We have a few more titles this week because we had two WIPs in different stages of completion that we have gone back to. I also just finished the galleys for Calendar Boys--August: Scorched and Vivien is working on the print galleys for Trinity Broken.
Title: The Master Chronicles VII: A Renaissance in Blood
Publisher: Amber Allure
Length: 78,600 words
Date Started: 3/29/08
Date Completed: 6/20/08
Summary: Jesse Madding wakes up one morning to discover everything has changed and he is completely alone, both Emma and Gideon gone. Betrayed by the last person he’d expect, the life he once had is over, and a new existence must somehow be forged. Aching with the loss, Jesse vows to do everything he can to overcome the lies, return home, and find the vampire that makes his life worth living.
Title: An Innocent Proposition
Publisher: Amber Heat
Length: 35,000
Date Started: 11/20/07
Date Completed: 6/18/08
Summary: At twenty-two, Amanda Stevenson is tired of being treated like a child. Unfortunately, her parents are devoted to controlling her life, and they’re not above using blackmail to get their way. Their greatest weapon is the final two years of her college education, which they wield against her without remorse. Amanda’s choices are limited. But her former professor, and current friend, Jack Navis, has a suggestion—marry him and take advantage of the university’s tuition remission policy.
Jack is sure he can keep everything between them platonic. Especially since he’s a fetishist—he needs to watch people to get off and he doesn’t enjoy participating. He’s sure of that until he kisses her. And their world is thrown into chaos with new emotions, unexpected needs, and driving hunger.
Working Title: Spence/Rebecca
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full Novel
Words Completed 20,000
Date Started: 5/21/2007
Date Due: No Deadline
Summary: Spencer Cole risks his life every night on the backs of the world’s most dangerous bulls, and that’s the way he likes it. A rising star on the professional rodeo circuit, he is poised to be one of the most elite bull riders in America. Until he sustains a devastating injury—a concussion that brings his future as a bull rider into sharp question, and a torn shoulder that requires major surgery. He is forced to turn to the only friend he has in town, Rebecca Rankin.
Rebecca’s annual trysts with Spencer Cole are the high point of her Independence Day Celebration, but it never occurs to her to seek out from their relationship. And she is not prepared to be thrust into the role of nurse-maid for a bitter, angry cowboy. She is obliged to put her own blossoming career as a photographer on hold, but vows it will just be until Spencer can take care of himself—or hire a real nurse to take care of him
But Spencer doesn't just need a nurse. He needs somebody to show him his life didn't end when his career did.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
WIP Tuesdays
Title: The Master Chronicles VII: A Renaissance in Blood
Publisher: Amber Allure
Length: 80,000 words
Words Completed: 64,716
Date Started: 3/29/08
Date Due: 6/30/08
Summary: Jesse Madding wakes up one morning to discover everything has changed and he is alone. The life he once had is over, and a new life must be forged, but only after he finds the vampire that makes life worth living. M/M content.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
No edits this week. It is the calm before the "galley storm".
Publisher: Amber Allure
Length: 80,000 words
Words Completed: 64,716
Date Started: 3/29/08
Date Due: 6/30/08
Summary: Jesse Madding wakes up one morning to discover everything has changed and he is alone. The life he once had is over, and a new life must be forged, but only after he finds the vampire that makes life worth living. M/M content.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
No edits this week. It is the calm before the "galley storm".
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
WIP Tuesdays
Title: Calendar Boys--August: Scorched
Publisher: Amber Allure
Length: 31K
Date Started: 5/29/08
Date Completed: 6/4/08
Summary: Fires are blazing across southern Utah, and Aaron Meyers, volunteer firefighter, knows he should be concentrating on the flames. Unfortunately, he's too distracted by former crush, and current New York City fireman, Xander Wescott. Xander returns to Utah to help battle the flames threatening his hometown. He remembers Aaron as the gangly kid who used to follow him around, and he's unprepared for just how much he wants to know the man Aaron has become. M/M content
Title: The Master Chronicles VII: A Renaissance in Blood
Publisher: Amber Allure
Length: 80,000 words
Words Completed: 43,340
Date Started: 3/29/08
Date Due: 6/30/08
Summary: Jesse Madding wakes up one morning to discover everything has changed and he is alone. The life he once had is over, and a new life must be forged, but only after he finds the vampire that makes life worth living. M/M content.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
We also have the edits for Scorched and Stealing West, as well as the galleys for The Calendar Boys Vol II: April-June, which is the paperback collection getting released in July.
Publisher: Amber Allure
Length: 31K
Date Started: 5/29/08
Date Completed: 6/4/08
Summary: Fires are blazing across southern Utah, and Aaron Meyers, volunteer firefighter, knows he should be concentrating on the flames. Unfortunately, he's too distracted by former crush, and current New York City fireman, Xander Wescott. Xander returns to Utah to help battle the flames threatening his hometown. He remembers Aaron as the gangly kid who used to follow him around, and he's unprepared for just how much he wants to know the man Aaron has become. M/M content
Title: The Master Chronicles VII: A Renaissance in Blood
Publisher: Amber Allure
Length: 80,000 words
Words Completed: 43,340
Date Started: 3/29/08
Date Due: 6/30/08
Summary: Jesse Madding wakes up one morning to discover everything has changed and he is alone. The life he once had is over, and a new life must be forged, but only after he finds the vampire that makes life worth living. M/M content.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
We also have the edits for Scorched and Stealing West, as well as the galleys for The Calendar Boys Vol II: April-June, which is the paperback collection getting released in July.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
WIP Tuesdays
Title: Calendar Boys--August
Publisher: Amber Quill Allure
Length: 30-35K
Words Completed: 20,874
Date Started: 5/29/08
Date Due: ASAP
Summary: Fires are blazing across southern Utah, and Aaron Meyers knows he should be concentrating on the flames, but he's too distracted by former crush, and current New York City fireman, Xander Wescott. Xander returns to Utah to help battle the flames, side by side with Aaron, who is a volunteer firefighter. He remembers Aaron as the gangly kid who used to follow him around, and he's unprepared for just how much he wants to know the man Aaron has become.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
Publisher: Amber Quill Allure
Length: 30-35K
Words Completed: 20,874
Date Started: 5/29/08
Date Due: ASAP
Summary: Fires are blazing across southern Utah, and Aaron Meyers knows he should be concentrating on the flames, but he's too distracted by former crush, and current New York City fireman, Xander Wescott. Xander returns to Utah to help battle the flames, side by side with Aaron, who is a volunteer firefighter. He remembers Aaron as the gangly kid who used to follow him around, and he's unprepared for just how much he wants to know the man Aaron has become.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Thursday 13: 13 WIPS
Vivien: Since 2008 is half over, and Pepper is done with her graduate program, we've been taking stock of our obligations and evaluating what we need to do versus what we want to do. So today, our Thursday Thirteen is all about the 13 stories we're going to write in the latter half of 2008.
1. August Calendar Boys story. We chose to do a monthly series for Amber Quill of gay novellas, called "Calendar Boys." The story we're just now starting - after a crazy weekend of oodles of editing - is August. Let's face it, nothing happens in August. So we went astrological. We've got a lion shapeshifter who's forced to take a virgin sacrifice on the cusp, only to discover that he doesn't want to kill this particular virgin.
Pepper: After we finish the August story, we're returning to the Master Chronicles. Book 7 is Renaissance in Blood and we already finished 30k before we were forced to take a break. I would provide a summary but I'm not sure how to do so without spoiling it. Suffice it to say, things are going to change for Jesse and Gideon.
Vivien: 3. It's back to the het after Renaissance. The AQ pax, "As You Like It," is all about fetishes, and we're submitting a story, An Innocent Proposition, about a voyeur and his virgin wife who discovers her exhibitionist side.
Pepper: 4. As soon as we finish An Innocent Proposition we must return to our Calendar Boys. September is about a Labor Day BBQ, and the single father who really hopes his hot neighbor could be interested in him as more than just a friend.
Vivien: 5. Then it's Book 8 of the Master Chronicles. This is slotted for an October 1 release, and marks the beginning of the end for us. The book is as yet untitled, and I can't reveal too much without spoiling 7 even more, but I can tell you it's going to be uber hot. And Gideon and Jesse get groupies!
Pepper: 6. Back to the Calendar Boys for the October Installment! We, uh, don't have a real bunny for this yet. We're thinking maybe a goofy Halloween story (since scary Halloween is so obvious). Or maybe a hunting trip at a lodge with a big fire? What else happens in Oct? Columbus Day? Yeah, it'll probably be a Halloween story.
Vivien: 7. Another Calendar Boy story, this time for November. Another one we haven't decided, lol. But we try to subvert major holidays, like the vampire Valentine's in February, so I imagine we'll end up doing something for Thanksgiving. Oh! Except Veteran's Day is in November, too. We could do something with ex-soldiers. That could be hot...
Pepper: Ex-soldiers WOULD be hot! 8. Is Book 9 of the Master Chronicles, as yet untitled. I would go into it, but honestly, the fact that we plan to end the series at book 9 depresses me too much. On the one hand, we don't want Jesse and Gideon to overstay their welcome. On the other hand, I'll miss Jesse so much! But we have a few surprises and tricks up our sleeves that I don't think anybody will expect.
Vivien: 9. Our last Calendar Boy story then. December. Will it be a bloody Christmas? A winter solstice that's hotter than it is cold? We're not likely to know until we get there...
Pepper: 10. AQP's "First Time Around" pax. This is just on the list of things to do we. We don't have an idea, or a title. The premise of the pax is that it is the first gay relationship of at least 1 character. I'm looking forward to writing a story about self-discovery and self-acceptance in the context of hot gay sex, but I think we're going to rue the fact that we only have 40K words to work with.
Vivien: 11. Those are our actual obligations out of the way. Which leaves us three slots of stories we choose to do just because we want to. Stories without homes at the moment. The first of those is 10,000 Kisses. We've actually already started this one, and have just over 2k so far. It takes characters we introduce in one of our summer releases and sees just what happens to them. Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits.
Pepper: 12. A story we simply call "Spence/Becca". Unfortunately, we don't have a title. We do, however, have 17,000 words. And for some reason, I really don't know why, I already have a blurb for it.
Vivien: 13. There's a lot of possibilities for this last spot, but since Pepper and I hate to have stories started and languishing on our computers - which thankfully doesn't happen too often - there's only one other that we need to finish in order to wipe that clean. It's a story we actually started nearly a year ago for the vampire pax sold at AQ this past January. It's called Runaway Red and we hit 7k on it and realized it was going to be longer than 40k. That's what happened with Spence and Rebecca, too. The stories we started for pax commitments announced they wouldn't be satisfied with just 40k and so we had to temporarily shelve them. But this one is about a female vampire on the run, and the antiquities shop owner she kidnaps to help her. Hot, hot, hot, and I'm sure they'll appreciate us getting back to them.
1. August Calendar Boys story. We chose to do a monthly series for Amber Quill of gay novellas, called "Calendar Boys." The story we're just now starting - after a crazy weekend of oodles of editing - is August. Let's face it, nothing happens in August. So we went astrological. We've got a lion shapeshifter who's forced to take a virgin sacrifice on the cusp, only to discover that he doesn't want to kill this particular virgin.
Pepper: After we finish the August story, we're returning to the Master Chronicles. Book 7 is Renaissance in Blood and we already finished 30k before we were forced to take a break. I would provide a summary but I'm not sure how to do so without spoiling it. Suffice it to say, things are going to change for Jesse and Gideon.
Vivien: 3. It's back to the het after Renaissance. The AQ pax, "As You Like It," is all about fetishes, and we're submitting a story, An Innocent Proposition, about a voyeur and his virgin wife who discovers her exhibitionist side.
Pepper: 4. As soon as we finish An Innocent Proposition we must return to our Calendar Boys. September is about a Labor Day BBQ, and the single father who really hopes his hot neighbor could be interested in him as more than just a friend.
Vivien: 5. Then it's Book 8 of the Master Chronicles. This is slotted for an October 1 release, and marks the beginning of the end for us. The book is as yet untitled, and I can't reveal too much without spoiling 7 even more, but I can tell you it's going to be uber hot. And Gideon and Jesse get groupies!
Pepper: 6. Back to the Calendar Boys for the October Installment! We, uh, don't have a real bunny for this yet. We're thinking maybe a goofy Halloween story (since scary Halloween is so obvious). Or maybe a hunting trip at a lodge with a big fire? What else happens in Oct? Columbus Day? Yeah, it'll probably be a Halloween story.
Vivien: 7. Another Calendar Boy story, this time for November. Another one we haven't decided, lol. But we try to subvert major holidays, like the vampire Valentine's in February, so I imagine we'll end up doing something for Thanksgiving. Oh! Except Veteran's Day is in November, too. We could do something with ex-soldiers. That could be hot...
Pepper: Ex-soldiers WOULD be hot! 8. Is Book 9 of the Master Chronicles, as yet untitled. I would go into it, but honestly, the fact that we plan to end the series at book 9 depresses me too much. On the one hand, we don't want Jesse and Gideon to overstay their welcome. On the other hand, I'll miss Jesse so much! But we have a few surprises and tricks up our sleeves that I don't think anybody will expect.
Vivien: 9. Our last Calendar Boy story then. December. Will it be a bloody Christmas? A winter solstice that's hotter than it is cold? We're not likely to know until we get there...
Pepper: 10. AQP's "First Time Around" pax. This is just on the list of things to do we. We don't have an idea, or a title. The premise of the pax is that it is the first gay relationship of at least 1 character. I'm looking forward to writing a story about self-discovery and self-acceptance in the context of hot gay sex, but I think we're going to rue the fact that we only have 40K words to work with.
Vivien: 11. Those are our actual obligations out of the way. Which leaves us three slots of stories we choose to do just because we want to. Stories without homes at the moment. The first of those is 10,000 Kisses. We've actually already started this one, and have just over 2k so far. It takes characters we introduce in one of our summer releases and sees just what happens to them. Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits.
Pepper: 12. A story we simply call "Spence/Becca". Unfortunately, we don't have a title. We do, however, have 17,000 words. And for some reason, I really don't know why, I already have a blurb for it.
Spencer Cole risks his life every night on the backs of the world’s most dangerous bulls, and that’s the way he likes it. A rising star on the professional rodeo circuit, he is poised to be one of the most elite bull riders in America. Until he sustains a devastating injury—a concussion that brings his future as a bull rider into sharp question, and a torn shoulder that requires major surgery. He is forced to turn to the only friend he has in town, Rebecca Rankin.
Rebecca’s annual trysts with Spencer Cole are the high point of her Independence Day Celebration, but it never occurs to her to seek out from their relationship. And she is not prepared to be thrust into the role of nurse-maid for a bitter, angry cowboy. She is obliged to put her own blossoming career as a photographer on hold, but vows it will just be until Spencer can take care of himself—or hire a real nurse to take care of him
Spencer and Rebecca have always shared a strong attraction, but their thin emotional bond is almost destroyed by Spencer’s fear and anger. They gradually rebuild it as Rebecca shows Spencer that his life didn’t end when his career did.
Vivien: 13. There's a lot of possibilities for this last spot, but since Pepper and I hate to have stories started and languishing on our computers - which thankfully doesn't happen too often - there's only one other that we need to finish in order to wipe that clean. It's a story we actually started nearly a year ago for the vampire pax sold at AQ this past January. It's called Runaway Red and we hit 7k on it and realized it was going to be longer than 40k. That's what happened with Spence and Rebecca, too. The stories we started for pax commitments announced they wouldn't be satisfied with just 40k and so we had to temporarily shelve them. But this one is about a female vampire on the run, and the antiquities shop owner she kidnaps to help her. Hot, hot, hot, and I'm sure they'll appreciate us getting back to them.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
WIP Tuesdays
Title: Stealing Northe
Publisher: Amber Heat's Seasons Pax
Length: 31,000
Words completed: 31,000
Date started: 5/4/08
Date Completed: 5/15/08
Summary: Widow Amy Northe hasn’t known a man’s company in the six years since her husband died. That all changes the night her son comes in from chores with two strangers in tow. Kenneth and Leon are seeking shelter, and though Amy wants to turn them away, she can’t. There’s a blizzard moving through the Utah mountains, and Leon’s busted ankle has him teetering on the edge of consciousness. She does the only thing she can and takes them in, unaware of the secrets these young men hide.
Kenneth doesn’t want to take advantage of the older woman’s hospitality, even though she’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. But Leon needs help and Amy is a nurse. If he has to satisfy his desire for her with covert trysts with Leon, then that’s what he’ll do, especially since he’s too much of a gentleman to ever think of making advances.
Until she makes one herself. Then everything changes. For all of them.
M/F, M/M, M/F/M content.
Title: Stealing West
Publisher: Amber Allure's Gay Cowboy Pax
Length: 35,000 words
Words Completed: 9,100
Date Started: 5/15/2008
Date Due: 5/31/2008
Summary: Leon Stroud accompanies his best friend and partner in crime, Kenneth, to his new life with his new family in California. But when he sees the famous bounty hunter, Thomas Grady, on the same train, he knows he needs to create a diversion. He flees the train, knowing Thomas will give chase, but nothing can prepare Leon for what it means to be caught. M/M Content
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
I finished the edits for our M/M novella Star Attraction and will finish the galleys for Commencement, the June installment of our Calendar Boys.
Publisher: Amber Heat's Seasons Pax
Length: 31,000
Words completed: 31,000
Date started: 5/4/08
Date Completed: 5/15/08
Summary: Widow Amy Northe hasn’t known a man’s company in the six years since her husband died. That all changes the night her son comes in from chores with two strangers in tow. Kenneth and Leon are seeking shelter, and though Amy wants to turn them away, she can’t. There’s a blizzard moving through the Utah mountains, and Leon’s busted ankle has him teetering on the edge of consciousness. She does the only thing she can and takes them in, unaware of the secrets these young men hide.
Kenneth doesn’t want to take advantage of the older woman’s hospitality, even though she’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. But Leon needs help and Amy is a nurse. If he has to satisfy his desire for her with covert trysts with Leon, then that’s what he’ll do, especially since he’s too much of a gentleman to ever think of making advances.
Until she makes one herself. Then everything changes. For all of them.
M/F, M/M, M/F/M content.
Title: Stealing West
Publisher: Amber Allure's Gay Cowboy Pax
Length: 35,000 words
Words Completed: 9,100
Date Started: 5/15/2008
Date Due: 5/31/2008
Summary: Leon Stroud accompanies his best friend and partner in crime, Kenneth, to his new life with his new family in California. But when he sees the famous bounty hunter, Thomas Grady, on the same train, he knows he needs to create a diversion. He flees the train, knowing Thomas will give chase, but nothing can prepare Leon for what it means to be caught. M/M Content
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
I finished the edits for our M/M novella Star Attraction and will finish the galleys for Commencement, the June installment of our Calendar Boys.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
WIP Report
With Mother's Day, Pepper gone for her Wilco concert, and various family obligations, this wasn't the most productive week for us. Hopefully, today will mark a swing back in the right direction for us.
Title: Untitled May/December
Publisher: Amber Heat's Seasons Pax
Length: 35,000, though it'll probably end up being closer to 40,000
Words completed: 22,000 words
Date started: 5/4/08
Date Due: May 30, 2008
Summary: A widow lives in northern Utah in 1876 with her young son. Two strangers come to her cabin, looking for medical aid and a place to hole up during a very bad blizzard. At first, she thinks the younger of the two, Kenneth, is just a boy, but it doesn't take long for her to think he is just the man for her. M/F, M/M, M/F/M content.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
I also finished the edits on Fortune's Return last week, so that is off. And I did the edits for the July calendar boys story yesterday.
On the solo front, Pepper did her edits on her het song pax due out in July and submitted an m/m/m story to Samhain for its call for menages. Me? Well, I didn't get much writing done with the editing I was doing. But I did manage to write another 3k on a het vampire story I'd started eons ago. So it's better than nothing.
Title: Untitled May/December
Publisher: Amber Heat's Seasons Pax
Length: 35,000, though it'll probably end up being closer to 40,000
Words completed: 22,000 words
Date started: 5/4/08
Date Due: May 30, 2008
Summary: A widow lives in northern Utah in 1876 with her young son. Two strangers come to her cabin, looking for medical aid and a place to hole up during a very bad blizzard. At first, she thinks the younger of the two, Kenneth, is just a boy, but it doesn't take long for her to think he is just the man for her. M/F, M/M, M/F/M content.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
I also finished the edits on Fortune's Return last week, so that is off. And I did the edits for the July calendar boys story yesterday.
On the solo front, Pepper did her edits on her het song pax due out in July and submitted an m/m/m story to Samhain for its call for menages. Me? Well, I didn't get much writing done with the editing I was doing. But I did manage to write another 3k on a het vampire story I'd started eons ago. So it's better than nothing.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
WIP Report
Today is our very first WIP report. A WIP is a Work-In-Progress, so these posts will be dedicated to what we're currently working on right this second, and maybe what we just finished.
We're very productive when we're in the same room, so it should come as no surprise that we wrote 9,000 words yesterday on our current untitled novella.
Title: Untitled May/December
Publisher: Amber Heat's Seasons Pax
Length: 35,000
Words completed: 9,700 words
Date started: 5/4/08
Date Due: May 30, 2008
Summary: A widow lives in northern Utah in 1876 with her young son. Two strangers come to her cabin, looking for medical aid and a place to hole up during a very bad blizzard. At first, she thinks the younger of the two, Kenneth, is just a boy, but it doesn't take long for her to think he is just the man for her. M/F, M/M, M/F/M content.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
Title: Fortune's Return
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Length: 74,000 words
Status: Beginning edits this week
Release Date: Unknown
SummaryRyan Putnam has lost everything. Laid off from teaching high school and dumped by his lawyer boyfriend, he has nowhere else to go but his childhood home – the Good Fortune ranch. He plans to take the summer to regroup and start over. He never expects to be smitten with a cowboy. Especially not a cowboy like Teo Mendez, who is everything Ryan’s ex-boyfriend is not.
Four years after his wife's death, Teo Mendez has returned to what he loves the most – working the land. He believes the Good Fortune ranch is the perfect place to build a new life for his son, Antonio. When his boss's brother Ryan shows up to work, the other man’s haunted eyes reminds Teo of everything he has lost as well. So he offers the only thing he can—his friendship. But it doesn't take long for Ryan to reawaken long dormant emotions and desires.
Ryan doesn’t intend to find a relationship. Teo doesn’t want to complicate his life with a fling. What they have between them, however, is too powerful to ignore.
We're very productive when we're in the same room, so it should come as no surprise that we wrote 9,000 words yesterday on our current untitled novella.
Title: Untitled May/December
Publisher: Amber Heat's Seasons Pax
Length: 35,000
Words completed: 9,700 words
Date started: 5/4/08
Date Due: May 30, 2008
Summary: A widow lives in northern Utah in 1876 with her young son. Two strangers come to her cabin, looking for medical aid and a place to hole up during a very bad blizzard. At first, she thinks the younger of the two, Kenneth, is just a boy, but it doesn't take long for her to think he is just the man for her. M/F, M/M, M/F/M content.
Title: 10,000 Kisses
Publisher: Targeting Kensington
Length: Full novel
Words Completed: 2,000
Date Started: 5/3/08
Date Due: No deadline
Summary: Macaulay Jensen and Wendy DeMartino come from two different worlds. He's alt-country and she's a hardcore rocker. Their chemistry and passion is undeniable, but their careers have always come first. If they want a shot together, they've got to learn how to break old habits. M/F, M/F/M content.
Title: Fortune's Return
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Length: 74,000 words
Status: Beginning edits this week
Release Date: Unknown
SummaryRyan Putnam has lost everything. Laid off from teaching high school and dumped by his lawyer boyfriend, he has nowhere else to go but his childhood home – the Good Fortune ranch. He plans to take the summer to regroup and start over. He never expects to be smitten with a cowboy. Especially not a cowboy like Teo Mendez, who is everything Ryan’s ex-boyfriend is not.
Four years after his wife's death, Teo Mendez has returned to what he loves the most – working the land. He believes the Good Fortune ranch is the perfect place to build a new life for his son, Antonio. When his boss's brother Ryan shows up to work, the other man’s haunted eyes reminds Teo of everything he has lost as well. So he offers the only thing he can—his friendship. But it doesn't take long for Ryan to reawaken long dormant emotions and desires.
Ryan doesn’t intend to find a relationship. Teo doesn’t want to complicate his life with a fling. What they have between them, however, is too powerful to ignore.
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