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Pelican Composite

Oct11

Setting the pelican free.

Terry

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

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The Wolves Have Gathered for Fall

Sep19

 

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Wolves in a pack for a portrait (Depositphotos)

Fall background (mine, St Croix)

Pumpkin  (mine, Wolf Reserve, NM)

Fall leaves (Pretty Actions, Falling Leaves)

Juggling grandbaby while typing and feeding her, but wanted to get this done before the day tuns into night.

Wishing you all a beautiful fall day!

Terry

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

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Playing around with Photoshop

Sep15

The composite is made of a cemetery in Edinburgh–beautiful angel statue, the dog gravestones, Edinburgh Castle, a Texas moon. The fog and wolf were overlays.

Deer reflected in the water where there was none.

Time for grandbaby to come over. Which means no writing. I have kept up and I’m only 16,000 words from word count. Though a long way from finishing the story. Off to get ready!!

Have a lovely day!

Terry

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

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Wilde & Woolly Bears http://www.celticbears

Realty to Fantasy

Sep3

I create stories, some based on some realty, and some made up. My world is as real as can be, just add some wolf shifters, jaguar shifters, bear shifters, or cougar shifters in and you’ve got a fantastical world.

But oftentimes those worlds are based on true happenings, lots of research and sometimes just a kernel of an idea from something on the news or in real life.

In Howling for a Highland Wolf, I really was in the Cayman Islands, and really did see all the banks with doors and that was all, the man wearing the dark suit standing in the lobby, a briefcase chained to his wrist.

In another Highland wolf story, I was at the castle ruins that is the heroine’s.

So when I went to drop off dog treats, toys, leashes, flea medicine, and towels at a neighbor’s house so he and his wife could deliver them where they were working at an animal shelter due to Hurricane Harvey, I had the perfect image. Setup: Wife is on the driveway talking on her phone. Cell phones don’t work in the houses very well, so a lot of folks have to go outside to talk on their cell phones. Something in the roofs that protect from the heat of the sun. See? More little tidbits for a story.

I drive up, and she’s looking at me like who are you. And I ask if they’re the ones collecting stuff for the shelter.

“Yes! I’ll get my husband.”

I wasn’t sure why she needed to get her husband. There were two large bags of supplies, and I carried one and then the other to their car. Out comes the husband. In boxer shorts.

Sculpted chest, tall, shoeless, great legs, and a big smile. I mean, I’m a romance author, right? So immediately, I’m thinking of a wolf story.  Boxers and a smile. I told my acquisitions editor. She told me if I think of the story, she’ll publish it. lol

Okay, so it’s been bad in the Houston and surrounding areas. Along our main road, the cleanup continues. All of the businesses on one side of the road are on lower ground and were flooded. On the opposite side, higher ground, so their runoff added to their across-the-road neighbors’ flooding issues. The road was under water also.

Here is what happened to one man when he returned to his flooded home:

Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman’s Office responded to an intruder call at a residence near Lake Houston. Upon arrival, deputies were met by a large alligator who made his way into this flooded home. Constables will soon be delivering the alligator back into his natural habitat.

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The alligator was returned to his home, and now the poor house owner has to start his cleanup.

We were very fortunate. No flooding, except for areas of the yard, and no alligators. That we’ve seen. Yet.

Hope your day goes well.

Terry

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

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Atlantis

Mar6

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It rained all day yesterday, same thing for today and tomorrow and I feel I might have ended up here!

These are  pictures I took at: a theater, aquarium at a zoo, crackled glass ornament in my yard, and castle ruins. 🙂

Okay, so I had a neat email about how to clean up your Mailchimp newsletter. We pay for members, so this was something that was great to know.

http://carabristol.com/2017/03/how-you-can-use-mailchimp-star-ratings-for-newsletter-subscriber-maintenance/

And I had an email for a freebie, if you are using Photoshop, or other programs like it, I guess. This is for free light flares.

** presents on the weekend ***

The deal is easy: this Freelens Flairs package is free for the next two days, but we are asking for a share of this post or a backlink or something like that. It helps us make free stuff.

http://bit.ly/2mqoyVV

 

Okay, back to the book. I’ve been getting the narration chapter samples for Taming the Wild Cougar also, finished the bear I need to send out, but need to package it up, and still working away on Flight of the White Wolf.

Have a great one!!

It’s raining, it’s pouring….

Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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The Next Time You’re Reading a Book…

Feb18

…just imagine all the wonderful tales you can take part in. You see, you could be reading and along comes a shifter wolf, but he didn’t move quick enough and the cougar got the girl.

And so begins my tale.

It’s also a cautionary tale. Whosoever waits can easily lose out. Don’t wait, seize the day.

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Oh, and this is the original picture I used for the composited picture (free from Unsplash). Also a blue misty woods background, the wolf, sun’s rays, and a butterfly. 🙂 <3 I did a lot of curves manipulation to change the blue misty woods into something more green to match the foreground better. 🙂 <3

I got my word count, should have the book halfway done by this weekend. 🙂 43,000 words to go.

Oh, and, I’ve been taking courses on compositing at Tara Lasher’s site and she now has a free giveaway of a Macbook, so be sure and enter! http://contest.taralesher.com/ref/k5200871/

Well, it’s time to get back to work. Hope you have a beautiful day!!

Terry Spear

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

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Free Creative Market Goods Each Week

Jan7

They usually have a font or two that are free, and a myriad of other stuff. What’s great about Creative Market is if you lose your hard drive, you can always go back to the site where you had your free font or anything else you’ve downloaded before, free or otherwise, and it allows you to re-download. I’ve picked up fonts, overlays, a number of things from their site, and they can be very reasonable. Plus, if the people with the items update them, you get an automatic notice about the updates.

https://creativemarket.com/free-goods

2-bluebirds-on-roof-old-house-206This is a picture I took at the old house of two bluebirds sitting on the roof.  I had a whole swarm of them trying to get bugs one day. I had never seen bluebirds there before. This was shot through a window and screen with the sun overhead at an odd angle, so not the best of shots.

bluebird-baby-giraffe-900-bokeh-004This shows the difference between what I could capture with the new home, clear glass still, so not shooting from outside, better lighting, gray day.

2,000 on the new book, 78,000 to go.

It’s still cold, cold, cold.

With the upcoming unscheduled release of Galaxy Warrior,Passionate embraces men and women

 

one of my friends asked: What about the next fortuneteller’s book?

A rags to riches fairy tale where a fortune telling can spell doom…

Katrina Landry is not your everyday fortune teller. She’s a substitute teacher who longs to work at it full time. But when she substitutes for her cousin at her fortune telling booth at the fair, Katrina meets a man who she foresees is in danger. So what’s a girl supposed to do but sneak into a by-invitation-only dance and save the TX Stud’s life?

Prescott Worthington hasn’t had this much fun in a long time when on a whim he takes his girlfriend to the fair where Sascha the Sensation predicts he will have twins, and that his girlfriend will find someone else. But when the woman shows up at the dance with some nonsense about saving his life, he’s totally irritated and totally bewitched. Maybe she can bring a little magic into his life.

She insists someone’s trying to kill him and he thinks it’s her boyfriend…only Prescott has no intention of giving up the woman who he’s sure needs his protection. And a whole lot more.

iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/deadly-fortunes/id1155880521?mt=11

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Amazon

Kobo

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Deadly Fortunes was the first. And she has this wild cousin whose book I was writing next. I often did this, started sequels to books in the hopes of selling the series. But when I couldn’t get picked up by a publisher for the first book, I’d just set the sequel aside and work on something else. I had one title for it, but I think to tie it in with Deadly Fortunes, I might call it Deadly Mis-Fortunes. She’s also a fortune teller with real psychic powers also. It’s already 25,000 words long. Hmmmm. When I’m starting out on a new book, it’s like ack, so many words to write. The draw to the Dark Side is powerful… write the book that I have an upcoming deadline on, or write the book that is a good way on its way to being done???

Okay, okay, so I can fight the Dark Side and I will keep working on Flight of the White Wolf, but…maybe I’ll finish up Deadly Mis-Fortunes after that. We’ll see. 🙂 It depends on where my muse will take me. It’s been bugging me to write Chet’s Cougar Christmas story.

Be sure to follow me on BookBub where I have new release information AND when I can get a deal, I’ll have specials on a book. The Dark Fae is going on sale for 99 cents! It’s the first time I’ve been able to get one of my YA on BookBub.

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Okay, I’m off to write and get my word count. The rule is: if I write, word count goes up. It might need to be changed a lot, but the truth is, when I have something on paper–it’s easier to change than when I have nothing on paper. 🙂 Isn’t that amazing how that works?

Have a super, wonderful day!

Terry Spear

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

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