Tag: wip

June 2

My Mary-Sue muse has stopped chasing the other muses/plot bunnies away. I’m done with the WIP I’ve been working on. It ends rather abruptly but that’s the way the muse left it. I sent it out to my publishing coordinator and see if she’ll pub it. I’m not touching it again. It consumed me for months a trickle at a time. And I don’t know why cause it was just a little snippet of a dream I had years ago. But the muse wanted it done. But on her terms.

Maybe it was taking up valuable real estate in my mind that needed to be cleared out. I don’t know. Anyway it’s done now and I’m moving on finally.

My next two WIPs are novella 3 of Elemental Voice companion series and one of the dragon fantasy Fallborn books. I hope to get at least one of them out before September. The other I hope by November.

Read this month’s book club book and did the review. It was a Christian romance. I usually don’t read them cause some get real preachy but this one was fair. Only got a little preachy towards the end but still was a good clean book. She had changed the title but I prefer the older title. I think the older title suits the book better. But the new title does grab attention.

I ordered and got a few books for inventory. I was out of a couple. Since they are older I didn’t get many. I’m hoping to get my WIPs out and ordered before Hootin An Hollarin so I have new books to sell. That’s the thing about writing you always have to have new inventory to put out or you don’t sell as well.

Gonna relax tonight, watch a DVD. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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May 2025

Almost half way through the year. April indeed was wet but the flowers have already bloomed and some have come and gone.

We’ve been sitting outside on the porch in the evenings for a bit and doing odd ‘projects’ here and there before dark. Now that it doesn’t get dark until after 8p.m. The ferals have been hanging around napping while we sit on the porch and some of the females seem to have had their kittens. Now that it’s warm the cats don’t eat as much. There’s leftovers after they go through and I’ve cut down to 3 feedings a day.

Time to start reading the next book club book. The other members read mine and gave me fair reviews. I can’t afford an editor and I usually go for a proofreader but sometimes even they miss things. However I think I didn’t have either for Bone, just spellchecker. So I agree about the grammar errors. When I read a book if I get immersed in it I don’t even see the typos.

I have not finished my main WIP. My muse is adding things in, fleshing out some more. It’s gonna be published this month one way or another. I have two novellas I want to get out by September. This WIP is a little different than my other books. Probably why my muse is being so fickle with it.

I have an in-person event this first Saturday of the month at Hardenville, MO. Triple Treasures Market Place. I also signed up for Hootin An Hollarin at Gainesville, MO in the third week of September. These are probably the only 2 I will be going to as funds are short. Unless I get a lot of sales this month. And I do mean a lot. šŸ™‚

I have picked a cover to do this month. The cover for book 3 of the Bone Whisperer series. That is if I can. Money isn’t a sure thing right now.

The clock says it’s lunchtime and so does my stomach. Stay tune for the next installment.

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February 2025

It’s my birth month already. Seems like 2024 just zoomed right on by. But I’m havin’ the feeling these next few years are going to seem endless. I just hope we see the other end.

My muse jumped ship again. She’s working on a WIP that’s way down the list like the Fallborn story. She’s just hopping around right now. I will get one of my WIPs done by April’s deadline. But which one? I don’t know. I have 5 of them open, two of which are novellas. So one will be finished by the deadline.

The five are by the way The Dragon Mistress–a Fallborn book, Deadly Sea–Elemental Voice Companion book, Remnant–book 3 of Ghostwolf, Blood Singer–a werewolf clan book, and A Field of Bones–book 2 of Bone Whisperer. Sea, Remnant, and Field are in the top five of my queue but Singer and Mistress were in the bottom ranks. However my muse decided it wanted to work on them soo…

The werewolf clan books by the way are stand-alones like the Fallborn but set in the same place with some of the same people showing up. They are way down the list below the Fallborn books. They are not related to the Ghostwolf books at all. Completely different ‘universe’.

I plan to do at least one cover this month. I just have to decide which one. It will be one of the WIPs I have open I’m sure. Only two of them have covers so I have 3 to chose from. Better than randomly choosing one from the queue.

The younger ferals don’t like the rain we’ve been having, and they definitely didn’t like the snow we had last month. But the older ones were blahzy about the snow, however they don’t like the rain either. I don’t blame them about the rain as it messes up their fur. The snow though that was funny watching the younger ones. The looks they had and the way they pawed around trying not to sink. Hillarious. By the way we only had six inches so no hazard to them.

Iā€™m still looking for vampire names. I have 2 novellas and 1 main book to get out in the Elemental Voice serieses. The Wedding is coming up soon and we will meet and greet a number of Orro clan vampires. So if you want to name a vampire leave a comment, email, dm, whatever. Names always give me trouble. Some of my characters come with names and full personalities, but others have no names and just a basic personality until I figure out the name, then Bam…Suddenly everything comes together on that character.

Just drank the last bit of tea. I got a bit more to do online then I’ll eat lunch. Stay tuned for the next installment.

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