Archive | October 2019

Done with Physical Therapy!

Oct8

Which doesn’t mean I can stop exercises for my shoulder. If only I could use a little magic to make it perfect with a blink of my eyes, or have my wolf and jaguar and cougar shifter’s healing ability that heals injuries in half the time! Since I don’t, it means patience and perseverance.

In the meantime, last night, I pulled out the other dead tree and a bunch more weeds. It cooled down! Yay! And I planted a couple of things in the dead tree spots. Though one is only mums so I’ll need to get something more permanent for the other spot. I still need to plant some more plants. I need to make my garden more manageable. That means more evergreen plants that will spread a bit and shade out the weeds and some ground cover that will too.

And I got the new links for the books, so was updating my website. I still need to deal with Apple to get into their program.

I still need to proof the print books for the Highland books, but otherwise I’ve been thinking and thinking on the new cougar novella. Mist. Fog. Friday the 13th. It’s a Halloween story, so need to add some atmosphere.

Have a super great day!! I’m going to see about–well, feeding the furry piranhas first and then getting on with the day!

Terry

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There’s Got to be an Easier Way

Oct6

Hope you have a frustration-free day!

Terry

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Glitches in Life

Oct5
The photograph of the wolves is one I took of the wolves at The International Wolf Center, Ely, Minnesota.

It’s always time for wolves, don’t you think?

So I finished proofing the 3 books that I have my rights back to, formatted them for ebook, and began to upload them for publishing last night and this morning.

Amazon-done! Kobo-done! Google Books–done! Barnes and Noble–done!

I think that’s all but Ibooks, which I always have a keychain problem on and so I have to wait until next week to get them to help me fix it. I tried. I just have to do this and this and this and this, which is fine. I can follow directions. Except the second “this” doesn’t exist.

And Smashwords, which still shows the titles as belonging to my publisher, therefore I have to wait until next week to hear their verdict before I can upload them.

It will take a while for the ebooks to show up on the various sites and once they do, I’ll have to update all my weblinks everywhere.

Now, it’s time to format them all for print. The hardest part. Redo the cover for print. The even harder part. Though it appears the format for print isn’t working out too badly this morning. Maybe I’ve finally got my rhythm on it. Or not.

Since it’s only 75 degrees this morning, I was out tugging away at weeds and a dead tree. I need to remove another, but because of the issues with my shoulder, I might wait until next weekend to do that one. I removed the other one a little earlier in the week.

I had thought about putting off the print so I could get started on the Halloween story, but I’d rather get this done and out of the way.

All right, I’m back to work! Hope your day is GLITCH-FREE!

Terry

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Alpha Arctic Wolf

Oct4

At least when I visited The International Wolf Center, Axel was showing all the signs of being in charge. He’s two years old here last year and Aidan, who had been the alpha, was eight, and ready to give up the position.

Okay, my granddaughter’s on the way and I’m trying to finish up the last 22 pages of the book. I need to dedicate all three of them to different readers. I’ll do that when I’m done proofing. And I have another promo project my publisher sent me, so I need to get that done this weekend. Plus the two bears!

Have a super wonderful day!!!

Terry

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Switching from Highlanders to the Old West–Ghosts and Time Travel

Oct3

I’ve always loved westerns, ghost stories, and time travel so in A Ghost of a Chance at Love I was able to combine three things I love with a romance and the town of Salado, Texas that I used to visit with my mother when she was still alive.

Whenever we visited, it made me think of what it would be like to live back then when the town was just begun. Imagine the buildings that are old now, were new back then. The stagecoach that just takes sightseers up and down the main street would travel 5 hours all the way to Waco, Texas, the city that was a town near where I was living. The Stagecoach Inn was now The Shady Villa Inn during the 1800s. You wake up in the inn to find the name has changed, everyone is dressed for pioneer days or some such thing, the road is no longer paved but dirt, and cattle are run through the main street during cattle drives.

So that is the story I’m now proofing. The Accidental Highlander is done and hopefully this weekend I’ll have all three books ready to republish.

I know I’ll have more books coming in for edits, so I want to get this done in the meantime.

I think this will be my last physical therapy day. It’s already cost me $925, insurance won’t cover a dime, and my shoulder is getting better. If I keep working on the exercises at home like I have been, I should be well on the way to recovery.

Have a beautiful day!!

Terry

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The Wolf and the Girl

Oct2

No, this isn’t the story of Little Red Riding Hood. She’s a wolf too. I took the picture of the wolf at the International Wolf Center, Ely, Minnesota.

I’m off to proof The Accidental Highland Hero, adding dedications to that and the other Highland story that I didn’t have a chance to when they were first published.

I want to finish proofing this book, while I want to write another Highland story since they’re fresh on my mind, but I was thinking about the cougar Halloween story again…sigh. When I don’t have a deadline book to write, my mind goes in a million different directions! The fae are calling, another full length novel for cougars, the white bear series, and you wouldn’t believe all the covers I’ve purchased for books that I haven’t written yet.

So of course what happens? I’ll be writing stories for new books I don’t have covers for. *sigh* It’s not my fault. I love getting covers that are premade because I know what I’m getting. My problem is that no one makes cougar premades.

Okay, I’m off to proof before my day becomes my granddaughter’s day! Have a super, lovely day.

Terry

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Believe in Magic

Oct1
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My clouds, imagine what was flying in them!

Red Wolf Christmas is done and turned in and that’s magic! I also had to do a promo blog, and it’s done. So the rest of the evening I worked on a book I got the rights back to and just proofing it before I publish it. Hopefully, I’ll finish proofing it today. That’s for Winning the Highlander’s Heart.

I was also playing around with a story idea for Halloween, a cougar novel.

For now? I have to feed my furry piranhas and then I’m back to the Highlander. I’m making some progress on my shoulder at therapy and at home. Yay! And that’s magic too!

Hope you have a magical day!

Terry

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