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Woman's World

A reviewer who loves my books told me that she was being interviewed by Woman's World for their October issue. She said that the book she was looking forward to reading next with great anticipation was one of my wolf books, DREAMING OF THE WOLF!

The editor from Woman's World contacted my publicist at Sourcebooks, and voila! The cover for my latest release, HEART OF THE HIGHLAND WOLF, will be in the magazine!

I've always loved Woman's World and their romance stories and tried my hand at getting published with them, but this is even better!

Thanks to Rhonda Valverde of Vampire Romance Books Reviews for loving the wolves, and to Woman's World, with a readership of 1.6 million fans!!

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Working on A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing!

Okay, they're gray wolves, not Arctic, but I just liked this picture!



Anyway, I'm working hard on going over some final edits on A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing, and then have to send it in!



Late night watering, and I could barely get up this morning. But if I had had the day off, I would have been up even earlier. What makes days off impossible for me to sleep in?



Have a super Tuesday!!!



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

The Magic of Inherian: Scepter of Salvation, Book 1--New Cover

Princess Talamaya turned 18 in the human kingdom of Damar, just like her twin brother. Only when she comes of age, she must wed the king's choice. When her brother comes of age, he's allowed to sit on the council. But everything changes when a wizard pits beast and man against each other in Inherian--all because of the loss of the Scepter of Salvation and she must return it to their kingdom.





Princess Talamaya and her friends, Lady Kersta and Lady Mexia, must retrieve the Scepter of Salvation when her brother is poisoned.Visions plague Talamaya of a world beyond her own, of a destiny she has to fulfill.



But the barbarian king is also after the scepter, and the black-hearted wizard who is trying to gain control will do anything to keep them from retrieving it.



She must free a knight from his madness.

Help a female dwarf escape from the dwarven mines.

Aid an Amazon fighting the Dark Elves.

Rescue even the barbarian king.

Save a crusty old dwarf from the wolves of Elan Pass.

And outwit the dark wizard once more.

Above all else, she must always take the path of righteousness.

Which is much easier said than done.



Here is the old cover!





What do you all think?



Have a terrific Monday! I'm going to sure try!



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Messing with Book Covers...Again!

Mexia has already done much more than most school- trained mages when she and her companions had gone in search of the scepter of salvation. But now one of the apprentices of the evil wizard they had destroyed, has stolen his spell book and plans to take up where he had left off, and she has to try and stop him.



Mexia believes the only way for her to defeat the mage is to become school trained like he was with the eventual goal of becoming a high wizard--the first of her kind in Inherian. But the current headmaster denies her entrance because she's a woman. Though if she can get the former headmaster's recommendation, she may attend.



And that's the beginning of the trouble.



First, there's the wizard.

Then, the immovable headmaster.

And then, the circle of misfortunes.

It all goes downhill from there...



One of the fun things about Indie publishing is that we can change the cover if we want, and I've wanted to do this for a long time, so what do you all think? Top one is the new cover, the bottom is the old cover...



I've also reduced the price for a short time from $4.99 for an 85,000-word novel to $2.99!



Now I just need to come up with a new cover for Scepter of Salvation!



B & N









Okay, cover didn't upload to B&N...off to see the matter! Whoops, it's up! Just being my impatient self! LOL



Have a super Sunday! Back to work on The Winged Fae!



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

The Trouble with Chickens

Trying to conserve water, reduce evaporation, all that sort of thing, I spread bark mulch underneath my shrubs. It looks nicer than bare earth too. Great idea, right?



Except for one thing. My neighbor has chickens and they dig in it. So every time that I sweep it off the brick walkway and back under my shrubs, the chickens invade and scratch it all back onto my patio.



That's me above. Only I don't get the eggs!



When I lived in Oklahoma, we had problems with a neighbor who had cows. He believed since he sold the land to folks on the ridge and the rest of the land around us was his cattle grazing land, he shouldn't have to fence them in. That we had to fence his cattle out. Didn't work. The calves got beyond my split rail fence, the cows reached their heads underneath the lower posts and yanked out all of my newly planted shrubs, killing them. After all that work of planting around 30 shrubs, I was pretty angry.



Now, I like animals. And I have to admit those doe-eyed cows and calves tugged at my heart, but the farmer only cared about eating them. And he didn't care anything about what they did to the properties that he'd sold to others.



Free range went out a couple of centuries ago! Free range meant he could graze his cattle anywhere. Then barbed wire fencing came into fashion. Instead of barbed wire though...I just got a lawyer's letter explaining we weren't living in "that" world any longer and he had to fence his cows to keep them contained off our property. He moved his cows, knowing he couldn't put fences up here, and there, and everywhere. Too many homesteads. The property all cut up. Talk about wanting your beef and eating it too!



I still love living out with the "wild" animals.



Only, I wish they'd quit messing with my garden! The good thing about the chickens is they do eat bugs. Have at it! I've got plenty of those!



Ever have problems with neighbor's pets???



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Vintage Photos by Terry Spear

This was a vintage photo of a little French girl. Isn't she adorable?



http://oldphotoalbum.blogspot.com/



Did you know that the French were big on hunting werewolves? So when this photo was taken, they might have been having a trial concerning a suspected werewolf.



My daughter would have said, "That's random, Mom."



Random? Absolutely not! Well, maybe just a little bit. Okay, maybe a lot. But truly, the French did participate in werewolf trials.



And I still have to say the purported werewolves were fake. How do I know this? They would not have given up their secrets. Ever.



The big question is--is the young girl a werewolf?



One look at the expression on her face and I have my answer. What about you?



Terry

Took a Break

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Last night, my copy of Beastly was ready for me at the library so I took a break and watched it. I'd had a pounding sinus headache that caused me to cry all day...okay, back up, the sinuses were doing a number on my tear ducts and so I was swiping away tears all day. I kept telling my coworkers to quit making me cry. :) They'd look serious for a all of a second, then I'd smile and wipe away new tears.



But earlier that morning before work, we'd had no water pressure where I live, and I was thinking someone is watering when they're not supposed to!!! Only Monday and Thursday are the watering nights. And only real vampires would be wandering around in the dark watering that late, because they can see, you see.



So I get home from work after crying all day and see water in my flood culvert. At first I thought, ohmigosh, it rained!!! Then I thought, no way. Which meant bad news. I couldn't have left a hose on since Monday night (pretend you didn't hear that I was a vampire then, roaming around in the dark watering plants), but why in the world would the water all be in the ditch?



I checked all my hoses. None were on. I tried calling the water dept. Of course they were closed. I called my neighbor. He said he started checking his faucets, then mine, then he went to the neighbors on the other side of me. There are only 3 of us and then it's all cornfields until the next house.



Sure enough, thank goodness, the guy next door's pipe had broken and his yard was flooded. Okay, now the really bad part is we're on water restrictions. And so where does all the water go? In the stupid culvert.



*sigh* If only it could have been diverted to my trees and shrubs and jasmine ground cover.



I enjoyed Beastly, a new version of The Beauty and the Beast. I liked the idea that the ugly part of the inside of the boy was brought out on the outside of him and he had to find a way to show he cared about someone, to quit being so self-centered and downright mean.



And I only cried once...at least for real. The other tears were still all due to the sinus problems!



Anyway, it was a cute story, after having watched some real dogs--see why my wolves don't appreciate being called dogs?



Hope you have a super great Thursday! I took an antihistamine last night, dried up the tears, water pressure is back to normal, and the only problem is that I have to work the vampire shift tonight. Otherwise, it's Thursday! And the best part is that tomorrow is Friday!!!



Oh, and Amazon has A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing posted on Amazon! Woohoo! I haven't seen the cover yet. Can't wait!



:) And the next weekend we have a 3-day weekend! Woohoo!



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Interesting Entrances into a Scottish World

See the little path and the slight rise in the hill and then the hole in the rock? That's an entrance to the castle.



I just loved it. I could envision guarding that entrance from enemies, or hoping that if I entered through there, I would be thought of as friend, not foe.



The castle sat high above cliffs so not easily accessible.



I envisioned the lairds who ruled over the castle and lands--whether they be the usual sort, a little wolfish, or even part of the fae world. :)



So if you visited here in the distant past, who would you have encountered?



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Fae Transport in Scotland...

Some thought that the blurred photo I used in The Dark Fae book trailer was photo shop magic.



But it's really true fae magic.



Okay, here's the secret: We were driving through a really cool tunnel of trees. I was sitting in the back seat, trying to take pictures of everything and anything, and I wanted desperately to take a picture of this mystical area after leaving the B&B. We drove through it several times, seeing a deer in the thick forest the one time as we had to find a place to eat dinner, and we ventured onto one of the islands the next day and returned to the B&B that night.



So I took the photo from the back seat, trying to get a picture through the windshield. We were really going slow as it was pretty much a one-car road and it wound around so you couldn't see head-on traffic coming up. Actually, if I had been driving, we would have been going slower. Which would have meant we probably wouldn't have seen half as much of Scotland as we did! :)



Luckily, we only encountered another car coming from the opposite direction once. And the other good part was that it didn't matter which side of the road we drove on. There weren't two sides. :)



Clever, the Scots, eh?



The only thing I photo shopped out was the rear view mirror, that had the nerve to be in the picture, and a little bit of one of the head rests, same story. :)



And that's the story...how we fae transported in Scotland. :)



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

New! Book Trailer for THE DARK FAE by Terry Spear

I haven't made a book trailer in quite a while, mainly because they take so long--this one took 7 hours! But they're lots of fun to make and I hope readers enjoy watching them!



I still need to make one for Heart of the Highland Wolf!



The Dark Fae



Alicia has planned a vacation at South Padre Island with her girlfriend Cassie in forever. But just as they're enjoying a day on the beach, here comes a dark fae to spoil their holiday, except only she can see what he truly is. Alicia has no idea how upside down her world can turn with a chance meeting with one of the dark fae from the royal house of the Denkar.



Alicia's always known she's different--that she can recognize the mischievous fae when they show up to "play" with the humans. Only now she's faced with one highly annoyed dark fae and she's certain he knows the truth about her. She can see him, which means her life is forfeit.



Add to that, his sister arrives, who wants to play, too. And their mother, the queen of the Denkar, will want Alicia's head, once she learns what Alicia can do.



And all because Alicia was attempting to rescue her friend, Cassie, on their beach excursion at South Padre Island, from the wicked fae. Now, Alicia has really gone and done it--and she's thinking she should have let the fae have his fun. Her friend's broken heart would be a lot easier to deal with, than Alicia losing her life.



But it is too late for regrets. As soon as she threw the soda at the dark fae's chest, she had declared war on the fae. And he is happy to take up the challenge.



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So what do you all think? Was it worth all the time it took to make it, or should I have just spent the time writing???



Have a super Monday!



Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com