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New Release news

It is now April 2nd and I have finished all my re-writes.  "Web Of Bones" is off to the Editor and it should be about a week and it will be published.  If you watch my facebook or twitter pages you know about the delay.  If not then I will just say that the longer the book is the longer it takes to do re-writes and edit so I was off on my approximate date.  Now I am just waiting to get it back to the editor.

The good news is that the book is nearly twice as long as "The Dragon's Mage." 

The cover is long since ready and I even have my synopsis:


In "The Dragon's Mage" you read Morgan's story.  Now it is her sister Melisande's turn to find out what she is capable of.

The Dragon's thought they had ended the blood mage threat once and for all, but Melisande is still dreaming of death and blood, and when she is harmed by what should only be a dream, they take action. 
Now on a quest with the formidable General Solan Fire-Eater, Commander of the Dragon Knights, she must face her darkest fears, and the blood mage who once tortured her and marked her as his mate.
If she cannot end his reign of terror, she could lose the dragon warrior who might just be everything she needs.

So Close...

I am finishing "Web Of Bones" this week!  I know, I'm excited too.  You will be happy to know it is significantly longer than "The Dragon's Mage." 

I love this book.  Love every minute of writing it and want to be Melisande or the House of Fire and Water.  And not just because she gets to play with General Solan Fire-Eater.

Course I always feel that way right before the editing phase- Then I panic and think everyone will hate it, and give me bad reviews.  But...I digress.  I will wait until the panicking phase to actually panic.

For now you can check out the excerpt of that, and my next book "Claiming Her" of the Keeping Her Series, (If you haven't already.) which will be released around the end of May.  (Short of an Alien Abduction or severe flooding across the Pacific Coast.)

Meanwhile I also added an excerpt for the next book in the Worlds Series called "Salvage Rights."  Not to be confused with the World Series, which is baseball.  This is fantasy futuristic Romance, takes place in a same universe, roughly,  as  "The Journey's End," where you met Nori and Menelaus.  Whether they will be in this book I cannot say as of yet, but a certain space pirate will show up, at least briefly.  If you want to meet Dannika and Lucan check out the excerpt.

"Web of Bones" will be released on the original stated date of April 1st.  If not a few days sooner.  I'll sent out a notice when it is back from the editor and available to buy. 

New Characters abound.

Writing "Web of Bones" has been an experience.  If you are one of the people who asked me how many dragon books I will write then the answer now could be "quite a few".  In this journey that Melisande and General Solan are taking they are accompanied by new dragons (hot)  and meeting new mages (hint:  Fire mage.  yum.)  plus who are these new villains?  Writing this book, I will tell you that everything you thought you knew about this world is going to be turned upside down... and its totally not my fault.  Those Mages can be slippery.

And let's face it, every book is concentrating on  different characters, so some are going to be dark and brooding, and some are going to be playful and funny.  This one is about Melisande and General Solan, so you know you are going to have a lot of sweet moments and Alpha male action.  To which I say-Yay!

Some books I struggle with writing scene to scene and getting the flow of the book right is hard work.  This one, nope.  Like water.  It is actually painful to walk away from my laptop.

I have other things going on.  "Beatrice and Douglas", since it was the only other book I had professionally edited is going to be available in print.  Probably some time next week.  "The Journey's End" will be available on Smashwords for all eBooks around the same time.    And the  rest of the sample chapter for "Claiming Her" will be on my website tomorrow or the next day.  Plus the BlogSpot Beauties and the Book will be featuring my books in March, so I have to do a video spot of a few of my books.  I have never done a video spot.  Interesting.  When the heck am I going to get that done?  And how exactly?  Sigh.  I will prevail, and you can see it when I'm done.  Hopefully I will manage to make it sexy and interesting without being completely cheesy.    Also coming up I will be taking over the Rawbooksonline.com blog in April.  Times for both of these will be available soon.   There  will be prizes given away in both these instances.

It has also been recommended to me that I should have some swag.  So as soon as I figure out what that entails I should have some "swag" of both the keeping her series and the dragon mage series.  We shall see what happens there.  I will twitter the news as it happens.

April 1st is still the release date for "Web of Bones." 

Just FYI

I have had some great comments on the sample chapter of my upcoming books.  Exciting!  I would like to answer some questions that cropped up about my books.

Yes, there will be more.  I promise to give everyone time in the spotlight.  Especially Logan and Cleo.  Not sure about the order after Lucas gets his, but there will be more. 

Yes, there will be more dragon books.  At least 3 in the series but we will see, probably more since I got to spend time with some new,  extremely hot  dragons I met in "Web of Bones"., and my hot story radar is all aflutter.

Yes, I will be putting out all of my books in paperback form.  Next is "Loving Her" and then "The Dragons Mage".  I want to get them professionally edited before I do that and that means it has to wait until my deck is built and the house has passed its final inspection.  That ain't cheap.

In further news I am trying my first countdown sale on Amazon with "Beatrice and Douglas" so we will see how that goes.  If you have not bought the book, it's a good time to do so since it's on sale for a few more days.

I am taking over Rawbooksonline.com for an evening in April.  I will be answering questions and offering prizes.  If you have questions about my books, want to win one, or want to ask any questions about writing or self-publishing-well you can do that anytime just twitter me, but you can definitely do it live on one night in April.  I will put more information out as it comes to me.  Namely the date and time.

Thank you for everyone who commented on my books, and the new sample chapters out.  The extremely good news, if you expressed the need for more:  I will have the rest of the first sample chapter of Claiming Her available next week, but careful, it gets hot.  Just keep watching for the news flash on twitter or facebook.

A little time with Lucas

"Web of Bones," has been going exceptionally well.  Recently I had to write the scene were Melly remembers her time with the blood mage that nearly destroyed her.  It was a gut wrenching scene for me to write and I dreaded it.  By the time I was finished I felt completely wrung out.  It was really good, but I needed a pick me up. 

So I spent a little time with Lucas and Miley in "Claiming Her," and that perked me right the hell  up.

I also posted the rough draft of the first chapter. 

Had a time trying to figure out how to start this book.  Nothing was ever quite right, then I woke up this morning at 4am and knew exactly how I wanted it to start.  Check it out on my coming soon page and let me know what you think.

Dragons

Usually when I write I start out with a scene, a vignette if you will, that moves me in my imagination enough that I have to get it down on paper.  Then the story evolves from there. 

 In "Keeping Her," it started out in my head as a blind date, and like most blind dates it was painful.  Then  something else happened:  Why not meet a seven foot tall, muscled, tattooed, x-Navy SEAL, Wolf Alpha Shapeshifter? 

When is that not a good thing?

The beginning of "Loving Her," was actually written before I wrote the rest of Keeping Her, because I got a picture in my head of those hot shifters meeting Clytie's cousin.  Then it sat around until I finished it later after "Keeping Her."

Same with most of my books.  I wrote a scene as it happened in my head and then went back to it later.  Sometimes I would write multiple scenes about characters and end up using some and not others.  Heck I have a file called "snippets" where I keep all those floating scenes until I have a use for them.

With "Web of Bones," I knew in my head who the characters were going to be and even have a rough outline of what they will have to overcome, but no scene of sparked imagination.  Too busy working on other books. 

I was worried about this one because like  "Claiming Her," this one is a brand new start, a blank page that has not been sitting around my computer waiting for me to get on with the story.  

Just my computer and a blinking black cursor on a white wall of nothingness.

So, yes I was nervous about that.  But an amazing thing is happening.  This book is flying onto the page with very little help from me.  Its almost as if I have it written in my head already and my fingers are just waiting for their moment to take up the gauntlet.  I am so into this story it's hard to walk away from it.  I'm not even worried that people who are anxiously awaiting my next Dragon Book won't like it, because it's awesome. 

Of course, that could be the writers high talking.  Once I have it at the editing stage all my doubts and insecurities will rise up and crush my spirit into splintered glass...You know, the usual.

February Ramblings

I have been attempting to twitter, and I have one or two writing tweets that I follow.  One of them usually has great quotes from famous authors about writing, some I favorite, some I retweet.  A few I think are not for everyone.  For instance, one of them was about not having a view when you write because you want to stay away from distractions.  He said you should write in an ugly room, with no windows.  This I did not care for.  One, because if I wanted to sit at my computer in an ugly room with no windows, I'd get a regular job.   Two, because when I am in my writing zone very little can distract me anyway.  (Unless, I'm editing, then everything can distract me, and I still feel like I'm in a small box with no windows.) 

But for writing- good luck getting my attention, and if you manage it, don't be surprised if I'm a little...abrupt.  I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING.

  

 

Coming Soon: "Web of Bones".

Here is the first unedited chapter of the new Dragon Mage book "Web of Bones."
For those of you who have been asking for a small glimpse.

Melly stood at the top of the cliff and watched as the blood covered the moon in drips. The wind was silent and the air stale and empty of life. She felt encased in an invisible box, as if she could put out her hands and touch glass she could not see. The light was leaving. All around the dragon valley the sparkle was diminishing until the land was leached of magic and life. All goodness and life had flown far a field and even the wind refused to come close.
She tried to catch her breath and there was nothing to suck in that gave sustenance.
She felt a brutal yank in her hair and was pulled around to face the blood mage, his eyes red with stolen power.
“You cannot hide from me forever. I will burn the world down and find you among the ashes if I must.”
She tried to speak and deny his claim, shaking her head against the hold he had on her. But there was no air, she was powerless.
“Come to me, and the punishment will be light.”
She tried to yell, scream, anything but there was nothing.
“Come to me. You don’t belong with them.”
***
Melisande woke with a scream on her lips, and had never been so happy to hear it echo.
There was a commotion at the door and then they burst open and she was shocked to see a strange dragon shove in with a ferocious roar. She gasped and pulled her blankets up to cover her nightdress.
He was massive, as tall as Eben Kinkaid, who towered over her five foot two height by nearly two feet. His tied back black hair fell in a cloud to his waist and seemed to absorb the light. Rugged and hard, his eyes were a cold quicksilver that shimmered with dragon fire, he was by far the most opposing man she had ever seen. Out of instinct she called the wind and it came with a whoosh through the balcony doors. The strange dragon found himself airborne a second later and hit the wall beside the bedroom door with a crash. The bedroom door where Eben Kinkaid was holding onto the door-jamb to keep from being swept away.
She halted the wind as soon as she saw him but it was too late, the other dragon roared again, a great dragon battle cry and shifted to an obsidian dragon that was a beautiful as it was terrifying.
He did not come for her but looked around the room with quicksilver eyes that seemed to swirl and shimmer in the dark. He was intent on finding his prey, and Melisande’s mouth went bone dry when he suddenly turned those shimmering silver eyes her way.
Eben stepped between them. “You are unharmed?”
Melly cleared her throat and finally unfroze herself. Her voice was an embarrassed little whisper in the dark. “Yes, Eben I am so very sorry. I had a…dream. I did not mean to attack you or,” she looked behind him. “Your friend.”
Eben studied her with antique gold eyes full of age and power. She knew he missed nothing of her fear or insignificance with those eyes. Then he turned to the black dragon. There was just the smallest touch of humor in his voice when he spoke. But for Eben he might as well be laughing out loud. “I believe you can change back now. I do not think she means to harm you.”
While the ferocious dragon switched back to the terrifying man Melly stood and slipped on her robe. She was not going to sit cowering in the bed in her nightgown if she could help it.
She was just pulling her long red gold hair from the collar with a flip when she turned and met the other set of dragon eyes. This one the cold silver of a frozen lake by starlight. She froze all over again. If Eben had eyes that looked right through you, this man, this dragon, consumed with a glance. Even as she watched those eyes seemed to turn molten and fire.
She swallowed, aware that she was in the thinnest white cotton nightdress and robe. Covered to her ankles, she felt very keenly that she wore nothing underneath it.
Eben spoke into the loaded silence, his voice had lost the teasing quality and was now granite hard. “Melisande of House of Fire and Water, may I introduce General Solan Fire-Eater.” At the sound of his name she felt the wind swirling at her feet shoot up and dart around the room like a small tsunami. Eben Kinkaid seemed not to notice, intent on finishing his introduction and making his point. “General Solan. My mates sister is claimed by this house and under my protection.”
Melly silenced the wind with a twitch of the fingers at her side. Aware as she did so that the predator across from her caught even the smallest movement she made. He seemed to pay particular attention to the way the wind flipped her hair about. She blushed under that daunting gaze, her light skin gave her emotions away almost as much as the swirling winds did. She pushed her hair behind her ear, attempting to tame at least that much. She could call the wind when she needed to but when it was in a playful mood it rarely heeded her call to stop.
“General Solan.” Eben’s voice seemed to echo with the push of magic he sent toward the general. Even Melly could feel it from where she stood, but the Dragon General seemed intent on ignoring the call, and Eben Kinkaid was not a man used to being ignored, most definitely not in his own home.
Danger. Melly heard the whisper on the wind and tilted her head automatically to hear it better. The General followed the movement like the predator he was. She licked her lips and his pupils seemed to snap and flicker. Eben Kinkaid saw all of it, and from the way the room heated around her, he did not care for the General’s fixed stare. She needed to act fast or bad things would happen.
“You are the General Solan who stood with my sister against the council?” Her voice was breathy, despite every attempt to sound sure of herself.
“I am.” His voice was like the obsidian his dragon resembled. Hard with sharp edges. But he was making an effort, she thought, to soften it for her sake.
“You helped to destroy the Blood Mages, and my sister tells me that you have always treated her with respect when she came before the council.”
“Yes.”
“Thank you for that, and I am sorry for throwing you against the wall. I was startled by the appearance of a strange dragon warrior in my room.”
He bowed his head with the smallest nod of respect. “It was a most impressive display.”
She smiled, aware that sometime during their talk Eben had lost his battle ready aggression and General Solan Fire-Eater had locked down whatever predatory instinct he had been fighting. “As was your Dragon. Should I ever have a real enemy to fight and not just nightmares, I have no doubt the sight of General Solan Fire-Eater and Eben Kinkaid bursting in will scare them away most hurriedly.”
“Should there ever be a true enemy to vanquish my lady, I have no doubt we will find him far afield, swirling amongst the trees with a sore head.”
That made her laugh, and the wind danced across the drapes as if it liked the sound. Who would have thought General Solan Fire-Eater had a sense of humor?
Not Eben Kinkaid apparently, because he was staring at the General like he had never seen him before. “Perhaps, if there is no danger, we can retire to the war room and finish out discussion.” He turned to Melly and his voice softened. “Should I awaken my mate and send her to you?”
“No!” It burst out of too quickly, so she pressed her lips together, then tried again in a calm voice. “I would prefer not to worry my sister over such a small thing, and I am not a child in need of coddling.”
He bowed his head in acknowledgment and then turned to lead the General from the room.
General Solan hesitated, then seeming to come to a decision stepped forward and bowed low before Melisande. “Should you ever have need, milady, you may call on me. I would sacrifice much to see you safe and without nightmares to wake you screaming.”
Melisande opened her mouth to speak with no idea what to say to that, but he was already striding with purpose from the room.
She snapped her mouth closed and looked from the empty doorway to Eben Kinkaid. Who frowned and watched the big man walk out, before shaking his head. Finally, he turned to nod respectfully at Melisande and followed.
When the door closed behind them Melly dropped down with a plop to sit on the bed. The wind swirled in great eddies around her, seeming in a frenzy. “I know. I was scared as well. He is quite the most formidable dragon.”
Strangely enough there were no more nightmares after that. Only dreams of dark nights and silver starlight on ice.

The first book in the series is already out to buy. This one, the second, will be available April, 2014

New Book is Out!

Beatrice and Douglas is now available on Amazon Kindle for purchase. Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HYO0CEE

This is a Contemporary Romance with humor and steamy sex scenes.

I hope you enjoy it and I would love to hear your comments. Either here or on twitter @kellylucille1

Happy Reading,
Kelly Lucille

The beauty of it.

Today is a good day.  I just received back my book from the editor -a day early! 

That makes me extremely happy because it is now being gone over at Amazon, and it should be up for sale tomorrow.

And I swear, I made no changes that will result in a typo that  the editor is no longer around to catch.  Really!

Now please be aware there is no shapeshifting of any kind, nor magic, nor mayhem.  Well... maybe a little mayhem.  She's got a bit of a temper, and he likes to poke at it.

This book is straight romance, that I hope will make you laugh and forget about your problems for a bit. 

 I know when I was done with it I was smiling and thinking: "I want one."