Kimber An's Blog, page 10

SWEET BYTES Excerpt at I Heart YA

Ophelia Meets Tristan Li

I'm at Bookalicious!

Yep, I'm all over the place these days.  That's 'cause Sweet Bytes is coming out Monday, October 17th.
Keeping an Encyclopedia of the Series

I'm at Tink's Place!

Going All The Way

Orca Whales Stuck Up An Alaska River

Last word is the two adults died and no one has seen the juvenile.  Very said.  They must have gotten sick and it messed up their sonar.  http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-biologists-report-first-sightings-of-orcas-in-nushagak-river-20111006,0,3285419.story
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This is an extremely rare event.
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Some of you may remember another whale getting stuck up a river.  The children's book about it is one of our favorites.  Humphrey survived, so it's a very uplifting story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_the_Whale

I'm at New Kids On the Writers' Block Today!

Pop on over!   The Continuing Sage of Writing a Series in ePublishing

Editing SWEET BYTES

I hope to kick it out the door in the morning.  After that, I'm going to stay off the computer to rest my hands, except to check email a couple of times a day.  Then, we have more round and I think we're done.

Upping the Ante with Blood, Dark and Sweet

It seems to me the best series always 'up the ante.'  They make each new story more intense and twisted than the one before, raising the stakes, and making it more dangerous and personal until the Heroine (or hero) and the Villain come face to face in a final showdown to the death at the end of the last book.  I'm trying to do that with the Ophelia Dawson stories.
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Sweet Bytes is due out in a couple of weeks and I'll finally be sharing it with the world.  But, I'm already hard at work on Books Four and Five, if only in my imagination.  In fact, the bones are done and most of the guts too.  I only need to write them down, really.
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For one thing, the Oldbloods, originators of the vampire myth, are definitely going to get nastier, more like the traditional vampires readers are used to.  In Sweet Bytes, we see the Benevolent Oldbloods (similar to the Cullins in Twilight) up close and personal.  And we see the Malevolent Oldbloods in force once and a few renegades knocking about, but nothing near the calibur of Interview with a Vampire, by Anne Rice, for example. 
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But, in Blood, Dark and Sweet, the Oldbloods are cornered by the Newbloods (vampire-like alien/human hybrids) and faced with their own extinction.  One thing about wild animals, you corner them and they go nuts!  So, it's going to get a little ugly for them, while the Benevolents try to hold it together and all out war breaks out.  Not pretty at all.
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But, also, Ophelia's relationship with Adrian will intensify as she turns 18 (the Oldblood deadline) and they go on the run together to avoid getting caught up in the war.  Of course, she's the central pivot of the war, so she doesn't get far before she has to turn and fight.
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And by then she's a serious Kick-Butt Heroine.
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Can't give away too much about Book Five, except to say there is a Happily Ever After, I swear.
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Okay, I'm off to work now (sleep, perchance to dream.)  See you in the morning.

Build or Buy

This gorgeous log home is for sale in Arizona, so we can't have it.  But, aren't the windows stunning?   http://www.loghome-forsale.com/
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Build or Buy, that is The Question my husband and I must finally decide for our very first home after years of sacrifice and hard work.  Yikes, it's almost as tremendous a decision as getting married!  When you're faced with a 'rest of your life' decision, it's quite daunting.

I like log homes and old barns.  I need at least two acres for all the animals and gardens and woodsy area for my children to run wild in.  We want to be close to extended family, especially ones with babies for me to hold.

I have a cell phone!

I don't know how to use it and I didn't even ask for it.  My husband got it for me for safety reasons.
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Yeah, I know it's pathetic.  I write Science Fictiony stories for Teens, the most plugged-in members of our society, and I just got my very first cell phone.
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Hey, better late than never!
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And it flips open just like Captain Kirk!

Military Pets

I find it heartbreaking when fellow petlovers condemn military folks for owning pets.  These are people laying their lives on the line for us, real human beings with hearts and minds who need the love too.  It's the least we can do to show a little compassion for the gut-wrenching decisions they must make when they deploy.  So, I was thinking, wouldn't it be great if we could get some families together to take care of pets while their humans are off fighting for our freedom?  Turns out, I'm not the first one.  Please pop over and check out Military Pets Foster Project   and Google others, if you know a military family he needs this special help or if you can provide it or donate.