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May 20, 2020
WIP Wednesday
Well, Assassins Core 4 is done and submitted. I’m working slowly on Cozy Bend 7 as I take a mini break. I’ve done five back to back so I want to clear my head a little and spend a little time with my family. Course I can’t just take time off. I’m always thinking about writing even when I’m not writing.
This week has been good so far though. A relative I haven’t seen in weeks came over to watch movies with me and since the city is partially opening up, we went out for craft supplies. It was a short trip. We aren’t ready to just spend hours languishing in a few stores like we did before.
For me, crafting consists of decorating my planner and fiddling around with a few odds and ends to make my living space colorful and attractive for me. I can’t cut a straight line for some strange reason, but that doesn’t stop me from cutting up stuff.
I’ve been considering where I’ll go from here, writing wise. I think I think I’ll stick with Assassins Core until I need a break from the world of murder. Also, I’m going to finish up this Cozy Bend book and start thinking about working on a few book in the Law and Love series. I have an idea all mapped out for a new one there, and I’m still thinking about trying to work on a cross-over involving Law and Love and Cozy Bend. Lucky won’t be the lawyer working the case though obviously.
The dynamics of the Domme/sub relationship in Cozy Bend 7 will be similar to the one in the 6. That I’m working on that now before I get edits for 6 is a plus because it will allow me to teak a few things when I get edits for that book. I’m still not far enough along with share a sneak peak, but I will share one next week.
Enjoy the rest of your week, and happy reading or relaxing.
May 13, 2020
WIP Wednesday
I'm stoked about it. I think it's a good read.
As for Assassins Core 3, I'm liking what I see, enjoying the trip. I'll start working on Cozy Bend 7 again next week. I think I have it on a good start, but I'm not sure yet. If I can't make it gel. I'll go back to Coyote Bound or start the next Assassins Core book in which I'll be veering mostly away from Tatiana and Alexi to spotlight another character's romance and mystery.
I have two characters in mind, and both will get shorter stories than these, I hope. I have so much fun with Alexi I get carried away.
Until next week...
April 29, 2020
WIP Wednesday
This week I’m still working on Assassins Core 4. I’ve already started thinking about five. Part of the storyline created here will make up five or another book.
My plan is to move from Alexi and Tatiana to other women in the series or the Assassins Trilogy. Cattail, Sax, Devin, and maybe even Nikita. I’m thinking of giving Slate her own story too. These stories will be shorter, I hope, but who can know. I already have Devin and Cattail’s stories mapped out in my mind. It’s only a matter of which comes first.
I’m also working on the next Cozy Bend Romance book too. I’m just moving slow as I get a feel for the idea and the picture I want to create. I’m going for sexy obviously, fun, and romantic. Nothing too angsty.
Assassin’s Core 4 is a lot of action, romance. I’ll probably add more once I’ve finished the first draft. Tia is changing. Her change is connected to her emotions and magic. I think it’s necessary considering I’ll connect her to another story line. And I’m trying to decide whether to kill April off. I do know the relationship between the two won’t be the same.
Alexi is dealing with Ortiz and the two are pulled into a vendetta neither knew existed. It gets bad. I’m not done yet, I still have maybe ten thousand words left. When I start editing before sending it off to the publisher, I might end up adding more.
Also, both Cozy Bend books were accepted by Evernight. I have four books slated for release in the summer and fall. The third Assassins Core book and three Cozy Bend stories.
I hope you’re all staying well and safe.
April 25, 2020
Pages And Potions
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April 15, 2020
The Madam's Criminal Intent
I have six copies of The Madam’s Criminal Intent avaiable.
WiP Wednesday
Edits for Cozy Bend 6 finished and both books submitted. Now, I’m back to working on Assassins Core 4. I got a good laugh out of part of it as I finished going over the rereads before I dived back in. I like Alexi. She’s a bit laconic, dangerous and amours. She a lot jaguar though.
I’m also working on Cozy Bend 7. It’s the story of one of the characters from Cozy Bend 6. It’ll also cover the threads of an arc I started in 5. I won’t go into here.
Assassins Core 4. I’m about 1700 words in but I’m planning to make this one only around 50,000 words as opposed to the last one. I got a bit long winded. I am finally going back to Ortiz and I’m trying something new on the antagonist. I won’t say what in case I can’t pull it off. It might take a few tries to really things nailed just right. However, I endeavor to improve.
This book also involves Ace a little more. She’s going to be working Ortiz with Alexi because Ace can’t stand what Ortiz is up to.
Here is a brief excerpt.
Alexi slipped into the reception area of her office to find her assistant Max behind his desk.
“Morning boss,” he said throwing her a look. “Got a message for ya.”
She stopped, looking down at the attractive dark-haired male whose brown eyes were like caramel. “From who?” she asked curiously.
“Guy called himself Roderigo Ruiz,” Max said. “He said his boss wants to arrange a playdate with you.”
“Ruiz?”
“Rottweiler shifter and Ortiz’s right-hand man.” He shrugged. “I came up against him a few times in the past. He’s tenacious, but nothing hard to handle.”
“And Ortiz?”
“I think he’s half wolf, but he can’t do a full shift,” he said. “That’s why he surrounds himself with those who can.”
She hadn’t known that. “So, Ortiz wants to meet or is he sending his emissary?”
“Ruiz said Ortiz wanted the meet at Baker’s Dixie Line.”
“Arrange it for—” She glanced at her watch. “Forty-five minutes from now. Tell Slate to get ready to roll and bring along a few friends.”
“I’ll call her first and then him,” he said.
“Good.”
“Your woman called down for you. She said she’s going for brunch with her cousin.”
“Fine,” Alexi said. “I’ll check up on her later. Make those calls, pretty boy.” She slipped into her office and dropped into her chair.
Alexi turned and attached the player to the tablet on her desk and downloaded the files onto it. She then opened one and looked at her device.
The files were of a location, names and pictures of girls. There was also a video included. Alexi opened the file.
It was a brief conversation between Ortiz and Austen Cooley, who was now dead. Ortiz would back Cooley in exchange for a share in the new club he and his brother had been planning to open.
Alexi had taken charge of both the unfinished club and the thriving one. She’d closed the one down for inventory and cleansing it of drugs, but she’d open it back up soon. As for the nearly finished one, she had no real use for it, but she might open it all the same.
It could be a money maker, but she was thinking of selling it.
Ortiz’s plan had been to aid Austen and his brother in gaining their freedom from Breakers as long as they allowed him to move drugs through their club as well as sex. He wanted to add a second floor for prostitution.
She smiled. Probably what he wanted to see her about. Well, fuck him. He’d gone after one of her girls. That couldn’t be allowed no matter what the girl’s connection to the agent was.
April 8, 2020
WIP Wednesday
Finished edits for Cozy Bend 5 and submitted it this morning. Now, I’m going to finish edits for Cozy Bend 6 which I’ve already started. I’ll submit that one next week. It’s longer than planned because after the first read through I saw a few places where I could expand on the story and did so.
I’ve been doing that with most of my books these days. I’m going to resume working on either Coyote Bound, Sensation 3 or Assassins core 4. I had a few problems with Assassins Core that prompted me to stop and take a look at it. I figured out what was giving me pause. I wanted to make the story focus on another member of the team and that’s just not going to happen that way. Also, I found another loose end from book 3 I had wanted to tie up too. So, I’m going back through my notes to see if I want to just change things so the book focuses on another character, Cattail, or just make the minor adjustments so the book once again makes Alexi and Tia the focus.
Until I can decide that I’ll probably work on Coyote Bound unless I continue having problems deciding on the opening. I have some pages from the last book that I cut and decided to use in Coyote Bound but I’m not sure how to start. And if I do go with Coyote Bound I’ll have to plan the next book which will focus on a different arc because 7 finishes this arc. I like that idea of going back to working with the coyotes for a while. I was thinking of doing a cross-over with the assassins.
Course if I can’t make anything gel, I’ll stick with Cozy Bend or write the next Law and Love book. I have some ideas that floating around in my head that are ready to go.
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March 30, 2020
What’s Up Monday
I hope everyone is doing well this week. With Covid-19 keeping some of us inside, it brings a bit of a challenge to those used to getting out and socializing with our friends face-to-face. I hope you’re staying safe and inside if you’re supposed to be inside.
For those of you with kids, I hope you’re finding ways to cope with them underfoot all the time. I also hope you’re having fun helping them with their schooling.
If you don’t have kids, now is a chance to relax and do a few things around the house you’ve been meaning to. I’m still working on my spring cleaning. I’m also reading more. Take care and stay safe.
March 26, 2020
Springtime Love
Today’s scene comes from the end of A Butterfly’s Fire. I took it because it really shows off some of the dangers of the ladybug shifters.
Felicia
held her hand over Somali’s chest. “The wand is around her neck and appears
embedded in her skin. We’ll have to take care in removing it.”
“I’m
just going to cut it off her,” he said. Derrick wished he was going to be
around to see the look on Peta’s face.
He’d
tied her to the table spread eagle style just as a precaution in case she woke
before they began. Her shirt had been cut open baring her golden-brown skin and
the silky scrap of fabric of her bra.
Felicia
put a hand on Somali’s stomach, and Somali made a soft sound they both ignored.
He had used a low dose sedative to keep her out just long enough to wake while
he was cutting her.
He
wanted her to feel the pain she’d put him through by not dying that night.
She’d made him wait for this, watch her grow for twenty years too many.
The
broad finger shook as it neared the glittering crystal. The titanium was what
made her so impervious and soon it would do the same for them.
“It’s
almost alive,” Felicia murmured. “This is amazing. It protects itself by
appearing to be nothing more than a tattoo.” Her fingers grazed the crystal,
and she gasped.
Somali’s
eyes opened, and the pupils glowed ruby red.
Somali
screamed, and Felicia ripped her hand away. “Let me free,” she cried. “Now,
Derrick, and I’ll give you the same favor you said you’d give me.”
“What’s
that little snot?” he sneered.
“I’ll
let you live,” she said coldly.
There
was none of the innocence in her face that had marked it all these years. Her
eyes were barely even human as they stared at him.
Across
the table, Felicia was gasping, her color coming back.
“I’ve
done my homework, Somali,” he told her as he pulled the gun from the holster at
his back. He hadn’t expected this to go smoothly because hell, it never had.
“Derrick,
don’t engage her,” Felicia snapped and picked up the knife from the table.
Derrick
snorted. He’d been prepared to blow her brains out though he knew his window
would be short to get the stones from her.
The
guardian could survive even a gunshot as the body cocooned over and began to
heal. She’d become immortal in that time. So, he’d have to take the stones as
soon as he shot her.
“Peta
will be here soon,” Somali said. “Do you really think you’ll get out of here
with the wand?”
“Peta
won’t look here, little sister.” Felicia laughed at the fear in her eyes that
turned to surprise as she raised the knife next to her. “Oh, yeah. We have the
same father.”
“He
was never my father,” Somali snipped.
“Now,”
Derrick snapped.
Felicia
drove the knife at her chest, and he aimed at Somali’s head and fired.
March 25, 2020
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