Hey!,
I know it's been a LOOOOONNNNNGGGGG time since I've written in you but I've been super busy. I'm trying to get back to school to finish my degree. I literally have like nine classes left and I'll have my bachelor degree in MIS. I'm super excited and can't wait for my graduation day! So many of my friends didn't go to their college graduations but I will for sure.
As of April 3rd The Ghost of Mary Beth is officially on Amazon. I had it on Smashwords but I wanted it to have broader exposure. My stories always go on Smashwords.com first, that's kind of my test ground. If my story does well on Smashwords then I put it on Amazon later on. I hope Mary Beth does as well as Mended did. I was shocked that Mended was so well received.
Here's the link to Mary Beth. Check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Mary-Beth-Kimberly-Clayborne-ebook/dp/B00VO5ZCEE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428423337&sr=1-1
I'm thinking of doing a follow up to Mended but I haven't decided
yet. I think it may be a little shorter. Someone told me it's like four
thousand plus pages on certain devices, I don't want people to get
turned off that the story is too long. I also have a collection of stories coming out. I'm not sure what the title will be but hopefully I'll have it out on Smashwords.com in June sometime.
I'm going to sign off for now. I have my nieces and nephews visiting and I know I'm going to be super busy for the rest of the day.
I'll write again soon!,
Kimmy.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Happy Gobble Day!!!
I hope your Thanksgiving so far has been awesome. Mine was great. Honestly, for my family, the entire day is cooking, talking, laughing about old things that happened when we were kids and eating. My mom is a great cook but this year she was exceptional, and right now I'm about to open the button on my pants, and lay out in the floor like a slug because I am stuffed!
But before I go I just really want to say, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR MAKING MENDED A SUCCESS!!!! This has been the most rewarding month of my life and I owe it all to my readers, new and old, who loved Mended. Thank you for all of the amazing reviews and even the bad reviews are helpful because I take them as a challenge to write a better story. I must say I absolutely love the reviews that tell me what my readers like and what they didn't like they are incredibly helpful. I do read all of my reviews so PLEASE keep writing review that are explanatory! You have no clue how much they help.
Well I am off to find a place to lay out and possibly take a nap.
Gobble, gobble, gobble!
But before I go I just really want to say, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR MAKING MENDED A SUCCESS!!!! This has been the most rewarding month of my life and I owe it all to my readers, new and old, who loved Mended. Thank you for all of the amazing reviews and even the bad reviews are helpful because I take them as a challenge to write a better story. I must say I absolutely love the reviews that tell me what my readers like and what they didn't like they are incredibly helpful. I do read all of my reviews so PLEASE keep writing review that are explanatory! You have no clue how much they help.
Well I am off to find a place to lay out and possibly take a nap.
Gobble, gobble, gobble!
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Amazing!!! (In my Oprah sing-song voice)
I've had the BEST two weeks of my life!!!!! Ok anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE Halloween, it's my favorite holiday, and this Halloween was a lot of fun. I'd released Mended on Smashwords.com and it did ok in the first week that it was up there but not too great. I got more sample downloads than actually purchases, which was disappointing because I think this is one of my most favorite books and I enjoyed writing it so much.
When I was writing Mended and scouting out public domain websites, looking for a pretty cover for it. I had decided that I was going to finally (and seriously) publish on Amazon. I put Carlie on there last summer but got nervous and took it back down. I mean Smashwords is basically a small and unknown site but Amazon is international and it scared me to think that my story could not be liked. But this time I told myself nothing ventured, nothing gained and I made certain that Mended was well crafted and put it on Amazon. It exploded! I was surprised that so many people liked it and the reviews, oh my God, I was in tears as I read these beautiful reviews. I live in this shell, I'm an introvert, and for me to come out of my shell is a hard thing. I'm a nervous wreck (I can completely admit that), and I'm a self admitted geek, so for people to like something that I do, or did, is a huge deal to me. I've been on cloud 9 all week and am now thinking of putting some of my older stories, like Carlie up on Amazon.
I just love writing and I love telling a story. When I was a little girl my mom would tell us these fantastical stories. My older brother is married with kids and he still talks about his favorite story that she made up, and he's thirty seven. I never met my grandad, he died when she was ten, but mom said he was a storyteller too, so I guess it's in my blood. I just want to go back to college. Once I finish this degree, to take creative writing so that I can craft my stories much better.
Speaking of school, when I started this blog I was actively in school but I took time off of school because frankly I couldn't afford to pay out of pocket anymore. God willing, I am going back for the spring of 2015! But not to Berkeley College. It was four thousand dollars a semester and no this Berkeley isn't California's Berkeley; which if it were, I could stand that four grand price tag a little more. It was just too expensive to pay for on my own. Needless to say, five years of school and 65 grand worth of college loans and no bachelor degree to show for it. So anyone who is reading this, DON'T GO TO BERKELEY COLLEGE IF YOU'RE POOR!!!! I'm not being slanderous I'm just being real. The best thing about it is that I got far enough with my credits that I only had like three terms left to complete. So I got far before I had to take a break.
I have to say though, I'm six months into thirty two and I'm loving this year. I've told you guys that I have hypothyroidism which means I gain weight easily and it is very hard to take it off because my metabolism is basically dead, so I constantly have to monitor myself. Well I've been really working on it because it can make you really sick and I've lost some serious poundage and my numbers have shot up. Not only that but after about five years of debating with myself I've decided to grow out my perm. Now the hair that is growing in is not the hair that I remember. Maybe I just have awful childhood memories of getting burned by the hot comb while squirming, but it's been seven months since I've started growing it out and this is not my hair, at least not what I remember. There are definite waves and curls and it's soft! I'm excited to see what happens with it.
The only thing missing from this so far great year is a new love, not that I'm searching but the year isn't over and I still have eight more years of my thirties left, a lot can happen. I'm a firm believer in the idea of not searching out love (or trouble for that much, which one can seem like the other sometimes). When I meet him, I'll meet him. I'm not going to jump the gun and end up with another jerk. So sorry mom for still not giving you more grand-brats (as we call them in my family) but someday you'll get them.
Well let me get back to work. I'm completely rewriting The Ghost of Mary Beth. I want to add more of a scare to it and less of the love story. Maybe I'll put this one on Amazon when I'm done.
***P.S.
I wanted to add a little note about Mended. I wrote the extended version of Mended first and I loved it but I thought it would be too long and I was nervous that you guys would not like it. So I shortened it and took out like six chapters and changed the ending of the shortened version. So the extended version has chapters 29-34 and the original ending. I put them both up there so that everyone could choose if the wanted a shortened love story or and extended love story. I just hope you love it!!
http://www.amazon.com/Mended-By-Kimberly-M-Clayborne-ebook/dp/B00OY5NWSO/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
http://www.amazon.com/Mended-Kimberly-M-Clayborne-ebook/dp/B00OY5O1CU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1415479825&sr=1-1 ***
Enjoy your Saturday, it's a beaut!
When I was writing Mended and scouting out public domain websites, looking for a pretty cover for it. I had decided that I was going to finally (and seriously) publish on Amazon. I put Carlie on there last summer but got nervous and took it back down. I mean Smashwords is basically a small and unknown site but Amazon is international and it scared me to think that my story could not be liked. But this time I told myself nothing ventured, nothing gained and I made certain that Mended was well crafted and put it on Amazon. It exploded! I was surprised that so many people liked it and the reviews, oh my God, I was in tears as I read these beautiful reviews. I live in this shell, I'm an introvert, and for me to come out of my shell is a hard thing. I'm a nervous wreck (I can completely admit that), and I'm a self admitted geek, so for people to like something that I do, or did, is a huge deal to me. I've been on cloud 9 all week and am now thinking of putting some of my older stories, like Carlie up on Amazon.
I just love writing and I love telling a story. When I was a little girl my mom would tell us these fantastical stories. My older brother is married with kids and he still talks about his favorite story that she made up, and he's thirty seven. I never met my grandad, he died when she was ten, but mom said he was a storyteller too, so I guess it's in my blood. I just want to go back to college. Once I finish this degree, to take creative writing so that I can craft my stories much better.
Speaking of school, when I started this blog I was actively in school but I took time off of school because frankly I couldn't afford to pay out of pocket anymore. God willing, I am going back for the spring of 2015! But not to Berkeley College. It was four thousand dollars a semester and no this Berkeley isn't California's Berkeley; which if it were, I could stand that four grand price tag a little more. It was just too expensive to pay for on my own. Needless to say, five years of school and 65 grand worth of college loans and no bachelor degree to show for it. So anyone who is reading this, DON'T GO TO BERKELEY COLLEGE IF YOU'RE POOR!!!! I'm not being slanderous I'm just being real. The best thing about it is that I got far enough with my credits that I only had like three terms left to complete. So I got far before I had to take a break.
I have to say though, I'm six months into thirty two and I'm loving this year. I've told you guys that I have hypothyroidism which means I gain weight easily and it is very hard to take it off because my metabolism is basically dead, so I constantly have to monitor myself. Well I've been really working on it because it can make you really sick and I've lost some serious poundage and my numbers have shot up. Not only that but after about five years of debating with myself I've decided to grow out my perm. Now the hair that is growing in is not the hair that I remember. Maybe I just have awful childhood memories of getting burned by the hot comb while squirming, but it's been seven months since I've started growing it out and this is not my hair, at least not what I remember. There are definite waves and curls and it's soft! I'm excited to see what happens with it.
The only thing missing from this so far great year is a new love, not that I'm searching but the year isn't over and I still have eight more years of my thirties left, a lot can happen. I'm a firm believer in the idea of not searching out love (or trouble for that much, which one can seem like the other sometimes). When I meet him, I'll meet him. I'm not going to jump the gun and end up with another jerk. So sorry mom for still not giving you more grand-brats (as we call them in my family) but someday you'll get them.
Well let me get back to work. I'm completely rewriting The Ghost of Mary Beth. I want to add more of a scare to it and less of the love story. Maybe I'll put this one on Amazon when I'm done.
***P.S.
I wanted to add a little note about Mended. I wrote the extended version of Mended first and I loved it but I thought it would be too long and I was nervous that you guys would not like it. So I shortened it and took out like six chapters and changed the ending of the shortened version. So the extended version has chapters 29-34 and the original ending. I put them both up there so that everyone could choose if the wanted a shortened love story or and extended love story. I just hope you love it!!
http://www.amazon.com/Mended-By-Kimberly-M-Clayborne-ebook/dp/B00OY5NWSO/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
http://www.amazon.com/Mended-Kimberly-M-Clayborne-ebook/dp/B00OY5O1CU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1415479825&sr=1-1 ***
Enjoy your Saturday, it's a beaut!
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Hello!
Hi!
I didn't forget about you, I don't think I can. You're always in my thoughts someway but like with most people and their journals entries, things get in the way.
Well it's been literally months and a ton has happened. No new love, unfortunately, but other things. Mostly writing stuff.
So as with every summer for the past ten years, my niece and nephew spent the summer with me. We had tons of fun and I tried to do something new with them as often as possible whether it was the beach, hanging out in the city, or getting on the ferry. It was nice to see them and sad all in the same breath. They're not little ones anymore, they're almost adults and it reminds you of how quickly time fly's. My niece is a junior in high school now and she's talking about going away to college. My nephew will be starting high school next year and he's already talking about how he can't wait to graduate junior high and be a high school kid. I'm so amazed by how time just zooms by.
They left the second week of August and this time, for the first time since their first visit ten years ago, I cried. Not ashamed to admit that auntie is a crybaby. Hopefully, when I have kids, I won't be one of those mom's who cry off of everything their kid does. I think I will be though. Have mercy!
At the end of August I decided to take off a little extra time from school. Yeah I'm not getting younger but I'm starting to think of changing my path. Mom's getting older and she may need a nurse some day or at least someone who knows what's going on so I'm thinking of becoming a nurse. I can't stand blood though and other fluids, forget about it. Someone will puke and I'd be puking right along with them. Selfishly, I'm nervous about this. At least with Information Tech I can get off of work, sleep and write but if I'm a nurse I'd barely have time to breath. As I said, selfishly. I'll figure it out.
Anyway, to back track, I released 'The Ghost of Mary Beth' on Smashwords.com in July and it was so well received that I'm seriously thinking putting it on Amazon too. I don't know, I still get incredibly nervous when I release a new story. There's always that what if. What if people just hate it, I'd be crushed. But then again with the good comes the bad and I have no choice but to wait and see what people think.
I have another story called 'Mended' that I'll be releasing on Smashwords on October 24th. I love this story. I love a lot of my stories but this one is different. The heroine was so much fun to write but my favorite character in the whole entire book believe it or not was the dog. It's crazy but I loved him. He reminded me of my own crazy dog (RIP Cricket!). I'm just putting some finishing touched on 'Mended' before it's release date and I'm nervously excited.
So, all and all, things have been good. There's been a little bit of change but not so much where life became unrecognizable in some way. If it's another two or three months until my next entry I hope I have some great and juicy things to share. If not juicy I'll always have a bit of good news.
Well I'm going to sign off now. It's a little chilly and late to head out so I'll just say enjoy your night!
Until next time!
I didn't forget about you, I don't think I can. You're always in my thoughts someway but like with most people and their journals entries, things get in the way.
Well it's been literally months and a ton has happened. No new love, unfortunately, but other things. Mostly writing stuff.
So as with every summer for the past ten years, my niece and nephew spent the summer with me. We had tons of fun and I tried to do something new with them as often as possible whether it was the beach, hanging out in the city, or getting on the ferry. It was nice to see them and sad all in the same breath. They're not little ones anymore, they're almost adults and it reminds you of how quickly time fly's. My niece is a junior in high school now and she's talking about going away to college. My nephew will be starting high school next year and he's already talking about how he can't wait to graduate junior high and be a high school kid. I'm so amazed by how time just zooms by.
They left the second week of August and this time, for the first time since their first visit ten years ago, I cried. Not ashamed to admit that auntie is a crybaby. Hopefully, when I have kids, I won't be one of those mom's who cry off of everything their kid does. I think I will be though. Have mercy!
At the end of August I decided to take off a little extra time from school. Yeah I'm not getting younger but I'm starting to think of changing my path. Mom's getting older and she may need a nurse some day or at least someone who knows what's going on so I'm thinking of becoming a nurse. I can't stand blood though and other fluids, forget about it. Someone will puke and I'd be puking right along with them. Selfishly, I'm nervous about this. At least with Information Tech I can get off of work, sleep and write but if I'm a nurse I'd barely have time to breath. As I said, selfishly. I'll figure it out.
Anyway, to back track, I released 'The Ghost of Mary Beth' on Smashwords.com in July and it was so well received that I'm seriously thinking putting it on Amazon too. I don't know, I still get incredibly nervous when I release a new story. There's always that what if. What if people just hate it, I'd be crushed. But then again with the good comes the bad and I have no choice but to wait and see what people think.
I have another story called 'Mended' that I'll be releasing on Smashwords on October 24th. I love this story. I love a lot of my stories but this one is different. The heroine was so much fun to write but my favorite character in the whole entire book believe it or not was the dog. It's crazy but I loved him. He reminded me of my own crazy dog (RIP Cricket!). I'm just putting some finishing touched on 'Mended' before it's release date and I'm nervously excited.
So, all and all, things have been good. There's been a little bit of change but not so much where life became unrecognizable in some way. If it's another two or three months until my next entry I hope I have some great and juicy things to share. If not juicy I'll always have a bit of good news.
Well I'm going to sign off now. It's a little chilly and late to head out so I'll just say enjoy your night!
Until next time!
Monday, June 23, 2014
Hello!!!!
HI GUYS!!!!
I am so sorry it took me so long to write but I've been in crazy editing mode. It helps having my sister help me edit though. Now I'm editing what she edited which is a little crazy I know but I like to make sure my books are what my readers want to read.
So I completely changed The Bloody Woman. I gave it a new title, a new cover and changed a ton of the scenes. It's flowing a lot better now and I can't wait to publish it. But while I'm doing this, I'm also editing Runaway, Her Protector, Succulent and like five other stories, so I've been super, super busy.
Then the other day I found an old box of floppy disks that have tons of my old stories on them. I had to use my old laptop to check them out. There were stories on there that dated back to when I was in high school so it was a real time trip for me. I think I'm going to chuck most of the stories but I found an R.L. Stine-esque story, that wrote when I was a junior, that I want to rewrite and publish. I think I have to slow down though. I have so many stories bouncing around in my head that I have incomplete stories written down everywhere. I can't wait to finish them though and start a new crop.
So just keep an eye out for The Ghost Of Mary Beth which is the new name of The Bloody Woman. I'll be publishing it very, very soon. I also hope to have Runaway and Succulent(which will be free) out soon and the Alexia Barrett Mystery Series out soon as well.
Anyway, I'm going to enjoy a day out. It's sunny and warm and I'm going to take a stroll. This morning when I was doing my three miles in the park near my house, I saw that the frogs where out now and it was like a plague of them. I mean there were so many that this lady literally ran out of the park and into the street. They are so tiny, I know I stepped on a few. I've always loved them though. When I was a little girl I'd catch the really big ones and bring them home for my mom to see and she would freak out, which gave my dad a real chuckle. And if I caught a garter snake, forget it. She would ban me from the house for the day. Apparently she has a bad snake, frog and turtle phobia.
Maybe I'll head into the city instead, I'm already branded a frog killer. Enjoy your day, it's a beaut!! Don't forget your sunscreen. Trust me, you need it today!
With Love,
Marie
I am so sorry it took me so long to write but I've been in crazy editing mode. It helps having my sister help me edit though. Now I'm editing what she edited which is a little crazy I know but I like to make sure my books are what my readers want to read.
So I completely changed The Bloody Woman. I gave it a new title, a new cover and changed a ton of the scenes. It's flowing a lot better now and I can't wait to publish it. But while I'm doing this, I'm also editing Runaway, Her Protector, Succulent and like five other stories, so I've been super, super busy.
Then the other day I found an old box of floppy disks that have tons of my old stories on them. I had to use my old laptop to check them out. There were stories on there that dated back to when I was in high school so it was a real time trip for me. I think I'm going to chuck most of the stories but I found an R.L. Stine-esque story, that wrote when I was a junior, that I want to rewrite and publish. I think I have to slow down though. I have so many stories bouncing around in my head that I have incomplete stories written down everywhere. I can't wait to finish them though and start a new crop.
So just keep an eye out for The Ghost Of Mary Beth which is the new name of The Bloody Woman. I'll be publishing it very, very soon. I also hope to have Runaway and Succulent(which will be free) out soon and the Alexia Barrett Mystery Series out soon as well.
Anyway, I'm going to enjoy a day out. It's sunny and warm and I'm going to take a stroll. This morning when I was doing my three miles in the park near my house, I saw that the frogs where out now and it was like a plague of them. I mean there were so many that this lady literally ran out of the park and into the street. They are so tiny, I know I stepped on a few. I've always loved them though. When I was a little girl I'd catch the really big ones and bring them home for my mom to see and she would freak out, which gave my dad a real chuckle. And if I caught a garter snake, forget it. She would ban me from the house for the day. Apparently she has a bad snake, frog and turtle phobia.
Maybe I'll head into the city instead, I'm already branded a frog killer. Enjoy your day, it's a beaut!! Don't forget your sunscreen. Trust me, you need it today!
With Love,
Marie
Friday, May 2, 2014
Webpage!
Hi everyone,
I'm going to be quick today, my sister just had an operation so I'm hanging out with her today. I just wanted to let you guys know that I made a webpage after months of trying to decide if I should or shouldn't make a webpage I finally decided to do it. On my webpage I will let you guys know when a book is going to be released and what books are available. So bookmark my page and keep an eye out for my book releases and rereleases.
My page is: http://rockedit82.wix.com/marie-writes. You can even leave a comment.
Enjoy this gorgeous day!!!!!
I'm going to be quick today, my sister just had an operation so I'm hanging out with her today. I just wanted to let you guys know that I made a webpage after months of trying to decide if I should or shouldn't make a webpage I finally decided to do it. On my webpage I will let you guys know when a book is going to be released and what books are available. So bookmark my page and keep an eye out for my book releases and rereleases.
My page is: http://rockedit82.wix.com/marie-writes. You can even leave a comment.
Enjoy this gorgeous day!!!!!
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Runaway, TBW, Mended and others.
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
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
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