SO very busy

Yup been writing like mad. I have 18 stories going through editing, adding chapter headings, formatting and cover creation. Which feels good as you can imagine. Only thing is in today’s world you need to put in disclaimers, spice level and trigger warnings. Something else I have to figure out along with blurbs and teasers for social media. it is really never ending. Honesty the easier part is the writing. Even the editing isnt so bad since I use two different computers for it with two different word programs. If I could get the online editors like Prowriter or grammerly to work on my old as the hills machines it would be better but we do what we do right?

Now I will be using my other writing blog to post up first pages of everything as I want to pea interest. Both in my older series and the new ones I have started. After going through and condensing the over 20K worth of files I then started placing work into series One bad habit I had was making back ups in new folders instead of just over writing the old ones. It made finding things oh so much fun, not.

So stay tuned. i might even post up full first chapters, depending on the stories.

Now as for the series. I have a lot of new Guardians stories. They are set in both Nashua and Barrie with a few in the background for Manchester. I will be putting up a reading order on the stories for that very involved universe soon. I realized that having over twenty stories set in the same universe it might be wise to give a reading order. Never mind all the pending ones. That universe I made is quite a bit bigger than I intended way back at the turn of the millennium when I wrote Harry’s first short story. Who knew that a little halloween story would go so far right?

Now the new series I have are both filled with erotic elements, so not to be read by kids. Games of Rebirth as stories based very loosely on video games I have played over the years. A big theme in them is your character coming back to life after all. So I started tales that just poured out. There are three in that series that as mostly finished. Now they are not a shared world really. The thing that ties them together is the fact that the main characters are reborn into a world that is not the one they died in. These are an adult looking at the fact that being reborn into a healthy and strong body is going to do more than run around doing quests. It is not the main foucs of the stories of course but I get to explore a lot of themes that I don’t in my other work.

The second new series is Angel City stories. A fictional west coast series filled with beings living under the radar. shifters, weres, fae of all kinds, living vampires, gods, demons and more. I have four in various stages on this series. Not as erotic as the Games series it is still filled with lots of spicey parts, so no kids.

As I work through my old backlog of story ideas new series will come about. In fact I have three romance tales all set near the sea that I am trying to come up with a good series name for. Never mind my Angels series, Fantasies in fur and the others.

I have noticed the older I get and lets admitit I am almost sixty, the more I add romance to my stories. Not because it might help them sell, but because that is where the stories go. Yes I would love it if one of these series took off and sold a few hundred if not thousands of copies, but for you ten or so faithful readers You can expect a lot more to read. Thanks again for being aptient with me after I had those years of sickness and lack of drive.

That kind of day

Well I was planning on putting the one book I hadn’t put on drft2digital up this morning. It is over on Amazon but I seemed to have missed putting it up on d2d. got the window open, went to my files to grab the cover and it wasn’t there! GD that is annoying. I mean come on, I published it and saved the file but where the hell did it go? I need to find the document file too. and oh I am so annoyed. This is how the day started. So I decided I will just write. And write I did untiI I got into a corner so to speak. My lead character has been dragged into hell to be a breeder and I need to get herm out. This will be tricky.

Other joy was trying to get the book2read link for my stuff sent to a curious possible reader. what joy, it took an hour to get it up and working but it is now.

So once I did that, moved off of SJ’s trouble and onto Sophie i realized that I had messed up the time line and needed to fix thigs before i could move on with my shifter house cat. I have a headache! The problem with three stories in teh same universe taking place closely together is making sure you don’t mess up who was where when. the three Characters will have at least a passing aquantence with each other. Basically SJ is rommaters with Ellie and maybe they will let Sophie move in. I havent decided yet.

Okay enough whining and back to fixing my messed up work

Arrgghhh what to do

Been tossing between four WIP and paintin today. Sometimes it is hard to settle down to work on one thing. Now I know that can be a sign of ADHD but well I don’t haave that. Last summer proved I can sit down and focus but something about winter tends to have me bouncing from story to story and from painting to drawing and back. is it the short days? I don’t think so. I think it is the pain that comes with this time of year. As a klutz who has broken ,tore, sprained, strained etc many things I never know what will hurt when I get up in the moring. Today for an example my right palm is giving me issues. Now that could be the delayed result of the pins that I had put anin and taken out 12 year ago. i know relly well that old injuries come back to haunt you decades later.

It has made for an annoying day today. All I know is that today when I grabbed the banister goingoupstairs it hurt!. So very annoying. Makes some things hard to concentrate on, like typing. I put on my compression gloves for the trouble with my left knuckle earlier so just slid on the other one and hope it works.

Once I can focus better Ill go over to my Books by blog and post up some excerpts from the four WIP. They working titles are Whispers of the Dead, a paranormal romance, And the story Tells it all, urban fantasy, SJ and the Not So Haunted Town another urban fantasy and Hiding in Plan Sight, again an urban fantasy. The last threee are a parto f hte Guardians stories and the first I think will be in another series.

As for the painingsi generally post them over on Deviant Art, instagram and if I am feeling brave, Reddit. Who knows. Should be interesting.

Writing and phones

You would think a cellphone would not be helpful with writing but damn it is useful. Today while waiting for the during her appointment I opened the note ap and wrote down about 200 words in a new idea for a space opera kind of tale. Now no idea if orcwhen I’ll do more, after all I have three UF and one PR in the worksxright now, but it is an interesting idea for me.

What is cool about owning two older phones is while I dont have service on them ( a story for another post) i can use wifi that is avato do searches as needed. This has upped my productivity by letting me open research windows on one and use the other for help with spelling or get translations when I add in things like latin chants or garlic vows or even indigenous names for characters. So wi recommend dont toss your old phones, use them!

Another year

On our birthday we are supposed to reflect right? Look back over the past year and see what was good, what was bad and decide to do better?

Well last year was a good one for writing, at least for me. I got so much done and now I’m trying to do as well.

I was told we get more patient as we age but I find myself a bit impatient. I want to finish my stories and put them up. I want people to tell me they enjoyed them and that they want more. I’m greedy. Of my time, of my quiet and of my ideas. I want to talk them through but finding people who want to listen is the trick.

Social media is filled with ideas and people who think they have your answers. Sometimes they do but the net just cant answer all the questions ideas give you.

Yeah this is a babble. I’m poised to write today which is a good thing but what I’m not sure. Having two books going and realizeing last night as I checked my WIP that there is another damn near finished I’m torn on what to work on. I know readers like certain things. Hell my paranormal romance seems to be doing well but I’ve got urban fantasy stories going hot. Should I pause on the Guardians/Barrie stories and do the PR stand alone or should I do something else? Wish I knew

Well damn

I managed to get all but one of the tales I wrote this summer published and they seem to be selling. Which is a great thing. I have one more that I’m going to hold onto till I get a few more of that type and I’ll put them into a collection.

The problem is that my dell laptop de ided to breakdown. The battery has been pretty dead for a while and it only worked plugged in. Well the cable went kaput. Mid sentence while I was working on a new novel. Which as you can imagine I let out many nasty words.

I got one of the two novels transferred over to the hp but the 1500 words I wrote on the other dud not transfer. Yes I let out many a curse.

But the good thing about a hubby who is tech inclined is that he pulled the Dell hard drive so we can pull my work off the the dell till mummy royalty payments come in and I can get the new cable and battery.

Now it means that instead of working more on SJ and the not so haunted town I’ll be working on And the Story tells it all eith Ellie. Here is hoping I have no more issues. I mean old machines are good but damn I hate fighting my machines

Electronic publishing and old tech

I’m once more having issues with tech. Publishing with D2D is usually simple and easy. Imput the cover and manuscript and of course price etc and go but this weekend not so easy.

For some reason one phone cant found the manuscripts but has no trouble with the book covers. The other, newer phone can find the manuscript but refuses to post the darn things, saying I dont have enough memory! Now I have deleted all the videos and photos on my phone and even some aps but still not enough space. Driving me nuts.

Hubby said I could use his tablet but issue with that is currently it is a battle to get online with it. Hopefully tonight the hubby can help. After all the laptop I write on dorsnt exactly allow me to post up on more modern websites. Frustration is getting to me.

I planned on getting all my finished work up for delayed releases this month but it looks like I might not get them up on time. I have seven titles that i hope i get out before the new year.

So we will see what happens merry readers. If I can I will keep giving the few of you good things to read.

Trying to make a new cover

When I asked my Facebook friends which novel I should post up next or was a resounding vote for the Fibula murders. Now of course I hadn’t smoked up a cover yet! So hopefully I can get something together before the weekend.

Thanks to an old online friend I have a photo of a Fibula to use. It wont be as cool as the cover the hubby wanted to do but he has been way too busy to do covers for me.

One of the tricky things about being a self published author us making kuck ass covers. Yes there are other things that are a bitch but this one I can sorta do.

Money is always an issue when you do things yourself. If you dont have soare cash you have to do things yourself.

So my readers dont expect something amazing and dont judgecthis book by the cover. It is the first of my Barrie stories to be published. It’s from the Guardians universe, just in another country. Hopefully my Guardian readers will enjoy it.

Working on shorts

Writing comes in a lot of forms for me. I have some novel length that I will be putting out soon bit as I went through my work I have been updating my collections.

At the monent i am working on new stories for Magic and Nightmares. This collection is a bit difficult because I need to try and stick to that feel.

At the moment i have three on going What dwells Within, pain Everlasting and Dead or Not, You Cant Stop Me.

The first one might end up more than a short. It has been barreling forward with a lot of magic popping up. Pain Everlasting so far doesnt have pain but it came from a nightmare I had so it might stay there. And Dead? Well now this one I think is a bit more a Death story but we will see.

Returning from space?

No, not really. Just from computer hell. When you need to hijack the hubby’s tablet to post, well you do what you do.

The reason I’m back is well I have a ton of new tales going up for sale. From the forth Loralil book, to novels set in the Guardian of the Gate city universe to a whole new stand alone novel and much more. It has been a busy few months with over a half million words written since June.

Other things have been series of art that I have done. Like most things I do a story works its way into it. At some point i will put words and images together for people to enjoy, but for now they are only art, which can be seen on Instagram, Twitter, and tumblr.

i also have digital art\videos that I have posted up on tiktok. So I’ve been busy.

Once I get used to this work around you can expect excerpts and updates here and on the other blogs that specifically are meant for them. I had even gone back to posting on deviant art before my phones decided they would let me have the space for the ap.

Now just at the moment Draft2digital has started a beta on taking ebooks into paperbacks. And yes I’m diving in. While I have to go back, add in tables of contents and in some cases more story\stories I will try to get all my novels and collections into paperback format. It will take time of course because I have a lot of titles.

Now you might ask why do it? Besides always wanting to hold actual physical copies of my work, there is still a larger market for paperbacks over ebooks. So I will be working many, many hours to bring them to you, if you decide to buy.

So for those of you who stayed tuned in thanks! Watch for new and fabulous work from the old mad writer Doon.