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Talking Today.

Today I'm taking it easy and just working on my Australia Day story for MLRPress called: Bush Bashin' I am just over the 10K mark so I better get cracking. I want to try and get it submitted to Kimberly before I head off to GRL. So I have over half to go unless I shorten it - who would know with me. 

I Also just realised how slack I have been on the whole blog story thing. Man, I better get cracking on those as well  - but first I better re read what I have so I am up to date and can figure out where Jettermane & Wind Walkers are going... If I don't Cinders may just track me down and kick my arse.

I have ordered 15 copies of The Lines of Marsden in print, and I will be offering a couple up as prizes for all those interested. I will write more about it when I have them in my hands. So until then I will away and get some writing done.

14 days till GRL

& counting down

I'm Done...

I have just sent back my 2nd lot of edits for Silver Publishing for A Moon-Runner Christmas... and I am glad they are done. I have never had such a hard time doing edits before but these where a killer - I am so blaming my editor Mark (even though it is not at all his fault) let's face it I'm never going to blame myself - LOL. But we are getting closer to the October 12th deadline... why is it when you need time it seems to rush on by without regards to what you need? I guess I need a time machine - anyone know where I can find one - if so, then please point me in the right direction.

15 Days until Em & I leave for GRL

But who's counting?

For Emily - Just Because I Can.

For Emily

Just A Quickie!!!

Just letting you all know that at the moment I am busily doing edits for my Silver Publishing Christmas story : A Moon-Runner Christmas... which has a tentative release date of December 9th. I can't wait to see the covers for these. The best news is the wordage limit which I swore was 15K is now 25K so I am desperately expanding where the story needs it as I have until October 12th to get it all done.

On another note - I will be able to pick my cover for my MLR Holiday story: Christmastime at Papa Lee's. I think we get to chose from four covers like we did for the Father's Day stories. It is so exciting when we are doing cover - I don't care if it is anthology cover or one of my personal ones this is almost as exciting as getting the initial contract for the story in the first place.

Other than that I am still working on the background info on TLOM... I think I am having more fun doing this than when I actually wrote the stories in the first place. and the more I work on them the more I find I like individual characters who never had much to do with the story before... they all want to have their time in the spotlight.

Reconnecting... With TLOM

Over the last couple of days my area in Australia got hit by violent storms. Not much damage to our place just a few big branches snapped out of out widow makers (silver gum trees). So seeing as I couldn't get on the computer - I did the next best thing. I sat down with all my note books and any loose scraps of paper and started filling clean note books up with everything TLOM.

I started by doing family trees for both the House of Marsden and the House of Kincaid. I went right back to the time of the first Michael Marsden.

For me I jotted down backgrounds on everyone who features in the first six novels - concentrating n the mains characters of course... but I thought I would write background up on how the House of Kincaid come to be part of the Vampiric world and the same for the House of Marsden.

We (I should say - I) learn more about the creature who lives beneath the estate where the Eldren reside. and just who he really is and where he fits into the storyline (Sneaky Peek: he comes into the story fully when the second line of Marsden comes into play - book seven. Mind you he will make appearances throughout the first six as well).

Also in my penning these books of all my TLOM notes I (with the help of Emily) worked on who ends up with who. The matches may not be all MM, but I am keeping the MM ones as the main focus on all the stories the others are all secondary story lines.

The best part about doing this I have thought of a few more changes I want to make and now is my chance to do it all. I am bringing characters more into the story line than they already are' especially for the ones who are in the foreground of the story.

In book 2: Living in Shadows, we will be hearing more of Doyle's tale. As well as discovering more about Christian's past... If I can work out a way to put the Family trees on my blog I will so you can get a feel of who people are and where they fit into Michael and Christian's lives. Or maybe not as that might just give everything away - LOL. I will have to think on that one.

Ariel Tachna (Lang Downs)

Over the last couple of days I needed to read so I randomly chose a book and it happened to be Lang Downs 1: Inherit the Sky by Ariel Tachna - Turns out it is set on an Australian sheep station called Lang Downs. I then had to go and buy the second one Chasing the Stars.  - I fricken loved these two books and hope there will be more to follow.

Lang Downs: Inherit the Sky (BLURB).

Caine Neiheisel is stuck in a dead-end job at the end of a dead-end relationship when the chance of a lifetime falls in his lap. His mother inherits her uncle’s sheep station in New South Wales, Australia, and Caine sees it as the opportunity to start over, out on the range where his stutter won’t hold him back and his willingness to work will surely make up for his lack of knowledge.

Unfortunately, Macklin Armstrong, the foreman of Lang Downs who should be Caine’s biggest ally, alternates between being cool and downright dismissive, and the other hands are more amused by Caine’s American accent than they are moved by his plight… until they find out he’s gay and their amusement turns to scorn. It will take all of Caine’s determination—and an act of cruel sabotage by a hostile neighbor—to bring the men of Lang Downs together and give Caine and Macklin a chance at love.

Lang Downs: Chase the Stars (BLURB)

Twenty-year-old Chris Simms is barely keeping his head above water. After losing his mother and his home, he struggles to provide for himself and his brother. When homophobes attack him, he thinks his life is over, but then he’s rescued by jackaroos from a nearby sheep station. He's as stunned to be offered a job there as he is to discover both the station owner and foreman are gay.

For Chris, Lang Downs is a dream—one that only gets better when Chris realizes the jackaroo he's crushing on, Jesse Harris, is gay and amenable to a fling. Everything goes well until Chris realizes he’s falling for Jesse a lot harder than allowed by their deal.

Jesse is a drifter who moves from station to station, never looking for anything permanent. Convinced Chris is too young and fragile for a real relationship, he sets rules to keep things casual. Watching the station owner and his foreman together makes Jesse wonder if there are benefits to settling down, but when he realizes how Chris feels about him, he panics. He and Chris will have to decide if a try for happiness is worth the risk before the end of the season tears them apart.

Ariel Tachna at Dreamspinner Press LLC Buy Link