Hi guys,
I can't believe March zoomed by so quickly. I'm excited about April, not just because it's my birth month but because I love to watch spring emerge. I've already started to notice buds on the trees and disgusting looking bugs. Seriously I saw one the other day that looked like a hornet mixed with a roach on this fence I was passing, I quickly made my way past it. I don't know what it was but I didn't want it on me. It's crazy though because even though I hate gross looking little bugs, I love being outside. I love the sounds of the birds, the feeling of the sun on my skin and just seeing the sights. I guess it's kind of like how I hate beetles but love ladybugs, which are beetles.
So now I have a new fan of my writing, my big sis (I have four). She didn't even know I was writing because honestly it's just something I told a few friends and family but now she's bought a copy of all of my stories. It was so funny, the first time she read a sex scene in my story she called me and was like are you fucking serious? Is this autobiographical? and I was like maybe/maybe not(which it's so not I can only wish for the future!!). I had to laugh because she went into total overprotective big sister role because I'm the baby sister. I guess it's hard for her to see me grown up and writing grown up things but come on, I'll be thirty two my birthday. Now she calls and she's like you've gotta write part two of this story, and continue this as a series, and this guy was a jackass and this chick was a bitch. She wants to read everything I write before I publish it because she wants to be first, which I love because it helps me and I love that she's such a fan of my writing. She thought I was weird when I was a teenager. I was always writing in a notebook or had my nose stuck in a book somewhere. I had this enormous pile of notebooks full of stories and ideas by my bed when I was a kid and packs of pens stacked up beside them, and I would write for hours on end, I still do. So now I have a club of proofreaders, my mom, a few friends, and two of my older sisters.
Well as you guys have probably noticed, The Bloody Woman and Her Protector are currently unavailable as is Runaway, I'm reediting them. Runaway I had finished but I started rereading it and I didn't like it so I cut like fifty something pages and started over, I'm thinking of shortening it. With Her Protector, I found that I had some paragraphs that made people, and myself, go wait, what happened?, so I'm going over and smoothing out the kinks. Her Protector, by the way, is my sister's favorite story that I've written so far. For some reason she wasn't big on Carlie. She thought that Carlie, the heroine, was too timid. I did the same thing with The Bloody Woman as I did with Runaway. I didn't like all the stuff I put in to flesh out the story so I chucked it all and I'm rebuilding it. So soon, hopefully by June, I'll have all the new and improved stories back up. Oh and I'm still working on Succulent too, which is a book of erotic short stories. I wanted the stories to be a little more spicy so I'm reworking them as well.
Mended is the story I'm publishing on Amazon. It's going to be, in a lot of ways, my debut story on Amazon. I've had an account with Amazon longer than I had one with Smashwords but I chose to publish on Smashwords first. I've finished Mended but I'm editing it right now and making certain that everything flows easily but I'm in love with this story. I love all of the stories I write but for some reason this story really gets to me. I like the tone of it most of all, it just feels so different. I'm trying to publish Mended by the end of the month.
I also have my mystery series that is also waiting to be edited and on top of that I started writing three stories in between reediting my published stories. One story is a fantasy, the other is story about a bounty hunter and the last is a story about a biker. Not to forget the mounds of stories in notebooks on my desk because ideas always pop up in my head. I can't wait to finish writing them and publish them. I'm even thinking of doing a World War One interracial romance. That's still a thought and not yet written down. I have to flesh it out a little in my head.
And my sister pointed something out to me the other day. We were watching television together while I was waiting for her to get ready (as always) and there was this car commercial. In the commercial the guy is with his girlfriend and they're driving; he's getting all his calls played back to him after he has like this really wild night with his friends and during his wild night he got his "man meat" tattooed. Which if you read The Bloody Woman, is the same thing that happens to Caleb, the hero when he was celebrating his last night of freedom before Keya had the baby. My sister was like maybe someone who worked on that commercial read your story and I was like maybe but I doubt it (hint, hint modesty). Nine times out of ten it's a coincidence. I mean that happens a ton right? Not thinking too much of it, it's just a funny scenario for a guy to do that during a crazy night out. Like you have to be pretty wasted to get your junk tattooed, that has to hurt.
Well I'm heading out for my Saturday night. You guys enjoy your night!!!
With love, Marie
