging from The Cave

I've been deep in the writing cave since this last weekend. I resisted the sparkle of the shiney internet, severely limited emails, and spent a lot of time in the garage with nothing but the cars and my laptop. And now I can officially say...
It's done!! I finished His Client tonight. *g*
I still need to give the book a final read through tomorrow and then I'll send it off to my editor. But the writing is done. The book came in just shy of 40,000 words, which makes it my longest Ava book to d...

His Client

His Client, my current work in progress, has a home! *g* It's a m/m Regency-set erotic romance with some light D/s elements and some role playing, and it will be my longest Ava book to date. Should come in at short novel length. It will be published by Loose Id, release date TBD as I have yet to finish the book. Close to being done though, and I'm on track to meet my deadline of next week.
I was darn productive over the holiday weekend. Finished chapter 3 of Bound Forever, finished chapter 8 ...

Wet Hottie, a Test, and a New Kitty

Contrary to what the 'WIP'n Progress' shows, I have been productive this week. Really, honestly. ;) Wrote two synopses and am briefly back to working on Bound Forever. Even though I dread writing a synopsis, doing one for the book helped me to figure out a connecting scene I was struggling with. So that's good. And if all goes well today, I should be back to working on His Client by tomorrow. Oh, and I have news. *G* I'll share it next week, after I dot some i's and cross some t's.
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Story Behind the Story - The Other Side by Shawn Lane

Stats – Received contract in December 2008. Turned in manuscript December 2008. Published 02/07/09 by Amber Allure.

At that time in the history of Amber Quill, our fearless leader, Trace, asked for volunteers to write stories for certain Amber Pax collections (the method for Pax collections has changed). The theme for this one was opposites attract and the name of the collection was also Opposites Attract. The Pax was released in February 2009. The Other Side made the top 10 best seller list f...

An Interesting Sunday...a.k.a. Nekkid Princes & Video Rentals

I got some writing done on His Client this weekend, but not as much as I wanted. So in order to motivate my a$$, I've added a little 'WIP'n Progress' feature to the right side bar. Maybe if my progress is out there for everyone to mock, then it will motivate me to move it along at something more than a snail's pace.

Today was an interesting day. First, I found Prince Phillip on the kitchen counter...naked. He was just laying there. Not sure why he was there, or what the kidlet had been doing w...

Story Behind the Story - Convincing Arthur

Stats – Received contract 2/23/09. Turned in manuscript 5/8/09. Published 7/21/09 by Loose Id.

I was asked if I would be interested in writing a historical for Loose Id's Past, Present and Future promotion for July 2009. I already had the idea for Convincing Arthur and had planned to write it after I finished Bound to Him. So it worked out quite nicely.

Little known fact – Convincing Arthur is my only book cover with fully clothed men. All my other covers feature nekkid guys. Well, Object of H...

Necessities

Strong storms blew thru here last night and as a result, I have no power. According to the power company, it's supposed to be up later tonight (fingers crossed). Hubby's got his gas powered generator going (he was really tweaked he could finally use it – we've had it for over a year) and I have 5 critical things plugged into it. The fridge, rechargeable camping lantern, Pretty, my iPhone, and the fish tank. The fish tank was hubby's doing – apparently the kidlet's 2 goldfish (Goldie #1 and...