Going to try and revive this feature. A little late in the day (night?) but I was cleaning the house (gasp!) and then conked myself out on an allergy pill. Fortunately, I had Thomas on, so my little didn’t go wandering off.
But! That means tonight is for writing, and I have an old project that’s come out of the woodwork with a new plot and a new hope. So, to celebrate, here’s basically the theme song of the piece.
Kinda fitting when you’re writing immortals, lol.
My villanelle poem, “Build the Wall”, has been accepted by The Quarterday Review as part of the new Poets Respond category. It will also have the honor of being published in the upcoming Samhain issue. Currently, you can read it from the Quarterday’s Facebook page.
There is a perfect silence, for the moment.
No machines run. No dogs bark. No clocks tick.
It has been done. Oh, great hallelujah, it has been done.
Softly, gently, the pencil moves, never quite disturbing the silence which enfolds the space as a heavy blanket.
Words flow, a quiet river of contentment, creativity thrives.
Shriek! A cry. Silence broken. The blanket shredded beyond all hope…
The toddler has arisen from his nap.
(Just a bit of silliness to share)
It’s here! It’s here!
We’ve got a great bunch of stories here, and I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
Available for Kindle.
So state of things: still working on my novel, but hitting a funk; trying to work on blog posts for the Fable Online; there was a small hiccup in the formatting of Volume II, but it should be on the way soon; oh, and I’m working on a poem for some crazy reason. We’ll see if I end up doing anything with it.
But even with all of that, I needed to take a break and do some reading. Seeing as my job is near the main library (w00t!), I decided to head down there and find something to read.
Now, one of the things I do like doing as a writer is grab things that aren’t necessarily in my precise writing genre but still fit within the larger genre/sub-genre mold I’m going for. Basically, since I write romantic fantasy (or romantasy) in a spec-fic/urban fiction specific way, I like going for romantic fantasy that’s rural or epic. I want to see how others work with the tropes, but don’t want to steal plot ideas, you know?
Reason why this is important is because I went directly to new fantasy paperbacks section in the library. And found this:
Looked pretty neat. The blurb intrigued me too:
For centuries, Cormack has lived between worlds—a man trapped in the body of a wolf, shunned by humans and shifters alike. Only one person has ever welcomed his company: Elen, a kindred outcast who is feared by others of her ancient Celtic race for her strange healing abilities. Cormack has always valued Elen’s kindness and understanding, but after a desperate act of friendship causes Elen to free him from his curse, he realizes he wants more. He wants all of her—completely and forever.
Except before Cormack can win Elen’s heart, Pendaran, the evil leader of the Guardians, captures her, determined to manipulate her incredible power to aid him in his twisted war against the shapeshifting tribes. Now Cormack must use all of his skills as a warrior and a wolf to save the woman he loves—before Pendaran’s vile schemes destroy them all…
Okay. So probably a bit more romantic than I was going for, but it sounds pretty epic here.
But. It’s not the first book of the series. And I’m one of those that has to read the rest of the series. I hate picking up in the middle. But hey! The library has the rest of the series.
…it’s here that I must confess my own idiocy. So taken was I of that first blurb, for book three, that I didn’t look at the blurbs for the rest of the series. That probably would have saved me a lot of headache here.
Which is how I ended up reading this:
