Archive | January 2015

In the Middle of Edits, but…


I wasn’t going to blog today,  but I was checking for preorder sales on Kissing the Highlander and saw we had a couple of sales for Itunes! I hadn’t looked for the link today yet, but it’s now available there.
Kissing the Highlander:
I’m not sure what they’re supposed to be called, so I’m going to call them all kinds of names:
Apple/Itunes/Ibooks
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This was a baron’s chamber at one of the Scottish castles. Nice view of the water. His wife had her bed chamber at the other end of the hall. Maybe a sitting area between them?

Okay, now, I’m behind on writing on A SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble, of course, because A Silver Wolf Christmas edits have to be done and turned in. I’m over halfway done. Once I finish these, I’ll reread the book again. It’s kind of hard sometimes because there all kinds of changes through some sections, and so it’s easy to read the wrong thing. If I could just accept changes and reject changes, it would work. But they want to make sure I addressed all the issues so I can’t accept and reject changes. They want to see what I’ve changed.

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Five new Highland novellas by Bestselling Authors of Highland romances that will delight with mystery, intrigue, romance, drama and much more! From the authors who have provided countless hours of reading pleasure so that fans can slip away to the past and live among all those hot Highlanders.

PREORDER BUY LINKS:

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

ARe Books (All Romance ebooks)

Kobo

Smashwords

Apple/Itunes/Ibooks

Print version also coming!

Okay, I’m back to edits! Have a lovely day! Oh, shoot, it’s Wednesday and that means garbage day. Usually get it out at oh-dark-thirty.  Can’t believe it’s Wednesday already!!!

So it was warmer out and my neighbor was taking  his garbage out, so we had to do more socialization training. Max was licking his sandaled feet. That is progress.

🙂

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

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Kissing the Highlander at Barnes and Noble!

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Five new Highland novellas by Bestselling Authors of Highland romances that will delight with mystery, intrigue, romance, drama and much more! From the authors who have provided countless hours of reading pleasure so that fans can slip away to the past and live among all those hot Highlanders.

PREORDER BUY LINKS:

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

ARe Books (All Romance ebooks)

Kobo

Smashwords

IBooks coming! Print version also coming!

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

Connect with Terry Spear:
Website:

http://www.terryspear.com

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/421434.Terry_Spear

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/TerrySpearParanormalRomantics

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/TerrySpear

Wilde & Woolly Bears

http://www.celticbears.com

Juggling Books

Heart of the Jaguar Series Collage

I used to be so envious when multi-published authors were complaining about deadlines. I thought I’d never be one of those. Ever. And I thought they were so lucky, so quit complaining. LOL

So chin up. Smile. You can be one too!

Unless you’re a reader, and then you can just dive into the pure enjoyment of reading for pleasure.

So I’m juggling Jaguar Pride and the rest of the jaguar series, which are still on a special sale price, Savage Hunger, FREE.

I’m juggling promo with it. The book is done and ready to come out in about 3 weeks.

Review from Tea and Books

Steamy, senusal, intense and unique, Ms Spear’s Jaguars invoke a sensuality that only exists in cats. That sleek playfulness and sinuous sizzle. As Jaguar shifters her characters have it all as humans they use their knowledge of being a big cat to work to save the places where they can run free. Although there are perfectly normal individuals, you know like insurance agents.. LOL..

I have enjoyed each and every one of these books and heartily suggest that you give them a try…

Jaguar Pride will be coming in February so now’s your chance to catch up..

Shauni

And I’m juggling Kissing the Highlander, due out Feb 10, with preorders and print stuff and such, which also includes promo.

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And I turned in SEAL Wolf Hunting edits, but that means that Silver Wolf Christmas wolf edits will be coming soon.

SEAL Wolf Hunting

SEAL Wolf Hunting

I’m working on SEAL Wolf Diving and trying to keep after word count. Have 2,900 words to go today to make my word count for yesterday–so wrote 3,000 this morning already. But have to keep after it.

And I have to work on Call of the Cougar’s audiobook proof. She forgot the prologue, so that’s the first problem. But I have to read over every sentence to make sure it matches and then write up everything that doesn’t, at the time that it was on the recording. So it takes time. The project was about 9 hours, I think, and it’ll take me more than that to keep stopping and making notes for the narrator, and taking breaks to do other things….

Soooo, yes, it was wonderful when I began getting multiple contracts. Just so I could say I was working toward some goal. Before? They were all just for myself. Of course this is in the prehistoric days when self-publishing wasn’t an option and I couldn’t share my stories unless a publisher picked them up. But those were the days when I wrote and wrote and wrote, and then tried to sell and sell and sell.

Have a wonderful Monday! I’m off to get the rest of my word count done so I can feel at peace with the world around me. Playing catchup all the time is not fun.

How is your Monday going? Does it feel it’s on track? Or have you already fallen off????

🙂

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

Connect with Terry Spear:
Website:

http://www.terryspear.com

Goodreads:

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Twitter:

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Wilde & Woolly Bears

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Kissing the Highlander Available for Preorders!

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Five new Highland novellas by Bestselling Authors of Highland romances that will delight with mystery, intrigue, romance, drama and much more! From the authors who have provided countless hours of reading pleasure so that fans can slip away to the past and live among all those hot Highlanders.

His Wild Highland Lass by Terry Spear

http://www.terryspear.com

The Highlander’s Charm by Eliza Knight

http://www.elizaknight.com

Heart of Stone by Willa Blair

http://www.willablair.com

Kilts and Kisses by Victoria Roberts

http://www.VictoriaRobertsAuthor.com

My Captive Highlander by Vonda Sinclair

http://www.vondasinclair.com

 

PREORDER BUY LINKS:

Amazon

ARe Books (All Romance ebooks)

Kobo

Smashwords

Barnes and Noble and IBooks coming! Print version also coming!

Okay, off to write, 6,000 words behind on SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble, but did get SEAL Wolf Hunting turned in. 🙂 See, I am working. 🙂

Have a super Sunday! It’s 32 wind chill and cold and rainy. Perfect for a wintry wolf tale of SEALs wolves diving for trouble. Or….a good vampire day.

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

Connect with Terry Spear:
Website:

http://www.terryspear.com

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/421434.Terry_Spear

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/TerrySpearParanormalRomantics

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/TerrySpear

Wilde & Woolly Bears

http://www.celticbears.com

Juggling between Edits, Writing, Blog Tour, and Publishing…oh yeah, and Puppies

I spent hours yesterday getting Kissing the Highlander ready for preorders and it’s up now at Kobo and Smashwords. Amazon to follow.

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Five new Highland novellas by Bestselling Authors of Highland romances that will delight with mystery, intrigue, romance, drama and much more! From the authors who have provided countless hours of reading pleasure so that fans can slip away to the past and live among all those hot Highlanders.

His Wild Highland Lass by Terry Spear

http://www.terryspear.com

The Highlander’s Charm by Eliza Knight

http://www.elizaknight.com

Heart of Stone by Willa Blair

http://www.willablair.com

Kilts and Kisses by Victoria Roberts

http://www.VictoriaRobertsAuthor.com

My Captive Highlander by Vonda Sinclair

http://www.vondasinclair.com

His Wild Highland Lass by Terry Spear

Lady Sorcha Barclay fled her brother-in-law’s castle because of his unwanted advances. An awe-inspiring circle of standing stones captures her attention and she captures the attention of the laird who owns the land.

Laird Ronan Daziel takes Sorcha to his castle to protect her and give her a home. Before long, he wants much more. He’s duty-bound to take a wife whose clan wishes an alliance with his. So why does he long to have something more? Everyone loves the lass as much as he does. But he has pledged his loyalty to his clan. Taking Sorcha to wife could lead to battle on several fronts. How can he wed another when she stole his heart from the first moment he laid eyes on her near the ancient standing stones on his lands?

The Highlander’s Charm by Eliza Knight

They should be enemies… But passion and love know no bounds.

Returning from battle to England, Samuel de Mowbray discovers that his two younger sisters have been stolen by Highlanders. Determined to save them from vicious warriors, he convinces the king to send him north. While there, he discovers that his loyalties are wavering and that a headstrong, feisty lass could destroy everything he believes.

Catriona Buchanan must travel north to ask for help in saving her brother and ridding her castle of brutal English knights. Unfortunately, to do so, she must trust in the thing she mistrusts the most—an Englishman. Minute by minute, the man who should be her enemy breaks down her defenses. There is something different about him and she can’t help but be captivated by Samuel, and his steamy kisses.

Heart of Stone by Willa Blair

Riding home after two years away, Gavan MacNabb encounters a lass and her deerhound in a moonlit circle of standing stones. Little does he know the garland of bluebells she weaves and the spell she sings will change the course of his life.

Marsali Murray doesn’t really believe the old wives’ tale that making a chain of bluebells by the standing stones under a waxing moon will bring true love, but she’s desperate to try anything to escape the boring, everlasting sameness of her life.

Gavan has already seen much of the world denied to Marsali. He’s ready to settle down. She is eager to spread her wings. Can they find what they need with each other?

Kilts and Kisses by Victoria Roberts

Since the deaths of her parents, Ceana Gunn has lived in the shadow of her uncle and his family. She wants nothing more than to see her clan the way it was when her father was still laird. But her uncle has other ideas. Ceana soon discovers that the only refuge to be found is in the last place she expects—the arms of her enemy.

Luthais MacKay wants to be left alone. His only interest is training his prized hawks. He certainly doesn’t have time to listen to the petty squabbling of his clan when his father travels to Edinburgh and leaves him in charge. But when Luthais discovers a mysterious woman on his lands, he’s determined to unravel her secrets…one layer at a time.

My Captive Highlander by Vonda Sinclair

Can unexpected passion and a little ancient magic turn enemies into lovers?

During a fierce storm on the west coast of Scotland, Shamus MacKenzie barely survives a galley wreck only to be captured and held for ransom by the enemy MacDonalds. Aided by the gift of second sight, Maili MacDonald, sister of the ruthless chief, senses the handsome, dark-haired stranger will somehow be important in her life. Compelled to help him, she insists on providing him food and a healer to see to his injuries. She knows she is daft to fall in love with this captivating warrior after one forbidden kiss but cannot help herself. With each visit from Maili, Shamus finds his thoughts consumed by the enchanting lass. Can he convince her to help him escape the dungeon and prevent the impending battle between the two clans?

BUY LINKS:

Kobo

Smashwords, which includes Barnes and Noble (because they don’t have preorders available except via Smashwords) and Apple/Ibooks

It will also be out in print!

But you know you have to have glitches. So for whatever reason when I tried to convert the docx in Jutoh to epub/etc, the chapter headings didn’t show up on two of the authors’ works. Have no idea why not. They are formatted exactly the same as all the other chapter headings. Anyway, so it’s a total pain and I’ll have to probably go in this morning and manually book mark the links. That’s why I love Jutoh so much. It does it automatically, no mistakes, normally and it’s done.

So Amazon’s will take a while longer.

Because: I got SEAL Wolf Hunting back for final copyedits. I’ll have one more final proof to go over after this. And I will be getting first edits on Silver Wolf Christmas next. And I received two more blog requests for Jaguar Pride’s release on Feb 3. And I only wrote 300 words of 2500 on SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble. argh.

I really need to get 2500 done a day. With so much to do on the other stuff, Amazon formatting, finishing up SEAL Wolf Hunting, NEED to proof the audiobook on Call of the Cougar, which has been on the backburner now for about four days, bought another book cover (did I ever mention I’m a book cover hoarder, but it was so neat!) and that means figuring out a title, tagline, etc, etc, etc, write the 2 blogs, including this one and another this morning, and now write 4700 words today on SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble.

And then there are the puppies. Well, they got me up at 4 am, so the routine is they go to sleep in my lap so I can write, for an hour or two. They don’t get to eat until 7 or 8, but that means as soon as they wake, it’s time to potty again. *sigh* The adventures of puppyhood. Luckily, they’re not having accidents, and they’re not chewing on things they shouldn’t, for the most part. I caught Tanner with two of my socks yesterday.

Max is wearing a cone to keep him from chewing on his stitches from being neutered. He’s been grouchy with Tanner, partly because Tanner keeps grabbing his Elizabethan collar and tugging. But I think he might just not feel well either. So I’ve been trying to keep them separate to chew on chewsticks so Max has more time to rest up.

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Okay, got to get to work.

Have a super wonderful and fun…Saturday?

Wow, the time is galloping away!

Do you ever feel that way? That when you want to do something, take a trip to the islands, or something great like finishing the week of work and you’re OFF, that it takes forever to get there? But if you have a deadline or multiple deadlines looming, the time flies? It’s like if I leave early for an appointment, I hit every green light and have no traffic and am there even earlier than planned, then have to sit and wait. But if I’m running late? Yep, you guessed it….I get behind the tractor trailer traveling 15 mph in the no passing zone, hit every red light and get stuck behind every Sunday driver.

Funny how life works that way. 🙂

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

Connect with Terry Spear:
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Wilde & Woolly Bears

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Puppies and Their Antics!

Max and Tanner

Max and Tanner

Max is 6 months old, Tanner 10 weeks Havenese puppies.

Still working daily on getting word count goal. 5,000 done, 75,000 to go on SEAL Wolf Diving! Have to have 2500 today, so have 200. I know. A ways to go. But I have to stop and figure where I’m going with this next. Total seat of the pants writer. Can’t plot for the life of me.

It is freezing out!!! 13 degree chill factor. It’s just Tanner and me this morning while Max is still at the vet. We’ll pick him up this afternoon.

Tanner’s pretty much housebroken now. He woke me up late last night to go out in the Arctic cold–well, for us–and I didn’t mind because he really had to go out, and he went right back to bed after that. He hasn’t  had any accidents for about 3 days. So it’s getting much better.

While I was getting this video ready, he was barking at that little dog that was barking, unbeknownst to him that the little dog barking was him. After I played with the video a few more times, he ignored it. Which is what I wanted. This might be a great training video to get him used to dogs barking in his house and ignoring it. 🙂

Now, if only I could do that with Max when he comes home.

It was fun working with Tanner all by himself yesterday, more training today. He was shaking hands, like Max will do. But unlike Max, Tanner will offer either paw. And he’s learned down, but I hadn’t been sure because Max would lie down and I’d have to give him a treat while Tanner was trying to get the other one out of my hand. To do it on verbal command, not yet. But bringing my hand down to the floor works. So next it will be verbal command only. Both circle at the same time and that’s really cute. 🙂

Okay, got to get to work on word count. Tanner finally fell asleep on my lap after 3 1/2 hours of playing and going outside…time for me to get to work.

Have a super, wonderful, albeit very cold day!!!

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

Connect with Terry Spear:
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http://www.terryspear.com

Goodreads:

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Twitter:

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Wilde & Woolly Bears

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Sale!! To Tantor Audiobooks for Jaguar Fever!

And sale prices for my jaguar shifter series in honor of the new release out Feb 3!

Terry Spear’s Jaguar Series are all on sale. Savage Hunger is FREE and the rest of the series is on sale prices;
They’re at all the sales sites: $6.15 Jaguar Pride, normally $7.99, Savage Hunger, FREE!, Jaguar Fever, $1.99, and Jaguar Hunt, $3.03. All normally $7.99!

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Savage Hunger (Book 1)

B&N

Amazon

Chapters Indigo

Kobo

IndieBound

Jaguar Fever(Book 2)

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

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IndieBound

Discover a New Love

Sourcebooks

Kobo

Jaguar Hunt (Book 3)

B&N

Amazon

iTunes

Chapters Indigo

Kobo

IndieBound

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Jaguar Pride (Book 4)

Coming Feb, 2015

Amazon

B&N

 

And Tantor bought the rights to Jaguar Fever, so it will now be in audiobook format!!!

Savage Hunger is already in audiobook. Hopefully the rest of the series will be bought as well.

Okay, I’m still formatting Kissing the Highlander and I’ve started work on SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble, title probably to change. I calculated I need 2500 words per day to make it in time for the deadline. I got the first 2500 yesterday, 77,500 to go.

When you start out at the beginning, it seems like so far to go. But I always have fun researching, so back to formatting, then while I’m waiting on the other authors to send me their stuff, I’ll work on my word count for SEAL.

Today is Max’s day to go into surgery. Hopefully, it will help reduce his urge to be a male dog quite as much. I don’t intend to breed them, and from what I’ve learned, unless they’re working dogs, it’s best to have them neutered. At least, if you want to have pets only.

Okay, I’m off to do work before I have to take poor Max in. Tanner is going to feel lost without him. I won’t be picking up Max until 3 pm tomorrow.

Have a super Wednesday, trash is out, need to get stool samples for the vet, omigod, my life is so dog bound now. LOL

And loving it. I have a couple of more puppy videos, but haven’t had any time to do anything with them. Need to take lots. Tanner is growing by leaps and bounds. He is such a fluff ball now.

Happy Hump Day!

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

Connect with Terry Spear:
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Wilde & Woolly Bears

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Giveaway at Reading Between the Wines

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I’m still formatting for Kissing the Highlander. When I received everyone’s novellas, the italics were stripped out, argh, and some of the authors have tons of italicized words. That, and trying to make everything uniform as far as front and back matter and section divisions, etc. If I do this again, hopefully, we can all be on the same page next time and I won’t have to do so much reformatting.

Phantom Fae

Phantom Fae has gone out to my first beta reader. And then after I make changes and read it over again, it will go out to another.

But what I really wanted to say was that I am here with a giveaway!!! Go to Reading Between the Wines, comment and enter for a chance to win A Highland Wolf Christmas!

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http://www.readingbetweenthewinesbookclub.com/2015/01/behind-author-terry-spear-giveaway.html

And now I’m off to get to work on the formatting again. Feeling anxious because the time is slipping away and I need to get started on the next SEAL wolf book due Mar 1. And I haven’t started it. I’m trying to come up with a great new opening scene to set the stage. Must have first meeting soon, show something of the world, a wolf sighting early, conflict, mystery, romance and adventure.

When I was reading books on writing, one author said to make sure you have that conflict right from the beginning. The bomb going off in the school, but not. Something that makes you want to read what happens next and next and next. Yet, you have to have character-driven plots for romance, not strictly plot-driven scenarios.

Okay, so I’m still pondering. But I need to get back to formatting Kissing the Highlander.

Have a super great Tuesday!!!

And be sure and drop by at Reading Between the Wines and enter to win!

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

Connect with Terry Spear:
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Why Do People Do the Things They Do???

I was in the grocery store right before Christmas and the lady in front of me was talking to me about getting in the wrong line because the people in front of her had all kinds of issues. I didn’t know what they were, but we were smiling and laughing about that sort of thing. One day, I was in line behind some folks that had to run out to their car and get a jar of coins to help pay for their groceries.  So yes, it can be trying.

But I wasn’t bothered by it. I was getting the last of my Christmas food for the kids’ arrival and was of good cheer. The old woman behind me was scowling and I smiled at her, trying to put her in a better mood. She asked, “What time is it?”

I told her. She asked two more times.

Then the folks ahead of us were done, but not, forgot to pay for one more item, and the lady in front of me and I were just smiling. Hey, it happens, and I was fortunate to have someone to talk to that was really nice and it made her feel better for the delay.

Once I had my items on the conveyer belt, I put the little divider down and turned to the woman behind me and asked if she wanted me to help her unload her groceries.

“No!” she snapped at me. “Just move out of my way.”

“I’m sorry, but the lady in front of me is still paying for her groceries.” And I turned my back on the woman behind me and figured that was the last I’d try to be nice to her. Some people are just not very nice. They’re sour and dour and maybe they always lived their lives that way. Some think as they get older, they can behave even worse.

Who knows?

But she proceeded to get aggressive, running into my backside with her backside to load groceries onto the belt. Now, she could have gone to the end of the belt and loaded a good number of groceries on it without touching me.  But I didn’t move, because my basket was in front of me, and I didn’t want to crowd the woman who was using her credit card in front of me. I wished her a Merry Christmas and then I was cheerily talking to the clerk. She saw my puppy stuff and asked me about that as she ran my things through and the woman behind me just scowled at us.

I was bothered by the old woman being so nasty. I kept telling myself to ignore her nastiness, but I couldn’t.

One time, I was in the parking lot and an older man looked so grim, I smiled and said, “Hi.” It made his day and he began talking away to me. Another day, I asked an older man if I could take his basket for him, and he watched me, shocked that I was taking it to the return and not using it to go into the grocery store. I had just returned my own. But he looked to be struggling to get his groceries into the car a bit, and I thought I could help him at least with the basket return. He told me he thought I was going to use the basket and was so cheered that I did a “good deed” for him. Another day, a woman did that to me, my first time, lol, and she asked if she could return my basket too.

It really made me feel great. Doing a little bit for some people can really make their day, though I’m in Texas and so it can be so here. Or Oklahoma, same way. I had car trouble at a mall in NJ once and three lovely men from England helped jumpstart my car while no one from NJ would give me the time of day. I was twenty-one at the time, so not a threat at all. Not that all are like that, but some places more people are willing to help out.

And this brings me to my stories. The Phantom Fae queen had killed her husband over some marital dispute. But at 5 this morning when the puppies got me up to take them out, I began to think about it. What was her story? Her real story? People are the way they are for some reason. Maybe they’ve always been bad-natured and been allowed to be that way. Pampered, so to speak. Or maybe they had a bad life growing up, they just had something horrible happen to them, financially, losing a family member, a friend, a pet, or are ill. We never know.

Phantom Fae

But in our stories, we have to know. 🙂 So, I had to come up with a reason. Maybe not a full reason, but something that will reveal some hints about the person.

Why was the woman so nasty in the grocery store even after I reached out to be nice to her? Who knows. I’ve known people like that, one who was an older friend of my mother’s and lied about her husband dying. For years, we thought that was the case. Then her cousin told my mother that the woman’s husband had left her for another woman. I think that had left her embittered. She could never deal with it, so just wrote him off as dead. For her age, because even though divorce has been going on for eons, it just hasn’t been as acceptable in some time periods, she found it much easier to be a “widow,” than a divorcee. But she was really spoiled, her ex-husband having left her well off, and her family too. So I would go with my mother and her friends to card games and she was always so nasty. “Quit talking! Play the game.” The point of the game was to socialize, at least the rest of us thought. We had fun and joked about her behavior later.

My mother would often say, “Oh, it’s not your turn?” One lady always played out of turn because she couldn’t remember. They were fun games and well, someday I should probably use them in a story, come to think of it.

A little after the grocery store incident, a fan sent a video of a woman at a grocery store where another woman allowed her kid to run the basket into the other woman. So the victim poured a drink all over the kid’s head. The kid screams and cries. The mother is furious and storms off with her kid, and I’m thinking, okay, so what if this woman behind me was that kid. Only the victim hadn’t reacted, like I hadn’t. Just ignored it. And the kid continued to act badly over the years, and anytime she wanted her way, she got it, through any means available.

If I had dumped one of the Dr. Pepper’s on the woman’s head that I was buying for my SIL for Christmas, maybe she wouldn’t have done something like that again. Of course, I would have been arrested.

So that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Have you ever had to deal with grocery store bullies???

And Savage Hunger is still free!!! Off to give my phantom fae queen a reason for being so evil. 🙂

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Savage Hunger (Book 1)

B&N

Amazon

Chapters Indigo

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I just learned of this from a fan and wanted to share. I don’t know for sure if it is only one day, but the last time they had a 99 cent sale on a book, I was in MN and so didn’t see the news until that night after a day of traveling and activities. Sourcebooks never gives away my books for free, so if you’re interested in romance, shifters, the paranormal, enjoy! 🙂 <3

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I just learned of this from a fan and wanted to share. I don’t know for sure if it is only one day, but the last time they had a 99 cent sale on a book, I was in MN and so didn’t see the news until that night after a day of traveling and activities. Sourcebooks never gives away my books for free, so if you’re interested in romance, shifters, the paranormal, enjoy! 🙂 <3

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

http://www.terryspear.com

Connect with Terry Spear:
Website:

http://www.terryspear.com

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/421434.Terry_Spear

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/TerrySpearParanormalRomantics

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/TerrySpear

Wilde & Woolly Bears

http://www.celticbears.com