What's next?
I'm having one of those awesome days where I have several great ideas competing for space in my head, and every song on the radio seems to apply to at least one of them, and I know I have a long night ahead of me where no matter what I write I'm going to have fun.
Where Stolen has a transitional, wait-and-see sort of vibe, Chosen is shaping up to be really ka-pow!, with lots of revelations and lots of movement. A few characters that weren't completely fleshed out in Stolen (because we just didn't see them much) are really owning it in Chosen. Meredith and a certain someone see each other again and... Edan, who we hardly saw in Stolen, is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. Someone else thinks so, too... ;) And Julia and Cayne are firmly together - working some things out, but still an item, back to their Stained-era fun. Well...would be fun, if it weren't for...these people trying to Julia-nap Julia, and those people who want to have her killed... And, of course, that certain affliction that will make no sense to you if you haven't finished Stolen.
If things go as planned, this book will be out at the beginning or in the middle of June with (fingers crossed!) none of the madness that accompanied the Stolen release. I should be finished writing it in two, two and a half more weeks... My husband will give it a quick edit, and while he does, I can be first-drafting something else.
HERE book two? The U-PLOT-IT, featuring our girl Alana and Sebastian and Darian, shapeshifting on the Isle of Skye in Scotland? (OMG, that book is going to rock my socks off - there is a good romance there, people. Really good). Or maybe Azalea. Yep, Azalea. Futuristic/Speculative YA romance, probably the most badass item in my paper-and-ink arsenal. Azalea and the Makers of Zen has been plotted since 2006... It's very personal to me (though not at all autobiographical, for reasons which will later be obvious) and I've been putting off writing it because I was (at one time) worried my writing wouldn't be good enough for the rockin' plot. Which, BTW, came to me in a dream. Not even kidding. And also, BTW, by rockin' I mean it features Elvis. As a main character. Kind of. Depending on what you think constitutes a person. :) :) :) Confused yet? MUHAHAHA.
Speaking of the HERE sequel, you guys do remember I wrote a YA sci-fi romance called HERE, right? Where is the love for HERE?! My other books are getting some lovin' and poor HERE is all but forgotten. True I haven't PR'd it in, say, a month or more. True I'm intentionally not mentioning it *much* until the sequel is out... but it's still here, people! It happens to be my favorite of my books, and it's in first person. Classic first person. First person past. So if you hate first person present tense, you don't have to worry! :) (Why is it that people hate first person present? I really like it. Maybe the haters only hate poorly done FPP... Hmm.)
Well, regardless of what comes when, I'm hoping to have Chosen, HERE #2, Azalea & the Makers of Zen, Over the Moon (super-long, adult follow up to Before You Go), and the Skye shapeshifter project out before the end of the summer. If summer ends in late August. Which, as I recall, it doesn't anymore. Kids are going back to school in early August now, aren't they? Gah, I'm so old I don't even know. But I wish I did. Summer break, anyone? Mmm.
Okay, well, that's it for now. I'll keep you posted.
Also, I'm setting up a blog tour, so if you have a blog and would kindly feature a snippet, contest, Q&A, or review of one of my books, please let me know! ella_f_james@ymail.com
xx
Where Stolen has a transitional, wait-and-see sort of vibe, Chosen is shaping up to be really ka-pow!, with lots of revelations and lots of movement. A few characters that weren't completely fleshed out in Stolen (because we just didn't see them much) are really owning it in Chosen. Meredith and a certain someone see each other again and... Edan, who we hardly saw in Stolen, is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. Someone else thinks so, too... ;) And Julia and Cayne are firmly together - working some things out, but still an item, back to their Stained-era fun. Well...would be fun, if it weren't for...these people trying to Julia-nap Julia, and those people who want to have her killed... And, of course, that certain affliction that will make no sense to you if you haven't finished Stolen.
If things go as planned, this book will be out at the beginning or in the middle of June with (fingers crossed!) none of the madness that accompanied the Stolen release. I should be finished writing it in two, two and a half more weeks... My husband will give it a quick edit, and while he does, I can be first-drafting something else.
HERE book two? The U-PLOT-IT, featuring our girl Alana and Sebastian and Darian, shapeshifting on the Isle of Skye in Scotland? (OMG, that book is going to rock my socks off - there is a good romance there, people. Really good). Or maybe Azalea. Yep, Azalea. Futuristic/Speculative YA romance, probably the most badass item in my paper-and-ink arsenal. Azalea and the Makers of Zen has been plotted since 2006... It's very personal to me (though not at all autobiographical, for reasons which will later be obvious) and I've been putting off writing it because I was (at one time) worried my writing wouldn't be good enough for the rockin' plot. Which, BTW, came to me in a dream. Not even kidding. And also, BTW, by rockin' I mean it features Elvis. As a main character. Kind of. Depending on what you think constitutes a person. :) :) :) Confused yet? MUHAHAHA.
Speaking of the HERE sequel, you guys do remember I wrote a YA sci-fi romance called HERE, right? Where is the love for HERE?! My other books are getting some lovin' and poor HERE is all but forgotten. True I haven't PR'd it in, say, a month or more. True I'm intentionally not mentioning it *much* until the sequel is out... but it's still here, people! It happens to be my favorite of my books, and it's in first person. Classic first person. First person past. So if you hate first person present tense, you don't have to worry! :) (Why is it that people hate first person present? I really like it. Maybe the haters only hate poorly done FPP... Hmm.)
Well, regardless of what comes when, I'm hoping to have Chosen, HERE #2, Azalea & the Makers of Zen, Over the Moon (super-long, adult follow up to Before You Go), and the Skye shapeshifter project out before the end of the summer. If summer ends in late August. Which, as I recall, it doesn't anymore. Kids are going back to school in early August now, aren't they? Gah, I'm so old I don't even know. But I wish I did. Summer break, anyone? Mmm.
Okay, well, that's it for now. I'll keep you posted.
Also, I'm setting up a blog tour, so if you have a blog and would kindly feature a snippet, contest, Q&A, or review of one of my books, please let me know! ella_f_james@ymail.com
xx
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