Archive | December 2019

Reindeer Pups

Dec20

I love my dogs. They make great frog princes, reindeer, pumpkin heads, Ewoks, whatever I can think of to turn them into and they’re so good-natured about it. Okay, so Tanner looks like he’s giving me the look and Max won’t look at the camera (but he is camera shy and he never looks at the camera if he can avoid it), but really, they are eager for me to pay attention to them so they both are jumping at me to try the “thing” on. When one has it on, the other one wants it on, then it’s time to take it off. Good puppies.

I’m still working on Vampire Redemption, 8,000 words in 3 days. I have 23,000, need around 50-60K more. I’m hoping to be halfway done by the end of next week (around 40K), but I’ll have to begin working on the Highland wolf book, so I may not get this done for another year.

Not all vampires are evil in my books. When I saw Dracula in the theater when I was a teen, I fell in love with him. He deserved to be loved. Just like Wolfman did. So in my stories, vampires can be good and some are rogues, just like in my wolf stories. Just like humans.

Hunters, who survived the Black Death like the vampires, are changed, except they don’t drink blood. They hunt the rogues. But what happens when a hunter is turned? Now the rogue vampires really have a fight on their hands.

I’m off to get things done! We’re having our Christmas early so the kids can see his parents for Christmas Day. We alternate each year. I used to see my son on alternate years, but he and his new wife are having her mother visit instead. So that will throw us off completely for next year. Either they can visit and see all of us, or I’ll visit them at some other time. Family is really important to me, but it has to work both ways.

Hope you have a delightful day!!! I can’t wait for Christmas!

Terry

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I Feel Like This…

Dec19

in this cold, cold weather.

Added 2,000 more to the vampire story yesterday. This morning I’m just trying to get warm, though I need to take out the garbage and the dogs. Yesterday, we had heavy frost on everything and the roofs made it look like it had snowed.

In other news: you just never know where a story idea might come from. I was reading an article about reversing aging by adding certain chemicals to cells. Now, just think of the repercussions of that! Even very old people can rejuvenate their bodies through this process. Not just stop aging, but reverse it! Sounds like science fiction.

Can you imagine all the businesses that would be put out of business? All the new startup businesses that would evolve? Some that would be illegal, trying to sell a product that would be dangerous to users? Or cheaper because the procedure is too expensive? Facelifts are out. Forget the cosmetics that claim rejuvenating ingredients.

Chemical salons would start up and people could sit in the salon chairs to get their chemical treatments and watch their wrinkled skin tighten and become ageless.

But what if you get addicted to it? Like some are to plastic surgery? What if one treatment every year isn’t enough? What if…you went too far. Or it affected people differently. One rejuvenated the right amount, and another became a juvenile.

For the condition in children where they age rapidly, this might be a good way for them to aid them in slowing down or even reversing the process. For the rest of us? Hmmm, could I remember more? Write faster? Have a few more years to finish the millions of books I have on my computer and in my head before I die?

What do you think? Are you ready to try it?

Terry

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It Might Not be Snowing, but…

Dec18

From 80 to 30 in a nanosecond, it’s cold out there. Little one is here and keeping me busy, so first time I had a chance to do a blog.

We read a ton of books every time she comes to stay with me. And we were vacuuming. We’ll mop later. It’s an electric one, so it will be interesting to see how she handles that.

I still can’t figure out what to do with the new book, but I did add 5,000 words to a vampire one I started as a sequel to another about eight years ago. I have a lot of books like that. lol

Have a super day!!!

Terry

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My Internet is Back Up!!!

Dec17

It was broken.

Now…if only my muse would come back to me… I think it’s broken too.

Have a super wonderful day. It’s turned cold here!!!

Terry

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Friday the 13th–Well, Yesterday

Dec14

With little one here, it was a wild and hectic day. But I finally realized it was Friday the 13th again, and created this fun picture that is more Christmassy.

We’re going to try and jumpstart my car so I can get it to a mechanic. Hope it’s just the battery.

Hope your day is going great! I’m off to get ready!

Terry

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My Car is Broken

Dec13

It won’t start so the only way to explain that to a toddler is: it’s broken.

That’s how it feels to me too. It won’t work. It’s broken. Where I lived before, I had a great mechanic who lived near me. He always fixed things and I never worried about being overcharged or told I needed something I didn’t need.

Here, I don’t know who to call.

Anyway, I feel that my granddaughter never left. By the time her parents picked her up last night, it felt it was practically time for her to be dropped off again early this morning. We always have fun though.

Okay, we’re off to take a walk in the cold!

Have a great day!!

Terry

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I Feel Like I Have

Dec12

a million things to do.

I was playing with the picture a bit…

I had my granddaughter packed in the car, ready to go to my daughter’s gingerbread house and chili dinner and my car wouldn’t start. She came home and to pick us up and I went home with my son-in-law, and of course, when he checked it out, my car started. BUT, the oil needs to be changed indicator came on, and the overhead light dimmed. So I need to get an oil change, and I’ll see if it is: starter, alternator, battery. I just hope it starts this morning. And I hope they can figure it out if it does start alright.

I’ve got so many things I need to do–pay bills, renewed RWA membership (Romance Writers), ship a Christmas package and ship books (but I’m waiting on the books for both), and get groceries. I just need to make a list of all that needs to be done so I don’t have to try to store it all in my tired brain.

Do you make lists? I used to be a slave to lists, so I quit writing them except for when I need to get groceries. But sometimes, like now, they would be helpful!

I’m still trying to come up with a story idea for the Highland book. Story idea, where are you?

I have to get ready to run. I have to take care of little one this afternoon, and pick her up, if my car is running. Otherwise, they’ll have to drop her off. So I need to get all this stuff done before I have to take care of her.

Have a super day!!

Terry

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Magic in the World

Dec11
Kitten up for adoption I captured at a cat show. He needs some magic in his world. A home. A family to love and play with. I took one home like that and she was wonderful-16 years of love. She was this age when I took her in. But my Son-in-Law is deathly allergic to cats, so no more kitten adoptions.

I finished reading Hero of a Highland Wolf and I need to read Heart of the Highland Wolf now because I figured out who Enrick needs to have a relationship with. Heather MacNeill, and all I remember about her was that Ian, pack leader and cousin, was always trying to keep her under his control. So I need to read more about her again, and still trying to figure out a story, plot, beginning and then will run with it.

If you signed up for my newsletter and didn’t receive it, email me at : terryspear@ymail.com and I’ll send you one so you can enter the contest. I looked to see when new signups occurred, but couldn’t tell by the listing. It used to show by date.

I signed up to do a Facebook Christmas giveaway on Dec 23. Time is flying!!!!!

This afternoon, my granddaughter and I are visiting her mom’s workplace and seeing all the gingerbread houses the school cafeteria staff made and the doors the staff decorated. And I have babysitting duty Thursday night while mom and dad go to a Christmas party.

I still want to do a little more on Joy to the Wolves, so haven’t turned it in yet. I might get it done tomorrow.

Hope you have a fun day too!!!

Terry

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7 Days of Sourcebooks Giveaways!

Dec10

7 of us hot authors, uhm, hot romance authors, hmmm… 7 of us who write hot romance novels through Sourcebooks will be having a giveaway for 7 days. What do you need to do to enter? First, sign up for my newsletter, and then when I send out the newsletter on Dec 10th, make sure you click on the link to enter the contest! That’s it!
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My newsletter is going out today. Right now, I’m rereading Hero of Highland Wolf to recall the characters in that story that I wrote years ago so I can write Grant’s triplet’s brother’s story next. I finished edits on Joy to the Wolves and will turn it after I look over it one more time.

Have a howling great day!!!

Terry

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Do Not Touch

Dec8
Coral at the aquarium in Omaha

Simply touching corals to see what they feel like can cause the death of an entire colony. Oils from your skin can disturb the delicate mucous membranes that protect the coral.

Fairy sculpture

In Greece, they told us that people touched the statues so much, they wore off body parts. I don’t have any pictures that I took there. Just think if millions of people touched the fairy’s fine, detailed features how they could be worn off to a smooth nothingnesss.

So look, don’t touch, like I tell my granddaughter all the time as we find all the beautiful little monarch caterpillars and their cocoons. Enjoy the beauty with our eyes.

I’ve got 8 more chapters to edit on Joy to the Wolves, 22 chapters done. Yay! Off to finish it today!

Have a great day!!!

Terry

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