So, Summer Is For Relaxing, Right?

BuNoWriMo Logo by graphics artist, Joris Ammerlaan.

Every June, I look forward to BuNoWriMo, a month-long frenzy of writing a 50K- word novel in 30 days.  But for the past two years I’ve had it interrupted—in a good way, though, so I’m not complaining!  Last year I’d gotten about a third of the way into a superhero novella entitled NOBODY’S ANGEL, when I got hit with various things, like the art form info sheet for CRIME WAVE IN A CORSET, which was to be release during the Christmas holiday season.  As soon as I sweated bullets over the required elevator pitch (OHMYGODITWASSOOOOHARD!!!!), I then got hit with the three phases of editing—developmental edits, line edits and the copy editor’s edits.  By the time CWiaC was done to everyone’s satisfaction, June was over, and I eventually finished my BuNo project at the end of July.

The great thing about this is… I FINISHED.  In my family it’s always been a matter of finishing what you started.  And there are rewards for the determination that goes hand-in-hand with hard labor—NOBODY’S ANGEL was picked up by CarinaPress and will be published in January of 2013.

This year I started BuNoWriMo with pretty much a clean slate.  Nothing was going to hold me back.  I would DEFINITELY be able to finish a project in thirty days this time around!  Then I got SLAMMED with not just one art form sheet, but TWO.  NOBODY’S ANGEL and HOW THE GLITCH SAVED CHRISTMAS (my Sci-Fi holiday novella in Carina Press’s A GALACTIC HOLIDAY Anthology, releasing December 3, 2012).

Did I mention elevator pitches are required on these things?  They're important, because they give the cover artists a broad understanding of what your book is about.  And did I mention I HATE them?  The elevator pitches, not the cover artists.  Cover artists are cool. J

Then came the edits.  All the edits for both NOBODY’S ANGEL and the second book in the series, SAVAGE ANGEL (releasing in February, 2013 by Carina Press) landed in my inbox during the month of June.  Once again I set my BuNo project aside and focused on the job at hand, which was to polish up the projects already under contract.  As June trickled into July, I waved my dream of finishing a book in thirty days a fond farewell.

This past Friday I sent off the copy edits for SAVAGE ANGEL, and last night I completed my BuNo project entitled WOUNDED ANGEL (yeah, it’s a series ;) ).  Only twenty-two days late, but that’s no biggie, right?  Now, to set my sights on finishing up the Earth Angels series by writing a book in the month of August…

Hey, I can dream, can’t I?

So I've been Gone A While...

 

Eep!  The last time I blogged was in December?  REALLY?  Wow, Time flies when you're in the magical Writer's Cave. :/

And make no mistake, I've definitely been writing.  Want proof?  In the past six months I’ve been busily typing my fingers to the bone in order to produce four projects that… *drum roll* have gotten PUBLISHED by Harlequin’s digital-first imprint, CARINA PRESS!

The first project I’m unveiling today is also the first in a paranormal sensual romance series.  It's already through developmental edits, line and copy edits, and the ink is dry on the contract. :)  Ladies and gentlemen, may I present NOBODY’S ANGEL, a 33K novella and opening salvo in the EARTH ANGELS series, scheduled to be released in January, 2013!

UNOFFICIAL BLURB:

When investigative journalist Kendall Glynn moved to San Francisco’s top-rated local TV news station, she’d thought her new workplace was all about reporting the news, not making it. Then their anchorman signed off permanently, attempting a violent murder-suicide while the city watched in horror. The one thing Kendall couldn’t help but notice – aside from the pen sticking out of his jugular – was a cataract-like whiteness veiling his eyes. While no expert, she’d bet her one and only Louis Vuitton purse that he was a man possessed.

He cloaks himself in shadows, hiding his face behind a mask in the hope he’ll be shielded from the eyes of heaven itself. Born under the curse his family has endured for countless generations, he scours the city for the kind of trouble that could make him as dead as the souls he crosses into the next life.

Trouble finds him in the form of a murderous spirit that isn’t what it appears, and in a woman who’s brave enough to not mind the mask… in or out of bed. The question is, can he find the evil lurking behind the spirit before it – and heaven’s judgment – finds them?

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NOBODY'S ANGEL is the first in a 4-part series, with a fifth "satellite" book planned.  The second full-length novel, SAVAGE ANGEL, has also been accepted by Carina Press and just yesterday I sent back the the line edits for that project.  Andrea Kerr, editor for both Harlequin and CP, is the editor for this series, and she is EXTRAORDINARY.  I love how she "gets" the world I've created, and she's as much a stickler when it comes to following this world's rules as I am.  I was pretty proud of how these projects turned out before the editing process, but now that they've been in Andrea's magical hands, I can hardly believe the result.  I can't wait for 2013 to share this series!

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