Two books in the making

I’m supposed to be doing these every Sunday, but I keep forgetting. :P

So I just went on Smashwords and found out that they uploaded the wrong document for one of my books. And no, I’m not just blaming them because I was an idiot. I actually looked the book over after it was done converting to make sure none of the formatting got messed up so I know it was the right book.

I don’t know how or when it happened, or why, but if anyone downloaded a 20K book and got a 118K book, it’s been fixed now so you can go download it again (It’s free). And if anyone actually read all of the 118K, leave me feedback! XD

And yes, I checked the formatting again so it is the right book.

Anyway, I’m writing a romance, two actually. This, after I said, vehemently, how I dislike romances. But I was talking it over with my mom and I decided: I’m going to write a romance and break all the romance tropes! Just because I can! (This is why I have to self publish. XD)

One is a gay romance, which needs a massive name change, but I can’t come up with anything.
:’< The character interactions just didn’t work, or feel right, when one of the characters was a girl, so I said F it; I’ll make them gay. Well, one of them is gay, the other is demisexual. There’s no lust at first sight, at least not for both characters.

Michael, the human, finds himself almost instantly attracted, though he’s in denial at first. It starts out with; ‘Oh wow; he’s cute.’ Then moves into heavier attraction the more time they spend together until Michael actually starts becoming attached and liking Valerian.

Valerian, the vampire, has no attraction until around the middle of the book, then he moves into denial, then he realizes he enjoys Michael’s company, then it moves into physical attraction. Look at that character development.

LIKE REAL LIFE!!!!!

If you can’t tell, Val’s the demisexual and Mike’s the gay. In case it wasn’t obvious. But this book is probably gonna remain PG13, and there will be no sheet warming within three days of knowing each other. No ‘Oh my God; I have to have them, right now! Even though I’ve only known them for 3.5 seconds.’ That’s so unrealistic. Unless you’re Calypso; she’s a succubus. But sex is kind of her food supply, so.

Well, it’s a fantasy. (Obviously.) I don’t like reading books that are set in reality with no fantasy, or supernatural, or sci-fi elements. Just average people doing average things. Reality blows, and it’s boring. Why write about it?

So Val is part of a secret society, they call themselves zelan, but we usually refer to them as monsters. Like vampires, werewolves, a succubus who likes to meddle in love lives, I have a banshee who’s a detective, a harpy, also a detective, a ghoul who plays medical examiner/crime scene investigator, a werecat; she’s a leopard, who’s a crime scene investigator/detective, a selkie playing IT guy, and a gorgon as the Precinct Chief. It’s an exciting group.

Before humans started developing technology like photography or fingerprinting, when it was harder to solve crimes but easier to remain hidden, Val was actually what was referred to as a hunter. Meaning he hunted down the creatures who broke zelan law, their main one being no feeding on humans. His team played judge, jury, and executioner. Of course, being able to sniff out the culprit made IDing them easier.

But once humans started evolving and began being able to document them much easier; no more ‘I saw this’ now it’s ‘Look at this photo!’ they had to adapt. So the council created Precincts modeled after the human law enforcement agencies, which let them blend while still keeping their own society in check.

They investigate supernatural crimes, meaning crimes committed by supernatural creatures. Humans don’t know about them so they try to keep interactions to a minimum. Until a lawyer is murdered by some kind of supernatural creature, and one of the detectives, Michael, that gets called to the scene, ends up getting involved.

So Michael and Valerian’s romance slowly buds while they try to solve the case and keep deaths to a minimum.

My second book I’m working on is a straight suspenseful erotica with romantic elements, though there’s no happy ending. It’s set in the 1980s and Wendy meets a mysterious, handsome man at an orchestra that she can only see once a month, and at night, on the dark moon, that eventually whisks her off her feet to go live in a remote castle. Can’t say too much without giving the story away.

This one will have the ‘Take me, now! Even though we’ve only known each other for 2.8 seconds!’ But without it the story wouldn’t move along. So I’ll have to suck it up and write it. And it fits my character because she’s lonely and desperate and it’s 1980; if you don’t have a man it’s because there’s something wrong with you. Or is that meant for present day?

I certainly have more than enough people telling me there’s something wrong with me because I choose to be and remain single. Well, if they don’t like it maybe they should quit bringing it up. :P I’m definitely not changing who I am to fit someone else’s or society’s mold. How about society mold around me for a change.

Moving past my rant; this one is going to need a sequel, the ending is a cliffhanger. I can’t decide if I should put it up or wait until the sequel is written. Or just put a warning label: ENDING WILL LEAVE YOU UNSATISFIED, IF NOT YOUR THING WAIT FOR SEQUEL!!

This is why I’ve been neglecting Goodreads, besides video games; video games got me too. And I had an injury in the family and a death, so that pulled me away. Things have calmed now, though, so I should be more interactive. For, like, the very small amount of people who actually read this.

My wise, inspiring words are for you.