I am an editing mofo
The goal was to have Storm Season edited and off by Monday of next week, but Real Life(TM) has intervened as it usually does (my other job ate last Monday, and various stressors kicked in as of Tuesday and made editing…somewhat difficult). As a result, I may not have everything done by the 3rd as planned. For instance, I’m currently expanding and polishing Chapter Three with thirteen more chapters to go, and that number may increase as we go.
So, my revised goal is to have the sucker ready for submission by December 7, come hell or high water, at which point I spend December finishing off Behind the Iron Cross in order to have it ready for submission by the middle of January.
To be honest, 2013 is going to be an insane year for me. Still in the planning stages are five more books in the Olympic Cove series, another historical ER set in Roman-occupied Britain, and a contemporary paranormal romance. And then there’s the alternate history mystery that’s finished and being edited, plus the straight up SF comedy thriller that is finished and desperately needs editing, and THEN I want to do an SF police procedural.
Yes, I’m insane, we already know that, moving along now.
And that’s NaNoWriMo for Nic
Words today: 5,023
NaNoWriMo total: 50,112
Grand total: 62,121
Needless to say, I’m not finished yet — got around 8-10K to go, but I may well be able to punch that all out by Wednesday night, allowing me to eat guilt-free turkey on Thursday.
But man, today was rough in Olympic Cove. Bad, bad shit has happened to my boys, and I must take a break before I start crying and running amok.
So, we’re pretty much midway through the month…
And I wrote 3,033 words today, which gives me 42,051 for NaNoWriMo, and 54,060 words in total. Amusingly, I wrote a Starbucks scene while at Starbucks, which made the setting description a doddle.
Thanks to Tiffany Reisz, the minx, I’ve added a rather ominous subplot in the middle, which 1) will be picked up and utilized further down the series, 2) is causing all kinds of relationship problems for the boys, and 3) means that Storm Season will probably top out around 70K. Also, Bythos is a great big brilliant idiot of a manchild, and Aphros has got to get over his inferiority complex about not being “the smart one.” Ironically, the human who’s still mourning his dead wife is the most emotionally balanced of the three. I love my boys to bits, but man, they’re making me pinch the bridge of my nose and sigh.
Secretly, I’m also wondering how many people who read this will also want to read Ian’s SF eco-thriller Greenstrike. That would be very meta.
And we have a cover!
Fresh from the Evernight Publishing blog is the cover for Vanilla-Free Christmas: Manlove Edition. I’m so excited! And additionally tickled that the cute young thing on the cover is bound with red velvet ropes — very apropos for “Tied With a Bow.”
This Christmas, good will isn’t all these sexy men are going to get…
Ménage loving and chance encounters will make the holidays merry and bright and hot enough to keep out the cold. From a romp in Santa’s candy house to a dinner party where chains and collars are required attire, Christmas for these naughty men is going to be anything but vanilla.
Be Warned: m/m sex, m/m/m ménage sex, BDSM, sex toys, rimming
Day Four: the Beast slogs towards Olympic Cove to be born…
Words today: 4,039
NaNoWriMo total: 13,352
Grand total: 25,272
My brain hurts, and I need two gorgeous redheaded sea gods to rub my neck and make it all better.
BUT. I’ve explained what Bythos and Aphros are doing with their pollution-cleaning coral, why they’re interested in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, plus I’ve set up the potential for a dramatic face-off later in the story. That’s good for one day.
So, NaNoWriMo
Or as I like to call it, November. Because I’m a masochist with no sense of self-preservation, I’m continuing to work on Behind the Iron Cross whilst plowing into the first Olympic Cove book, now titled Storm Season. NaNoWriMo word count for the last three days:
Beginning word count: 12,009
Day One: 3,036
Day Two: 3,012
Day Three: 3,265
NaNoWriMo Total So Far: 9,313
Total Word Count: 21,322
And that doesn’t include the 2.5K I tacked onto Behind the Iron Cross in that time. I must now put on my artisan hat and fill Etsy orders. Selah.
I Anen’t Dead
Sorry about that, my powder sugar angel puppies, but I had to go to England for a couple of weeks for a wedding. Yes, I know, my life is so hard.
But I’m back, and still plugging away on Behind the Iron Cross, which now stands at 41,792 words and is pretty much heading into the final stretch. Now I’m starting to get into the nitty gritty backgrounds on some of the characters, and frankly I’m putting some of them through hell, which makes me feel a bit guilty (and I’m not even talking about Friedrich getting freaky with Kat and Sam). I’m one of those weird writers who wishes she never had to do anything bad to her characters, that they could live a life of perfect happiness. Unfortunately, perfect happiness is boring to read about, so I have to ovary up and throw the kitchen sink at them once in a while. Usually they find a way out of the issue.
Usually.
Anyhoo, I’m going to be completely insane and use the first book in my Olympic Cove series as my Nano novel (yes, I’ll be working on two books at the same time, plus my side job and getting stuck into the massive amount of gardening and cleaning that needs to be done around this place. Sleep, what means this word sleep?). Stay tuned — it’s going to be interesting.
Thank you SO much for celebrating with Evernight!
I’ve just sent the list of everyone who left comments to Evernight for their Birthday Blog Hop grand prize drawing, and the winner should be announced very soon. As for my own giveaway, I just fished out the slip of paper with the name of the winner for MIND AND BODY, and that person is…
*drum roll*
Delphina Miyares!
Delphina, if you can contact me with a reliable mailing address for you, I’ll get MIND AND BODY into the mail to you toot sweet. Good luck to you and everyone else on the big Evernight prize drawing!
NSFW Snippet: Behind the Iron Cross
NOTE: if you’re looking for the Evernight Birthday Blog Hop post, it’s here!
Since it’s Tuesday and I’m feeling downright productive, I thought I’d post another snippet from Chapter Two of my novel Behind the Iron Cross (or as I like to call it, “1920’s Berlin, BDSM, and MMF menáges — oh my!”).
The story so far: In 1923, American heiress and secret Domme Katherine “Kat” Tracy and her fiancé/beard Sam Hellman are in Berlin on business and enjoying the city’s decadent nightlife. When they go to the Cupid Club and meet Colonel Friedrich von Bader, a decommissioned German Army officer reluctantly working as a prostitute to support his widowed sister-in-law and ill nephew, the sparks fly…
Welcome to the Evernight Publishing birthday blog hop!
Evernight Publishing opened its doors two years ago. In those two years we’ve signed over one hundred and sixty authors and published over three hundred books. From paranormal to contemporary, we’ve had more best sellers than we can count and made thousands of people smile, sigh and gasp. So, as a thank you to all our readers and everyone who has supported us, we’re holding this blog hop and we have a whole lot of prizes to offer you.
Here’s how it works… the more blogs you hop to (shown below) the more chance you have of winning prizes. Each author on the hop is offering a prize and Evernight is offering the following grand prizes, a Kindle, a $100 Amazon gift certificate, two Evernight swag bags (which includes a tote, a tee, vouchers, a mug and other coolness) and a personalized Facebook banner. To be in with a chance of winning the author prize simply follow the blog you’re visiting and leave a comment which includes your email address. Each entry on each blog is then counted towards the grand prize draw. The more entries you have, the better your chance of winning a grand prize! You also get extra points for liking the Evernight Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/evernightpublishing. Just make sure you let us know in the comments that you’ve done so.
Good luck and happy hopping!
Hey there, folks, it’s Nicola. Since my first story with Evernight won’t be out until Christmas, my prize offering will be a copy of Circlet Press’s erotic SF anthology Mind and Body, with my cover design.
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