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Oh, No More Stress!

Top Stressors in Life are Divorce, Family Issues, Death, Move, New Job, and a myriad of other major life changes. And for writers, major edits and rejections, and deadlines can add to the stressful mix. For me, my mother’s currently in the hospital, I have a new job, moved, new email address (belive me that is a big stressor—having to change blogger—am on 6 accts, wordpress.com, websites, yahoo groups—which turned out to be a major nightmare, and have a million people to notify)and have had edits for 4 books, one set of galleys waiting now, one set of edits on the back burner, final edits coming on two books, AND, I teach online classes so am finishing one, starting a new one, and creating an even newer one, plus have a contracted book I need to finish, and another I need to write. Sooo, stress is the name of the game. How to get through all of it with keeping all my marbles intact?

The Vampire...In My Dreams Now in Print!

Love bites when a seventeen-year-old vampire and witch tangle.

The Witch –

Plain and average Marissa Lakeland doesn’t believe in fate—or vampires. When she and her girlfriend chase after a gorgeous hunk of a guy one dark, misty night to prove he’s truly a vampire, she’s forced to face her worst nightmares—in the flesh. Rather, in the not-quite mortal flesh. So why does the thought of tall, dark, and vampiric appeal to her, when there’s no way a vampire can compel a witch to do his bidding? At least that’s what she’s read in vampiric lore. But lore can be mistaken. Utterly mistaken.

Romantic Suspenses with Bite

Anybody like romantic suspenses with a bite? The Vampire…In My Dreams, the young adult vampire romantic suspense will be coming out August 26 in print and Deadly Liaisons in November, a sexy adult vampire romantic suspense.

Deadly Liaisons—
Dark huntress and rare telepath, Tezra Campbell treads a thin line between being a skilled criminal investigator for the Hunter Council and a renegade. She has an obsessive compulsion to find the vampire who murdered her parents, resulting in severe trauma to her younger sister who’d witnessed the crime a decade earlier.

Prince of the American vampire clans, Daemon, sees Tezra as a danger to herself and to his people if the serial killer vampire terminates her next. He’s also concerned his own brother might be accused of the crime, takes her into custody, and intends to find the killer himself.

Only things don’t work out the way either planned, yet both aim to win the deadly game.

Get on with the Present—Don’t Live in the Past

Imagine someone telling you a riveting story that’s keeping you on the edge of your seat.

“Go on,” you say, just dying to know what happens next.

But the storyteller says, “But you see, ten years ago…,” and he gives a ten minute discourse on something that happened in the past.

The Vampire...In My Dreams & How I Come Up with Story Ideas

When I’m writing a story, I always come up with three things, and only three things, because I can’t plot for the life of me. For me, outlining is an impossibility, so I write strictly from the seat of the pants.

In the beginning, I think of a hero and heroine and what it is they have to have—their goal in the story—their unbending quest. What motivates them to want to reach this goal—their deep secrets that make this so important to them they have to keep trying or die (not literally, but you know what I mean). What time constraint are they under that makes them have to get to this goal now, not twenty years from now—the ticking time bomb? And finally, how the hero and heroine meet in some unique and intriguing way that hooks the reader.

The Vampire...In My Dreams

The Witch –

Plain and average Marissa Lakeland doesn’t believe in fate—or vampires. When she and her girlfriend chase after a gorgeous hunk of a guy one dark, misty night to prove he’s truly a vampire, she’s forced to face her worst nightmares—in the flesh. Rather, in the not-quite mortal flesh. So why does the thought of tall, dark, and vampiric appeal to her, when there’s no way a vampire can compel a witch to do his bidding? At least that’s what she’s read in vampiric lore. But lore can be mistaken. Utterly mistaken.

The Prince of Darkness –

As soon as he sees Marissa, Dominic Vorchowski knows that she’s the only one who can save him. Only why does she have to be a witch? Humans are easy to compel, but a witch? Fate has thrown him together with the clever, bewitching teen and if he can gain her trust, he’ll have his life back again. Except for that whole eternal thirst for blood thing. And the fangs. Not to mention the aversion to intense sunlight. In any event, he’ll have his life back as normal as it can be. This time, he’ll not mess with girls he knows nothing about. Especially when he’s set his sights on one tantalizing teen witch, who’s totally off the menu.

The Threat –

Lynetta wants Dominic to replace the lover she lost three hundred years ago, and no witch is going to take her guy away from her. Ancient vampires tend to get really cranky when they don’t get their way. Really cranky. Like three-hundred-years-in-the-making

cranky. She’s not just after Dominic’s blood, she wants every bit of the hunk. Time is running out while Dominic and Marissa try to find a way to thwart the vampiress and her blood bonds from winning the battle of the night.