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Ain’t Nothin’ Like a Big Box of Books

By order came in the mail today. Yay! I checked each one for manufacturing defects or printing errors, but they all look perfect. I have to say, I’ve been very pleased with the quality of my books so far. Very well made. Want a pic?

I still have five unclaimed copies of Breach available for $10 each and two copies of Broken Wings for $12 each (plus S&H).

It would also appear that I made a (small) mistake when I was setting up Breach on CreateSpace and ticked a box that I shouldn’t have (I’m sti...

Moonlight Monday 11-10-13

Hello all! This is Katica Locke reporting from deep in the trenches of NaNoWriMo. We’re just entering the uphill slog known as Week Two, where many a fledgeling novel has met an untimely end as writers start to run out of steam or lose track of their plot. I’ll admit to facing my share of stumbles on this one, even resorting to working on a second project when I got stuck on the first, but I’m approaching 22,000 words, which is nearly halfway to the goal and three days ahead of schedule. Unfo...

Breach is Ready!

And with 18 days to spare. Whew! That was a lot of work. ^_^ I ordered ten copies yesterday; they’ll arrive some time next week, and I will mail them out as soon as I check them for quality, so if you order from me, you’ll probably get your signed copy before it’s even available for purchase. Just send me an email – katicalocke (at) gmail (dot) com.

You can also preorder the ebook from Barnes & Noble. It’s only $3.99.

On November 25th, Breach will go live on Smashwords and Amazon. Party time!

Na...

NaNoWriMo Week 1

Yay NaNoWriMo! I didn’t get to stay up to midnight on Halloween to get started at the stroke of 12:01, because I had work the next day, but I did write a few hundred words before I left for work in the morning. It took a little while for me to get into the story and to discover the main character’s voice, but I’m about 5k into it now and really have a good feeling for him.

The MC is Xaine, aka Oasis, the frontman for the rock/pop group Midnight Oasis. He’s a cross-dressing werepanther, suffers...

Moonlight Monday 10-28-13

I’m going to be house- and dog-sitting for the rest of this week, but luckily I was able to borrow my brother’s laptop to take with me, so I’ll have internet access and hopefully be able to get a lot of writing done. I’m working on extending Faerie Christmas, I want to finish the chapter of Moonlight that I’m currently working on, and I’d like to get some more of Dragon Bait written, AND I get to start NaNoWriMo at the end of the week. Yay!

Anyway, here’s the next chapter of Moonlight. Let me...

Pre-Order Breach at B&N

Yay! Breach is available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble. I also uploaded a different cover, one that more closely matches what the print version will look like. It’ll take a few days for the new cover to be uploaded to B&N, but you can view it now on the Breach page.

How Do You Say That?

Recently, I was asked if there was a pronunciation guide for Broken Wings. There wasn’t, but I thought it was such a good idea, I started one. I did the names of all the characters that I could remember off the top of my head. If I forgot somebody, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll add them. Broken Wings Pronunciation Guide

I also finished formatting Breach for print. It took a few days because I learned a few things since I published BW, like special formatting for chapter headings, getti...

NaNoWriMo, Breach, and Broken Wings

The votes are in and the readers have spoken!

My 2013 NaNoNovel will contain:

A Were protagonist, a vampire love interest, and a vampire antagonist in a modern city. The Were will be a cross-dressing rockstar who is stranded in the city when his tour bus breaks down. I don’t know if it’s cheating or not, but right now I think the love interest will also be the antagonist. He will be a mildly-autistic serial-killer vampire who kidnaps our hero. There will be bondage, there will be blindness.

The...

Moonlight Monday 10-14-13

Yay, another chapter of Moonlight! By posting every two weeks, I think I have enough chapters left to see me through NaNoWriMo. There may be a lapse in December while I recover from NaNoing, but I hope not.

This chapter is a lot like the original version, except Izeri actually grows a backbone and makes an effort to start to tell Charias the truth. It won’t come out yet, of course, but he does try.

Moonlight: Ch. 30

Breach Update and Honeymoon Excerpt

Yay! I finally finished Honeymoon, the bonus short story that I’m going to include with the 2nd edition release of Breach. It turned out a lot longer than I’d expected, just a bit over 23,000 words, which is a novella in itself, lol. I still need to do editing, and I can think of at least one scene that needs trimming, so I might bring it down under 23k, but probably not, since most of my editing usually consists of adding content to clarify.

Now I’m working on the articles and I have three of...