New Widget!

I just added a new word progress meter to the blog! I'm excited! I've always seen them around and I couldn't figure out how to get one, but after extensive web research (bless the internet), I finally found it! So as you can see I've just barely started Deadly Fury, but I'm hoping the sad little meter will give me incentive to write.

Next week, on Tuesday, I'm going to be featured on Jalisa Blackman's blog as I answer questions for her "Minority Report". So come over and check it out. The link to the website is bellow. More updates soon!

http://jmblackmanwriting.wordpress.com/

First Edits Done!

I have finally finished the first round of edits on Deadly Caress! I'm so excited.  I feel like things are moving, and I couldn't be more happy. So I've sent it off to my amazing agent, Nicole Resciniti, and now I'm waiting for her to finish and then on to round two of edits!

Also I've realized that my brain hates/loves me. I'd planned to take a little break before starting Deadly Fury, Book 2, but the ideas won't stop coming. So I've started working on it. Here's a little taste of it. The opening paragraph...

Tear-assing down a back alley after demon scum, Zorn was mad enough to spit fire, literally. Though the fire would come from his hands, not his mouth, it wouldn't be any less fucking effective. When he caught the bastard he was going to barbecue the fucker; demon nuts roasting on an open fire. And he would enjoy every damn minute of it. 

More updates soon!

Deadly Caress Ending Party!

I AM OFFICIALLY FINISHED WITH DEADLY CARESS! It's party time baby! I feel so great for having finally finished this story that I've been working on since last October. My baby has finally been born. Now it's time to watch it grow up. I'll start edits on the manuscript tonight, and I'm even more excited to get started doing that. It'll be great to read my story from start to finish, while editing it of course, to see the entire product together. So the finished result of working on this book while in school and the mad dash I've done to get it finished since school ended is a 377 page 113, 469 word manuscript! Of course I haven't edited yet so that will definitely change, but I'm still happy I accomplished something so great. All those who have done it know that writing a book is not easy. Hell, it's hard, but when you do what you love it doesn't feel so much like work.

I want to thank my mother who has been a giant help as I've written this manuscript. She's edited Every chapter  (there are 30 and a prologue) laughed and got frustrated with me over the characters and the plot. She's helped me develop the story and given me ideas when I was stuck, so thank you so much! And now she and I are going to start from the beginning and edit the hell out of it! Deadly Caress is the second manuscript I've finished, but it's the first I've seriously thought about getting published, and it's the first one that I think is good enough to publish.

On another note, I plan on starting writing the next book in the Deadly Seven serious after I finish the edits of DC. I'm really excited to start that book too! The next book will be about the deadly sin Wrath and will probably pick up a few months after Deadly Caress ends. I have a name for the book, but I'm not sure how much I love it. So right now it's called Deadly Fury, but I was also thinking of Deadly Fire. I'll post more updates on the second book soon!