Post 67

 It's Spooky Season--October. As I don't really read horror books, I wrote about my favorite horror movies in my main blog and my Novel Reads blog so if you want to see what I like to watch in October check them out. 

I'm doing a contest for Book 5 of Elemental Voice Spirit Talker. I am looking for names of certain characters. The book is in the 'planning' stage, meaning I'm writing the book bible right now and thus doing character names and place names for the book. I need names for the Orro Clan matriarch, her PA, her security chief, and the secondary villain as well as a morally grey assassin.
Should your name(s) be picked, the name of course will be used and you will be mentioned in the author notes. You may also win a signed bookplate.
I reserve the right to pick more than one group of names or single name so you all have a chance to win.
Comment the name(s) on one of my FB posts about this. The contest is open until February 2024. I will start writing the book about April for a publish date of either December or January. Depends on my muse.

My T.L. books are out of Kindle Unlimited. Several accounts have been closed due to piracy and I don't want mine to be one. I plan to put up my T.L. books on Ingram Spark in this month and going wide with them. Including BW and Emergent. Sharon has penciled me in then so they will be transferred then. That way all my eggs are not in one basket, incase the basket gets snatched(terminated) 

The new covers for my T.L. Books are done. Well, Books 1 & 2 of Ghostwolf, Bone Whisperer book 1 are anyway. Resurgent is still being worked on and the dragon books are staying the same.  I wanted to have new covers when I had them switched over.  

I will keep you posted on that. 

There are now 18 chapters of Bone Whisperer WIP, A Playground of Bones, on Kindle Vella. I also have up 9 chapters of Emergent, the next book in the Time-Lost series.  Kindle Vella authors get bonuses for various things. August bonus was twice what July's was.  I've been playing the promos in the vella groups. We'll see how it goes for September. I will be getting August bonus this month so I'll see if it really is what they say it will be. They really don't tell you the criteria for the bonuses, though it does have something to do with the reads. 

 If you want to check  out  Bone Whisperer Vella Bone

I may fall behind in my queue since I'm now doing Vella but I'm going to try to publish at least one book next year, maybe more.  I wanted to try and pub BW this month but I think that won't happen. Maybe next month? We shall see. And maybe next year it will be Emergent published next. Or maybe Book 3 of the Elemental Voice companion series. Or Book 5 of EV. I really don't know right now.

My box set to catch up on books 1-3 of Elemental Voice : Link

 Book 4 of Elemental Voice is back in KU.  If you want to check it out though  Link: Wind

 As of right now there are two novellas, a 'companion' series to EV, Deadly Sands and Deadly Flames. Right now I have the ideas for just three novellas, two of which are published as stated, but with my muse being so fickle who knows if more may come. The third novella is started but it is way down the queue right now. Book 5 of EV is slated to at least be started next year though.

You can check out the 4 books and 2 novellas I have out. I have put them back in KU at least for now. Here is the link to these books if you have not already checked them out. UF Books

They are set in a world where psychics consult regularly with the police and vampires live next door. The FMC Sara reads the earth like a medium hears the dead and finds dead bodies for the local sheriff's office in the first book then works with her vampire FBI agent fiance in the later books. There is to be five books in this series.  I may come back to this world and do a new series. Depends on my muse and time. I have soo many books in my writing queue.

I wrote a little drabble backstory of how Sara got her gift. Hope you enjoy it. Link: Drabble

 Have you checked out my website? All my major worlds and books in one place. Well, except for the new world I'm exploring in one of the two other novels I'm working on. Fickle muse. Here is the link to the website: The Rook.  Check it out and tour a world where psychics work regularly with the police and vampires live next door, a world where werewolves hide among us and can manipulate energy(magic), two worlds with dragons, and a world where a Time-Lost tries to stop the past from repeating itself.

These older books are in what I call 'movie style' or pulp. Fast paced and action oriented with little description and a lot of dialog. They are also my first books, full of my inexperience but also full of my creativity. I have left them as is. Sentimentality. The rest of the books will be in the same style.

I'll try to update periodically. But this blog may get dusty. And repetitive.

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