If Hobbes is dancing, you know what that means–another story is finished and turned in! I just emailed Shadow’s Caress, my next short story for Nocturne Bites into my editor and agent. Woot!
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Break Out the Dancing Hobbes!
Monday, August 30th, 2010Sale News!
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010This week I sold another short story to Nocturne Bites! I really enjoy the short stories because they’re just plain fun. The story is set in the same world as my May Bites, Demon Kissed, and the earlier story I wrote for The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2, Blood Feud.
The blurb I’m using for the story is: A vampire trapped in a hellish limbo has one hope to reclaim his life as the undead–the hunter who tried to kill him.
The heroine is Cass Lanier. She worked as a vampire hunter for 14 months, but quit when one of the vampires she was slaying opened his eyes as she was bringing down the stake. That freaked her out. Malachi James is the vampire who woke up. He’s trapped in limbo–not undead or really dead. He needs her to pull the stake from his body to restore him to his former existence. No one else can do it. Problem is that she can’t see or hear him and the group of vampire hunters she used to work for want her dead.
I don’t have a release date yet or a title. I’ll post both here when I know something.
Working on this story raised my question on how to keep track of world building notes again. I’ve got all the information dumped into one file, but it’s tough to find anything this way. I’m thinking about moving all the notes over to OneNote and having a separate tab for each facet of the world. One for the vampires and their society, another for the demons, and others for the demon slayers and the vampire hunters. All the information would still be dumped under tabs, but at least I wouldn’t have demon stuff mixed up with vampire facts.
Organizing myself is still a major issue. I’ve read how other authors do it and have tried some of their methods, but they don’t really work for me. I definitely don’t want massive three-ring binders filled with notes, but I haven’t found a great way to arrange things on the computer. OneNote might be worth a try because I can have pictures as well as text and I do love images for inspiration. On the other hand, I hate to invest time in one more system that might not work for me. Maybe I’ll give it a try. If it saves me from having to reread my stories and all my notes multiple times, it’ll be worth it even if it doesn’t work out as a long-term solution.
Dancing Hobbes Time!
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Yes, the dancing Hobbes means another project is complete and turned in! This is a short story for Nocturne Bites. I don’t know the title or release date yet (my working title didn’t stick), but as soon as I have that information, I’ll post it.
I love finishing project and posting my animated .gif. It makes me feel so happy inside. 
This story is set in the same world as Blood Feud from The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2, but it totally stands alone. In Blood Feud you met Isobel who’s a vampire and Seere who’s a demon prince, and in a Romeo and Juliet kind of star-crossed lover thing, vampires and demons are enemies. Earlier, about 800 years earlier, they waged a war that lasted 300 years before peace was declared, but bad feelings remain. The Bites doesn’t have any vampires (not this one, although I have an idea for another one that would), but the demons are back.
The whole idea came to me from a tweet I read on Twitter. It was the headline of a news story and said something along the lines of: Exorcist Found Guilty of Murder. Now I knew what that really meant, that the exorcist must have accidentally killed the human that was allegedly possessed and that he/she was tried for that in regular, real human court.
That’s not where my mind went.
And so my premise was born. What happens when a demon slayer is put on trial by demons and found guilty of murder?
I thought this was cool, but I couldn’t see any chance of getting a full-length book out of this idea, not without adding a lot of other stuff. But I’d already written two short stories and had all kinds of fun with them and I thought, hmm, why not do this one as another short? So I put together a proposal with a 3 page synopsis and a chapter, and here we are today. And I know. Me? A 3 page synopsis? That’s like totally amazing. Who knows if I’ll ever be able to do that again. 
