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Hi Everyone,I'm working on my blog www.simplestoriesoflove.com and am actually looking for people to interview regarding their simple stories of love. It can be a person, animal, place, thing or experience. Would love to hear from any of the authors in here. Just reply, and I'll get your email and contact you directly....or go to my blog and contact me through that....
Cheers,
Jill
I'm editing Fractured Dream, Book 2 of my Draconia series. At the same time, I'm writing Book 3, Rehatching. I'm working on a dragon battle sequence at the moment.
Am currently working on the next book in the second title in the dark and occult 'Trinity Chronicles' series. Currently I'm offering a free 'beta' giveaway/download of the first part of the novel, right here:
http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/ven...
Also, finishing off the first part of 'The Wish & the Will'. This is a fantasy/steampunk/science fiction adventure stories, featuring the exploits of a rag-tag group of heroes on the strange world of Mythnagar, set against a cosmic background of epic proportions.
Some pre-release preview samples and background info on this series is currently online, here at my writer's blog page:
http://fenriswulf-books.blogspot.com/...
http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/ven...
Also, finishing off the first part of 'The Wish & the Will'. This is a fantasy/steampunk/science fiction adventure stories, featuring the exploits of a rag-tag group of heroes on the strange world of Mythnagar, set against a cosmic background of epic proportions.
Some pre-release preview samples and background info on this series is currently online, here at my writer's blog page:
http://fenriswulf-books.blogspot.com/...
I am working on the second book in the Women of Prayer series. As of now, untitled, but going smoothly. This is a stand alone novel, as is my first novel, Until Forever. I am also enjoying writing posts for my blog. You can visit my blog at www.darleneshortridge.blogspot.com/ And my website is www.darleneshortridge.com.
Working on the third book in the Artemis Lupine Series, Healed by Fire. The first two are selling really well, in fact I just found out that I sold 407 copies of my first novel in ONE DAY!
Dear Darlene,I have written two non-fiction books on prayer: When God Speaks, 40 days of His Promises and my newest Letters to God on A Prodigal Son. You can check out a preview of Letters on this link and tell me what you think. https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1... . If you would like I would add you to my web=site www.anitaestes.com. I'm looking for authors.
Darlene wrote: "I am working on the second book in the Women of Prayer series. As of now, untitled, but going smoothly. This is a stand alone novel, as is my first novel, Until Forever. I am also enjoying writi..."
Anita wrote: "Dear Darlene,I have written two non-fiction books on prayer: When God Speaks, 40 days of His Promises and my newest Letters to God on A Prodigal Son. You can check out a preview of Letters on thi..."
Right now, I'm focusing on a SF short story, "In Memory" (working title), about an Earth ship during a war with the lizard-like Norseen, and the Earth ship encounters a disabled ship with two Norseen aboard. Two Norseen who happen to be fleeing their war-like society.
I have put my original story line aside to work on later this year and started a new project. I've named it 'Wolf Trade' and have only done 2 chapters so far, but am really loving it. Here is a rough blurb for you so far:For the past 5 years women have been disappearing mysteriously from nightclubs across the country, no witnesses, not clues, no set pattern. Normally the FBI would take this case, but the underworld law enforcement believe it is connected to their world. Agent Dru Peters and Akim Jackson are dumped with the case, three years of frustration and sleepless nights.
Sasha Benson's life will never be the same again. Waking in a cemented cell, aches and pains racking her body she discovers she has been captured for blood and sex trade. What's worse is she has been changed, her capturer's transforming her into a werewolf. The elite rich Vampire patrons will pay big bucks for the werewolf blood, a delicasee in their society. Will her and the other girls be found and rescued? Will she ever have a normal life again?
A choppy blurb but it gives you the basics. This is definitely not a YA, some mild violence and still considering how far to explain the sex scenes. Hard to know sometimes whether to jump in the deep end and go all on out or hold back a little. :)
Obviously only in the early stages of this one, and is only the second book I have ever attempted to write. Yes, as Dani knows I am new to this sort of stuff. But we all have to start somewhere hey? :)
I swear I am getting so excited about IN THE NEON Dani. I can tell this book is going to be epic!!!! Good luck with the release girl. :D
I am working on my very first book called Taking Flight. There's a contest I recently discovered that I'm itching to enter it in. Maybe I can work a miracle and have it done by the deadline, March 18th. Yikes!
Cheyenne wrote: "I am working on my very first book called Taking Flight. There's a contest I recently discovered that I'm itching to enter it in. Maybe I can work a miracle and have it done by the deadline, March ..."Ohhh, sounds like you need lots of luck. LUCK LUCK LUCK LUCK. LOL. Hope you make it in time. :)
Yeah me too, I'm working on it right now and I'm currently writing a bit of a chilling scene and I'm kind of creeping myself out LOL
Re-writing my second book. Even though I have two editors looking at it, I am re-writing anyway. Caring for Eleanor is the name of my second novel. Same heroine but going backwards in her life.
A couple of days ago, I completed the final chapters of my book - a memoir called THE READING LIST dealing with my defection from the Ivory Tower - and sent it off to my publisher. Now, I must confess, I'm feeling rather blue..... All the characters I've been communing with in my head these past several months have suddenly vanished. I would like to get back into another writing project, which I put on the back burner while finishing my memoir. This book is a historical novel dealing with my grandmother's coming of age in a desert camp during the Japanese-American Internment. Perhaps I will start reading Jane Smiley's Private Life, a WW2 historical novel that I've been wanting to read for some time, for inspiration.
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I am working on editing my proof copy of Letters to God on a Prodigal Son. You can check out the first chapter at https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1...
Working on a gay romance novella set in St. Augustine involving a ghost hunter and a ghost. It would be the second in a series. The first is under consideration with a publisher.
I'm working on my second novel "Darkness of Perfection" which is due out this summer.
I'm finishing up the first book of a series called The Nephilim Wars: Dark Days.Description: Roxanne Bryant always knew she was different, never really belonged, but no one could answer the enigma of who and what she really is. Her mother, the one person who probably could have answered her questions, abandoned her on a stranger’s door step when she was just a new born. Relationships with people are nearly none existent for Roxanne thanks to the curse she’s lived with nearly all her life. She can’t look into someone’s eyes or touch their skin without seeing the things they have done and the things they will do. Most people are horrific in Roxanne’s opinion so she keeps her head down and her hands to herself and secludes herself from the world she has never felt a part of. All of that soon changes after a close encounter with beings that are even faster and stronger than she is, with strange abilities of their own. She’s rescued in the nick of time and taken into the fold with others like her; other nephilim that call themselves Makarians. Quickly Roxanne is catapulted into the thick of a war between the two nephilim races; the Makarians and the Shaitans, who have been fighting over the human race since the beginning of their existence. The Makarians have proclaimed themselves good and the protectors of mankind while the Shaitans; their evil counterparts, devote themselves to killing and savaging the world. Roxanne doesn’t care about war or anyone else’s agenda for that matter, but the Lord of the Shaitans has locked his gaze on her and desperately wants her for some reason she can’t imagine. Roxanne is determined to find the Shaitan Lord and kill him before he finds her. The deeper Roxanne gets sucked in the more she realizes nothing is quite as it seems.
If you want to check out the first chapter: http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...
I'm working on The Rebels. It's a sequel to The Empire which explored the workings of a world moving towards a totalitarian form of govt. The Rebels takes the main characters to the other side of the equation and explores the world of those who oppose them.
As you know I'm finished up Slade's Destiny for release but I've also recently started work on a new novel, completely different from anything I've written before but I'm absolutely loving this. Won't say too much yet except that the words are flowing almost faster than I can type ;)
Hi everyone. I am working on Book 2 of the Ansheniu Series entitled Darkened Sunrise. The first book, Ansheniu Rise, can be found on my website www.delectablegoodies.com It is a great series based loosely on Caribbean and African folklore. I'm more excited writing book 2 than I was writing the first one...I just love where the story is going and the characters I visualize in my imagination. Get Ansheniu Rise now and see what I'm talking about. It's a really good read.
Have a great weekend everyone!
I'm working on the final revisions of my memoir, THE READING LIST: LITERATURE, LOVE AND BACK AGAIN - I have only two weeks left before the whole thing has to be finished. Revising my first book has been a curious, somewhat stressful process. More reflections at my blog, www.the-reading-list.com
Hi fellow writers. I'm working on a new novel in the Midwestern Murders series. Just have a few chapters done, but it's moving along well. I'm also about to have my nonfiction book, How to Spot Lies Like the FBI, put out as an e-book. This one can teach you to tell when someone lies to you. It could change your life.
I am working on book two of the Mocked series "Mocked by Faith," and a few other ideas...
I'm working on a retelling of the Apache Kid legend for young adults.
Rob Kennedy here; I'm 20,000 words into my latest fiction novel, titled, A relentless Lack of Metaphor. It is loosely based on the life of multi-millionaire gambler and owner of The Museum of Old and New, David Walsh.
I'm working on the sequel to my novel, "A Touch of Deceit." I need to have final forty pages done and revised within the next 2 weeks. I realize I'm pushing it, but I know precisley where I'm going, so I just need to purge it from my mind, then edit.
Leslie wrote: "I'm working on the final revisions of my memoir, THE READING LIST: LITERATURE, LOVE AND BACK AGAIN - I have only two weeks left before the whole thing has to be finished. Revising my first book ha..."Good luck Leslie, you'll get there, keep at it.
Hey to everyone. I am currently putting the finishing touches to the second novel in the series, Prince Andy and the Misfits: Epidemic in the Dark Lands. I will be sending it off to my publisher shortly. Also, I have just finished the prologue to book three. I'm very excited about this book, because I'm introducing new characters and more mystery. I wish I could flash forward a couple of years, so that everyone could read what my brain has come up with. I shock myself sometimes. Hope everyone has a great day.
Karen
The last quarter of the school year is rapidly approaching which always keeps me busy...I don't know who enjoys summer vacation more...my students or me... but I am slowly working on my first children's Christmas story about a "moose at the manger..."
Lisa wrote: "The last quarter of the school year is rapidly approaching which always keeps me busy...I don't know who enjoys summer vacation more...my students or me... but I am slowly working on my first child..."Lisa, that sounds like it would be good. I can't wait for that one.
Karen
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I'm currently finishing up revisions on Pandora's Box, the third book in my Immortalis series. I hope to have it out in the next few months but I still have some chapters with issues, and I haven't sent the full to my beta readers yet. I'm really excited about this one (not that I don't get excited about the others) because I am introducing some really cool new characters into the mix. Also, I have a major character death that I think is going to get some interesting reactions from my readers. Book 1 Immortalis Carpe Noctem
Book 2 Hunters & Prey
Kate I can help promote your book with a blog tour. If your interested pease contact me.Mary
Thanks Mary! When the third book is ready I'll be looking at promo options. =)
I am working on a feature screenplay based on my King's X books. The script has been optioned by an independent producer formerly of the late Aaron Spelling's production company. I'm very excited to be writing this script. And maybe even more excited to get to work on the second King's X series once I finish. Although, typing this update is pretty close to procrastination. Better get back to work!
I am currently working on my second novel, THE EYE OF SALYNIN, which is a sequel to my first, DARK VENGEANCE. I hope to have it published either late this year or early 2012.
I'm editing a novel that has had enough working titles to fill the pages of another novel. The structure is complicated, but I'm sure it's not unique. The story is shaped like a loop with a tail. The loop begins at one point in time, and as it moves to the end of the loop, chapters alternate(sometimes it's a few chapters before alternating again) from that point to points in the past, not technically flashbacks. Then when the two stories merge, it goes into the tail to finish there.
As you can see, I'm having a heck of a time describing the structure clearly. I love books that take the concept of time and turn it on its head.
Does anyone know of a book with a similar structure?
Currently writing two books. Mocked by Faith the second in the Mocked by series and book one of a new series. its a supernatural romance.
Currently working on a series of short stories in a modern-day steampunk world. Working title is "The Adventures of Crackle and Bang". Some of the stories do seem to be... growing. May reach Novella length before I'm done with them.Plan is to publish them pulp style. Magazine submissions, then an anthology with a new story in print.
Doc
I'm on deadline for #3 in my Dylan Scott series of mysteries. The first, PRESUMED DEAD, was published July 2010, the second, DEAD SILENT, is coming in August. As yet, I don't have a release date for #3 which, despite being under contract and almost complete, still doesn't have a title I'm happy with.
I'm preparing for the release of the initial volume of my epic high fantasy series, entitled, Journey through the Land of Shades. I series that will pay a very oblique homage to the Arthurian legends that initially inspired my love of the genre.for those interested in learning more about the central concepts of the series, please visit my website at the following address:
http://georgestraatman.blogspot.com/
Here is an abbreviated teaser for book one of Journey through the Land of Shades...
Islena Doraux was an extraordinary woman living an ordinary life. Daughter of the Tempest…this memory whispered at the edges of her consciousness; echoes that were the stuff of legend in a dozen worlds. An ancient nemesis would reach across the boundaries of our reality and draw Islena into an antiquated world in search of the Proclamations of omnipotence and compel her on a Journey through the Land of Shades
I'm very excited to be working on the sequel to my YA urban fantasy novel, Raven. The second book in The Raven Saga is called December Moon and will be out in September 2011! Like Raven, the book is mostly set in Western Canada... among spectacular forests, lakes, mountains and the Pacific Ocean. I can't wait to get it finished!!To learn more, come and follow my blog... http://suzyturner.blogspot.com
I'm working on the fourth book in my Christian Mystery Series, The Reboot Files. It's a cozy mystery series of the adventures of a wrongly disgraced Christian reporter who is now working on a cheesy paranormal investigation show for a station called Reboot, better known for hiring the rejects of the "legitimate media" than the quality of it's programming. Really more Scooby Doo with guys in rubber masks than a thriller. Anyway for some reason this one has been a real problem child. The first complete draft did not turn out the way I expected. Even the title is changed. It started with the classy "The Ghost in the White Satin Dress" it ended up being "The Wrong Ghost". Believe me, it's appropriate. This writing thing can be a real love/hate relationship at times.
I am working on a new Novel called Fear Magnet and I have a very good feeling about it :)
I am working on my pirate book--a time travel romance. I've been wanting to do this for a long time!
currently working on a drama that follows the intimate lives of different people who got caught up in a dangerous religious cult. I've been working on it for eleven years. I think I'm done but I don't know if anyone wants to read it. Guess its not as intriguing as bisexual sex vampires.
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