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I'm over at Sweet'n'Sexy Divas continuing my discussion of my move and the changes I going to make. Stop on by and see how I plan to use these changes to move my writing forward.
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I'm over at BTS eMag Blog talking about inspiration and where to find it. Especially the most common place for me, submission calls.
For those of you who have read about my inspirations know how much love/hate a submission call. They always call to me, even when I'm in the middle of something else. My brain also loves to make the connections and come up with the story with barely enough time to write it before the call (maybe I subconciously love working under a strick deadline). Stop on by the blog to find out what works were inspired by a submission call, and how this inspiration has pushed me tell bigger stories then I ever intended. http://btsemag.com/inspiration-by-willa-edwards/ I made a hint a month ago that Valentine Next Door wouldn't be my last foray into holiday stories (I don't know that I'll ever be completely done having some holiday fun). The reason I made that remark was because of this story, that I was revising at that moment.
Today I submitted Owned for Christmas to my publisher.That's right, I was inspired by Christmas again. Earlier this year I found a submission request for Christmas themed stories. I read it, because it was on the list and why not, but I wasn't going to write another Christmas story again (famous last words, I know). But for whatever reason these characters immediately formed in my mind, and my heart instantly broke for Kate. Trapped between two brothers. Wanting both of them but afraid to jeopardize her relationship with one to reach for the other. She just wouldn't let me go. And neither would Grant (which is fine with me, as long as he keeps the whip away from me). Here's a rough blurb of the story. Kate Baker thought she was nervous to meet her boyfriend Daniel Farrell’s family over the holidays before. That is until she walked into the kitchen to find Grant, her former Dom, standing at the counter. A year ago Grant left her with only a note, shattering her heart and breaking her trust with the whole BDSM scene. Daniel helped her mend her broken heart, and she won’t give him up. Even if she has to bury the submissive part of herself to do it. Grant Farrell left the woman he loved to come home and tend the family ranch after his father died. It almost tore his heart out but he had no other choice. That is, until Kate walked into his family home, on his brother’s arm. Kate awakens his every dark and dominate trait. Now more than ever, he’s determined to keep her in his life, even if he has to share her to do it. But half measures won’t be enough anymore. He either needs to own her completely, or give her up to Daniel for good. Can he convince Kate to forgive him for the pain he caused and trust him again? Or will he lose her to his brother forever for his past mistakes? While this story is still Christmas themed, its very different than Naughty List. I think it shows how I've grown and changed as a writer these last four years. And I hope my editor and readers love these characters as much as I do. Only time will tell. My fingers are crossed. I'm over at Sweet'n'Sexy Divas today talking about my summer plans, and how I plan to beat the summer slump in my writing. Stop by, let me know what your summer plans are and if you have any goals you want to accomplish this summer.
http://sweetnsexydivas.blogspot.com/2014/06/summer-lovin.html I'm so excited. Siren had decided to release the second half of my Naughty Holiday List series in paperback. Foolish Desire and Dirty Work will be published together in paperback. This compilation will be available at both Amazon and Barnes and Noble very soon. Though I know the future of publishing is ebooks, there's still something awesome about having a book in my hands. And there are people out there that still only read print books. Its nice to be able to offer my work to everyone. I'll post the links to this print compilation once they are available. I know it’s late but I wanted to let you all know how my December close out plan ended. Unfortunately I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked. Due to a few factors, including family commitments, a funk and the flu. You know, the three Fs. J
I did manager to fix up and submit a short story, Jack the Bodice Ripper. I spent some of my December time, that I had set aside of new works, editing that story and working with the publisher to get it ready for release in less than a month. A feat impossible with most publishers, which is one of the reasons I love Romance Divine. I announced the release a few weeks ago on this blog, though it was in the middle of my flu ridden haze, so I wasn’t capable of much more. It was definitely time well spent, though it cut into my other plans. I also revised Valentine Next Door and submitted it to Totally Bound. They accepted it this week. I don’t know yet when it will be released, I’ll let you all know as soon as I have more information, but I’m happy dancing all over the place about this one. I can’t wait to see how people react to Miranda and Jeremy. I know I love them, and I hope other people will too. I’ve also been working hard to finish Second Chance at a Cheerleader. I’ve added another 5,000 words, putting me well above my original goal for the story. And I still have another 10,000 words or so to finish the book. And the last bit is usually the hardest for me to write. I’m hoping to finish the first draft this month. I have so many great Snowedin Stories I want to tell, but I need to complete this one to move on to the others. Not to mention any of the other stories I running around in my head. As for New Year resolutions. Unlike some previous years, I’m not going to set any goals for myself as far as numbers. I have way too much going on this year and I don’t know yet what I’ll be capable of handling. But I do want to focus on writing as well as I can and finishing as many works as possible in my limited time. I need to get as many of the characters running through my head down on paper as I can. Not to mention bring more reading material for all you fantastic readers. Other than that, I just want to keep moving forward. I have a lot to accomplish in 2014 personally, and I want to get better at just taking everything one moment at a time, one task at a time, and one red hot romance at a time. Today my newest short story is released, Jack the Bodice Ripper. Inspired by one of my favorite places on earth, London. I spent a semester abroad there while in school and absolutely loved all of England, and especially London. This story tells the tale of a young woman hunted down in the streets of London by a sexy imposing rake. But this Jack doesn't want to rip out her heart, he wants to rip off her clothes and have his wicked way with her. The book is available both in electronic form and in audio, narrated by the amazing Kellie Kamryn. I hope you'll take a look! It’s that time of year again. No not Christmas time. It’s December close out time.
I’ve been having a relaxing week. After I finished nano I tried to write some more and keep up the pace, but between all the Thanksgiving stuff and then going back to work after having a week off, it was just too hard. But now, I’ve had a week to rest up and think about what I want to do, and I’m ready to start moving forward on my December close out plan. This year I had a really hard time figuring out what to take care of during my December close out plan. Not only will I not get as much time of this year as years past, due to my change in employer, but I also don’t feel like I have a lot of works that are close to finish. After Nanowrimo I feel as though I have a bunch of works started but nothing close enough to completion to finish it this month. It took some real searching and thinking to figure out what I wanted to focus on this month. But I hope, now that I’ve figure out what I want to focus on, I should be able to complete my goals. My first goal is to revise and resubmit Valentine Next Door. I received a few comments on it from my editor, of what I need to improve and I want to make those changes and send it back. My second goal is to finish Second Chance at a Cheerleader. I’ve been working on this story since February or March, way too long, though I did have several long breaks in between that time. Either way, I really want to get this story finished, so I can give it a little while to sit before revisions. Even though its currently 41k and my goal was 45k, I believe it will probably take more than 4k to finish it (I still have two whole sex scenes to write). It will probably be closer to 60k. And the closer I get to the end the harder it is to write. This will by far be my hardest goal. My third goal is to write and submit a short story I’ve had in mind for some time, a sequel to Serving Madame. It will be another quick hot work, of Ada and her Madame, with maybe a little help from someone else. And if I have any time left, I’d like to try and finish up a new ménage I started during Nanowrimo, right now entitled Home for the Holidays, though I might change the title later. I don’t plan to sub it for several months, but it would be a nice change of pace to actually write a holiday story during that actual holiday time, instead of months ahead of time like I usually have to. I’d also love to finish the bathroom painting project I started during labor day (to be fair I finished the walls, I just have trim to do) and get started on some of my other house projects to get my place ready to go on the market next year. It definitively sounds like a lot. I better get started right away. Anybody else have any goals for this December? Anything you want to finish up before the New Year starts? I just officially validated my novel, and I am a nanowrimo winner. My total word count as of right now is 50343, and I still have a whole day left. I intend to continue and try to get as many as possible for the month of November, but its nice to officially hit my number and know that I have won. This month has been very productive, even though I didn't write one novel like you're supposed to for nanowrimo. Not only did I get more than 50k of new words, I started and finished one entire story (still untitled, and below titled as Army Menage). Before I was done with the story, I had an idea of two or maybe three other stories that would go with this one in a series. Unlike some of my other series, this one (which I've labeled Protective Patriots) all the stories intersect in a few key spots, so I intend to write them all at the same time, so I can get all the details right, and hopefully they will all be publish around the same time too. I also managed to write another 12,000 words on a current story Second Chance at a Cheerleader (bringing the total word count over 40k, which is a long work for me). There's still more writing to do on that story, but 12k is good progress for one month, and also this month I figured out some other scenes that need to go into that work to finish the character arc for Lanie, which definitely inches me closer to that finish line. I'm going to continue to write all I can for the next day, but I also need to start thinking about what I want to spend December on for my December close out plan. Unlike some years, I don't have as many partial projects hanging around, but I definitely want to get something headed to the publishers to start the year off right. Current Nanowrimo Word Count: 50,343 Second Chance at a Cheerleader - 12,334 Army Menage 1 -25,836 (Completed) Army Menage 2 - 1,341 Army Menage 3 - 3,729 Home for the Holidays - 7,103 I had an awesome day of writing on Sunday. I finally gave into the shiny new idea that’s been playing with me for some time. It’s a, so far, unnamed ménage of two army rangers, home on leave, and the woman they’ve loved and protected for years. It will probably be short, I’m thinking 20k or maybe 30k, but like all my ideas it’s slowly growing into another series. I have a few other ideas of some hot army rangers, but they may just be their own stories and not a series. I’ll have to write this one and see how it goes.
I stuck to my rules on Sunday, and wrote my first 1800 or so words on an older work in progress, and then moved on to the shiny new idea. Between the two I was able to get 3568 words for the day. And I managed to get in an hour of kickboxing once I meet my goal. Day four wasn’t as good. Monday’s are hard for me any week, but banging out almost four thousand words the night before didn’t help. I was tired, sore from my work out, and I’d already agreed to spend the day in the field for work, a.k.a. spending the day not at my computer with the opportunity to get a few words down between meetings. But I still managed to write 1121 words. Not my full word count goal for the day, but not bad. I did however, have to abandon my rules to get them. A lot of these words are on my new work. But since I wasn’t sure if I could even get a hundred words with how tired I felt, I think getting more than a thousand is worth a little rule breaking. That’s my favorite part about Nanowrimo, how it pushes you to do more than you think you can. It pushes you to make time, focus and encourages you to put your writing before everything else. I couldn’t do it every month, but I’m happy to do it for one a year. Total Nanowrimo Word Count: Second Chance at a Cheerleader – 6364 Army Ménage - 2261 |
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