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Is it Okay to Love Your Own Stories?

As a writer, you better!!! Once a long time ago, I pushed myself to finish a story I didn't like. I had to have resolution. I had started it, I had to finish it. I hated it.

Would anyone like the story? No. Why should anyone? If I didn't even like it!

After finishing writing The Highland Wolf in Paradise--I was looking over a YA fantasy I had written some years ago. I laughed so much while I was reading it, thoroughly enjoying the story, and thinking to myself how much I loved it.

I used to write a lot of fantasy. I never tried to sell it. I just loved writing it. Then, I wanted to do more realistic, so I began writing and researching medieval times to write my medieval Highland romances and researching the 19th C. old west for the time travel. And I began to write paranormal contemporary--psychics and then more hardcore--vampires and werewolves.



But I still love my fantasies. I grew up on fantasies. The mythologies around the world. The stories that were chocked full of morals. So I will be periodically uploading my fantasies--that were just too fun to write that it shouldn't be allowed.

:)

What do you think???



I love this picture, and no, I don't feel at all like this today, despite it being a Monday!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

The Bears are Done!

The bears are done and ready to ship, which was what I was working on most of yesterday. And I finished and uploaded:

The Genie's Wish, another novella for 99 cents, which is being added to B&N and Amazon, and Smashwords. :) Should be up for sale in a couple of days...

The Genie's Wish Ebook By Terry Spear
$0.99 Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Mar. 19, 2011
This book is not currently available in any e-book format.
Category: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Language: English

[add to library]

Ebook Short Description Lizzie Mason just wanted to buy a birthday present for her older brother who loves antiques. What she doesn't expect is to end up in a world far from her own with a mission to save a man's life before it's too late.


The genie must right the wrongs of the past before the curse placed on him can be broken. But will the woman who has freed him be able to manage in a world where deceit and death await them?


I had so much fun with him!!

If you could have 3 wishes for anything in the world...what would they be?

I'm off to really work on The Highland Wolf in Paradise, ALL DAY! :)

Have a super Sunday!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

A Blue Day...

or a blue night--who says blue means sad???

Donna sent this to me and thought it was beautiful and I have to agree.

I sent off the newsletter last night...hope everyone received it all right and you enjoyed it!

Dreaming of the Wolf is off and now I'm back to working on The Highland Wolf in Paradise.

When I have to stop to work on other characters, I have to get back into the story again that I'm currently working on. I truly miss them, but I enjoyed getting to see Jake and all the trouble he had with Alicia in Dreaming of the Wolf!

Okay, as to the laundry question in an earlier post---it was Heart of the Wolf--- :)

Have a terrific Saturday! I'm off to write!

Oh, and I've got to start working on the jaguar story soon too!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Are You Wearing Green Today?

I reminded everyone to wear green today at work for fun, and now I have to remember to do so myself!!! What about you? Are you wearing green today?




I tried to find some wolves in a St. Patrick's Day setting, but the cute Siberian Huskies were as close as I could get!



Isn't this spectacular? I wish I could take pictures like this!

And if you're an author--here's a chance at a pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow:

Leah of Sourcebooks is wishing you luck in pitching your contemporary romances
to her today, so if you have something ready and want to give it a shot, feel
free!

http://casablancaauthors.blogspot.com/2011/03/your-lucky-day-contemp-pitchapalooza.html

Being Irish (as well as Scottish!), I want to wish everyone a lovely St
Patrick's Day!



And some fun--A GHOST OF A CHANCE AT LOVE was tagged on Facebook by the sexy model, Jimmy Thomas, otherwise known as a rancher who rescues the heroine in both the past and the present...

Off to work on Dreaming of the Wolf where Jake Silver gets his own pot o' gold in the form of one sexy bounty hunter.

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Happy Hump Day!

Thanks to Donna for sending me this endearing wolf picture. Who said all wolves are just...wolves?

I'm making this really short because I've got to work on edits of Dreaming of the Wolf before work, and everything that could go wrong has gone wrong this morning on the Internet---firefox froze up, then my image showed it uploaded but it hadn't, then it was like everything was frozen again.

So I'm off to edits, but I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Hump Day! And hope that the problems I've been having is not an indication that today is going to be a Monday all over again!!!

We swore there was a full moon out on Monday!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Making the Mundane Not so Mundane?

I write paranormal romance--with mystery, intrigue, adventure, conflict and humor. But what if I wrote about the mundane--

Doing laundry.
Weeding the garden.
Scrubbing the toilets.
Vacuuming.
Mopping the floors.

Oh, the drudgery. And who wants to read about it?

But put a fun spin on it and it can still be a part of a story. Can you remember instances when I did this in a story?

In one book, the wolves did the laundry--or at least planned to--remember which story?

In most books, I have them cooking meals. Which can be the usual old thing--but I try to make them fun and important in a wolfish way. Can you think of instances that still stick in your mind?



I even have vacuuming, or at least the mention of it, in an upcoming book.

Did any of you watch She-Devil? Where Meryl Streep stole another woman's husband? She was a romance writer and doing well with her best selling books until she began to write about love in the laundry room, but not as in sex in the laundry room...just the love of home-making.

Blah.

And her agent was ready to fire her.

Even so, we can take the mundane, which everyone can relate to, and make it something different, special, and fun as it relates to our stories.

Or we can add a pet to the equation--I had cats and dogs...and they did make doing the chores more of a fun challenge. Though these are not my cats--they represent just what my cats would do--curl up on my freshly washed laundry, or even before it was washed. Tackle the mop as I tried to sweep it across the floor. Dig up my newly planted flowers or bulbs and roll in them.

This one looks just like the cat I took home as a kitten who had been rescued from near a dumpster in NJ.



My dogs and one cat would lie in the grass and watch me on my riding mower, not bothered by the noise, but wanting to get close enough to me while I mowed. :)

Hmm, so maybe doing the chores isn't always so mundane after all. Throw in a wolf, and it's definitely not the usual kind of thing!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Cover for A Ghost of a Chance at Love!

Here it is! The proposed cover for A GHOST OF A CHANCE AT LOVE, coming from Vinspire Publications in September. What do you all think? Isn't he, I mean, it gorgeous???




*sigh*

It's awful having to be patient and wait for soooo long to have him. The story. I mean.

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Yummmy

Need I say more?


He's just plain wicked...

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Who Changed the Story???

Have you ever been reading an author's work, and you've noticed her or his voice has changed? It used to be one way, maybe lighter, now it's darker? Or maybe sadder? Or happier? Or more in-depth? Now more shallow or rushed?

Life happens. Just like with anyone else, life intrudes and we change. So it seems that our writing would change also.

Our voice is probably the same. And something about our work is the same. But I think about how I was writing A Ghost of a Chance at Love, and my mother was enjoying the story as I wrote it. Or even the very first story I had written, that I still want to publish--that my dad read and loved. They had heart also...but it was a different me back then.

We do grow as authors as we write--improve, learn to edit better, hopefully entertain better.

But sometimes in that growth, our work becomes something different. I remember my kids saying that about Rowlings's Harry Potter series. How it became darker and darker.

I wonder why. Is it that she can write what she truly wants to write now? That with the income and the freedoms she has to have some say she could do what she wants?

Or is it that her life has changed so much that it's affected her writing?

And I love Heather Graham's work, but she started writing suspense and not so much romance. I loved her romantic suspense. But we must do what our heart tells us to do.

Change is inevitable for all of us. Sometimes it affords us a chance to spread our wings and write what we want. Sometimes it molds us into what we write today.

With that profound thought out there--what do you all think?

Have a super Saturday!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Forbidden Love--Need a Little Bite in Your Life?

I've been busy!!! I've uploaded two new stories, a vampire romance and a teen demon story, and am still working on THE HIGHLAND WOLF IN PARADISE, thinking about scenes before I drift off to sleep, and am about to work on the newsletter and send it off! Then I've got to work on a couple of bear orders. There are not enough hours in the day! Or, I should say "free" hours in the day!!!

But I wanted to share this with you before I get to work on the newsletter, which if anyone noticed, I contacted tech support at Bravenet and they very kindly fixed my problem with no edit button on that first section, so no one has to look any longer to vote on TO TEMPT THE WOLF!!

So without further adieu, if you need some more bite to your life--this one starting in the Highlands--here 'tis!!!

FORBIDDEN LOVE is now available!

This isn't the same clan as in DEADLY LIAISONS. In that one, they live in Oregon. In FORBIDDEN LOVE, they live in Maryland where I used to live. It's a story of reincarnation, beginning in the Highlands, of a love so strong, the hero and heroine might be star crossed lovers forever because of a curse placed on the heroine by her kin. Will anything ever break the curse?

B & N

Also coming to Amazon soon!


Forbidden Love Ebook By Terry Spear
$2.9Published: Mar. 10, 2011
Category: Fiction » Literature » Fantasy (paranormal)
Words: 88151 (approximate)





Huntress Alena MacLeod is given a mission: work undercover to discover a rogue vampire's secretive work, then terminate him.

Ephraim MacNeill, aka Sutton Bastrop, knows Alena is his Elizabeth MacLeod from an earlier time, and he's determined to return to the past and right all the wrongs to end the curse placed on the love of his life before it's too late—again.

Together, they must risk all to stop a war between a newly formed Brotherhood of rogue vampires, tired of the status quo, and the League of Hunters, who have ruled for centuries over the vampires—both changed during the Black Death—some of the survivors becoming vampires, and others hunters of the same.

And also available now on B & N :

Like with my wolf series, I wanted to show a world where some demons were the good guys, fighting evil to ensure the human population would survive. Instead of focusing on adults, though, I wrote about teens and their struggle to make a difference in their world. But Alana Fainot isn't just a lesser half demon pitted against the stronger demons slipping into the world. She's also a witch, if she can just learn some spells in time to help her newly found demon friends. But it has adult themes.

The Trouble with Demons Ebook By Terry Spear
$2.99 Published: Mar. 10, 2011
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance
Words: 65352 (approximate)





Witches and warlocks hide their true identities from the rest of the human population, while three teens with demon heritage living with human families, become unlikely companions in a race against time to deal with a demon threat to humankind in their own quirky way.

Alana Fainot, a witch and half Kubiteron demon, witnesses a Matusa murder his summoner, and she knows he'll target her next. Raised by her mother, she has no idea who her demon father is. But when she's pulled to a demon portal, she meets Hunter Ross, half Matusa, half human, who returns demons to their world, but who's been poisoned by a Matusa and is more dead than alive. His human mother gave him up for adoption, and he doesn't know who either of his birth parents are. His friend Jared Kensington, full blooded Elantus demon, less powerful than the Kubiteron, is a whiz at electronics and helps Hunter track demons in the city, but was abandoned by his parents on Earth world for reasons unknown. He's determined to find help to save Hunter. Alana knows aiding any Matusa is a mistake, but when she learns Hunter is half human, she makes a deal—he protects her against the Matusa who will come for her, and she helps find his dad in the demon world to save Hunter's life.... (Read more) Alana Fainot, a witch and half Kubiteron demon, witnesses a Matusa murder his summoner, and she knows he'll target her next. Raised by her mother, she has no idea who her demon father is. But when she's pulled to a demon portal, she meets Hunter Ross, half Matusa, half human, who returns demons to their world, but who's been poisoned by a Matusa and is more dead than alive. His human mother gave him up for adoption, and he doesn't know who either of his birth parents are. His friend Jared Kensington, full blooded Elantus demon, less powerful than the Kubiteron, is a whiz at electronics and helps Hunter track demons in the city, but was abandoned by his parents on Earth world for reasons unknown. He's determined to find help to save Hunter. Alana knows aiding any Matusa is a mistake, but when she learns Hunter is half human, she makes a deal—he protects her against the Matusa who will come for her, and she helps find his dad in the demon world to save Hunter's life.

Often at odds, the three teens work together to stop the plans of a group of Matusa to take over the human race before it's too late.

Okay, off to work on the newsletter before time gets away from me!!!

Have any fun plans for TGIF?

My day is already overbooked! :)

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com