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Weekly News, Goals & Prompt, June 4, 2012

Prompt o' the Week: Morning dawns on a woman
who gets up, showers, brushes her teeth and makes coffee, all with the
niggling sense that something is "off". She gathers her things for work,
and pulls up the calendar on her phone, stopped just before she gets
out the door by a one-word appointment made long ago and forgotten until
that second...





Dude. What the heck happened to May?



I'm
kind of in a ranty mood today, but it's Monday, so that's to be
expected. And I'll spare you, because there's really no need to waste
time on the myriad of topics I could easily rant about. Let's just focus
on the positives instead, okay?



Last week was
a pretty productive week - I got my Goodreads shelves updated (finally -
scroll down to the widget in the sidebar or find me under my very own
name there if you want to connect), which has the added bonus of
cleaning up my "Currently Reading" folder on my Kindle (I have a rule -
books stay in "currently reading" even after read until I update
Goodreads with a rating - then they move into genre-appropriate
folders). So that was good, and didn't take as long as I thought it
might.



I also updated my nail art and tea
blogs, and sent out the BSB newsletter...and I seem to have mostly
shaken that stupid cold too (still a bit of a cough/sinus thing, but
livable with). Unfortunately, I didn't finish the novelette I was hoping
to release by Friday, so I'll have to rearrange my publishing schedule a
bit (stupid cold), but it's all good. Is it really my fault when
characters just won't get to the end as quickly as I'd like? No, no it's
not.



I didn't get much (or any) crafting done
this weekend either, which was a bummer. But we're focus on the
positive today, so no whining.I did get the revisions back for Indelibly Inked,
and they're very thorough and thoughtful, as usual...and I need to
rewrite/add a few things that will fill in certain (*ahem*) plot holes I
may have left behind. And tie up some loose ends. And give my
characters a little more "action" (because apparently, they told my
editor I cheated them out of a pretty big kiss - dang horny characters).
So lots to do there, but all good stuff.





I have a ton of things to do this week
(because I wasn't working at full capacity last week, so I'm behind).
Not sure if I'll get them all done or not, but I'm certainly going to
try!



- Vote
- Four serial scenes
- Finish IC (must! must! must!)
- Cover art for Indelibly Inked
- Start revisions for II (only after IC is done!)
- Nail art and crochet videos
- More email replies
- Last root canal (yay! And it's a redo, not a new one)
- Some much needed housecleaning
- Back to regular workouts
- Local Strawberry Festival on Saturday (also my mom's birthday)





That's what I'm up to...busy busy, as usual. How's your first week of June shaping up?

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Weekly Round-Up May 27 - June 2, 2012

Posts I found particularly interesting/intriguing/entertaining this week:






Are You in This for the Long Haul?from Jami Gold



Don't Believe the Hype: my thoughts on Fifty Shades of Grey from Scarlet Parrish



Tone from Newbie's Guide to Publishing



Why You Shouldn't Fear Failure from Michelle Davidson Argyle



The Possibility of Paperless from Be More With Less





My own posts (non-fiction), for anyone who missed them and might want to go back: 




Memorial Day 2012 (Nail Art Tuesday
Writer's Notes: Short vs. Long (Variety Pages)
Review: Bolder Breakfast from The Tea Spot (Tea on Tap)
Writer at Play: A Rippling Fiber Tale (Variety Pages)



I've
started "rounding up" the free serial fiction of myself and other BSB
authors over at the Snake Bites blog, so if you want to catch up on some
free reading, head over there for a list of last week's
chapters/installments, as well as free flash fiction.



Free Online Reads May 26 - June 1, 2012



That's it for this week - happy reading!

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Serial Novel: Falling in Public, Ch. 53

This serial novel is posted in draft form every Friday. 



Ch.1|Ch. 2|Ch. 3|Ch. 4|Ch. 5|Ch. 6|Ch. 7|Ch. 8|Ch. 9|Ch. 10|Ch. 11|Ch. 12|Ch.13|Ch. 14|Ch. 15| Ch. 16| Ch. 17|Ch. 18| Ch. 19 | Ch. 20 | Ch. 21 | Ch. 22 | Ch. 23 | Ch. 24 | Ch. 25 | Ch. 26 | Ch. 27 | Ch. 28 | Ch. 29 | Ch. 30 | Ch. 31 | Ch. 32 | Ch. 33 | Ch. 34 | Ch. 35 | Ch. 36 | Ch. 37 | Ch. 38 | Ch. 39 | Ch. 40 | Ch. 41 | Ch. 42 | Ch. 43 | Ch. 44 | Ch. 45 | Ch. 46 | Ch. 47 | Ch. 48 | Ch. 49 | Ch. 50 | Ch. 51 | Ch. 52 |



Falling in Public









Chapter 53

"Well isn't that just sweet. But I think we can find better accomodations than a corn field for the lady, don't you Mr. Pierce?"

Holly froze at Sean's voice behind her, putting up no resistance when Eddie swung her around to put himself between them. He turned, his whole body tense as he faced her stalker. Holly grasped his arms, ready to hold him back. In a fair fight, she knew he could beat Sean, but considering the other man had a gun pointed right at them...

"What are you doing, Sean?" she called out.  "Why did you come back? You've got the truck, just take it and go. Leave us alone."

He chuckled. "What's the matter, darling? Were you actually looking forward to a roll in the dirt - or corn, as it were - with your precious rock star? Wouldn't you rather end up in a big, soft bed with someone who will adore you forever - who has adored you since your first book? If you'd just gone along with the plan, pretended to be my girlfriend for awhile, you'd have fallen in love with me eventually."

Holly shook her head, though she knew he couldn't see the gesture in the dark. "That would never have happened, Sean. You're delusional."

"If I am, so are you," he said, his tone too confident. "Don't you remember, Holly? That was the whole plot of your fifth book, 'Acting Out'. Girl pretends to be actor's girlfriend to help boost his reputation because she needs money desperately, girl and actor fall in love, they eventually live happily ever after. It was like you wrote it just for me, to tell me what you wanted. When I read that, I started planning how I could make that fantasy come true for you." 

Eddie looked over his shoulder at her, but she shook her head again.

"Fiction, Sean. It was all fiction - as in, not true. And there was no kidnapping, and no one got shot either. You really do have a twisted mind, you know that? I don't know how--"

Eddie reached back and grabbed her wrist, squeezing hard before she got the message and shut up. It was too late though. Sean brought the gun up and leveled it at Eddie's forehead.

"It's not true," he said, the click of the safety loud in the cool night air. "You and I are meant to be together, just like in your book." He took a step back, and then motioned for her with one hand. "Come over here, with me. Do it now, or I'll shoot him, and then I'll shoot you, And not in the leg this time."

Eddie tugged at her arm when she started to move, but she twisted out of his grip, squeezing his shoulder with her other hand as she moved around him. She knew what she had to do - it was the only way they were going to get out of this alive. Mentally steeling herself, she put herself between Eddie and the gun, and started walking slowly towards Sean. 

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Special Announcement

The serial chapter will be up later this afternoon. For now, you should go check out the new release from my good friend Carol Ward - the second book in her Ardraci Elementals series. And then you should go comment on one (or both?) of her blogs, and get entered to win a free copy...

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Official Release Information (at Snake Bites)
Contest at Random Thoughts
Contest at Random Writings

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Writer at Play: A Rippling Fiber Tale

You'll all be happy to know my cold is getting better...if for the
sole reason that I won't be whining about being sick for much longer.
All together now: "Hooray"!
Yeah, I may still be a little weird. But you should be used to that by now. And yes, I know this is a writer's blog - but you may recall I said I was going to get back into the "variety" part of these pages, and so we shall. Starting today...

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This
week in the crafty-but-not-writing column, we have a new crochet
project. It's been awhile since I've taken on anything larger than a
dishcloth with my trusty hooks, but last weekend, I decided to start a
ripple afghan (hint - that's not a ripple in the photo), responding to an oh-so-subtle challenge from Carol Ward
(Okay, she sent me a basic stitch pattern - if you're a "hooker", you'll
know that's really all it takes. We're easy like that).
I
spent about 15 minutes going through my trusty yarn stash, feeling up
the skeins (yes, seriously), holding colors up together, trying to
decide which ones I had enough of to finish a largish project with
(because most of what I have are older colors, so buying more that will
match is virtually impossible, dye lots being what they are), and which
ones I wanted to save for later/other projects. You really can't rush
the yarn-choosing process...it's like picking a setting for a story -
the whole thing is based on that one choice.
Finally
settling on a muted turquoise worsted-weight acrylic and complimentary
cream that I inherited from my paternal grandmother (she was a hooker
too) before she passed on, I grabbed Carol's instructions, took up my
trusty "I" hook (Bates, not Boyle!), and got to work. Yes, I'd already
finished my writing for the day (sheesh!). 
Three
rows in, I knew I had a problem. Part of that problem was my husband,
and the Scarecrow & Mrs. King episodes we were trying to stream off
Amazon. Part of it was that somewhere, I seemed to have lost count, as
the right side of my new ripples appeared to have a tumor. I kept going,
but two rows later, I knew I had to frog it.
Frog (frogging, frogged): term
used by fiber artists (?) to refer to the process of unraveling or
"ripping out" (rip it, rip it - get it?) stitches in a project, usually
accompanied by wailing and gnashing of teeth (or choice words, at
least). 
As I pulled the fledgling
afghan apart, we'd finally gotten our TV show to work, but somehow, I
was put in charge of the remote in case it needed "fixing" again. I
think it's because my husband was heavily involved in his virtual
farming chores, because you know it's important for him to stay ahead of
his dad with the whole virtual crop thing. *Really* important,
obviously.
So there I was, remote keyboard on
one leg, pile of yarn on the other, hook in hand. Deciding I wasn't
quite up to the challenge of a ripple just yet, I decided to regroup,
and make a throw using my favorite basketweave stitch instead. The basic
pattern for this (written poorly, no doubt - it's been awhile since I
read or wrote a pattern) is:

Chain a longish row (multiples of three work well, but any count will do)Double crochet in each stitch of the chain. Chain 2 (to turn)Skip
the first stitch, front post double crochet around the next three
stitches (the post is the middle part of the stitch, underneath where
you would normally stitch through. If you start from the front of the
piece, it's front post, start from the back, it's back post).

Back post double crochet around the next three stitches.  Switch off front and back post crochet every three stitches to the end of the row. Chain two, and repeat previous pattern.

For
those of you horribly confused yet itching to try, I've promised Carol a
video to explain, and I'll try to get that done this weekend. I would
have done it earlier, but my voice isn't remotely worth listening to at
the moment (well, and I've been busy).
So
that's how my current project (pictured above) got started. I've since worked a few more
rows into it, but I suspect it will keep me busy for quite some time.
After that, I have an apron project I'd like to try...and some hand-warmers, and a t-shirt or sweater, and a jacket...

Are you a hooker? What's the last thing you made (or what are you working on now)?

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Writer's Notes: Short vs. Long

I'd tell you to get your mind out of the gutter, but I like the company.

I'm thinking
about story length this week and when to admit that the novel you
thought you were writing is really a novella, or even a short story. If
you write short like I do, it happens more often than you'd think.
Honestly, 50,000 words (minimum for a short novel) is a *lot* to write
for me - because the plot has to keep moving that whole time, and it's
hard to keep tension and conflict high with the sort of breakneck pace I
tend to like in romantic suspense.
This week though, I've had to come to terms with the fact that The Minister's Maid,
which is supposed to be the second novel in my Fantasy Ranch series,
may end up being more of a novella unless I find a few spots that can
logically be stretched out in the revision stage. Considering I won't
just add subplots or description to a story just for the heck of it,
that's unlikely, although there are a few scenes missing that I'll add
before I even start revising (I realized after I wrote past them that
they needed to be there). 
Ironically, while I
try to keep my erotic romances to 8-10,000 words, the majority of them
end up stretching to 15,000 words or so...because it takes that many
words to realistically build the relationship. When you consider that,
if I spent 15,000 words building a relationship in a romantic suspense
novel, that would leave 35,000 words left for the "suspense" (read:
action/adventure) part in a 50k word novel. Which actually might be
about right, now that I think about it...
We'll
pause while true right-brain dominants everywhere cringe as I reduce my
story structure down to a simple math formula...sorry folks - it's the
price I pay for not having a dominant side of the brain myself.
Regardless,
I'm not a fan of stretching a story just to reach a certain word count.
And thankfully, we don't have to these days. Sure, traditional
publishers still require specific word counts for their own
business-related reasons, but with all the other options we have for
publishing, it's not necessary to adhere to that. And I think that's a
very good thing. I've often picked up a book only to think after reading
it that it could have been cut by half or more and been a better story.
Honestly, I never notice how long a story is *unless* it's either too
long, or too short. And in those cases, it's the *story* that was either
stretched or cut that bothers me, not the actual word count.
I
hear a lot of authors complaining about reviews that say their book was
too short or too long. In my opinion, that means something about the
story left the reader unsatisfied - the author didn't do the job well
enough (and lest you think I'm picking on other authors only, I would
think the same thing of my own writing if I got a review like that - and
I'm sure I will eventually). If a story satisfies the reader properly,
the length simply won't matter.

The trick
is knowing when you've got just enough story to be satisfying without
boring the reader with extraneous "stuff". To a certain extent, this
will vary from reader to reader, but I think there's a general average
for every story that will have fairly wide appeal. And I think authors
have to sort of feel their way through it - it's not something that can
be reduced to a mathematical problem, but rather an instinct that needs
to be developed as we keep writing.
What say
you, dear readers? Do you notice the length of a story if it's
satisfying to you? Do you pick and choose what to buy based on length
(even I do that - I'm not a fan of anything over 80k or so)? If you're a
writer, what's your comfortable writing range as far as length goes?

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Weekly News, Goals & Prompt, May 28, 2012

Prompt o' the Week:  The blinds are closed, and all is dark as a shadow glides along the loading docks of the post office. A brief stop at a metal box mounted in corner results in one of the rolling doors going up just two feet, the racket overly loud in the surrounding silence. Quickly the shadow rolls onto the cement pad and under the door before it clangs shut again. But then the internal lights flicker on...



To all those who have served, thank you for doing your duty - especially those who may not have agreed with your orders but carried them out anyways. It takes a special kind of dedication and determination to work under those conditions...and I doubt I could do it. 



To the rest of you, happy day-off-from-work...we don't generally celebrate around here (doesn't really seem like a "celebratory" holiday, you know?), but it is nice to sleep in and get caught up on a few extra things. Today is my brother-in-law's birthday, so we'll be doing the birthday meal thing, but other than that I've got no plans save newsletters, finishing up some ebooks on the publishing schedule for Friday, and writing (and laundry, put off from yesterday). 



My husband, kind man that he is, shared his head cold with me, so I'm fighting that too. Which makes everything slightly more difficult and less fun. I hate having a foggy brain...



Ah-choo! *cough*  



In any case, last week was very productive. I found a new calendar program for my tablet that I like far better than the one I was using, and it imports my Google calendars so I can still keep those updated for sharing online, but I can use Jorte for the better interface and tablet widgets (widgets are important!). And everything is synced to the cloud, of course, so whenever I have to replace the tablet (heaven forbid), my schedule is safe. Whew! 



There's nothing like a good calendar program to get me motivated, I tell ya. After that was in place, I updated all my google calendars save the writing projects one (still trying to decide how I want to organize that), created a new posting schedule for my blogs, and laid out my publishing schedule for the next few months. I finally updated the BSB blog, and this past weekend I finished the revisions for Indelibly Inked, and sent it off to the editor for her perusal. Now I need to figure out cover art and a blurb for that story, but it's on the schedule for a June 15th release. 



Yesterday I updated my three main web sites: FantasyRanchNovels.com, JamieDeBree.com and BrazenSnakeBooks.com. The BSB site looks a little sparse, but that's because I'm making room for information on some fun things coming up starting in July and continuing on into the next year. I still need to get my pen name sites updated, but I just sort of ran out of steam (stupid cold).  



So lots done last week - including all of my serial chapters. This week, with any luck, more of the same: 



- Four serial chapters (must finish IC this week, at any cost)
- Newsletters (should be sent out tonight)
- Update pen name sites
- Return emails (yes, really!)
- Update my writing schedule calendar
- New release for Carol Ward on Friday (yay!)
- Update nail art & tea review blogs
- Get over this stupid cold
- Update Goodreads? We'll see. 



That's my plan...and I plan to get moving on it pretty quickly. Right after a hot shower, and maybe some more tea...



Happy Memorial Day and/or Monday - and watch out for Tuesday! 

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Weekly Round-Up May 20 - 27, 2012

Posts I found particularly interesting/intriguing/entertaining this week:




The Most Important Part of Your Health from Positively Positive



What My Job Is... from Liana Brooks



The Intervention from A Modicum of Talent, Flashes of Brilliance

My own posts (non-fiction), for anyone who missed them and might want to go back: 


Writer's Notes: In the Stocks (Variety Pages)
The Long Haul (Beyond the Words, carryover from last week)
State of the Snake May 2012 (Snake Bites)

I've started "rounding up" the free serial fiction of myself and other BSB authors over at the Snake Bites blog, so if you want to catch up on some free reading, head over there for a list of last week's chapters/installments, as well as free flash fiction.

Free Online Reads May 20-25, 2012

That's it for this week - happy reading!

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Serial Novel: Falling in Public, Ch. 52

This serial novel is posted in draft form every Friday. 



Ch.1|Ch. 2|Ch. 3|Ch. 4|Ch. 5|Ch. 6|Ch. 7|Ch. 8|Ch. 9|Ch. 10|Ch. 11|Ch. 12|Ch.13|Ch. 14|Ch. 15| Ch. 16| Ch. 17|Ch. 18| Ch. 19 | Ch. 20 | Ch. 21 | Ch. 22 | Ch. 23 | Ch. 24 | Ch. 25 | Ch. 26 | Ch. 27 | Ch. 28 | Ch. 29 | Ch. 30 | Ch. 31 | Ch. 32 | Ch. 33 | Ch. 34 | Ch. 35 | Ch. 36 | Ch. 37 | Ch. 38 | Ch. 39 | Ch. 40 | Ch. 41 | Ch. 42 | Ch. 43 | Ch. 44 | Ch. 45 | Ch. 46 | Ch. 47 | Ch. 48 | Ch. 49 | Ch. 50 | Ch. 51 |



Falling in Public









Chapter 52

Holly sat between the thick stalks, her heartbeat picking up speed again when she heard Eddie call her name. Did she dare go back? After walking what felt like a long way through the dark field, she'd circled around, staying at the perimeter distance she'd set in a half-circle until she was behind the plane. Or she thought she was, anyway - it was impossible to tell in the dark. It was risky, she knew, but there was no way she could go farther in the soft loam. Her leg just wasn't up to it yet.

She had to warn Eddie about Sean. Be brave, she thought as she used her good leg and a corn plant to steady her as she rose. You can do this.

One step and then another, she moved in the direction of the shouts, emerging into the clearing to see the truck idling just under the nose of the plane, and Eddie jogging through the headlights, looking for something. Her, maybe. She started to call out, but stopped when a shadow slipped out of the darkness and into the cab.

Sean.

Holly watched helplessly as the engine revved and the truck started rolling toward Eddie, who jumped aside at the last minute before he would have been run down. She yelled then, but her words were drowned out by the loud motor as Sean floored the truck and drove off into the field. She strained to see in the dark, looking for Eddie near where he'd jumped, but he wasn't there. He'd been so close...why had he left the clearing?

The noise from the engine faded, and she decided to risk revealing her position. It was better than sitting in the dark by herself. Maybe Eddie was still within earshot.

"Eddie?" She hobbled to the slide and tried not to think about what would happen if he got hurt. "Eddie! Where are you?"

"Here."

She turned around, joy swelling at the sound of his voice from somewhere behind her. "Thank God. I thought you'd gone again."

He came striding out of the black night holding out his arms, and she went to him, throwing her arms around his neck as he pulled her tight against his chest.

"I'm so glad you're okay," he whispered in her ear as he held her tight. "Who was that in the plane? I thought it was you, but--"

"Sean," she said, pulling back slightly. "Sean survived, somehow, and he got free while I was waiting for you to come back. He got a gun when he went into the pantry, and I had to get away from him. I deflated the slide, but he came down anyways and I hid in the corn..." She stopped for a breath, and he pulled her close again. His strong arms around her were a haven, and while she knew they had to find a way home, she felt safe for the moment.

"What are we going to do now?" she asked, raising her head just enough to look up at him. He closed the distance between their lips and kissed her, slow and soft. It reminded her of that first night in the bar, when he'd kissed her merely to make a point. It all seemed so long ago, like another lifetime, really.

"I suppose," he said after one last kiss. "We should find a place to settle in for the night. You can't walk out on that leg, and with the truck gone, we're stuck until it's light at least. Once the sun comes up we'll figure something out." 

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Writer's Notes: In the Stocks

Today I bought my very first stocks (or I will have by the time you
read this). No, not the sort of stocks you lock people in so the
villagers can throw rotten veggies at them (we made a set of those a
couple years back, actually). I'm talking about buying shares in
businesses, bought via a broker. Or in my case, what's referred to as a
"discount brokerage" where you manage your own portfolio online. Monday
night I opened a Sharebuilder
account (it's the only reputable brokerage online I could find that
didn't have a minimum opening account requirement or excessive fees),
Tuesday night I gave myself a seriously comprehensive crash course on
investing and markets and types of stocks and strategies and risk
tolerance, and then *breathe!* I researched quite a few stocks I was
interested in and started forming my own investing strategy (it was a
busy night).


As of today, I'm a bonefide stockholder with a baby
portfolio, and a stock ticker on my tablet to keep tabs on the four
companies I bought shares of, plus the other companies I may want to
invest in later.
I have been wanting to do
this for over ten years. The idea that I can buy a piece of a company
and in doing so help the company out and if everything goes well and we
all get lucky, maybe even recoup some of my investment is just amazing
to me. I've looked into it a few times before, but most large brokerage
firms have a $1000 minimum starting account, which is just too much for
me to be comfortable "playing" with in a situation where the money is at
risk (however low that risk might be depending on the investments, the
stock market is *always* a risk). And I didn't want someone else
handling the decisions for me either - back to that whole "control
freak" thing, it's my money, and win or lose, I'll decide where it goes.
Another part of that is I don't want to invest in companies that I have
ethical or philosophical issues with, so I want to know exactly what my
money's supporting.
Sure, I could have spent
the $200 I invested on other things...but it wasn't *needed* for
anything, and that was a key factor in my decision. My personal number
one rule for the stock market is never invest money you can't afford to
lose.
What does this have to do with books and
writing? Not much, really. But whether I make money or lose money
(probably both, ultimately), it's a new experience, a new set of
emotions, a new knowledge base and a new way of looking at things (not
to mention a goal achieved - yay!). And *that* can be considered just as
much an investment in my own writing/publishing business as it is for
my life in general, because the more experiences I have, and the more
perspectives I have to choose from when I'm creating/writing characters,
the better my writing will get. And we all know that good content is a
cornerstone of a solid writing career.
Hmm...stock broker heroine, anyone? Stay tuned...

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