Also Avon made us a cute promo video. Feel free to steal the video for promotional purposes. 🙂
Migraines and Other Things
So Kid 1’s migraine is back. We are controlling it for now. We have a follow up on Monday and that’s when we will figure out a more long term solution. Right now mostly it’s severe nausea. She is taking medication for that too, and it’s keeping her from vomiting but she still feels nauseated,
Continue Reading
Working on Hidden Legacy 5
Oh noes, look who is back. The doors opened and I entered the three-story high foyer. A grand staircase curved from the gleaming floor of polished white marble, wrapped in venetian plaster walls that were decorated with acanthus leaf molding. An enormous chandelier dripped long strands of crystal above an indoor fountain poised between the
Continue Reading
Feeling Better
Thank you for all of the cheering up in the comments. Yay! I am feeling better today. I also have something for you. Ta-da! Give away ARCs. The giveaway post will go up later today so be ready. The comments about weight loss reminded me of this tweet, which I thought was hilarious. That’s me,
Continue Reading
SAPPHIRE FLAMES ARCs
We just received our pdf, so the galleys of SAPPHIRE FLAMES should be now available on both Netgalley and Edelweiss.
Sapphire Flames Chapter 2
A couple of people are having really difficult time this week due to deaths in the family. They asked for a snippet, so we are making an exception and releasing a little more. We will have to put the obligatory buy links and cover so Avon views this as promotion. Chapter 2 I had texted
Continue Reading
Read First Chapter of SAPPHIRE FLAMES
The copyedit has landed, so we are now clear to release the first chapter. Those of you who read the deleted beginning liked it so much, that we decided to rework it and keep it in the novel after all. Enjoy! Excerpt of SAPPHIRE FLAMES. PS. Thank you for being so kind in the comments
Continue Reading
WCB Day 3
Wednesday word count starting: 107,142. Wednesday word count ending: 106, 593. The cuts are going to get deeper now, since we’ve reached the middle of the book. But then we have to add more to the finale. Bleah. We’ve received an extremely long email from someone named Bill Turner. His email address is turnerspianos@gmail.com. Mr.
Continue Reading
WCB Day 2
Tuesday word count starting: 108, 273. Tuesday word count ending: 107, 142. Progress. Sadly Sgt. Munoz had to go. I really liked him, too. I wanted to address the censorship brigade that decided to complain about sex in the books. Not sure what possessed you to show your good china in public, but your comments
Continue Reading
Word Count
The edits for SAPPHIRE FLAMES have landed. The good news is that our editor liked the book. The bad news is that it’s 108,000 words and it needs to be closer to 100,000. In the mixed-bag news, there are no obvious places to make a large cut. Typically, the easiest way to make large cuts
Continue Reading
First Draft Done
Yesterday we officially typed The End on the first draft of SAPPHIRE FLAMES and sent it to our long-suffering editor, Erika Tsang. The manuscript is a bit long, almost 110, 000 words. so about 7,000 words longer than WILDFIRE. It was a big book, and it had to start the relationship and the trilogy arc.
Continue Reading
Sapphire Flames
The green exit sign flashed over our heads, an orange warning strip across it screaming, “EXIT CLOSED.” If h is the difference in height between the two sides of the gap, θ is the angle of the exit’s slope, V is the velocity, and g is the standard acceleration of free fall at 9.8 m/s
Continue Reading