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Update on Broken Wings

So, I was going to an end-of-the-month update, but I did a pretty good job of updating my blog this past month, so I’m going to skip the update. Now, about Broken Wings…

A new place to read it

A couple of weeks ago, I heard a rumor that FictionPress was enforcing their no adult content rule and was wiping stories off the site that violated that rule. Apparently, this was just a rumor, as I haven’t seen any evidence of it, but just to be safe, I copy-pasta’d every chapter of BW over to my wordpr...

Moonlight Monday 9-30-13

The new chapter of Moonlight is live on FP.

This is another re-written chapter, but I feel it’s much stronger than the previous version, especially Charias’ breakdown scene. Let me know what you think. Moonlight Chapter 29

Writing Updates

I’ve been working on Honeymoon almost exclusively and have 8,600 words written. It’s starting to look like this might be a 20 or 30k word story, which is a novella. As long as I can get it finished and edited in time, I don’t care how long it is. It just means...

NaNoWriMo 2013 – What to do?

What is NaNoWriMo?

In case you’ve never heard of it, National Novel Writing Month is a global challenge to anyone who has ever considered writing a novel. During the 30 days of November, participants strive to write 50,000 words — a short novel. Which is completely doable, given the right self-motivation. It’s a mere 1667 words a day. I’ve ‘won’ five or six times. It’s how book 3 of Magebound, Broken Wings, Breach, and Moonlight got worked on, and in three of those cases, finished. You can che...

Monday Update 9/23/13

Still working on Dragon Bait. It’s up to 11,150 words. Ever wanted to know how to fist a dragon? 0_o (I hope not, lol)

Still working on Moonlight. It’s up to 127,211 words, but I’m a little stalled right now in the middle of a sex scene. Sex scenes are always hard for me, but I’m second-guessing myself again, wondering if it’s too soon. All things considered, I really don’t think so.

I mean, we’re halfway through the story, 120k words into it and Charias has been attracted to Izeri since the mo...

Does Gender Matter?

So I found this link posted to my Twitter feed today, Should the gender or sexuality of a novelist matter in gay fiction? It’s an interesting article that I don’t completely agree with, but I understand the author’s point of view. He says that as a gay man, he wants to read gay fiction written by other gay men, because it’s more authentic than gay fiction written by straight women pretending to be gay men.

I was like, Wait, wut? 0_o He also says that ‘all authors who are active in social media...

Moonlight Monday

The next chapter of Moonlight is now live on FictionPress! Read it here: Chapter 28

I’m also thrilled to say that Broken Wings has two five-star reviews on Amazon!

My next writing project is getting Breach ready for publication. Since it was previously published, the editing has been done, so at least I don’t have that to worry about, but I’d like to add the same kind of extras that I did in BW — character bios, articles, and a new short story.

What other extras/bonus features could I add to Br...

That Was Fast!

Holy cow! That didn’t take no 5 – 7 business days.

I’m pleased to announce that Broken Wings is now available in paperback from Amazon: Broken Wings by Katica Locke

I also have a new Author Page at Amazon, which will have a listing of all my books through them, so you might want to bookmark it. Katica Locke Author Page

I also updated Facebook and added a page for Broken Wings, so do me a favor and go Like it, please. Broken Wings on Facebook

Broken Wings on CreateSpace

Okay, so I didn’t find any mistakes in the proof (not to say there aren’t any, I just couldn’t find them), so I approved it this morning. It’s now live and available for order through the CreateSpace website. Before I give the link, there are a few things I want to say about that.

– To buy directly from CS, you need to sign up for an account with them.

– I’ve heard that the shipping is much higher through CS than through Amazon

– I get a larger cut of the list price through CS than through Amazo...

Exciting News and Two Milestones

Broken Wings arrived in the mail today!!!!

It’s the proof copy, which I’ll spend the rest of the day looking over for glaring errors, but a cursory examination shows it to be a well-made book. The cover is thick and glossy, the pages crisp, and the binding solid. I have heard that product defects do occur sometimes in printing and assembling, but CreateSpace has a quality guarantee and will replace a defective product, so no complaints there.

There are a couple of things that I maybe should hav...

Well, it’s official…

I received my copies of the termination contracts a few days ago, and today when I checked on Magebound at Amazon and B&N, it was no longer available (unless you want to pay $26 for a used copy 0_o If you have one, hang on to it! It’s a collector’s item now, lol).

I still have to wait 30 days before I can legally publish it again, but I’m not going to rush into it. I’m considering doing some rewriting of it before I re-release it. I’m a bit hesitant to do this because I don’t want to upset die...