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My latest novel series (The Elemental Novels) will begin with the element of Air. This first book actually began as a short horror story I wrote for a writing contest, believe it or not. I wanted to take an element of that story and give the ability to my protagonist, but not to be used in a horrible or horrific way. The problem was, I was having trouble visualizing this girl in my mind (partly because the original bearer of the ability was an older gentleman in my short story), and without knowing my girl, I can’t know the kind of man who would match her. Continue reading
Rina and her silent brother Aven stow away aboard the ship of pirate captain Zephyr Jamieson. He agrees to give them safe passage across the sea – for a price. Zephyr soon finds out he’s in over his head, and in this scene, we discover how protective Aven can be when a pirate gets a little too close to discovering their secrets.
Here’s another excerpt from Eight Nights At Sea:
In case you missed it last week, Amazon is restructuring the way it calculates royalties for its authors in the Kindle Select program. The long and short of if it is that Amazon is losing money on Kindle Unlimited, so they’ve changed the structure to make it more lucrative – for them, anyway- beginning July 1.
In the old program, if your book was part of the Kindle Select program and a reader downloaded and read past 10% of the book, you got a share of the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Lending Library Fund, which is calculated in some funky way that I don’t exactly understand because…math. But anyway, you get paid the rate for the full book, as long as they read past that 10%.
In the new program, even if they read past 10%, you’re only going to be paid for the amount of pages they read. So if they stop in the middle, or they decide to skip your “About the Author” page, you’re not going to get as much as you would before.
Which is, of course, crap. If they bought your paperback at the bookstore, you’d get paid whether they read it all the way through or not. But this ain’t paperback land, and Amazon is unfortunately the big, bad gunslinger in this shootout. They’re holding all the cards.
The biggest problem (or so I thought) about the Kindle Select program is that they require 90 days of exclusivity. You cannot publish and sell that title anywhere else – not Smashwords, not your own website/platform, nada. It’s Amazon and only Amazon, and that kind of sucks.
Or so I thought.
When I was nine years old, my older brother had quite the collection of Sci-Fi paperback novels. His favorite writers were Heinlein and Asimov, and he used to get ballistic if I tried to sneak a book off the shelf. Finally, he got tired of constantly coming in my room to retrieve them (I swear, I stole “Tunnel in the Sky” every other day) and he offered me a book that he just so happened to have two copies of.
“Keep this one,” he said. “You’re going to want to, anyway.” Continue reading
So, I’ve been hard at work literally charting and mapping out The Elemental Novels, my next series. Unlike the Seeder Saga, I’m really working hard to be proactive with these plotlines.
With Seeder, it started off as one story that I hadn’t planned to write a sequel to (Sky Woman – which is free on Fridays this month for Kindle…check it out!), and morphed into a trilogy. And believe me, finding little things to tie back to from later books was a serious exercise in creativity.
But it ain’t nothin’ compared to this, honey child.
I started with an Excel spreadsheet with timelines that morphed into a Venn diagram of sorts that became a big flowchart with cross-references and highlighted supernatural abilities (based on their affinities for earth, air, fire and water) as well as critical plot points galore. It’s been crazy! And cool! But mostly crazy so far. It’ll get cooler once I get them all talking to each other. And sexing each other up. You know how I write.
Now I’m ready to pull together the scene pieces and snippets of dialogue I’ve jotted down here and there for book one, and get to fleshing it out. I’m hoping to have this one out by the end of the summer, and book two out by the end of the year (maybe sooner on that one…the guy from book two is seriously haunting my dark and dirty fantasies…).
Watch here for teases as I hash this one out. Like I said…it’s going to be epic.
What to do when you’re kidnapped to another planet, and find yourself being wooed by three brothers, all intent on sexing you up? Hell, you just go with it. And that’s what Miri ends up doing…again and again and again. In this scene, the youngest brother, Kaivan, is toying with her, setting the stage for a steamy evening. Continue reading
Britt DeLaney 