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  Ryan Saunders meets beautiful Annette Lund while stranded at Heathrow Airport, and is almost instantly drawn to her. When she leaves, he's convinced he has lost her forever, but when fate guides him back to her, the truth behind the mysterious beauty begins to unravel. Will love win, or does her past destroy their chances?  George Sullivan's life is a disaster in progress. His last few books haven't sold well, he drinks too much, he sleeps around, he's in hock for a gambling debt he can't repay and he'd probably trade his last friend for a best seller.  Kate finds herself locked up in her apartment building's laundry room. It's the middle of the night and there's a man with her. Which would be the great start of a horror movie, except this is real and thankfully the man isn't that bad.  When Rihat, a soldier in Babylon's army, discovers that his village is being terrorized by an akhazu demon, he seeks help at Marduk's temple. He meets Iltani, a demigoddess who's been cursed by Ishtar to live as an ardat-lili, enslaved by lust, a night-maiden who feeds on sexual energy  When a demon breaches the barrier between death and life, the salvation of the world depends on the passions of a beautiful banshee just coming into her power and the man willing to use her to avenge the destruction of his family.  No sane woman would ditch an expensive evening gown to run naked through the streets of New York, but Naomi Cartwright did just that... and then had an intimate encounter with a speeding truck that left her unable to remember anything that came before.  All song lyrics in this story are from the CD, Weathervanes, by Steven Howell~ If I knew then, what I know now I'd like to think I?d choose a different way to go But, my mistakes have paved the way . When Ginger Snapped by Kerri Nelson Published July 6, 2010 Meet Ginger Lockhart, a newly single mom who can?t take anymore of the emotional turmoil of her pending divorce or the holiday madness of the approaching Christmas season.  Love never hits a wrong note. Ever since Nate McKenzie hired on as a roadie, musician Adam James has lusted after him. So far Adam has kept his distance, knowing Nate is mourning his dead wife  When Anya Kane escaped the darkness Virgil Branson was selling her into, she sought help from her boss, Gus DAmato, a hot and hunky FBI agent. Six months later she is out of his office and in his bed, enjoying the most erotic sex imaginable  Middlemarch Mates, Book Nine One plus one equals three. Tiger shifter Hari Daya takes one look at Ambar Patels photo and is smitten. Further research heightens his fascination.  Publisher's Note: This is an expanded, re-edited re-release. BDSM, M/M, forced seduction, intense and graphic sexual content. North Carolina, 1876: Rumors abound about the dark, mysterious Dominic Beresford in Chapel Hill.  Kidnapping and bondage are no way to win a girl. Well, actually… Monsters in Hollywood, Book 3 Runako has good reason to distrust humans. His sister’s murder taught him it’s safer to keep his Monster form under wraps. Now comes word that a woman is making a movie that will supposedly “help” his people. He’s not sure about that, but one thing is sure…Margo is too beautiful to be ignored.  When Kale MacDonald?s beloved grandmother dies, she leaves him a letter urging him to travel to Savannah, Georgia, to find his destiny. First, Kale is confronted by a strange, decadent man named Sevastian who appears to be stalking him. Then, he also faces a trio of rogue vampires intent on killing him. Sevastian, however, seems intent on helping Kale stay alive. Mystery and danger collide in the City of Secrets, and no one is who they appear to be.  City girl Paige Eastman arrives at her recently deceased fathers Ocala, Florida, horse ranch to settle his estate, but she finds more than material assets with his business partner, resident cowboy Jake Skinner. The two engage in a hot fling until Paige learns she must sell the struggling enterprise out from under Jake. .  The sole survivor of a plane crash, Megan is alone on a deserted island in the Bahamas until she finds a nearly-drowned man washed up on shore. Another survivor, this time from a boat wreck. With only meager survival skills between them, will they survive and can they find love? .  Published by Andrews UK in association with Chimera Books. After a serious car accident Ronnie awakens to find herself restrained, at the mercy of a stranger calling himself her 'Protector'. Theo, a Destaurian Guard, is part of an Order dedicated to the protection of the Magic Box of Destiny, a time portal once controlled by an ancient family of witches called the Pandoras.  . 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July 20, 2010In the News this week.In this issue
When I’m sitting in front of my computer and I get an exciting new idea for a book, I can run off of that energy for weeks. I’ve been known to write a novella in less than a week, and a full-length book in 8 days flat. I’ve written forty-six pages in one day, and 60,000 words in a week. However, when it comes time to edit that bitch, I break out in a cold sweat and come to the decision that the laundry needs my utmost attention. Even if it’s all done. Something needs to be ironed, folded or stitched. Socks need to be matched. There’s something magical about writing a book. I can sit down for what seems twenty minutes, typing away, trying desperately to ignore my kids and whatever that last noise was, and in reality hours have gone by. When I edit, it’s a different story altogether. For my first manuscript, I had a lot of exclamation points. “They’re right on our tail!” “Run!” “They have grenades!” “I baked an apple pie today!” Yeah, I went the distance when it came to exclamation points. My editor, God bless her, didn’t make a huge deal about it. She said a lot of newbies used exclamation points instead of showing the emotion through word choice, or italicizing power words. I went a little too far when I edited my second book. She actually had to put a few exclamation points in. Okay! So I learned my lesson on exclamation points! Moving on to the unnecessary words! For example: He sat down in the chair and ran a hand through his hair. Well, how else is he going to sit? Up? He sat DOWN is redundant. He sat in the chair. Period. Oh, and while we are on redundant words, how about off of. “I snatched the brush off of the dresser.” No hooker, you snatched the brush off the dresser. No need to use the word of. Another thing I tended to do in my early manuscripts that can really make editors grit their teeth is blatant overuse of certain words. I used some words so often that I had to delete that about that a quarter that of them. Wow. You’re really alert. Yes, I once overused the word that. I’ll save the word was for another article. I still have a problem with THAT word. *Sigh* And speaking of teeth grinding, I recently discovered this is a no-no. He grit his teeth when the bullet made impact. BONG! Incorrect. The correct form would be as follows – He gritted his teeth when the bullet made impact. Ah, sharing all of my face-plants when it comes to writing is giving me the warm fuzzies. Let’s go on, shall we? “Alright,” you say. Well, no. That’s not the way you spell it. It’s all right. Two words. Now, to be fair here, an editor once told me you could shorten it to alright in dialogue, but never in narrative. Confused much? Alrighty then, moving on. Dialogue. READ IT OUT LOUD. Please don’t have your hero say, “It is nine O’clock in the evening. Is there any chance that you are you ready to go to bed?” Well, there’s nothing wrong with that sentence, you say. No, technically there isn’t. But do you talk that way? I didn’t think so. How about this – “Christ, it’s nine already. I’m going to bed.” Such small, nit-picky things we tend to do in our first draft that must be weeded out when we edit. Suddenly the creative process is over, and you’re forced to invite your internal editor back. You edit your manuscript, once, twice, maybe even three times. Your crit partner edits your manuscript. You edit your manuscript again. You get a contract – YAY! And then…. you get your second round of edits. You edit your manuscript. You get galleys on your manuscript … You ready to join my campaign yet? T-shirts coming soon: I’d Rather Go Naked Than Edit!
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Critiquing: Would you like me to rip out your guts and stomp on them or should I slice them up first?Leslie A. Dow, PhD* musings on writing
In the face of responses like this from large anonymous groups, I decided to find a small group of like minded writers or a single writer who I could know and understand, and who would know me. That was more than a year ago. And, I've found a wonderful group here at SavvyAuthors for some of my work, just not all of it. Because it's not enough to find who are great people, your work has to mesh. And I came to the realization that finding a crit partner is harder than dating ever was. Oh god. I was sobbing over my manuscript this morning - just kidding, really I was muttering curses not very far under my breath. I lifted my pink Pilot Precise Rolling Ball pen to the heavens and cried, "It's not fair! I want a crit partner, too!" And because it was early, and I was severely under-caffeinated, I began to dream. And because I blog, I dreamed a list...
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