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IF You Wonder What I’ve Been Up To… Call of the Cougar is Available!

When you’re a publisher and an author and a teddy bear artist, and trying to get ready for both Christmas AND Thanksgiving…

I wake at night thinking of the millions of things I haven’t done yet and what I need to do. It’s like sleep lists, only I’m not sleeping. Who needs to count sheep???

Gray Bear--New Fuzzy Bear that has an old world charm

Gray Bear–New Fuzzy Bear that has an old world charm

Blue Dragon Gold Mohair Bear with antique blue jeweled pin, SOLD

Blue Dragon Gold Mohair Bear with antique blue jeweled pin, SOLD

And I proofed the final copy of Kiss of the Vampire’s print version and need it back one last time to approve it. But today, I uploaded Call of the Cougar! It’s processing at Kobo, Amazon, and BN. But it’s at All Romance Ebooks and Smashwords now. This is book 2 of the Heart of the Cougar series.

I posted both book 1 and 2 here.

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Cougar’s Mate: Instinct told her to run…

Shannon Rafferty learns that hanging out with the bad boys could be a dangerous business, but hooking up with a cop is even worse. Now she’s on the run, trying to avoid being murdered by his cougar shifter brothers and uncle. If that isn’t bad enough, a deputy sheriff hunts her down while she’s running as a cougar and trying to survive in the Colorado wilderness. He vows to protect her no matter what she’s done. With three dead boyfriends to her name, she’s sure she will be the death of Chase Buchanan before either of them can prevent it. No matter how much she knows she has to run again, he soon holds her heart hostage. But will that be enough to keep them both alive?

Chase Buchanan—as wilderness cabin resort owner, former US Army Special Forces, and part time deputy of the small town of Yuma, Colorado that boasts a love of cougars—is tasked to track down a cougar reported to be hunting human prey. Chase soon learns she’s a shifter, not a full-time cougar, and she’s on the run. When he takes her in, he vows to protect her. After losing his wife and baby to the human kind of predator years earlier, he’s not letting Shannon’s hunters kill her, too. But how is he going to hold onto the wild-cat woman, who is unpredictable at every turn, without losing his heart to her, and then losing her as well?

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ARe Books

Smashwords

Audible!

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Call of the Cougar: Looking for love can be dangerous…

Special Agent for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Services, Tracey Whittington, takes down wildlife traffickers and more, but what she doesn’t expect is to be in a shootout, multiple times, when the business turns deadly. Nor does she suspect she’ll be working with Hal Haverton, who serves as a part-time deputy for Yuma Town, Colorado, and runs his own horse ranch. As long as he doesn’t stop her investigative work—she has been placed on administrative leave due to the last shootout—she’ll be just fine.

Hal Haverton has every intention of keeping the wild cat safe, even if it means helping her to solve the case when every time he turns around, she’s involved in another shootout. When her boss asks their good friend, the sheriff, to have one of his deputies serve as a bodyguard for the cougar shifter, Hal’s all for it. So is the other deputy, but Hal’s got this covered. Even if getting somewhere with the lady means having his gun ready at all times. There are definite perks to getting to know the Special Agent better—if they live long enough to do something about it.

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Kobo

All Romance Ebooks

Smashwords

The title will be available on the other sites probably by tomorrow. I’ll update as I get them.

And the new windows and redone wall for the front foyer. As you can see in the picture of the before–it’s really foggy out. Perfect for vampires.

Before (though the windows had been replaced also, so there was an earlier before)

Before (though the windows had been replaced also, so there was an earlier before)

After

After

 

I still have a million and one things to do, so off to do them! 🙂 <3

Have a super wonderful Thursday. Argh, the time is disappearing quicker than I can account for it. Does that ever happen to you?

Terry

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Raining for Two Days–And That’s Great! More Before and After!

I shipped off nine bears yesterday and finished reading over SEAL Wolf Hunting.  I was up at 3 am to 11 pm and up at 4 am this morning. Argh. I just have too much to do and still have at least 14 bears to make. I’m working on dresses for 5 more Steampunk bears and then once 4 of the bears are dressed, need to sew on their hats and they’re done. I’ll try to ship them out on Friday.

So that’s why I haven’t been doing my blog. Trying to get a million things done, including finally running into town to do errands that I couldn’t do all last week because of the tile guys. Now my water heater isn’t working. I think it’s a fuse that’s blown. I need to get an electrician out to see about the circuit breaker. I think if I turn up the heat on the water heater, it blows the fuse. But if I don’t turn up the heat on the thermostat, my guests have barely any hot water, and I think that’s why I’m having such a time with my dishes getting clean in the dishwasher. Soooo, need to get that taken care of pronto.

This is a picture I took when the cornfields were high and the sky was stormy. I was actually trying to get a shot of the new shrubs and hoping they’d make it. But when I did it, I saw how horrible the driveway looked. I see it all the time, but it’s like I didn’t really see it. Some of it is because of the winds we have and the plowing they do all the time. But also, this has accumulated for about 17 years since my dad passed away. He was always keeping things clean. My mom couldn’t.

Blackened driveway

Blackened driveway

So, that was one of the things I had done. One of the workmen cleaned the driveways and the brick. I’ll have to show a picture of the brick after I take the new one. I thought I had, but I’d only taken of the Before. I’ve tried to hose it down myself, but it just didn’t work without a high-powered washer and they used bleach to also make a difference.

Here is the driveway when it’s clean.

Driveway cleaned

Driveway cleaned

What a difference, eh???

Okay, enough goofing off. Got to read over A SEAL Wolf Hunting one last time, and turn it in. And finish up the Steampunk Bears and show them off. And proof two audiobooks and read over A Silver Wolf Christmas once last time and turn it in. And reread Call of the Cougar again, and publish it. 🙂 <3

Have a lovely Wednesday! It’s a vampire day. It’s pouring. Speaking of which, not of rain, but of vampires…I’m having two artists redo vampire teen covers for me. 🙂 Will show off when they’re finished. 🙂 <3

Terry

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Finished More Bears! More Bears Ordered! Making My Way Through Edits!

Bear Family

Bear Family

Daddy Bear

Daddy Bear

Momma, Daddy and Baby Bear finished! And the amethyst and blue bears are named for characters in Cora Blue’s books.

Amethyst Bear

Amethyst Bear

Blue Bear

Blue Bear

http://amzn.com/B00NZLORPU. For her underwater shifters. Cora Blu http://amzn.com/1478263490. This is a novella in her underwater series. Max’s girlfriend wanted a sterling rose. This is the perfect cover.

The bears match her covers and then she offers them as giveaways. Really cute.

And more 4 more bears ordered. 🙂 <3

So I’m off to work on edits on A SEAL Wolf Hunting. On ch 4, but still have up to ch 20 to read through. The tile work is all done, so trying to clean up everything. I still have to move a lot of stuff back into the cabinets and such, but need to clean all the furniture first. I still have a couple of projects to finish up on the porch and the guest bathroom. Hope to get to it before the kids arrive for Thanksgiving. But time is running out and I’ve got so much going on!

And I’m working on Douglas Clan bear, a rainbow bear and an emerald green bear today.  Hope to at least finish the first two and finish making up the green bear. Embroider her paws if I can. Days need to be longer. 🙂

Have a super great Sunday! 🙂  <3  I’m off to work!

Terry

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Before! After! Renovating with Tile!

35-year old stained carpeting

35-year old stained carpeting

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Still have some work to do today, then cleaning.

I have 21 bears made up, just need to do the finishing embroidery work, etc. And one in progress, another needs to be cut out, but made up the dragon cloak. 🙂

And I got edits back on A SEAL Wolf Hunting. Editor loved it! So just need to add a few more details on a couple of things, and then I’ve got to turn it back in pronto. Waiting on one more Silver Wolf Christmas beta read, then can turn it in. And one more Call of the Cougar beta read, and can publish. And two audiobooks waiting for review–Huntress for Hire and Her Highland Hero. *sigh*

So far the schedule for the first of the new books is: SEAL Wolf Diving, Feb 2016, She-Wolf Leader (titles to change btw), Jun 2016, and Jaguar Jingle Bells, Oct 2016, and Billionaire in Wolf’s Clothing, Feb 2017

And it’s 38 degrees this morning!! It’s cold, but I refuse to turn on the heat. It’s going to be a high of 65 today. That’s the lowest we’ve been this fall. Tomorrow, back to 73 degrees and then 78 the next day.

Have a wonderful Saturday!!! After he’s finished with projects today, I’m going to be doing a lot of cleaning. Dust everywhere. And I’ll be redecorating a bit later. I moved a big cabinet to another location, and so it freed up a wall and need to do something else there. 🙂

So what do you think?

Terry

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Renovating, Wildflowers, a Red Dragon Bear, and a Sunset

I made up this bear for an order and have enough fabric to make one more, but it’s also sold now. 🙂

Sunset over Texas

Red Dragon Bear

Lovely Texas Sunset last night.

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Wildflowers and Roses still blooming.

A rose

A rose

Purple Wildflowers

Purple Wildflowers

Old Kitchen, Stove went out

Old Kitchen, Stove went out

This shows the old tile in the kitchen.

tile in kitchen before grout

tile in kitchen before grout

old window in kitchen

old window in kitchen

Kitchen window, ice on inside

Kitchen window, ice on inside

This was why I had to change out the window. Besides the wind blowing straight through it and feeling the cold air seeping through the single pane window, I had ice built up on the inside of the window last winter!

new kitchen with the new tile and window

new kitchen with the new tile and window–still needs grout.

All these renovations have taken place over the years. But it sure is nice getting them done.

Off to work on stuff.  I’m way behind on Phantom Fae. Too much distraction with the workmen here.  That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 🙂

I think the kitchen has a much warmer appeal than it had before.  What do you think?

Have a super lovely Tuesday!!!

Terry

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