The artist kit is by Lynne Anzelc. Love her work. Then you just create pictures with her elements.
I managed 4,000 words yesterday. I pulled up a bunch of wild blackberry bushes in my flowerbed and the grass even. They are so thorny–they go right through the gloves. And pulled up a ton of volunteer trees that are taking over. I could have a forest! I’ve also been bitten by fire ants a few times.
I should make it to 30K today. 3/8ths of the way done.
Hope your day is fun and productive. I’m going to get some more flowers and need to plant all my flower seeds!
Mixer brush painted the bottle of oil and cocktail and used overlays for the background. I took the photo at a restaurant in Central Texas.
I managed to plant my daffodils and lilies while baby was napping yesterday and got 1,000 more words. Today I should be 1/4th of the way done on the book. I’m hoping to get 3,000 words today, but must get 2,000 at least. I’ve been putting gravel underneath my flowerbed pavers so they don’t sink into the dirt and mulch and weeding, so hope to get more of that done today too.
Okay, off to get my day started. The ravenous dogs are waiting to eat.
I mixer painter brushed the model and background and added the lower part of her dress and created the crown.
I finally feel better! No sore throat. Still have a loss of voice and still getting over this, but man, no sore throat. Now if it will only stay away! The last time it went away, it came back after only a 2-day reprieve even worse and for longer. So fingers crossed.
Just have baby today, so hope to put him down for a nap this afternoon and plant the daffodils finally. And my daughter gave me some lilies for Mother’s Day a little early so I can put them in the ground too.
It’s warmer today–57 instead of 36 first thing, so I think we’ll be walking to the school to pick up sister this afternoon also. Yay!
Okay, got to get going. I managed another 1000 on Highland Wolf, so am at 18K with 62K to go. That feels more doable!
Oh, before I forget, got a lovely review from Library Journal for the upcoming book: Wolf on the Wild Side! I’m over the moon! Howling! Yay!
I used Topaz Studio Impression on a photo of a branch of flowers, added texture overlays under and over the picture and the butterfly images which were my own–two taken at a butterfly house and the one on the lower right on flowers in my yard.
It’s cold out, feels good before the heat comes back. I managed 3,000 on Highland Wolf last night, so hope to keep going like that because I’m way behind with writing. This cold has really gotten me down.
Grizzly bear shifter Amy Rutherford has special abilities where she can hear voices in her head—the thoughts and feelings of others—and she needs to get control of it. It started way before she nearly died in a car accident during a rainstorm where her parents perished, and she’s sure the crash wasn’t an accident. But nobody believes her. She can’t let go of what had happened, and storms bring on a case of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. She was on a blind date while celebrating her sister and her husband’s anniversary and a storm rages overhead at the dance club. She’s assaulted by all the voices in her head, until one stands out. A man is observing her, hiding his dark secrets from her, or trying to—and she’s not sure if he’s one of the good guys, or not.
Cedric Shader is a grizzly bear shifter and knows not to contact Amy the way he did at the dance club, instead of trying to meet her face to face first. But he senses her vulnerability and that she is experiencing psychic overload, just like he would when he was a kid. Now, he uses his ability to investigate murders, but the crime scene memories stay with him, though he tries hard to compartmentalize them, and he doesn’t want her to witness them. He told himself he is here on a job, not to become involved with a woman who has psychic issues. But she’s in trouble—and he’s certain she needs him to teach her how to cope. Worse, she believes someone had murdered her parents, and he’s beginning to wonder if she’s right. With a break-in at her apartment, and a possible connection to the murder of her parents, they’re running out of time before the person kills again.
I’m still waiting on Apple’s link, but everyone else has the book.
It took me a decade to write the book because I had to keep stopping for other books that were on strict deadline. So I was glad to finally finish it! I hope everyone loves it!
I also redid the cover for The Genie’s Wish and worked on the story to add an epilogue and add more to the story.
Genies are only fairy tales. At least that’s what Lizzie Mason thinks until she manages to summon one from an antique vase. Now she’s in real trouble as she vows to save the man imprisoned in the bottle from a fate worse than death and ends up in his world, hoping to change fate without getting herself killed.
The genie must right the wrongs of the past before the curse placed on him can be broken. But will the woman who has freed him be able to manage in a world where deceit and death await them?
I have a request for another vampire adult book. I need to see if I had another that I’d started. I don’t think so, so I’ll have to begin from scratch.I love it when readers get hooked on a series and want more. I had finished 2 of the ones I’d started last year, I think. So this will be number 7. But I’m working on Highland Wolf and want to finish the YA vampire book, Bite of the Vampire.
We’re supposed to get severe thunderstorms this afternoon, so I need to get some yard work done too. Oh, and I’m having auto read on Roxie’s story so I can listen to the whole story and see where I can add some mentions about the Mardi Gras party. I used the feature to listen to Bear in Mind for the last proof and was able to hear things that I had missed reading. That’s the way it was when I had books narrated for audio books. I’d hear things I’d missed. The auto read feature isn’t perfect–contractions come out weird, and words hyphenated can come out mangled, but otherwise, it’s really great for a different way to proof. Especially since I don’t have to sit and read, but can do some stuff while I’m listening.
Have a super great day! I’m off to get some more yard work done. This is the time of year when I’m trying to figure out if “it’s” a weed, or a flower.
Okay, I have to get ready to leave. My daughter, granddaughter and I are going shopping and having lunch. I missed out on the fun for the weekend because I was still so sick, so today is our day to have a little bit of fun.
I had so many things to do yesterday, but one of the things I was working on was a new cover for Bear in Mind. I’d purchased one from a book cover artist, but didn’t really care for the look of the couple, and it had a very brown background. Since this is a spring story, I wanted to show more of a spring look.
I’m proofing it one more time and then I’ll publish it.
Still coughing my head off all night long, and still have the worst sore throat. I’ve tried everything but nothing seems to be working.
I put together the new garden bed. It’s perfect for keeping my dogs away from the fence in a 9 foot area and for planting my herbs. I love chives so can’t wait to plant more.I just need to level it now and then begin filling it.
After I finish proofing Bear in Mind, I’m going to pull up Roxie’s story and add a Mardi Gras something.
Have a great day!!! It turned cool here, perfect for getting some stuff done.
So I was brainstorming with my friend again and we couldn’t come up with the idea. She runs through a bunch of ideas and then suddenly out of the blue, I’m thinking of the hero not being good at a lot of things. He’s a vet and he’s really good with animals, people not so much. Then I mention something else that he needs to do and my friend thinks of a great scene for that. I need to write all this down. I was thinking about it at 2 in the morning, when I wanted to sleep. lol
Got the wrong trellis for this box. It’s really irritating because it popped up as the one to go with the box I ordered and I ordered them at the same time. So I don’t know if I can send it back or not because it’s taken me so long to get it together because of deadlines and then being sick. Or if I can purchase the spare parts that will make this work. Otherwise that was an expensive disaster.
I’m off to work on my lovable hero and his first meeting of the heroine. I have two different scenarios of how they meet. Trying to decide which one will work the best.
