My soundbar is definitely going out on me. We saw Spiderman yesterday. It was really good. We’re seeing Matrix today and that’s it for the movies for months.
We’re thinking of going to the Build a Bear with my granddaughter one day this week and letting her build her own critter.
Speaking of building bears, I need to make another one for an order. But in the meantime, I’m typing notes from what I wrote last night by hand and am close to 49K. Yay!
In the artwork above, some might think that pixies are tiny and the cougars would be bigger. In truth, it’s all fantasy, right? And art? So we make of it what we will.
I was photographing birds yesterday and managed about 2500 words on Emerald Isle of Mists. I’m at the stage where I keep thinking on the story no matter what I’m supposed to be doing–like sleeping! I’ve been watching the series: The Wheel of Time, which is really good.
I see the birds are back, all kinds of varieties: cardinals, finches, sparrows, house wrens, chickadees, and more. And I’d like to photograph them, but I’m working on edits on Emerald first, and then I need to get at least 2500 words today, shooting to reach 45K today.
Not giving up on The Emerald Isle of Mists. I’m sleeping it, thinking about it, watching the Witcher new series, though I admit I went back to the first season to re-watch it first. And I’m about a 1/3 of the way through proofing While the Wolf’s Away.
I have had internet connection issues all morning! So finally able to blog.
Okay, tomorrow all the dogs will be here. I will definitely be in the doghouse and will try to keep writing, keep proofing and take pictures!
A whole family of bluebirds love to bathe in the fountain. Here is a male having a good time of it!
It turned cold and we had 2 inches of rain yesterday. The thunderstorm knocked out all my Christmas lights.
I have to work on Emerald Isle of Mists today and try to figure out a synopsis for the new Wolff sister story and work on promo blogs for the upcoming release of the book coming out in January. Also for the 10th Anniversary edition of Silence of the Wolf coming out next week???
I managed to make 22,000 on The Emerald Isle of Mists and I’m really getting ideas for it, nonstop, so that’s good. I will finish it! I wrote 1300 words just now, an idea I had that I didn’t want to lose. Yay!
I love it when that happens. I still have more to write, so I’m off to it.
My granddaughter was sick yesterday so we didn’t go to the post office to ship bears and books. I’ll do that today, but until then, I’m off to fight with the dark knights!
Have a fun and unstressful day! Fighting these creatures is wearing me out.
Truly, I need to write them in my sleep! I had a query from another reader about The Emerald Isle of Mists. I’ve started it but not very far along on it. It was meant to be a trilogy and I wrote the first two books and couldn’t sell them–back in the day when indie books didn’t exist. Can you even imagine a time like that?
When I first started writing, we could actually send our books to acquisition editors. But then things changed and the internet became a place to submit 3 chapters. Oh, soooo wonderful. No more typing out pages and making a ton of errors. I mean, I do on Word now, but that’s easy to fix, and fix, and fix. But typing on real paper was a different story. Then most publishers required submissions through agents. Why? Because they were getting SOOOOO many story submissions.
I ended up getting published by 3 publishers, 1 before they were even doing epubs. Then epubs came along. And long story longer…indie books were a thing where we could actually write and publish our own books on reputable book sites–Kobo, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Apple and Smashwords. And then we could even have our books narrated into audio books!!
So my two orphaned books in the trilogy: The Scepter of Salvation and The Magic of Inherian were available in ebook, print, and audio book! But Kersta’s story was constantly put on the back burner because of deadline books and readers wanting more fae, more bears, more cougars, more Highland medieval stories, wolves. I’ve had The Emerald Isle of Mists TBD (date to be determined) listed in my other books forever.
I’m working on it! I will finish it. Thanks to my readers who have been waiting for it for so many years.
I’m off to work on it. At 3,000 words. So far to go, but I’m going!
Stuck in a mountain cabin, Immortal Viking Ulf Stenrik regrets volunteering to fetch a Yuletide gift from a reclusive woodcarver. A ferocious storm forces wolf shifter Nora Bretagne to seek refuge in that same remote shack. The alpha Norseman and the fierce wolf spark electricity hot enough to melt a freezing blizzard, but it takes a Holiday miracle to make them admit they’ve finally met their true match.
Fated in Winter by Carrie Ann Ryan
Conner Jamenson knows two things: One day he might turn rogue and he can never risk his mate. Romy Temple has spent nearly a century alone, and isn’t ready for the fates to decide her path. With a rogue on the loose and the winter season approaching, two wolves who promised they would never fall find themselves on the brink of doing what could cost them the most—each other.
A Cursed Noël by Cecy Robson
After losing his father and lashing out at the world, it will take a Christmas miracle for Aric Connor to save his mate Celia and become the alpha his pack needs. But miracles happen—and Celia might be the miracle Aric most needs.
Cowboy Wolf Christmas by Kait Ballenger
Grumpy Grey Wolf, Silas Buck hates Christmas and everything that comes with it. As duty to ranch and pack forces this cowboy wolf to confront his ghosts of Christmases past, his newfound pack-mate, Cheyenne, is saddled alongside him for the ride. But when a sudden snowstorm forces them to spend a heated night together, Silas just may find Cheyenne’s sunshiny ways warm his long-frozen heart.
Better Watch Out by Kate SeRine
Seth “Big Bad” Wolf never believed he would get his very own happily ever after—until he found it with Lavender Seelie. But as the holidays draw near, Seth senses something dark and deadly on the winter wind. And one thing’s for sure—whatever evil is coming better watch out, ’cause there’s nothing Seth won’t do to protect the family he’s finally found, even if that means unleashing the full fury of the wolf inside…
A Second Chance at Snow Ridge by L.E. Wilson
If it wasn’t for a cow named Mistletoe, they never would’ve met, and this never would’ve happened. But it’ll take more than the magic of the holiday season to give this shifter a second chance to win back his first, and only, love.
Wonderland by Maria Vale
In the eleven years since her mate died, Leonora has immersed herself in teaching wolves how to deal with humans, the new apex predators. She doesn’t even have time for her oldest friend, Sten, the huge, terse and terrifying head of Carpentry. Now, with an encroaching storm and a disastrous attempt to introduce wolflings to peculiarities of human holidays, Homelands itself seem to be conspiring to bring Sten and Leonora back together.
A United Shifter Force Christmas by Terry Spear
United Shifter Force agent, Rowdy desperately wants to be a wolf shifter. He volunteers to help another agent with her cases, but Justine can’t believe he’s human! Can the sexy, former homicide detective convince her he should be a wolf too while forging an even deeper bond?
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So back to the real world! Little one and I are sorting through old pens to see what is working and what needs to be thrown out. We make a great team. lol And it’s something that she was excited to do. Otherwise she was too tired to do anything when she first arrived. That perked her right up. We were going to make sock snowmen but I didn’t have one of the items we needed. So we’ll make them another day.
Someone asked for the link to the bears and here are some of them.
I was reading over a Highland book I’d started. And adding to Bear in Mind yesterday, shipped two bears and have two left to finish up. Yesterday we went to Spring ISD kitchen managers’ gingerbread houses. So many were so cute, it was hard to decide which was the best! My granddaughter said they were all great!
Here’s one of our favorites. Clifford!
Have a fun-loving day! I’m off to get busy! Little one got tired and is on the couch yawning and watching a preschool show. She managed to get through a lot of the pens at least!
Paranormal stories aren’t just for Halloween! In this holiday romance, ski lodge owner Landon Wolff has to cope with an influx of wolf shifters in his town at Christmastime — but his wolfish instincts get turned to 11 when veterinarian Gabrielle Lowe comes to stay. If you prefer your holidays on the sexy side with hot guys who shapeshift into wolves, Jingle Bell Wolf is the perfect present for you.
Today bestselling author Terry Spear brings you the wolf shifters you’ve been wishing of for Christmas in this action-packed paranormal holiday romance!
It’s almost Christmas, and Florida gray wolf shifter and veterinarian Gabrielle Lowe has been talked into going with her friends to a ski resort in Silver Town, Colorado. But when her two jaguar girlfriends are held up on a mission, it not only leaves Gabrielle alone for the holidays, but also out of her element at the snowy resort. Determined to make the best of it, Gabrielle takes a dip in the lodge’s heated pool—after it’s closed, of course…
Gray wolf shifter Landon Wolff is part owner of the ski lodge and he’s got enough on his plate getting ready for the annual influx of Christmas visitors. The last thing he needs is a rebel, indulging in a midnight swim long after the pool is closed. Just as he’s about to throw the rule breaker out of the pool he realizes that Gabby is also a wolf. Suddenly, all the rules change… Maybe Landon will finally find the wolf he’s always wanted to share the holidays with.
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Shifters and Mistletoe: A Wolf Shifter Novella Collection
Release Date: December 7, 2021
ASIN: B09HBNF55Y
Heat up your holidays with eight sexy wolf shifter romances!
This novella anthology brings you brand new, never-before-seen stories of strong males brought to the brink by fierce females.
Join New York Times bestselling,USA Today bestselling, and award-winning paranormal romance authors Asa Maria Bradley, Carrie Ann Ryan, Cecy Robson, Kait Ballenger, Kate SeRine, L.E. Wilson, Maria Vale, Terry Spear for hunts across moonlit snow with wolf shifters who bare their bodies, their hearts–and their teeth.
