The big news this month is "Read an e-book week"
which runs from March 4 through March 10.
Smashwords is doing a nice promo and I'll have my novels there on sale
for $1.50 each (and some of the shorter pieces for free!) This includes The Servant Girl which I hope to release on the 6th or so!
Eliza lived with
Princess Sondra as her trusted companion until civil war tore her from her
friend's side. Now she must learn to
live in a world filled with intrigue and danger, where the use of her magic
might get her killed . . . and where it is getting increasingly difficult to
tell friend from foe.
Last year I released Kat
Among the Pigeons right around my birthday so I decided to do the same with
this book. It's a different sort of
fantasy tale for me since there is very little magic in the book. I'm looking forward to seeing what people
think of the story and the characters.
Water/Stone/Light
is moving along at a slow but steady pace.
I think it's turning out well, too.
I like the characters and I'm going to have so much fun making their
lives hell. Writers are such odd people.
I have started the outline for my Elves in Space story. No,
that won't be the title (I hope!), but I needed a placeholder while I got the
idea moving. I think it's going to be
fun to write, and I will start that one on my birthday. That's something I do every year -- start a
new story as a present to me. Normally I
would be rushing to get the current one done first, but that's just not going
to happen. It's okay. I often have more than one project
going. That really helps when the brain
gets a little stuck. It's really good
when the projects aren't anything alike too, which makes it easy to move from
one to another.
I have also decided on my next edit project, which is the
first Devlin book. I've been over it a
few times already and the plot is in place, but I'm still not happy with some
of the wording. That means I'll be
really going over the pages, but I don't think this one will take too long. The problem is getting the feel of Devlin
into the book. Her voice is harder to
capture than I expected. She's an
interesting character, but it's hard to make that final contact with her
sometimes.
Devlin is a top agent
for the Inner Worlds Council Security force -- a spy in common terms -- and
she's not very happy with an assignment to the backwater world of Forest. Settled by the Work for Man fanatics, the
government has restricted not only the use of tech equipment but also regulate
nearly every aspect of life for the small population. The settlement is boring and the people don't
like outsiders.
There is one anomaly,
though: The brutal show known as Bear Dancing pits a human against a native
life form. Devlin's work is to learn
about the show and report what she can about the bears themselves because there
is suddenly outside interest
The people involved in
the bear dance are secretive. She's
gathered all the information she thinks she can, and she's ready to move
on. However, when a top-ranking
scientist arrives on world, Devlin thinks she might be able to pick up a little
bit more information.
And that's something
the locals fear.
So there we are! I
have plenty to do for March. I'm looking
forward to the work!
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