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Morning everyone!

I’ll keep the stats quick because there’s an interesting trend that I’ve noticed these last two pitch sessions that I’d like to give my two cents on.

So, we had:

59 – Pitches received

13 – Too long

8 – Missing Info

1 – No pitch? (Must have been a mistake send?)

7 – Over 30 pitch limit.

On to my gripe/concern/question…

What’s with the fluff?

I’ve been receiving pitches on colored backgrounds, with emoticons, with sig lines that take up another page and a half of the e-mail, and even a couple that played music in the background.

Now to me, and we’re all entitled to our opinion, these kinds of additions to pitches/queries/submissions is not only highly unprofessional, it’s annoying!

I can’t impress enough that this is a business. While e-mail makes submitting to an agent or editor that much easier, it also seems to make some people think it’s a less formal way to reach the industry professional. There are VERY few agents or editors that I’ve had the occasion to speak with who enjoy or even tolerate anything more than the standard pitch/query.

I know of one that will give a form rejection immediately for ‘fluff’ stuff.

When you’re contacting an industry professional, keep it simple. Name, contact info, book info, relevant writing experience (and even this should be limited), is about all you need. The fluff doesn’t show your creativity. Do that with your writing.

Now, I’d like to welcome Stan Soper with the Soper Literary Agency, and creator of an awesome writer’s site you may have heard me mention on occasion, TextNovel.

Stan, please let me know if there are any pitches you’d like to see more of, and feel free to add your two cents in the comments below.

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#1

How To Marry A Warlock In 10 Days

Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

Word Count: 80,673

Hijinks and outrageous fun are back in force for the second book of the 10 Days story arc. Grace and Caspian are living Happily Ever After in Hell, but there’s fresh evil threatening the magickal world and only Midnight Cherrywood and Dred Shadowins can stop it.

With the Big Boss and the Bigger Boss on their side, what could go wrong? Aside from the fact that Middy’s been jilling off to Dred’s likeness in Weekly Warlock for years and Dred is spying for the High Chancellor playing at being the cavalier playboy? The lamia. (This is the fresh evil, or not so fresh depending on the time of the month.) A Bitch Kitty Deluxe that could destroy that fabric of the world, but no magick can stop her.

The ten days? Dred’s mother slips Middy a potion at a hen party and she has to marry Dred in ten days or they’ll both lose their magick. Maybe they should have let mom know they were just posing as affianced?

Cursed sex toys, leather pants, self-sacrifice, and the light that can be found in the darkest of places round out this journey to Happily Ever After.

*** 

#2

His Obsession

Contemporary Series Romance

53,000 words

Desperate to save her beloved brother from possible political ruin, always sensible Isabella Dipaolo follows an impetuous plan to steal an incriminating letter from powerful mogul, Duncan “Mac” Macpherson. Mac lets Isabella steal the letter, his first step in using her to bring down the man he believes responsible for his sister’s death.  However, he doesn’t count on his own weakness for the tempting Isabella.

Against her better judgment, Isabella succumbs to the passion that burns between them, not realizing her seduction is part of Mac’s master plan. He delivers an ultimatum: be jailed for theft or become his mistress. When she agrees to be Mac’s mistress, Isabella finds herself in a prison of another kind with a jailer she doesn’t want to escape.  Soon, it’s not just her brother she’s trying to save as Isabella struggles to prevent Mac’s need for revenge from destroying them both.

If only she can convince Mac that there’s more than lust between them, that she’s more than just…his obsession.

*** 

#3

Redeeming Characters 

Contemporary romance

79,000 words

Animals may bite but people always suck. It’s the motto thirty-two year old Drue has lived by all his life. He longs for the snow to melt so he can disappear into the wild with nary a nitwit to be seen—to escape the confines of a narrow-minded and cloying society.  Yet, when he discovers an old friend has published the book he helped create, a new plan surfaces. Revenge.

Bestselling author Dakota Whitmore is in a slump. Sure, her husband is dead and she’s adopted his long-time mistress’s child, but she’s endured more difficult things.  Maybe what she needs is a little help, a beta reader who will tell her that her work hasn’t turned into a steaming cow pie. How about uber sexy Drue, the man who helped her pen her first—and only, bestseller? Nothing could possibly go wrong. Right?

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#4

Highland Captive

Historical Romance

94,000 words

Laird Duncan Ranald has good reason to hate all things English. They nearly wiped out his clan. Discovering the luscious beauty who washed up on his shore and stoked his lust is English, he decides to keep her as his leaman for a little revenge.

English-born Lady Alera of Arundrydge is a procrastinating defender and nurturer. She wishes to avenge crimes against her family and find her father, who is missing and presumed dead. When Viking slavers steal her, she escapes only to be caught by a big, sexy barbarian, whose touch ignites passion.

Realizing she’s his soul mate, Duncan decides to wed her, but Alera won’t cooperate. Escaping Duncan  becomes more and more impossible for Alera as she helps his clan and he creeps into her heart. But if she stays, how will she gain vengeance and what will become of her father?

Set in the Scottish Highlands, Highland Captive is a 12th century humorous romantic romp, in which the pairing of enemies, whose antics sizzle off the page, prove love can lead to happily-ever-after. (Rewrite of Golden Heart Finalist: Highland Destiny).

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#5

MY LIFE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Young Adult

51,000 words

Fifteen-year-old aspiring actress Amanda Martin gets more than she bargained for when she’s an extra in a movie filmed in Chicago starring her favorite teen heartthrob, Josh Brennan.  After a picture of them appears in the paper, mushrooming Internet gossip and cruel anonymous texts upset her.  She wants to be known for her talent and fears her reputation is trashed.  Thanks to her disapproving parents and their troubled marriage, she already has plenty to worry about.

Her parents won’t let her work on the movie again or be interviewed so she can set the record straight.  Amanda vows to change their minds.  She also wants to date junior Justin Clark, who’s in the school play and choir with her.  Despite a great first kiss, he hasn’t asked her to Winter Dance.  Josh does; she’s disappointed to learn his invitation was just a publicity stunt, again putting her in the public eye for the wrong reasons.  But he helps her learn not to care what others think even when a girl dumps the punch bowl on her and everyone laughs.  When Justin sets aside his nerves and asks her out, they celebrate with a dance in the spotlight.

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#6

SHIFT HAPPENS
Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy (m/m)
83,000 words

Risk-averse anthropologist ADRIAN THORNAPPLE has been playing it safe with an office job, but when his neighbor ODs on his doorstep, he finally gets that life is short, civilization doesn’t mean safe, and that he should follow his dreams. He agrees to go on an Amazon expedition, but the journey morphs into a nightmare of illegal drugs, slave labor, and a terrifying quest through the rainforest and across the spirit plane. Lost and desperate, Adrian partners with secret operative CAPTAIN THOMAS FERRELL, who has been unwittingly shape-shifted into a savage man-eating jaguar. Together they find the lost temple, bring down the drug lords, and fall in love. In this Brokeback Mountain meets Beauty and the Beast darkly humorous gay paranormal romance, Adrian just wants to go home… until he learns that saving the world is a lot more fun than returning to his corporate cubicle!

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#7

The Green Eyed Doll

Romantic Suspense 

93,000 words

Catherine McCoy keeps her past a secret, moving on before the busybodies and newshounds discover her whereabouts and ruin any chance she has for normalcy.  She’s worked hard to regain her independence and learn self-defense.  All she wants now is a chance to start over.  In her latest stop, she meets the sheriff who ignites a flame she thought lost forever.  But not telling him about her past will cost her dearly.

Sheriff Matt Ballard is hunting a killer who kidnaps green eyed women, paints their lips red, ties a matching bow around their necks and leaves them looking like a porcelain doll.  Fear and suspicions boil over, and local vigilantes begin their own hunt.  In the midst of the turmoil, Matt falls for Catherine, a fiery redheaded newcomer in town.  When her past is plastered across the front page, he can’t forgive her secrets and lies. 

Catherine is kidnapped, but the killer discovers this woman is different.  She fights to save her own life…again.  She has no intensions of becoming another Green Eyed Doll.

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#8

Twin Justice

Romantic Suspense

93,000 words

Assigned a murder investigation, the new FBI partners’ hunt for a female vigilante who’s cutting the throat’s of America’s most monstrous criminals.  The team uncovers an organization called The Final Justice Unit, which serves as judge and jury eliminating offenders who’ve managed to slip through the judicial system. 

Alexis Turner has finally landed a transfer to the coveted Special Investigations Unit.  A firefighter’s widow, she’s devoted to her identical twin who’s recovering from a brutal rape and beating.  Alexis and Dalton deny the sexual tension and growing affection but fall in love in spite of their efforts.  Suspended when an artist’s sketch of the killer is a dead ringer for her, Alexis believes Dalton’s betrayed her.  She’ll go undercover and put her life in jeopardy to bring down the vigilante organization.

Dalton Murphy isn’t sure about his new partner’s capabilities.  He’s waited for the one case which will catapult him to fame.  He wants to transfer to the elite Secret Service and protect the President, proving he’s capable of saving the highest ranking official in the nation.  Dalton violates direct orders to prove her innocence.  He’ll uncover facts sure to destroy her family and lose her love forever.

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#9

Candy’s Man

Contemporary Romance

Approx. 59K

‘Roses are red’ and so are shoes.  Recently divorced and encouraged by her two best friends, Candy Walker surrenders to temptation and buys an extravagant pair of red shoes to boost her spirits.  She is not to know that the purchase will begin a chain-reaction of events which will change her life forever. 

Cleve Hammond is a man with a secret.  A passionate encounter with Candy while on a holiday cruise leaves him decidedly miffed when she runs out on him but that is the least of his problems.

While relegating Cleve to a holiday ‘fling’, Candy doesn’t know all hell is about to break loose until she meets her new ‘boss’.  Cleve has been catapulted into her life and his twin brother, Nash, brings his own share of turmoil.

Will the situation jeopardise everything Cleve has worked so hard to conceal?  Will Candy find her way through the ensuing chaos and learn to trust again?

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#10

The Land of Imagining

Fantasy YA
80,000 words

Alexia thinks she’s just an ordinary girl with a lofty goal – to become a best-selling novelist. But a magical pen and a story she writes about a mystical Land of Imagining blighted by evil challenges everything she knows. Alexia isn’t human, she’s an All-Knower, their Chosen One with the ability to control them with her pen.

Before she can write to save everyone, the leader of the demons steals the pen and captures Alexia’s family. In a race against time, Alexia must trust demons so she can find the demon’s secret lair and save her family, and people, before the Land of Imagining becomes the Land of Terror.

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#11

Love and Lies

Paranormal romance

Word Count: 95,947

After the death of her mother in 1808, Dara became a duke’s mistress, something she’d sworn never to do, to support her orphaned siblings.  Returning home after ending the two-year affair, she finds her brothers dead and the duke claiming responsibility.  She tries to avenge them but instead ends up with a blank period in her memory and a new life as a vampire.  Protecting her remaining sister’s descendents became her only means of salvation.  Now in the 21st century, the duke is back and has a confession to make.

 Anthony had walked the earth for a millennium in service of the vampire council when he bought Dara’s innocence in an attempt to stave off boredom.  When her brothers were killed by another vampire, he claimed responsibility to keep her from hunting the true killer in hopes of keeping her safe and failed.  That failure has haunted him ever since.  A chance arrives for him to clear the air and make one additional confession: he wants her back in his arms for all time.

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#12

Minder

YA paranormal romance

48K words

A movement along the edge of the cliff caught my attention. A small rabbit nibbled at a tuft of clover growing between the rocks. I came to attention like a pointer. My nose began to quiver and my mouth water. I twitched my butt.

Without thought, I bolted out of the house after the rabbit. My blood raced and I breathed in short sharp pants. I could hear the creature’s heart pound and smell his warm vibrant flesh.

He took three frightened leaps and disappeared into the forest. I skidded to a stop, trembling so hard my teeth rattled.

What’s wrong with meI wanted to take a bite out of a poor defenseless little bunny. I pursed my lips and screwed up my face. Gross doesn’t begin to cover it. This is way past PMSing. 

Tears welled up and spilled down my cheeks.

I turn eighteen tomorrow. Surely, there’s no connection.

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#13

“Rushes”

Women’s Fiction/Literary Fiction

Word count 61,500 

Coming of age in the turbulent 60’s of the South, Sara Jones navigates her way through poverty and discrimination, as well as physical and sexual abuse to find a way to escape her lot in life (a life which her mother terms having a ’snake-bit’ fate).  

Johnny’s love gives her hope for a bright future but his death in Vietnam painfully closes that door.  Her pursuit of a college education spurns her desire for better things but an abusive husband puts a halt to that endeavor.

Will Sara find a way to break free of her ’snake-bit’ future?  Are the voices she has come hear telling her the way out or pulling her deeper into a void that she so desperately wants to leave behind?   

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#14

Don’t Cross the Line

Paranormal Romance

Word Count 100,000

Don’t Cross the Line is a 100,000 word novel, the first in a series of stories. This one follows Gemma Davies, a were-tiger. She is reaching the age where her alpha and father demands that she must find a mate, or he will find one for her.

However the man that she loves, Cade MacDonald can never be hers, he is of another species of shape shifter, a werewolf, and to be together would mean execution for them both.

When the female heir of a neighbouring pack is murdered, Gemma must work alongside Cade to find out who killed her. It doesn’t look like the murderer is done though. Gemma is attacked in her own home; she escapes and lands in the arms of Cade. While she fights to keep her distance from him, fate keeps on throwing her right back at his feet.

She meets Karl Ellis, another were-tiger like herself, a potential mate. Cade does everything in his power to prove that Karl is just using Gemma. When the evidence from the case begins to build up and it all starts to point to Karl, Gemma considers that Cade might have been correct.

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#15

TERMS OF SURRENDER

Historical
Word count: approx. 105,000

While her father and older brother confront redcoat forces, Kate Chambers is
entrusted with the upkeep of the family farm. As the burden of chores
increases, her younger siblings are often more hindrance than help. And now
she’s discovered an injured man in her hayfield.

A deserter from the invading British army, Stephen Blackthorn is in search
of a home in a world where he doesn’t belong. Patriot and Loyalist alike
view him as the enemy. Then Kate, ignorant of his identity, takes him in.

Will he find a place in her heart, or will the wider conflict of the war
drive them apart?

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#16

MYSTIC MISFIT
Young Adult
75,000 words
 

At sixteen, Megan Delaney is suddenly able to see ghosts and read people’s minds. This makes her a mosaic—a person possessing pieces of supernatural powers—and not welcome in the town of Collingsbrook. Keeping her new abilities on the down low is her top priority, but she decides to share her secret with her good friend Ryan. He swears not to tell a soul.

When word gets out at school, Megan becomes a target. She can’t believe Ryan betrayed her this way. Her classmates tease, torment and threaten her, and then the coolest guy in school offers to make it all go away. Tyler, the hunkiest player on the school’s football team who Megan’s dreamed about for, like, ever, says he’ll be her bodyguard and date for the upcoming fall formal—and help her show others that mosaics aren’t the bad guys they’re made out to be.

All Tyler wants in return is for Megan to use her powers for what he calls a “teeny-weenie” favor. One that feels wrong on too many levels.

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#17

INHALE

Urban Fantasy Romance

98,000 words

Marine biologist ZOE MORGAN is a die-hard believer in the power of reason.  So when fanciful scenes of a mystery lover and deadly fire creatures begin playing in her dreams, she writes them off as byproducts of an overactive imagination. Until people from her fantasies appear in reality, and she’s faced with two disturbing conclusions: either she’s lost her mind, or her irrational suspicions are true – she’s been targeted by Fire Elements in a scheme to overthrow the Sentinels, including her lover, who protect Elemental balance and shield humans from harm.

Waylaid by a career-crippling case of creativity block, bad boy musician GAVIN CASSIDY finds his muse when he’s summoned back to duty by the Dreaming – a parallel world where dreams mirror reality – to rescue a woman who holds the key to a weapon he and his fellow Sentinels need to stop the Fires.  Torn between a growing attraction to the muse and his responsibility to the humans he’s sworn to defend, he must choose between losing the only woman he’s ever loved or serving up innocents to the jaws of insatiable Fire Elements who feed off emotions, leaving insanity in their wake.

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#18

TWO BROTHERS

Contemporary Romance

Word count: 85,000

When fourth generation farmer, Jacob Henderson stomped on her heart nearly ten years ago, Amanda Riley made the biggest mistake of her life – she ran off and married his younger brother. 

Amanda, now divorced, returns to her small hometown a successful horse trainer and National Cutting Horse Champion to set up her own training facility.  Nothing could have prepared her for falling in love with Jacob all over again.  But how can she risk her heart a second time knowing the secrets she keeps could destroy any chance they have? 

Brought together to save an abused horse, Jacob sees an opportunity to have the love and family he’s always wanted.  But he struggles with Amanda’s past marriage to his brother, after all marriage is forever.  When his brother shows up claiming to want Amanda back, Jacob must decide between family loyalty and love for Amanda.

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#19

THE DAUGHTER

Contemporary Romance with elements of suspense

Word count:  93,000

How could a man she’s never met change her life forever and provide her with the love and family she believed would never be hers? 

Abandoned at birth, Katie Delynski believes love and relationships are learned.  And she hasn’t learned anything good about either.  When multi-millionaire, Keith O’Neil kills himself, Katie discovers he is her father and someone hurt by his indiscretions wants her to pay for his mistakes.  Katie meets the O’Neil family and their friend, Conner Patterson, who is on leave from the police department.  They stir a sense of belonging she is afraid to believe in. 

As a social worker, Katie’s mission is to get prostitutes off the street.  When she buys an abandoned building for a woman’s shelter, Conner jumps at the opportunity to renew his passion for restoring old structures and offers his help.  Katie finds herself falling in love with Conner, but fear he’ll walk away if he learns the secret driving her true mission, keeps her from acting on those feelings.  Conner isn’t afraid of the love he feels for Katie, he’s scared he won’t be able to protect her when someone wants her to die for her father’s sins.  

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#20

A Demon’s Redemption

Paranormal Romance

Word Count: 88,061

Lorelei is your typical college student – who happens to have a talent for sniffing out demons and sending them back to hell, kind of like a psychic bloodhound. But once a year, she must help one of the fallen earn their way back into heaven. How do they do that? By atoning for their sins. And so far, everything is working out for her – until she meets Azazel, son of Azazeal, a member of the Underworld hierarchy. Does the demon fall far from the seed? She has a month to find out.

Azazel has always lived in the shadows of his father’s misdeeds. But redemption is his one chance to break free of his father’s sins. If only he hadn’t promised to bring down Lorelei for his bid for freedom. Will he keep his promise to his father – or to the woman he comes to love?

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#21

Highland Magic

Paranormal Time Travel

Approx. 90,000 Words

Magazine writer REMY PARKER will try anything to nail her story.  Even when the story mirrors her own life. When Remy’s Wiccan foster mother offers the assistance of her group of off-kilter friends to cast a compatibility spell, Remy puts herself in their bumbling hands. In the midst of spell casting, a costly blunder occurs.

Soon Remy’s life is taking a drastic turn. Not only is the spell one to help Remy find her soul mate, but one that sends her to Scotland in the year 1696 to locate him. Remy believes she is dead. All she can do now is wait for her angel to take her to heaven. Instead, what she gets is a kilted madman on horseback.

Driven by revenge for the murder of his wife and unborn child, Alexander MacDonald has vowed to keep his remaining children safe from the British. In a hurry to returning home, Alex runs down a woman alone. Her unconscious state compels him to aid her. Even though her strange behavior drives him daft, he finds her hard to resist. Alex must decide if he can give up his revenge in order to make a new life with Remy.

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#22

The Transformation of Aurora Sage

Women’s Fiction-Paranormal Romance

Word Count-34,553 (and counting)

Would you be interested in my book, The Transformation of Aurora Sage, which is about a young woman with Dryad lineage who falls instantly in love with an Italian Vampire of Satyr ancestry?  The story follows Aurora from overworked office worker who hates almost everyone in her life, except her twin sister, Autumn, to becoming a ravenous carnivore with an insatiable blood lust. Ultimately, she learns of her family heritage and the reason for Aleandro’s obsession with her and comes to terms with what she has become.  

I believe my story has enough of a twist with the right amount of romance balanced with violence to be an extremely enjoyable read for any and all fans of the genre. 

I appreciate you taking the time to read this and am looking forward to a response soon.

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#23

Unintended

mainstream romantic suspense

80K words

A widower, who would have preferred to be a divorcee, finds herself falling for the guy who fed her husband tips, via e-mail, on how to win her heart, and who, in the process, fell in love with her himself. Does she stick to her rules of “no kissing, no touching, no holding hands, no candy, no flowers, no gifts” or should she open her heart to love?

An undercover agent must find a way to infiltrate the loose-lipped, bar-hopping, upper-crust Charleston social scene and knows that his former best friend’s wife is one of the stars of this crowd. Does he tell her that he knows who she is or does he keep it a secret so she’ll fall in love with him for himself instead of the person she fell in love with years before?

Together they solve the mystery of her husband/his friend’s death and realize that they’ve been in love with one another all along.

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#24

Having a Wonderful Time

Women’s Fiction Mystery/suspense

Word count 50,300

A serial killer is ravaging Houston and the case fell right into Detective Megan Garrison’s lap, but the question remains, is she ready?

Homicide Detective Megan Garrison is freshly back from a six month medical/psych leave after the murder of her sister left her questioning herself, to say the least.  Now, with the approval from her psychiatrist, Dr. Amy Poole, she is back to prove that she has what it takes to get the job done.  Megan and her Partner Jason Matthews investigate a homicide that leads them to the conclusion that not only has a serial killer made Houston its feeding ground, but this murder was not the first and most assuredly won’t be the last.

Now, while following the trail of blood, Megan tries to get a break in the case and at the same time reassemble all the pieces in her life that are already broken.

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#25

Truth Be Told

Single Title Romance

90,000 words

Home for Christmas, Meg Bourland discovers her father is being blackmailed.  When her attempt to help is rebuffed, the Atlanta SWAT team member enlists the help of her LA police officer brother and his partner to uncover the truth.  Meg’s rule of no involvement with anyone in law enforcement is in jeopardy when she’s attracted to her brother’s partner.

Scott McClaine came to Fort Worth to celebrate Christmas and recuperate from a life-threatening bullet wound he received saving Meg’s brother’s life.  He finds himself embroiled in family scandal, solving a crime, and falling for his partner’s sister.  Scott struggles to accept his new physical limitations and control his growing interest in Meg. 

Meg learns a dark and dangerous secret.  The truth threatens to ruin her father’s career as mayor and destroy the family she holds dear.  As they put together the pieces of this puzzle, Meg and Scott face their own personal truths and discover love requires selflessly giving to each other.

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#26

Jump, Fall

Romance – Contemporary women
60,000 words

Katie Scarborough isn’t like all the other Southern Belles that surround her. She’s brunette, she’s freckled. She’s also short and a little more round than the pageant queens that seem to fill her world. To top things off, she’s painfully shy as well. The one thing that ties her to her Southern sisters is the dream that the fairy tales they all heard as young ladies will somehow come true.

Throughout her coming of age years, she suffers a series of miscues and embarrassments where gentlemen are concerned. She begins to wonder if the fairy tales are just lies and if a girl who doesn’t quite fit the norm is capable of being loved. Although, once she goes off to college and catches the eye of her dream man, she starts to think maybe she was better off single.

Set in the fictional town of Dunham, Mississippi, Katie’s story is the first in a series of novels featuring the quirky, yet lovable characters of the Mississippi Delta. The second novel in the series is completed, a third is in the beginning stages.

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#27

Vermont Escape

Single Title Romance

88,000 words

Jill Barlow, a Fort Worth socialite, relocates to Woodstock, after her husband and father, a Texas state representative, are killed because of his fight to stop casino gambling from coming to the state.  She’s stunned to find herself drawn toward a hardheaded Yankee, a Vermont assemblyman.  But his negative reaction to her fits right into her plan to never get involved with another politician.

Jerrod Phillips is shocked to find he’s attracted to the Texan he suspects could be involved in the murders.  He’s afraid she’s like his ex-wife, who years ago deserted him and their two young children, resulting in his somewhat irrational hatred of blondes from the Lone Star state. 

Jill’s peaceful new life is shattered when her home is ransacked, her shop broken into, and Jerrod’s brother kidnaps her.  He demands the flash drive, which the gambling syndicate believes she has.  When he fails, he’s murdered, and they physically threaten Jill.  She must choose between putting her and her friends’ lives in jeopardy and the possibility of finding justice for the murders of her father and husband.  If she survives, is there a chance for her and Jerrod, when he holds her responsible for his brother’s death?

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#28

By Grace Alone

Contemporary women’s fiction

60,000 words

Hurricane Katrina has devastated New Orleans. Homes are crushed, streets are flooded, and a piece of Vivienne Lavoie’s spirit has been swept away with the receding waters as she works diligently to put her beloved city back together. It’s her job as a civil engineer, but she also feels it’s her responsibility to ensure her heritage isn’t lost in the wake of the storm.

An unexpected pregnancy forces Vivienne to choose between her beloved city and raising her child. While pondering adoption, she meets Charlie and Samuel. Both men are trying desperately to sort through their own struggles. Through their friendship they discover the myths and legends surrounding New Orleans and that they’re able to feel normal again. They find that Vivienne makes their struggles seem bearable, until a death crashes their spirits again and forces them to reevaluate everything. It is then that they are able to begin their personal rebirths.

Because of her Louisiana heritage, the author knows the Cajun culture is rich with ghost stories, traditions, superstitions and a dialect unlike any other. Throughout BY GRACE ALONE bits of this culture are shared with readers who may never get a chance to experience it firsthand.

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#29

TANGLED HEARTS

Paranormal Romance

Word Count: 90,000 words

Luke Bennett is a man with a dark past and the single-minded goal of revenge. He wants to buy Cori Tremaine’s Kentucky horse farm, Greenhills. He plans to destroy the legacy her deceased father had built by chopping up the land to make way for a gated community.

Cori Tremaine is a photojournalist living in New York. She regrets selling her family home but she can’t maintain a large farm and have the career she loves.

Falling in love with Cori, the daughter of the man who ruined his family, rips Luke’s plans apart. As they fall in love, his lies and secrets threaten their future.

Cori’s love for Greenhills and the emotions that arise from her decision to sell brings two 17th century spirits to life. English lord Stephen Wentworth and a Gypsy, Lilianna Rossar, promised their love would live forever despite their different backgrounds. Their story is shown against the backdrop of the civil war that ultimately killed them.

When Lilianna and Stephen find out Luke is their descendant, they must break an ancient curse before it strikes down Luke and Cori whom Stephen and Lilianna believe are destined to love each other as they did.

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#30

The Midas touch

Urban/paranormal

90k approx

There’s something out there, watching, waiting, preying on people; or so they say.  Serena is a practical woman who doesn’t believe in fairy tales or myths.  So even though her best friend claims to be clairvoyant and that an evil is stalking her, Serena still doesn’t believe.  That is, until the day she was attacked while running to grab lunch.  When she awakes her concept of reality is challenged by the god-like man at her bedside, and the society he inhabits.  A society that has existed for a millennium since before the ancients themselves, they hold the truth of all mankind, all myths and all legends.  Her protector Darius is the reason she lives and is sworn to uphold the laws of his world.  Can they destroy this evil? Or must he destroy her to save them all?

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Good Luck everyone!

That’s all folks.

STOP!

We’ve reached our limit for pitches and now I get to sift through and see how many I can keep and how many get the dreaded delete treatment.

Good luck to all the pitches that make it.

They’ll be posted in the morning!

Thanks for participating.

IT’S PITCH DAY

Morning all!

Well it’s pitch day, but I’m sure everyone who entered our ‘for fun’ title contest is interested in the results. I have to tell you the choice wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped. I’m a sucker for titles!

However, since I can only choose one, the winner of this months top pitch slot is:

Saranna DeWylde

‘The Princess and the Copper’

Saranna, send me your pitch!

For the rest – good luck and I wish you all the best!

Without further delay…

“GO”

Hey just for fun, and of course to guarantee yourself the first slot in the pitch session, leave a comment below.

Here’s the catch!
Your comment has to be a TITLE for this ‘book’.

Here’s the excerpt… just comment on what YOU would title this novel and we’ll pick a favorite from all the entires. The winner will be qaurenteed the number one slot on Sunday when Agent Shop opens.

Ready?

Annabelle couldn’t have planned life better if she’d tried. Her folks were disgustingly rich, which meant she could have anything and everything she wanted. She had a hunky boyfriend, a stylish car, and a promising career set up for her at her mother’s fashion magazine whenever she was ready.

When Lt. Greg Holton shows up on her doorstep, everything starts to fall apart. He not only brings the devastating news that her parents have disappeared under suspicious circumstances but adds that her father is the center of a fraud investigation.

Geez, and all that without the benefit of a pedicure!

Let’s see what ya got! I’ll post the winner on sunday when Agent Shop opens.

by Marie-Claude Bourque

I am delighted today to host author and 2009 RWA librarian of the year Deborah Schneider with a very inspirational post today. She reminds us all why it is that we write.

Long Time No See by Deborah Schneider

When I sold my first book as part of the New Historical Voice contest sponsored by Romantic Times Magazine and Dorchester publishing, (this was before the American Title contest Marie-Claude won) – I thought my publishing career was on a straight shot to the top.

I was already nearly finished with the next book, I had a big-time NY publisher and a few months later, I even acquired an agent. Yes, I was on my way. It was all going to be easy street from now on.

Then, something funny happened on the way to famous. Actually – nothing.

My editor never found time to read my option book. She kept promising when we talked, she said great things about my writing and about the first book. We met at a conference and even though my friend told me I was being paranoid, I got a weird vibe from her. I started to think that maybe my debut book wasn’t going to skyrocket me to success.

Eventually I shopped the option book around to agents and editors. It was a Western, set in Montana, (not Texas). I was told to consider changing the first chapter, take out the prologue and cut the word count, (when that particular publisher thought 82,000 words was long).  Most of the time I just heard, “not right for us” and “good luck”.

In the meantime, life went on. I had a family to help support, a child with a chronic disease and a demanding job. There were years that are now a blur of running to the office for a few hours before racing to the hospital to be with my son. I was still writing, or at least trying to.

And then one day, as my son lay in the critical care ward of the hospital, I closed up my laptop and said, “maybe this just isn’t going to happen again”. I realized that I only had the strength for a certain number of things and that sending things queries and partials out and getting rejected was more stress than I wanted to add to my life.  So I stopped writing.

But the stories just wouldn’t go away. Characters appeared in my thoughts and I wondered what was going to happen to them. I heard the voices of imaginary people and could see them in that secret movie place writers go to when they picture the story. Even if I wasn’t typing out the stories, they were still there.

And that’s when I realized that the important thing wasn’t getting an agent, selling the book and hitting the lists. For me, the important thing was writing the book. I was looking for outside validation from agents, publishers, reviewers and readers when really, I was the most important audience member.

So I went back to the keyboard and started another story with new characters. I found joy in the research, happiness in the process of creation and peace in the pages I added one after another.

A funny thing happened when I let go of all that “selling the book” stuff. I sold another book. It wasn’t to a big time NY publisher this time, it was to a small publishing house owned and operated by two women. I discovered an editor who loved my voice and wanted to help me CRAFT a better book. I was assigned to an artist who created a cover I think is breathtaking.

Publishing is a strange and tough business. You have no control over anything but your own attitude and the pleasure you take in the writing. For me – when I focused on the important thing, the reason I started to write in the first place, success followed.

Now that I’m enjoying the first rosy days of publication for Promise Me, I think of it as the “little book that could” and I’m the writer who couldn’t give up.

St. Valentine’s Day Contest

Follow my blog tour and each time you make a comment, you’re entered in a contest to win a free copy of “Promise Me”, chocolate, a $10 Starbucks card and some lovely Valentine’s Day goodies.

Thank you so much for sharing this story with us Deborah. I know that sometimes I get so caught up in the worried of publication that I forget to just enjoy the storytelling.

To learn more about Deborah Schneider and her writing, please visit her at www.debschneider.com

 

Got Alpha?

Song of the Day: Pull Me Under by Dream Theater

So what makes a male character Alpha? What makes the heroes we love to read about larger than life, someone to fantasize whisking us away? What makes the villains we love to hate someone we want to save?

I am Alpha. Hear me roar.

It’s not just about looking hot.  Sure, windswept hair, rugged jaw line, rock-hard muscles, piercing eyes, make us girls drool and giggle. Physical descriptions are certainly very important. Let’s face it, a Pillsbury dough boy with more hair on his back than his head who refers to his protruding gut his “shed” for his “tools” does not evoke dreamy images. Nor does the lanky, beady-eyed, pasty-skinned fellow with the nasal drip. Guys like these just are not sexy – unless you’re into that sort of thing.

But, alas, there is so much more to an Alpha male than a pretty face. No really, there is.

Like what makes him tick.

There is the man who is the tortured soul or the man seeking redemption. How about the man who has nothing to lose? Let’s not forget the man who has been once bitten and is now twice shy. Vengeance, honor, love, hate, greed, lust, these can all be a driving force behind our Alpha. The reason for who he is, his goals and motivations, are boundless in a writer’s imagination. That in itself can be the foundation for any hero to be Alpha.

Hop in.

Again, there is more to our Alpha.

His journey and his growth with his heroine are a given. That is a basic element of any romance. It’s imperative that our Alpha has a weakness. He is after all, human. Mix in the frustration, distrust, arrogance, confidence, danger — Stay with me here. I’m still referring to the Alpha. — or whatever obstacle he must overcome or change to be with his heroine and we’ve added another layer to this already complex man.

Still, there is more.

In my opinion, his mannerisms are critical. Those little nuances that are unique to him that makes the reader take notice and say “oh yeah”.

Savvy? Oh yeah!

Take pirates for example. I enjoy making the pirates I write about Alpha. And by the giggles from one of my writing friends (and she knows who she is) every time my hero, Blade, is mentioned, I guess I’m doing a fair job.

Pirates historically are vile humans. Pillaging, plundering, torturing, murdering are not heroic traits. Yet, look at Errol Flynn’s Captain Blood or Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow. They are mega Alpha heroes but still pirates. Circumstance forced Captain Blood to piracy. Jack Sparrow was born into it. Either way, these pirates have us swooning. Yummy good looks and raison d’être, a foundation and building blocks are there.

Die, you scurvy dogs!

Now think about Jack Sparrow standing proud on the yardarm of the Black Pearl with that ever slight grin on his face. Or the crazed enthusiasm in Blood’s eyes as he orders an attack. Ooh –manly.

Subtle mannerisms carefully placed throughout the tale grips the reader, not letting them forget who’s the man.   Reaching up with both hands and grabbing the door frame, he fills the space with his relaxed form. He mindlessly sharpens his gully knife and checks it’s sharpness on the back of his arm. His strides are long and meaningful. He takes a slap, or two, without flinching. Though he’s wound tight, his hand rests casually on the hilt of his cutlass hanging low on his waist. He braces a hand on the wall behind the heroine’s head, pinning her with a lusty stare before pushing off and leaving her still waiting for his kiss. (Tease.)

Internal thoughts are important, too.

They sailed close enough to see clearly through billows of smoke the silhouettes of the battling ships. He almost prayed for a stray shot to splinter his ship just so he could join in the fight. Aw, hell. Why wait? It’d been awhile since the lads had seen any real action.

And dialogue, especially between the heroine, can clinch his Alpha status.

He scanned her dusty clothing and with his heated expression she swore he could see right through her dress. “See to it that you make yourself presentable to me before I come to your cabin.”

Perhaps you should do the same for me.” Though, she imagined, if the circumstances were different, she wouldn’t even mind if he were covered in fish scales.

Could you help me with my back?

“Perhaps I shall.” He circled around her. “But not because I find it necessary. Nor would you, I think.” He leaned over her shoulder and let the last of his words drip into her ear.

Makes the testosterone palpable, doesn’t it?

My next few blogs will focus on various Alpha males. Cowboys, detectives, warriors, creatures that go bump in the night; I’ll highlight what make these guys Alpha. You can bet I’ll have some juicy eye candy to make my point.  I may also post about Alpha females and Alpha villains, too. Won’t that be fun?

by Marie -Claude Bourque

(This is a blog I previously posted at the Author’s Studio blog. Note that this method was hugely helpful when my editor told me to remove an entire character and plot line –the girlfriend and her wedding– from Ancient Whispers. I just had to follow the thread and remove it.)

I didn’t invent the Celtic Knot Method. In fact I think it’s been around for a while. I learned it last year by reading the art and craft of writing thread led by sci-fi author James D. Macdonald at the Absolutely Write forum.

It’s a great thread to read if you have the time, but let me spare you going through 5 years worth of posts to dig out explanation of the Plotting Celtic Method. I’ll try to explain it simply here.

Now, be warned that I am a self-proclaimed obssesive plotter (and I recently learned by taking a quiz set by Margie Lawson that I am a totally right-brain person!!!). There are many ways to plot a book. Or pants it. This is just one way to do it. And me loving all things Celtic, this method spoke to me.

Look at a Celtic Knot in the picture here. See the four different strands always there, how they twist around so that one is always on top, one at the bottom, one rising, one falling, then all switch around and the one strand on top falls while the bottom one rises.

These strands represent your plot lines. And these different parts where things change are your scenes. In each scene, one plot will be more dominant, but another plot will still be there, underlying but still there. I usually have many plot lines in my stories. You can read about them here.

But let me explain how this work with an example. Let’s take 4 plot lines from my story Ancient Whispers:

(1) the love relationship between hero and heroine

(2) the friendship between the heroine and her best friend

(3) The best friend’s trouble with her marriage preparation

(4) The mentoring relationship that will develop between the heroine and a mysterious woman.

I have a scene (which is more a sequel really-a reaction scene) where all we see is a conversation between the heroine and her best friend (plot- 2) but the heroine discusses the hero (plot- 1) and briefly mentions the mysterious woman (plot -4) and the scene ends with the best friend discussing her marriage prep trouble (plot-3). So all 4 plots are there but at different degrees, we can see that plot-2 is at the top and maybe plot-3 at the bottom.

Next scene starts with a call from the hero. Suddenly plot -1 is at the top and maybe I weave in other plots in there where the heroine has a brief thought about her future mentor (plot-4 rising) and, while on the phone with the hero, she picks up a jacket her best friend has forgotten at her house (plot-2).

I do drop plot lines as I go along to pick them up later. The wedding preparation trouble (plot-3) is a small subplot that I just pick up now and again. But the relationship between the hero and heroine (plot-1) is always there somewhere since this is a romance novel.

Does this make sense? Or are we lost!!!! It’s just a way to make sure we don’t have the classic “aliens descending out of nowhere” in the middle of a story. Know all your plots at the beginning and weave them in little by little.

In longer Celtic work, we also sometimes see a point where all the links are joined together. These are your High Moments, Dark Moments and Climax. This is when all your plots join together in a “all is lost” scene or at the end in the Climax when all your plots are resolved at once. It is most satisfying when you resolve all your plotlines in a big show down at the climax scenes. So make sure you bring all these plot threads to the end scene and resolve all of them in some way.

Now James D. Macdonald also looks at plotting as a chess game. I’m not so good at chess, so I’ll let you dig that information out for yourself.

So tell me, how you advance your plots?

by Marie-Claude Bourque

Hi everyone,

I am delighted to host New York Times bestselling Angie Fox, co-author of the newly released anthology MY ZOMBIE VALENTINE and author of A TALE OF TWO DEMON SLAYERS, coming  out January 26, 2010 (that’s in 5 days, yeah!)

She’s here to give us some insight into writing her very popular DemonSlayers series and invite you to take her quiz for a chance to win a copy of her latest release.

I received a fun reader email the other day from a Harley biker who wanted to ask me a “very important question.”

 

Do you know your book is in the romance section?

As if Harley riding biker witches and romance are mutually exclusive. In fact, I think everyone should read (and experience) romance in their lives. It’s fun. It makes you feel good. Come to think of it, that’s kind of what it’s like to ride a Harley.

Not that I know a lot about bikes, but I did have to learn my share in order to write A Tale of Two Demon Slayers. When I decided to write a series about a preschool teacher forced to hit the road with a gang of geriatric biker witches, research took on a whole new meaning. At one point, I found myself on the back of a coal black Harley, behind a guy named Stone, with my helmet on backwards and an Irish Setter in tow. The dog’s name was Frankie and I can tell you right now, Frankie knew a lot more about motorcycles than I did.

But I survived the bikes, even if they made me walk like John Wayne. I learned a ton at biker rallies (note to self: don’t wear pink) and I risked life and limb (at least in my mind) to get my facts right. Plus, since I have a Harley riding dog in my book, I met some of the cutest biker dogs you’ve ever seen.

The book was a kick to research, and to write. And to continue the fun, I’ve developed a highly un-scientific What’s Your Biker Witch Name? quiz. Post your biker witch name below and enter to win a copy of A Tale of Two Demon Slayers.

 Thank you Angie! My own name according to the quiz  is “Candy Knickers No Brakes.” Cute! Please share yours in the comments below and I’ll draw a winner of Angie’s book using my nifty little online random generator!

(And Angie, all I want to know is, where on earth do you get these cute Harley dogs pictures?)

by Marie-Claude Bourque

I just finished a new set of editor’s revisions which was going pretty well until I hit the comment I had saved for last because it was so hard. My editor wanted me to describe a setting better. AAhh!

Action, love scenes, magical battles, fine. But descriptions? Not my forte!

I hate descriptions, I hate settings.

I have been doing pretty well so far, mainly because I use the technique I learned in the Donald Maass workbook, to always describe the setting through the eyes of the POV characters. So I weave in bits of information through actions and dialog. Not bad at all.

But this time I had to do a whole three line of setting. My heroine Lily is in a small bar in Providence with her friend Keira and I had to describe it. I haven’t been in a bar in a while and moreover, I have now moved from RI where I wrote this book, so I cannot go and do research on site.

So here is where I had to rely on cheating.

Yes Google!

I googled “cute bar in Providence” I found one, and it was indeed described as a “cute bar in Providence”. I clicked on the link, which sent me over to a MySpace page that had pictures!!! Bingo. It worked!!

I found three elements to describe this bar (I like to follow Stephen King’s advice on this, just 3 things): wood panels, gilded mirrors and dry hydrangeas. And the last one was what conviced me that my cheating trick works. I had forgotten dried hydrangeas and yet they were everywhere in Rhode Island! A bar in Providence is very different then a bar in Seattle somehow, so I’m glad I found that trick!

Oh how I love google sometimes. 

Just don’t tell my editor!

BTW, I did the same for my sequel Ancient Secret’s hero Phoebus. I needed to visualise him and since he is blond, I just couldn’t picture him. I googled “sexy blond guy” and I now realized that Phoebus is a cross between Russel Crowe and Kurt Kobain. Weird maybe, but it works for me!

Happy setting writing! You may want to give my cheat a try!

by Marie-Claude Bourque

Hi everyone,

I am please to introduce you to paranormal author Sandra Sookoo who shares with the us the journey of her novel!

Please leave us a comment to win a really cool Harlequin Notable journal!

 

Someone once asked Edison how he could keep going on if the only thing he reaped was failure.  Edison replied that he hadn’t failed.  He’d merely found 2000 ways NOT to create a light bulb.

Eventually, he succeeded, obviously.

Writing is much the same way.  Hello.  My name is Sandra Sookoo and I’m pleased to tell you that, yes, I am an author, but there were times I thought this would never be so.

I’m talking about the life of an aspiring writer.  So, you’ve written a 90K paranormal book (or whatever genre).  Good for you for getting words to paper and actually finishing a draft.  I say draft because at that point, it is NOT a book.  Trust me when I tell you that just because you finished your “baby” it’s nowhere near ready to be a book.

Case in point.  Let’s talk about THE ART OF FANG SHUI.  The year was 2008.  I’d been recently laid off from my job in the real estate industry and my husband suggested I get serious about making writing a career.  At this point I’d only written two full-length books that could even be considered a book and knew only enough about the craft to be considered a writer.

I had recently become enamored with the paranormal romance genre and had read nearly everything the industry could offer.  What really struck a chord was light paranormal, heavy on the humor.  That was where I wanted to be.  So I struck out and wrote my own paranormal book.

The writing flowed.  The humor sparkled.  The sarcasm crackled.  The tension could burn the pages.  And I’d written it in first person.  I edited the project, thinking I was brilliant for creating a masterpiece.  But what to do with it?  I needed feedback—more than what I was getting from a critique group.  I needed professionals.

I researched RWA-sponsored writing contests.  What a chore that was!  Can I just tell you I spent hundreds of unemployment dollars on entry fees, postage, etc.  Results came back mixed.  “You have a strong voice but your writing needs work.”  “I loved the premise of this book but hated first person.” “Your humor and voice shine through but I need more.”  “Your heroine is too stupid to live.”

But I finaled in two contests, placing as high as third.  Not bad.

Back to the drawing board.  I believed in my book, knew it had spunk and potential.  I refused to give up, even after some really unkind remarks from contest judges.  (I’m willing to bet you’ve all been there even if you don’t want to admit it)

I studied the craft.  I took a few online classes.  And the biggest change?  I rewrote the book into third person and inserted the hero’s POV.  Talk about a disheartening project, but it was also a huge learning experience as well.  I got to know my characters.  Learn what they wanted, what their goals were.

A couple of months passed and the book went back on the contest circuit.  Comments were mixed, but more people liked the book than hated it.  I scored my first few perfect one hundreds.  I finaled in two more contests.  Didn’t place higher than third.  I changed the book title.

Another crossroads.  It was time to send the book into the real world.  Away from the contest folk.  It needed to be seen by the people who could make it or break it into a book.

By this time, it was late into 2008.  I queried everyone.  My query letter went through five drafts.  I had a couple of nibbles from agents.  All eventual rejections.  One never said yea or nay.  I’m choosing to fondly think she’s papered her birdcage with that partial.  Rejections became a steady part of my existence for months, from publishers, editors and agents alike.  Form rejections.  Impersonal.  Cold.  Don’t call us, we’ll call you, you wanna-be writer.

Depression was a constant companion.  To take my mind off the reality of querying, I started writing the sequel.  I toyed with the idea of subbing my book to e-publishers.  I asked for advice from a well known author.  She told me I’d destroy my career before it even got started if I went the “e” road.  More depression followed.  It was time to pack up my dream of being an author and go back to work doing something I hated.

But I couldn’t give up.  I believed too much in myself and my book.  Darn it, I was gonna climb that mountain no matter what.  Now, I thank that author for her words because I was determined to prove her wrong.  I believe in the future of e-publishing.  Just watch how it will change publishing’s landscape.

I subbed the book to a few e-pubs and more agents.  A couple of rejections came my way.  The collapse of the economy didn’t help.  New York pulled up their welcome mats.  One e-pub requested a full.  A small trickle of excitement flowed through the darkness.  I sent that baby right away.  A few weeks later it came back saying “we like your voice and the story but it needs revisions.  Work on your craft and submit at a later date.”  Fine.  Lesson learned.  Another round of edits took place.  Another slew of rejections.

Finally, around the spring of 2009, I’d heard word of a new e-publisher that would open its doors later that year.  I was skeptical.  No track record.  I asked around to a friend I knew was pubbed with them.  Nothing but good things about the editing staff and owner.  I got the submission package ready.  I waited.  I agonized about the decision with my critique partner then hit the send button, content to worry about yet another submission.

At this point, I expected the rejection with hysterical glee.  Maybe I’d hit the big 100 this year with them.  Maybe I was fooling myself.  After all, who did I think I was writing a book?

A week later the email landed in my mailbox that would literally change my life.  The editor loved the book and wanted to publish it for their Main Line in January of 2010 with the caveat that there would need to be changes made.

I was over the moon!  I couldn’t believe someone actually wanted this book that had been buffeted and battered through the industry for a year.  Needless to say, I signed the contract with Eirelander Publishing and then the real work began.

No, by this time it wasn’t my first sale.  I’d sold two short stories and a short novel months before, but THE ART OF FANG SHUI was the beginning of a different level of my writing.

In retrospect, this is exactly the way it should have happened.  The time between finishing the book and the purchase was a learning experience, not only in the craft but in personal acceptance and patience.  Once I got to know my editor at Eirelander, truly understand why she wanted the changes, how they would strengthen my book, affect my future writing, how to apply them to the book, I knew this was the best decision I’d made.  If I didn’t understand a reason, she’d explain it again until I got it.

The moral of this long story?  If you give up on your book then you’ll never know your potential.  Yes, writing can be the loneliest and self-depreciating thing you can do, but the payoff is worth every moment you spend in the valley of shadow.  Will I be a print published author with New York?  Only the future knows but it’s on my five year goal list.  I just need to keep my determination high and keep getting better.

Now, THE ART OF FANG SHUI is a book I’m extremely proud of.  It’s solid from start to finish and I’m constantly remembering the lessons learned from the journey and adding new ones.

Enjoy the blurb.  Hannah doesn’t believe in things that go bump in the night – until they start accumulating on her doorstep.  A Power Enhancer, her gift jumps to the forefront of her life, and she has no choice but to take notice when dishy, arrogant Edwin attempts to kidnap her as part of a covert mission to save the Eight Realms. 

 

Edwin is a half-vamp, intent on collecting the bounty on errant paranormal beings.  His best-laid plans go awry when he meets stubborn Hannah.  He needs her energies in order to vanquish the power-hungry Demon Lord, Andre who’s bent on destroying the world.  He’s thrown off guard as she bewitches him with her sarcastic nature as well as her tempting curves. 

 

Together the unlikely duo finds themselves flung into a sticky web of supernatural foes and dark deceit in their quest to protect the world’s magic.  If they’re lucky, love will meet them on the other side.

You can purchase THE ART OF FANG SHUI at the Eirelander Publishing website at http://www.eirelander-publishing.com.  And here’s the rest of the dream.  If I sell 50 digital copies of this book it will go to print.  I encourage you to help me with that realization.  It takes a village to make a successful author.  I always put my dollars behind new authors.  I hope you’ll do the same. 

Thank you for letting me share my story!

Thank you so much for coming Sandra! To everyone I ask, what journey did your latest manuscript take?

Please leave us a comment to win a really cool Harlequin Notable journal!

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