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September 23, 2012
Eye on Savage Hunger
If you look really closely at the eye, you can see she's got an eye on Savage Hunger! I was trying to learn how to change eye color in eyes! I did play around with it and I didn't do what it was supposed to! But it kind of did. :) This was Silaynne's original eye.
Silaynne has some neat tutorials on how to do it. Anyway! I'll keep playing around with it another day! Have to keep writing.
But I used a different technique to change the eye color, made it a little more visible in Dragon Fae....She has very pretty pale green eyes. I didn't want to change that to a bright green, but wanted to make her green eyes stand out a little more. :)
Only 13,000 words to go!!!
I had ARCs of A Howl for a Highlander come in last night, that I didn't realize were sitting next to my front door and figured I'd put out the call on Facebook to see if any reviewers wanted a copy to review, and voila! Within an hour, they were all asked for. I was shocked!!! First, that I got any copies, and 2nd that they went that fast!!!!
I'm so glad everyone is having fun with the wolves!
I expected to be getting requests for days until they were all gone. Shows what I know!
Now I've got to run out to get envelopes to ship them in. I could have sworn I bought two bundles of them, but I probably used all those already!
And...I have to say that about the man who jumped into the tiger's zoo pen--yikes!!!! Was it really worth it?
In my books I talk about the shifters becoming one with their shifter halves, but hey they ARE shifters. So they can do that!
I don't recommend anyone getting that close to a big cat!!! With wolves, which is why I never can understand that people make the comments that wolves will kill people because they don't, cougars and bears do, and tigers and lions do...(jaguars don't)...but you just don't want to pet the big cats. Or bears.
Okay, off to write and then I have to run into town for envelopes.
Have a nice Sunday and remember...if you are not a shifter, and even if you are--a werewolf or jaguar shifter don't belong in a tiger's pen...don't try to pet the big cat. Get a little one.
Or get them in my books. They're hunky and very safe. :)
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
September 21, 2012
Surprise Viewing!
First, aren't these gorgeous??? They are as bright and colorful in person as they look on site! I love them!
And this was what I found on my ceiling, and then a few minutes after I took pictures of him, he fell off the ceiling! And nearly landed on me! I told you I live in a jungle inside my home!
And then...
I heard an awful bang, still not sure what it was, but thought the wind had really gusted high and had messed up something. So I looked through the blinds to see if the wind was really kicking up a storm, and here is what I saw!
I had to peek through the blinds, afraid I'd scare him off. But also, I was taking pictures of him through a window, screen, with the sunlight glare behind the bird so I wasn't sure if the picture would turn out at all. The funny thing was, he saw me, or the camera, I should say, and kept getting nearer and nearer the window, curious as to what I...or the camera...was. :)
And so I had a really close up view of him, but because of the window, screen, and glare, it wasn't all that great. I had to tone down the brightness to make the red feathers pop, which with the naked eye, they really did. He was a brilliant red. :)
SAVAGE HUNGER is being featured at Discover a New Love, which means writing two more blogs and an interview, and somehow I signed up for two more blogs and have two more interviews to write. Soooo, why am I birdwatching?
Really, I wasn't! I was checking to see what the wind was doing outside the house!
In the Amazon, they have colorful parrots and in Belize, the same and their country's bird is the toucan with its colorful bill. But we have the cardinal! Which is just as brightly colored!
Ever get distracted for one reason or another, and are pleasantly surprised? Or...not so pleasantly surprised?
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com
And this was what I found on my ceiling, and then a few minutes after I took pictures of him, he fell off the ceiling! And nearly landed on me! I told you I live in a jungle inside my home!
And then...
I heard an awful bang, still not sure what it was, but thought the wind had really gusted high and had messed up something. So I looked through the blinds to see if the wind was really kicking up a storm, and here is what I saw!
I had to peek through the blinds, afraid I'd scare him off. But also, I was taking pictures of him through a window, screen, with the sunlight glare behind the bird so I wasn't sure if the picture would turn out at all. The funny thing was, he saw me, or the camera, I should say, and kept getting nearer and nearer the window, curious as to what I...or the camera...was. :)
And so I had a really close up view of him, but because of the window, screen, and glare, it wasn't all that great. I had to tone down the brightness to make the red feathers pop, which with the naked eye, they really did. He was a brilliant red. :)
SAVAGE HUNGER is being featured at Discover a New Love, which means writing two more blogs and an interview, and somehow I signed up for two more blogs and have two more interviews to write. Soooo, why am I birdwatching?
Really, I wasn't! I was checking to see what the wind was doing outside the house!
In the Amazon, they have colorful parrots and in Belize, the same and their country's bird is the toucan with its colorful bill. But we have the cardinal! Which is just as brightly colored!
Ever get distracted for one reason or another, and are pleasantly surprised? Or...not so pleasantly surprised?
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com
September 20, 2012
Hug a Highland Hunk!
It's time for a Highland blog hop. Are you all ready?
In our oral history, the MacNeill is the underdog of the story. Malcolm fell in love with Elizabeth Campbell, the daughter of the Duke of Argyle. He was a lowly commoner working for the family. Ironically, the MacNeill clan name has to do with the proud MacNeills and Malcolm was that. He took Lady Elizabeth and their two small sons and new baby daughter to what they thought was the Carolinas. They'd paid for passage there. There was some notion that he had family there.
But the MacDonald captain, whose brother owned land and needed it settled in Prince Edward Island, and their father who happened to be the reverend over the church in the Highlands who encouraged parishioners to leave Scotland for the promised land, meant the Highlanders ended up in PEI. So the story goes.
Because of the harsh weather and no home or places to even buy supplies, the Highlanders suffered. Lady Elizabeth died leaving her 3 young children behind while Malcolm couldn't care for them. The baby daughter was raised by the Ramseys and the youngest boy by the Taylor family. The older son may have stayed with his father. We are directly descended from the youngest boy.
So in my MacNeill stories, I want them to find happily ever after...and so they do!
Beginning with Winning the Highlander's Heart.
I have two copies of this book, the older version of the cover, for two lucky commenters.
Countess Anice vows to flee the amorous advances of King Henry I, and return to her home in the Highlands, where she hopes to find a laird to wed. Highlander Laird Malcolm MacNeill, seeking an English bride, becomes entangled with the Scottish lass while trying to find out why her staff has vanished.
This is actually an Irish castle, but I had to share. I love Celtic castles!
The Accidental Highland Hero continues the story of the MacNeill family!
Lady Eilis Dunbarton’s life undergoes a drastic change with the death of her cousin, Agnes. Now she’s faced with the disagreeable prospect of marrying the man who was to be her cousin’s husband. Not by a change of contract, though. Instead, by deceit—pretending to be her cousin. But if her husband-to-be discovers she’s not really Agnes, her life is forfeit. So what choice does Eilis have but to flee? When Laird James MacNeill’s clan rescues a half-drowned lass from the sea, there is speculation she is of the enemy clan, especially since she doesn’t remember her own name. James is immediately enticed with the lady, but his focus must remain on finding the proper bride. For if he does not wed soon, he must give up his holdings to one of his younger brothers. Focus slips away with each day Eilis is close, and James finds himself contemplating the thought of taking her to wife without knowing her true identity. But how dangerous would the end result be? And what will happen if Eilis’s husband-to-be comes looking for her only to find her in the arms of another man?
And I'm working on the third book in the series:
Highland Rake. Dougald is such a rake! Though he believes others, his brothers and cousin in particular, have made him out to be the scapegoat concerning these rumors, when they are just as bad as he is!
But then there are rumors that some of the MacNeill clan have some other kinds of secrets. Gray wolf roots, maybe?[image error]And it all started with this guy! Ian MacNeill. :) Heart of the Highland WolfIt's a matter of pride...
Modern day werewolf laird Ian MacNeill reluctantly allows a film production company to use his castle, but he knows his secretive clan has a big problem when a beautiful red werewolf female who insists she's working on the film keeps showing up in the wrong places... and a matter of pleasure...
Julia Wildthorn is not who she says she is-she's sneaking into Argent Castle to steal an ancient relic for her grandfather and to do research for her next werewolf romance novel. When she catches a glimpse of Ian, she realizes he's the perfect hero...
The Highland Werewolf Wedding is coming out in May, 2013! This is Cearnach's story from the Heart of the Highland Wolf pack in Scotland! A Highland Werewolf Wedding is listed on Amazon now!
This is Duncan's story from the Heart of the Highland Wolf pack, coming Feb 2013!
Wouldn't you love to change history for the MacNeill family and give them a happily ever after also???
Are you all ready for LOTS more kilted hunks???? They're ready for you! :)
Yum!
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
September 19, 2012
My Desk! By Terry Spear
Note, no one is facing the camera! We've got the tail end of one wolf puppy, and both the other wolf puppies are looking in the opposite directions. And not one is looking at the camera!
What does this tell you? How unobservant they are!
Okay, so, there's my fancy pants magnifying glass to the right. No, I don't use it. It's just for class. I mean as in it makes me look like I have class. LOL To the left is my cup of green tea. And my writer's block mug full of pens, which I do use.
My daughter got after me because I always have pens all over my desk, and this is from a kid who is not a neat nick! :)
A friend sent me this mug, so I put my pens in there to prove one thing. I DO NOT have writer's block.
I refuse to have it. Even when I'm stuck!
I've got to work on a bear order--have another guest blog to do and 2 more interviews. I've had 2 emergency blogs to do. I have the most blogs to do this next month and the end of the month than I've ever done!!
And I made it over halfway on Dragon Fae. I worked on the cover again, and so here 'tis!
Okay, really off to work on the bear and on writing!!! Have a super great Thursday!!! :)
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com
Rain and the Crescent Moon!
When we have snow, which is rarely! I take pictures. So with 3 days of rain, I had to take a picture. You know, for posterity sake in case we don't get anymore. The weeds next to the jasmine planter are as a direct result of the rain! I could pull them up!!! :)
Then last night we had a glowing orange crescent moon. I had to share! It was hanging so low in the sky that it looked like it was about to touch the green lights on poles beneath it. Those are tall poles, but still...it was clinging to a black velvet night and I had to capture it!
I'm off to write! I'll show you a picture of my workspace tomorrow and then after that, Friday, I'll be giving away books on the Highland blog hop!
This just in from Long and Short Reviews!
Savage Hunger by Terry Spear
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Genre: Action/Adventure, Contemporary, Paranormal
Length: Full Length (341 pgs)
Heat Level: Hot
Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed by Xeranthemum
As a jaguar he is graceful and gorgeous...
Speedy and stealthy...
Fierce, independent, and wild...
As a man he is passionate and powerful...
Willful and wonderful...
And he'll stop at nothing to protect what's his... Savage Hunger leaves a reader hungering for more of this awesome and exciting new world that Ms. Spear has created. The author has written a story with a lovable heroine, an alpha hero who’s not obnoxious or overbearing, and a fun sister to tag along and complicate Connor’s life. The food they eat is exotic although the eating establishments are earthy, and they spend more time using trees than Tarzan. This new series is exhilarating and filled with rich and vibrant descriptions to make a reader feel like they’re in the thick of the Amazon jungle. There are moments of humor, of tenderness and pure hot loving. In short, Savage Hunger has the best of all the elements that make readers of paranormal romances happy. Pounce on your own copy and see for yourself.
With that last fun note, I'm off to write!!!
Have a super great hump day!
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
September 18, 2012
When Things Disappear...that Shouldn't--Who Do You Call???
Before I get to the spooky story, here is a:
Booklist Review!
Savage Hunger
(Book 1)
Sourcebooks
October 2012
In the heat of the jungle, jaguars are clawed, dangerous, and hungry for love. With hopes of overcoming night terrors and thanking the man who saved her life, Kathleen McKnight returns to the Amazon. A jaguar at heart, Connor Anderson doesn’t just protect her, but wants to claim her for his own.
Savage Hunger.
Spear, Terry (Author)
Oct 2012. 352 p. Sourcebooks/Casablanca, paperback, $7.99. (9781402266928).
Spear has left the werewolves of her past novels (Dreaming of the Wolf,2011) and turned to felines. Connor Anderson and his twin sister, Maya, inherited the ability to transform into jaguars from their parents, the only other shifters they have ever known. In the Amazon, Connor uses both his jaguar and human abilities to save the life of steely army captain Kathleen McKnight. Obsessed with Kat, he returns to the Amazon a year later and is surprised to find that she has returned to the jungle in search of him and his “pet jaguar.” Kat and Maya become fast friends, and the attraction between Connor and Kat is irresistible, even in the face of Kat’s troubled past and Connor’s dual nature. The strength of Spear’s writing lies in her ability to keep the reader emotionally in tune with the characters despite the unfamiliar terrain of both the deep jungle and the supernatural elements. Spear’s lush descriptions of the Amazon, and a few tantalizing loose ends, will leave readers hungry for more time in paradise.
— Amber Peckham
And I was having fun with finding a cover for the sequel to Huntress for Hire...Vampires watch out...
Huntress for Hire
Ebook By Terry Spear
Category: Fiction » Literature » Fantasy (paranormal)
He’s a hunter turned vampire, she’s a huntress of vampires—he’s needs her cooperation to free his family; she’s trained to kill his kind.
Rebel vampire huntress Rachael Bremerton wants revenge against Piaras, one of the most ruthless vampires in Dallas , for the murder of her parents. But when she’s lured by another vampire, Adonis, into the darkness—the same darkness she’s feared since she was a child—she’s torn between her huntress sensibilities and some strange desire to be with the creature she’s meant to despise and destroy.
Adonis, a hunter turned vampire, has been ordered by Piaras to bring Rachel to him untouched. In return, Piaras will release Adonis’s family unharmed. But when Adonis first sees Rachael, his hunter desire to have a huntress mate kicks in, or is it the dark heart of the vampire that makes him crave her so?
Turning Rachel over to Piaras becomes less of an option. But can he find a way to free his family, claim Rachael for his own, and keep her family from discovering he is a hunter turned vampire—a creature they will all feel obligated to hunt down and kill?
Ebook:
Amazon
B & N
ARe
Smashwords
Well, then there was Vampire Redemption.
I'm still working on the sequel to Huntress for Hire, but I found this cover and had to have it. Adonis's younger sister is the one causing all the trouble now! Actually, she caused it in the first book too. So it's time for her to get her comeuppance. Eventually. :)
I actually was working on the sequel to Deadly Liaisons, Dangerous Liaisons, but still haven't found a cover. So I might have to finish this one first.
However, first is Highland Rake and Dragon Fae and then Silence of the Wolf! :)
I didn't get any work done on my mss yesterday. Although I did get the blog ready for the Highland blog hop which will be up this Friday!!! Which means if you like Highlanders, you can hop around the blogosphere and comment for a chance at free Highland books everywhere!
Two copies of Winning the Highlander's Heart in anticipation of Highland Rake's debut.
Winning the Highlander's Heart--Book 1
Countess Anice vows to flee the amorous advances of King Henry I, and return to her home in the Highlands, where she hopes to find a laird to wed. Highlander Laird Malcolm MacNeill, seeking an English bride, becomes entangled with the Scottish lass while trying to find out why her staff has vanished.
Ebooks Amazon B & N Print Books Amazon B&N Audiobooks
And I had to get another paranormal blog ready for Oct 1. And I was trying to upload some books to Kobos site and finished 10 of them. And I revised and uploaded all but the last Feeling Rejected? lesson for the online class I'm teaching. I was writing the last lesson on and off all day yesterday as I added self-published author success stories as they sent them to me.
Sooooo, I'm trying to explain why I didn't get any of my writing done!
Today, except for uploading the last class lesson, I'm writing.
Okay, now, along with Savage Hunger paranormal jaguar shifter stuff, and vampires that go bump in the night--no full moon out, in fact, I didn't see one at all out there at o-dark thirty. But.....
Time for the Twilight Zone music...I had a dead cricket in the kitchen. I was going to vacuum him up yesterday afternoon.
But overnight, he disappeared. So who do you call????
The bug terminator is coming this morning. But who do you call to get rid of the bug remover???
With that spooky music playing in the background final say for the blog...I'll let you get on with your happy Tuesday, and I'll get back to writing!!!
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com
Savage Hunger
(Book 1)
Sourcebooks
October 2012
In the heat of the jungle, jaguars are clawed, dangerous, and hungry for love. With hopes of overcoming night terrors and thanking the man who saved her life, Kathleen McKnight returns to the Amazon. A jaguar at heart, Connor Anderson doesn’t just protect her, but wants to claim her for his own.
Savage Hunger.
Spear, Terry (Author)
Oct 2012. 352 p. Sourcebooks/Casablanca, paperback, $7.99. (9781402266928).
Spear has left the werewolves of her past novels (Dreaming of the Wolf,2011) and turned to felines. Connor Anderson and his twin sister, Maya, inherited the ability to transform into jaguars from their parents, the only other shifters they have ever known. In the Amazon, Connor uses both his jaguar and human abilities to save the life of steely army captain Kathleen McKnight. Obsessed with Kat, he returns to the Amazon a year later and is surprised to find that she has returned to the jungle in search of him and his “pet jaguar.” Kat and Maya become fast friends, and the attraction between Connor and Kat is irresistible, even in the face of Kat’s troubled past and Connor’s dual nature. The strength of Spear’s writing lies in her ability to keep the reader emotionally in tune with the characters despite the unfamiliar terrain of both the deep jungle and the supernatural elements. Spear’s lush descriptions of the Amazon, and a few tantalizing loose ends, will leave readers hungry for more time in paradise.
— Amber Peckham
And I was having fun with finding a cover for the sequel to Huntress for Hire...Vampires watch out...
Huntress for Hire
Ebook By Terry Spear
Category: Fiction » Literature » Fantasy (paranormal)
He’s a hunter turned vampire, she’s a huntress of vampires—he’s needs her cooperation to free his family; she’s trained to kill his kind.
Rebel vampire huntress Rachael Bremerton wants revenge against Piaras, one of the most ruthless vampires in Dallas , for the murder of her parents. But when she’s lured by another vampire, Adonis, into the darkness—the same darkness she’s feared since she was a child—she’s torn between her huntress sensibilities and some strange desire to be with the creature she’s meant to despise and destroy.
Adonis, a hunter turned vampire, has been ordered by Piaras to bring Rachel to him untouched. In return, Piaras will release Adonis’s family unharmed. But when Adonis first sees Rachael, his hunter desire to have a huntress mate kicks in, or is it the dark heart of the vampire that makes him crave her so?
Turning Rachel over to Piaras becomes less of an option. But can he find a way to free his family, claim Rachael for his own, and keep her family from discovering he is a hunter turned vampire—a creature they will all feel obligated to hunt down and kill?
Ebook:
Amazon
B & N
ARe
Smashwords
Well, then there was Vampire Redemption.
I'm still working on the sequel to Huntress for Hire, but I found this cover and had to have it. Adonis's younger sister is the one causing all the trouble now! Actually, she caused it in the first book too. So it's time for her to get her comeuppance. Eventually. :)
I actually was working on the sequel to Deadly Liaisons, Dangerous Liaisons, but still haven't found a cover. So I might have to finish this one first.
However, first is Highland Rake and Dragon Fae and then Silence of the Wolf! :)
I didn't get any work done on my mss yesterday. Although I did get the blog ready for the Highland blog hop which will be up this Friday!!! Which means if you like Highlanders, you can hop around the blogosphere and comment for a chance at free Highland books everywhere!
Two copies of Winning the Highlander's Heart in anticipation of Highland Rake's debut.
Winning the Highlander's Heart--Book 1
Countess Anice vows to flee the amorous advances of King Henry I, and return to her home in the Highlands, where she hopes to find a laird to wed. Highlander Laird Malcolm MacNeill, seeking an English bride, becomes entangled with the Scottish lass while trying to find out why her staff has vanished.
Ebooks Amazon B & N Print Books Amazon B&N Audiobooks
And I had to get another paranormal blog ready for Oct 1. And I was trying to upload some books to Kobos site and finished 10 of them. And I revised and uploaded all but the last Feeling Rejected? lesson for the online class I'm teaching. I was writing the last lesson on and off all day yesterday as I added self-published author success stories as they sent them to me.
Sooooo, I'm trying to explain why I didn't get any of my writing done!
Today, except for uploading the last class lesson, I'm writing.
Okay, now, along with Savage Hunger paranormal jaguar shifter stuff, and vampires that go bump in the night--no full moon out, in fact, I didn't see one at all out there at o-dark thirty. But.....
Time for the Twilight Zone music...I had a dead cricket in the kitchen. I was going to vacuum him up yesterday afternoon.
But overnight, he disappeared. So who do you call????
The bug terminator is coming this morning. But who do you call to get rid of the bug remover???
With that spooky music playing in the background final say for the blog...I'll let you get on with your happy Tuesday, and I'll get back to writing!!!
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com
September 17, 2012
The Eternal Optimist
That's what my dad always called me!!!
The downside of getting all these storms was my Internet was out ALL day yesterday and through the night.
The upside--I wrote 9,000 words on Dragon Fae, and edited more on Highland Rake, cleaned my house and went out to see a movie and had lunch with a friend!!!
Which goes to show how much time I spend on the Internet!!! Nine-thousand words! That's a great day of writing!
However, that means I'm back on the Internet this morning. For good reason.
1. I had to sign up to judge the Ritas.
2. I had to get the email about the Highland blog hop I'll be participating in on Sep 21. Yikes, already??? Which means I need to write it and prepost it.
3. I had to upload my lessons for my online workshop on Dealing with Rejection!
4. I had to get notice about a blog I still need to write for a paranormal blog for Oct 1. And write it and send it to the blog owner.
5. And respond to other important emails concerning promotion.
6. And I need to learn who the winner is for the blog last week.
7. I still need to upload 10 more books to Kobo.
8. I need to update book covers on my blog.
9. I need to update my website...again.
These are the ones at Kobo now!
Demon Trouble Too
Forbidden Love
Killing the Bloodlust
Kiss of the Vampire
Lady Caroline and the Egotistical Earl
Seducing the Huntress
Siren's Lure
The Beast Within
The Deadly Fae
The Trouble with Demons
The Winged Fae
Vampiric CallingSo, now it's time to write a couple of blogs and then get back to the business of writing.
It's still raining!!!
I love it.
But I'm thinking once I get all these other Internet jobs done, I'm going to have to have an Internet blackout...self-imposed, so I can write 9,000 words again on a mss!!
What about you? Do you look at the downside more or the upside more?
I'm excited! It's raining! I have the big blog tour starting next week, with a different one on Friday, and I'm making mucho progress on both Dragon Fae (YA) and Highland Rake (Medieval Highland romance)...
And it's only the beginning of the week!
Have a super great rainy Monday!!!
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
The downside of getting all these storms was my Internet was out ALL day yesterday and through the night.
The upside--I wrote 9,000 words on Dragon Fae, and edited more on Highland Rake, cleaned my house and went out to see a movie and had lunch with a friend!!!
Which goes to show how much time I spend on the Internet!!! Nine-thousand words! That's a great day of writing!
However, that means I'm back on the Internet this morning. For good reason.
1. I had to sign up to judge the Ritas.
2. I had to get the email about the Highland blog hop I'll be participating in on Sep 21. Yikes, already??? Which means I need to write it and prepost it.
3. I had to upload my lessons for my online workshop on Dealing with Rejection!
4. I had to get notice about a blog I still need to write for a paranormal blog for Oct 1. And write it and send it to the blog owner.
5. And respond to other important emails concerning promotion.
6. And I need to learn who the winner is for the blog last week.
7. I still need to upload 10 more books to Kobo.
8. I need to update book covers on my blog.
9. I need to update my website...again.
These are the ones at Kobo now!
Demon Trouble Too
Forbidden Love
Killing the Bloodlust
Kiss of the Vampire
Lady Caroline and the Egotistical Earl
Seducing the Huntress
Siren's Lure
The Beast Within
The Deadly Fae
The Trouble with Demons
The Winged Fae
Vampiric CallingSo, now it's time to write a couple of blogs and then get back to the business of writing.It's still raining!!!
I love it.
But I'm thinking once I get all these other Internet jobs done, I'm going to have to have an Internet blackout...self-imposed, so I can write 9,000 words again on a mss!!
What about you? Do you look at the downside more or the upside more?
I'm excited! It's raining! I have the big blog tour starting next week, with a different one on Friday, and I'm making mucho progress on both Dragon Fae (YA) and Highland Rake (Medieval Highland romance)...
And it's only the beginning of the week!
Have a super great rainy Monday!!!
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
September 14, 2012
Dark and Stormy--Yay!
It was a dark and stormy night when she heard a shriek from off in the distance. No, not in the distance. Her own voice. Here...a shriek of shock. No. Of delight! Rain!!!
This is what it looked like at about 4 this yesterday afternoon. Delightful! And chilly? Oh, I love it!!!
Okay, in A Howl for a Highlander, I have Duncan preparing a meal or two. So here he is keeping me company while I prepared a spaghetti dinner, fresh tomatoes, fresh bell peppers, red, green, yellow, mushrooms, hamburger, tomato sauce, lemon pepper seasoning, garlic salt, and Italian spices, basil.
And Duncan. :) I can't remember what he fixed for the she-wolf...omelets, at least once. :)
Do the men in your life cook? My dad loved to. My brother-in-law also. And my son. So all the males in my life have and I think it's great that they can cook for us sometimes. Don't you?
Terry, who is soooo enjoying the cloudy cooler weather. :)
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality!"
www.terryspear.com
Rain! Yes!!!
It worked!!! We had RAIN! First, the winds came, and then the sky darkened. You know what I was doing, right??? Watering.
Some other suggestions for rain:
Rain Dance
Washing Car
Locking self out of house
Planning an outdoor event
So, if I need this again, I've got some other options!!!
Off to work on the newsletter! And some more of Highland Rake! It's getting close to 50,000 words!!!
Have a super terrific Friday!!! I can't believe it's Friday again! Didn't I just wish you all a TGIF a few days ago???
Back to cuddling with my Highland Rake....
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
Some other suggestions for rain:
Rain Dance
Washing Car
Locking self out of house
Planning an outdoor event
So, if I need this again, I've got some other options!!!
Off to work on the newsletter! And some more of Highland Rake! It's getting close to 50,000 words!!!
Have a super terrific Friday!!! I can't believe it's Friday again! Didn't I just wish you all a TGIF a few days ago???
Back to cuddling with my Highland Rake....
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
September 13, 2012
I WANT Rain!
I remember when I lived in Florida, we'd had so much drought that planes were sent into the sky to seed the clouds to force rain. I can't remember if it did or not. I don't think it did or I would have remembered it and they would have done so anytime anyone had a drought.
More recently, I saw where they had done that again, can't remember where. but it made me wonder, did it work this time? I never heard anything come of it, so maybe not.
One time I was watching a program where they had rain on one side of the mountain, and on the other side, dry as a desert. The river was filthy because the people used the water for everything, drinking, bathing, and their animals used it to...for anything.
They had a lot of disease in the village. So scientists knew that there were a lot of clouds, they just need to get that moisture to the people. They erected high screens of fine mesh into low-hanging clouds--fog, and the moisture from the clouds ran down the cloth and the people collected it for drinking water. Ingenious!
What we have is SUN and lots of it. Yesterday evening before the sun set, I was getting really excited. The sky was growing dark. Clouds, yes!
But then they blew away and there was the SUN! I can't collect the water, unfortunately, as there are no low-hanging clouds, or high hanging clouds...just SUN.
Even in the rainforest, they have rainy seasons and dry seasons. But we're supposed to get rain in September, and we still haven't had any. I hate watching the weather reports because they never know really when we'll get it either. *sigh*
SAVAGE HUNGER!
So I write about it in my books and pretend I'm getting a good soaking.
Of course it's all relative. In Oregon, we loved to see the sun!
I'm still at:
Petit Fours and Hot Tamales!!! Readers will have through the weekend to comment and the winner will be picked on Monday!
Have a super great Thursday! I think I'll make it rain in my story some more. Just to make me feel better! :)
Terry, who can control the weather in books!
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
More recently, I saw where they had done that again, can't remember where. but it made me wonder, did it work this time? I never heard anything come of it, so maybe not.
One time I was watching a program where they had rain on one side of the mountain, and on the other side, dry as a desert. The river was filthy because the people used the water for everything, drinking, bathing, and their animals used it to...for anything.
They had a lot of disease in the village. So scientists knew that there were a lot of clouds, they just need to get that moisture to the people. They erected high screens of fine mesh into low-hanging clouds--fog, and the moisture from the clouds ran down the cloth and the people collected it for drinking water. Ingenious!
What we have is SUN and lots of it. Yesterday evening before the sun set, I was getting really excited. The sky was growing dark. Clouds, yes!
But then they blew away and there was the SUN! I can't collect the water, unfortunately, as there are no low-hanging clouds, or high hanging clouds...just SUN.
Even in the rainforest, they have rainy seasons and dry seasons. But we're supposed to get rain in September, and we still haven't had any. I hate watching the weather reports because they never know really when we'll get it either. *sigh*
SAVAGE HUNGER!
So I write about it in my books and pretend I'm getting a good soaking.
Of course it's all relative. In Oregon, we loved to see the sun!
I'm still at:
Petit Fours and Hot Tamales!!! Readers will have through the weekend to comment and the winner will be picked on Monday!
Have a super great Thursday! I think I'll make it rain in my story some more. Just to make me feel better! :)
Terry, who can control the weather in books!
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
