Archive | December 2015

Deadlines, Deadlines

kitchen family room SpringI’m moving! It’s a huge, tremendous, gigantic, horrendous job. I have edits for the last book, promo stuff for the release in Feb, trying to finish packing, moving, cleaning old house, Realtor chomping at the bit to bring her clients out to see the house–yay!, and a million, billion, trillion things to do. No wonder I can’t sleep. I have a new book due Mar 1st, and I haven’t had time to even think about it.

I can’t sleep, naturally, too many things to get done. As soon as the world wakes up, oh, I know, lots of the world is already awake, but those I need to call: water dept, etc, are not awake here, I’ve got to get on the phone and start making more calls. But for now, I need to change my address EVERYWHERE. Tax stuff will be coming, and ack, I need it to go where I’ll be.

Anyway, you see the bow windows in the living room? Unless I change my mind, that’s where my desk will be.

I have a nice open kitchen, dining and living room, and I’m excited to finish this all up so I can get back to the business of writing.

I’m late, I’m late, I’m late… but I’m so thankful my son is here helping me to pack. I would never have managed to get it all done by myself by deadline! I thought I was doing well, but as we came home to get more boxes and begin the chore of packing again, I realized how much still needed to be packed and an extra couple of hands has really made a difference.

Have a great one! Back to moving-related stuff!!

Terry

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

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Christmas with the Dogs

My son, daughter and all the dogs

My son, daughter and all the dogs

Trying to turn Max around to face the camera

Trying to turn Max around to face the camera

My son joining me with his dog

My son joining me with his dog

Jenn and Mike and the corgis

Jenn and Mike and the corgis

But this is how it really looked when I first sat down to have the pictures taken.

But this is how it really looked when I first sat down to have the pictures taken.

Unwrapping presents with the corgis.

Unwrapping presents with the corgis.

After Christmas packing party!

After Christmas packing party!

We’re under tornado warnings, 26 mph winds, thunderstorms, and electric has gone out once. Best wishes to everyone in the affected areas and hope your holidays have been fun.

We have to brave the storms to do the closing on the house. 🙁 Have a great Sunday!

Terry

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

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Merry Christmas!

I’ve been packing and cleaning throughout the visit, but we saw the new Star Wars movie, went shopping for cowboy boots, ate lots, and played games. The weather has been in the 70’s, hot even for us for this time of year, but the frigid Arctic air is hitting us this weekend.

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The Family has gathered, the new day dawns.

 

While I was making lunch, I checked on the puppies. I will miss these glass doors.

While I was making lunch, I checked on the puppies. I will miss these glass doors.

We were playing games, this was Munchkins, and the puppies had all finally conked out. Which meant I had to take some pictures without disturbing any of them.

Jennifer and Luna

Jennifer and Luna

Blaine and Mishka

Blaine and Mishka

Tanner and Max

Tanner and Max

Where is Rilo? Under the glass coffee table sound asleep

Where is Rilo? Under the glass coffee table sound asleep

The clan is stirring, so off to greet everyone!

Merry Christmas!!

Terry

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

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Packing Puppies

I usually post first thing in the morning, but it’s hectic around here. So I turned in Billionaire edits, published Covert Cougar Christmas as a stand alone novella, and it’s available for sale now, and am working on promo blogs for the Feb release.

Covert Cougar Christmas

Cougar shifter, Dr. Kate Parker, is planning her annual camping vacation alone this year. She runs into trouble before she even starts her trip in the form of one wounded, hot cougar undercover cop—or so he says. He’s not going along with just her tender loving care because he came into town as a cougar, and he needs her help to get him back to where he can take up the search to look for an arms dealer, who just happens to be a cougar too.
Leyton Hill slipped into the unlocked, darkened clinic, figuring his luck had just changed. Except he doesn’t plan for the good doctor to be napping in her office. Taking him on her vacation wasn’t in the plan, and taking her hostage, hadn’t been either, but now she’s stuck with him until he can get back to his mission and the chase at hand. It appears the roles have reversed and who’s holding whom hostage now?

Came out in the Anthology: Alpha’s Unwrapped Dec 1, 2015

Available as a standalone title!

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019KFDU2U

Barnes and Noble: coming

Kobo: coming

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/601631

Ibooks: coming

And I’m now working on promo blogs for SEAL Wolf in Too Deep, releasing February.

SEAL Wolf in Too Deep

SEAL Wolf in Too Deep (Book 18) Feb, 2016!

Romantic Times Review!!

SEAL Wolf in Too Deep

Terry Spear

4 Stars

ISBN: 9781492621836

Review: Spear returns to her crime-filled world of wolf shifters, with plenty of emotional turmoil brought on by heinous acts and unspeakable danger. This is a sexy, smoldering tale of an alpha SEAL wolf shifter, and the woman who leads his heart into a dangerous passion. If you enjoy reading about uber-manly, hot-as-heck, possessive heroes, then this is a must-read!

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/SEAL-Wolf-Too-Deep-Heart/dp/1492621838

Amazon Canada
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ITunes
Barnes and Noble

And I’m packing.

Max: Mom can't mean to pack us in the boxes.

Max: Mom can’t mean to pack us in the boxes.

Tanner: Looks like it.

Tanner: Looks like it.

Max: Really Momma? Tanner: Just pose and maybe she'll let us go.

Max: Really Momma?
Tanner: Just pose and maybe she’ll let us go.

Yep, I’m packing and packing and packing. I can’t believe I have so much to pack. I keep thinking I have to almost be through, then I find more stuff.

Max hopped out of the box right off. Tanner followed, but when I put them both back in, Tanner was mugging it up for the camera. Max was ready to leave the box. 🙂

Okay, back to promo blogs and more packing.

Have a very Merry Saturday!

Terry

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

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You Would Think…

If a critter is afraid of you, he’d go away from you. That bunny I was taking a picture of ran straight for me. And look what happens when the sparrow saw me photographing him.

Sparrow caught me photographing him

Sparrow caught me photographing him

And so he headed straight for me.

He headed straight for me.

Silly animals.

Happy TGIF….lots more to work on with edits, and I’m determined to get them done by Sunday. 🙂

Terry

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

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Are You Ready for Christmas?

Can I join you for a meal?

Can I join you for a meal?

The Dove doesn't have to share any thing down below.

The Dove doesn’t have to share any thing down below.

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I had to run a bunch of errands today, and I didn’t have time to drop by the grocery store, but still need to get a turkey.

Are you all set?

I turned in A Very Jaguar Christmas edits and am working on Billionaire in Wolf’s Clothing edits. Intermittently, I take breaks to pack another box or 3.  Just like with the deadline on this, moving day is quickly approaching, and I have to have everything packed. Which is impossible because I have to still entertain for Christmas.

*sigh*

I look forward to a few days of just plain fun. But to get there, I need to get these edits done.

Hope you are having a great week!

Terry

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

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Oh No! They Changed My Story!!!

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Okay, not MY story, but I loved the Norwegian tale I read when I was a little girl.

Here is the version I read.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/norway034.html

I loved it but was so mad at the girl for dripping wax on him and making him go away. I felt sorry for him and loved him. Poor polar bear prince. The newer version doesn’t sound like it’s anything like my version. It’s supposed to be good for children to read. You know, probably the sanitized kind. Probably no exploding trolls and such. I like exploding trolls. I like to see the bad guys get their just rewards. 🙂

And why even bring it up???

It was the very first time that I had read about a shapeshifter and loved the sweet romance. My shapeshifters are not cursed to live their existence until someone can break the spell, yet, it made me see that shapeshifters could be just as sexy and lovable as anyone else.

I’m from the great grizzly bear state of California. And I have all kinds of different bear collections that I’ve collected over the years. And I make award-winning teddy bears. So it seemed natural to want to write about bear shifters. In honor of reading about a polar bear shifter, my first ever shifter tale, I decided to make it a polar bear shifter story.

Tanner, tan mohair, 10 1/2" Suede paws

Tanner, tan mohair, 10 1/2″
Suede paws

But with all good tales, it must end so I can get back to edits on A Very Jaguar Christmas, which I was told was up on Amazon for preorder now!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1492621803

And that’s it for today. I must go back to my writing cave. Carpet was replaced in the two bedrooms, and rather than shove everything back in drawers and closets, packing it all up. 🙂 So no time for edits yesterday. Just more utter chaos.

polar bear head downThis is me contemplating the next edit.

Have a great one!

Terry

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

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From Idyllic to Chaos

1 pink lily in a castle pond

1 pink lily in a castle pond

2 black faced sheep in Scotland near a lighthouse in the Isle of Skye

2 black faced sheep in Scotland near a lighthouse in the Isle of Skye

3 boat reflection, loch, Scotland where we were staying

3 boat reflections, loch, Scotland where we were staying

4 birds on branch on the walk to one of the castle ruins

4 birds on a branch on the walk to one of the castle ruins

And now there are 5.

And now there are 5.

6 seals a sunning

6 seals a sunning

I look back at these pictures–idyllic, and today it’s nothing but. I have two books in edits I’m working on, promo blogs for a 3rd, and in the middle of packing my house for a move. Which means I’m constantly losing stuff. Where is the tape again??? 🙂

But I am seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. I open a cabinet or a drawer, and miracles of miracles, they’re empty! It doesn’t look like it from outward appearances.

What’s fun about all this, and yes, I always try to see the positive side in the chaos is that I will have more fodder for stories. All the no shows for getting stuff done for one reason, or another. I had 3 guys coming for different things on Thursday. One showed up. One guy was supposed to come for the last two weekends. Now he’s supposed to be here today. We will see. The resale shop that was supposed to come on Thurs rescheduled for Tuesday. Truck broke down. The home inspector showed up and said he wouldn’t put furniture in the living room, but would rebuild a ’68 Camaro in there.  He said he rebuilt his motorcycle in his living room. And then he was telling me how he played bagpipes in a band that played Irish music songs, had been there three times, and wow, who would have ever thought??? And I was thinking he’d be a perfect character for a book. I told him so also. 🙂

So I was thinking how a heroine could be trying to get ready to sell her home, move to some idyllic location, but she has all these deadlines and everything is hampering her. Like, oh, I don’t know…a bad storm that knocks out her electricity for eight hours maybe???

🙂

Anyway, sometimes you need to just live life so you can have more to write about. Oh, my daughter is a dietitian for a school district and she said one of the food reps she deals with told her she reads all my books and just learned I was her mother. You see, it’s little stories like that that make all the chaos totally worthwhile.  🙂

How do I deal with all this??? I set daily goals. They’re often revised when people don’t show up or the electricity goes out, for instance, and I can’t get to my edits. Today, I’m shipping bears, hopefully two guys will show up who were supposed to last week, but in the meantime, I’m spending the day rereading Jaguar so I can turn it in, and then jump on Billionaire. 🙂

Have a super great Monday. Christmas is coming! Family is coming! The deadlines on the books are not going away. And the guys who are supposed to come…well, we shall see if they all suddenly arrive en mass. Wouldn’t that be a surprise? And unrealistic. But I can always fantasize. lol

Terry

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

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Power Outages all over Texas!

I’m back up and running!!! Woohoo! I knew it had gone out before 4 am, so we were without for at least 8 hours. This morning: No oatmeal. No hot green tea. No working on edits. I had called it in at 6 and they said there were outages all over Texas, at least that had been reported. I checked. 339 in Waco. They didn’t even report that I had an outage. So I’m sure there were a lot of unreported ones also.

Not that I didn’t have a backup plan. Tuna fish. Yep. For breakfast. And water.

Instead of edits, I packed boxes. So the time was put to good use. Once I could see enough to pack boxes. I had to take the puppies out in the dark. No security lights. And completely dark because of the storms.

Inside Invergarry Castle ruins

Inside Invergarry Castle ruins

I reminded myself I could be living here, and then all I would have had was torchlight, so get up and get to work and deal with it. Which I did.

And I had a couple of queries about bears, showed some more pictures of the ones left, and sold 6 more this morning. I packed a couple away, so have to dig them out. But that’s good. More space for something else.

And now??? After digging out the bears, I’m having my tea, woohoo, and will start on edits again.

Have a super day! I’ve got electricity!!!

Terry

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

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Let’s Say You are a Hunky Jaguar Shifter….

JaguarPride_041714_BBigfoot isn’t real. Fairies aren’t real. The Loch Ness monster isn’t real. Not unless someone really scientifically proves it, right?????

So jaguar shifters exist. They keep what they are secret from the rest of the world. Which consists of humans. Period. There aren’t that many jaguar shifters. They tend to live in the states bordering Mexico because they go south of the border to let out their jaguar halves in the rain forests were the strictly jaguars live. And jaguars did exist in these states early on.

What if they suddenly encounter a wolf shifter boy??? And learn of their existence.

Would they be considered naive or arrogant not to have believed wolf shifters existed? That’s what my editor said.

I don’t have every paranormal creature in the books. Every once in a while, a ghost shows up. But mostly, if it’s a wolf book, it’s just wolves. And if it’s a jaguar book, it’s just jaguars. Until the newest book I’m working on. A Very Jaguar Christmas, where they discover the existence of wolves.

Why did I do this? My first nine books came out about wolf shifters. No jaguar shifters existed. Another editor wanted me to write something different. So I began writing jaguar shifters also. But I couldn’t just throw them into the wolf world. It’s the same world. Our world. But the shifters live among us without letting us know it. So the jaguars were perfectly content to live their lives believing, as we do, that wolf shifters or any other shifters don’t exist. UNLESS someone proves to us that they do.

Even the shifters don’t know where other shifters exist unless they run across them. Maybe there are some jaguars in Rhode Island. But the Texas jaguars wouldn’t know they were there unless they ran into them at some point. They don’t live in packs. They have families, extended families, but no packs. And like wolf shifters, they don’t advertise what they are. They keep their identity secret so humans don’t learn about them.

Book 16

Sure, some might speculate that if jaguar shifters exist, other shifters exist. Just as some may believe in ghosts, reincarnation, psychic abilities, and more. But none of which is verifiable beyond a doubt that would make everyone believe. Right? But then why not believe there are cougar shifters? Bear shifters? Snake shifters? Hawk shifters? Fox shifters? Well, just any kind of shifter??? Wouldn’t it be arrogant or naive to believe that others don’t exist? Maybe dog shifters? Domicile cat shifters?

Taming the Wild Cougar  copy

Just anything, really. But why believe that if they’ve never seen it for themselves?

As far as you and I know, ONLY jaguar, wolf, cougar, and I hear a bear shifter is going to be revealed in the coming year, but that’s our secret. If any of them knew we knew, it’s a life changer for us.

And that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 🙂 <3

What say you???

Have a super Saturday! Mine is filled with edits for A Very Jaguar Christmas AND Billionaire in Wolf’s Clothing.  And I have to send in a couple of promo blogs, pack more, get rid of more, clean out more, fill out more paperwork…so why am I still here???

I love being here with you, that’s why!

Oh, almost forgot: A Highland Wolf Christmas is on sale for 99 cents only. USD. It looks like it’s only for Amazon though. But if you haven’t read it and have a kindle, be sure to grab it and spread the word! smile emoticon heart emoticon

http://www.amazon.com/Highland-Wolf-Christmas-…/…/1402293763

Majestic Pines: These trees were saved from being cut down by builders are from an old forest. How old would you say they are?

Majestic Pines: These trees were saved from being cut down by builders and are from an old forest. How old would you say they are?

Terry

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

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