“Put me back down,” she said irritably. “I’m warm enough.”
1 Line Wednesday
Theme: “Enough”
Tag Archives: Books
Help! My Brain Is Being Invaded By Pirates!
I’m putting the finishing touches on Earthsinger so it can go out to my beta readers this week, but it’s been a real test of my patience.
Why? Because pirates have taken over my brain!
Back when I wrote Eight Nights At Sea, I had intended for it to be a stand-alone work, but my readers fell so in love with Aven, Rina’s silent but wonderful brother, and a grain of a thought started to grow: what if Aven went on a quest to find his voice?
And like all good stories, it’s taken root at started to burst out of the manure-ridden soil in my brain. Which is an unfortunate thing right now because I have two more books to finish in this current series first. Aaaargh. Continue reading
“I have an extra gift…”
“I am a windsinger.”
“And that means?”
“I breathe in someone’s last breath…
and in it is their story.”
1 Line Wednesday
Theme: “Wind”
Tidbit Tuesday: Manni Makes Her Move
In the beginning of Earthsinger, we take the volatile Matt and our ballsy girl Manni, and we stuff them into a truck for a long road trip. By the end of the first day, Matt is ready to throw in the towel, that is, until Manni makes her move… Continue reading
Announcing My Return To Smashwords!!
Yes, you read that right! The great Amazon Kindle Select exercise has yielded its results and the time has come to bid it adieu….
Sort of.
Here’s the deal: I get a lot of mileage out of Kindle Unlimited users, but only for the first 6 months or so after a release, and definitely a huge bump when I post a completed series as a set. So I’ve come up with the following parameters: Continue reading
Cover Reveal And Release Date For Earthsinger!!
Yes, it’s here! The cover for Earthsinger! Isn’t it gorgeous? And along with that cover comes the at-long-last finally official release date:
August 15, 2016
I’m finishing up my final edits now, then it gets one more polish after the beta readers, and then it’s all yours!
“You belong to the sea…
“The sea sings for you, and in you.
Is it any wonder I could love you as I do?
Knowing the man that the sea knows you to be?”
1 Line Wednesday
Theme: “Water”
Tidbit Tuesday: Miri Makes Up Her Mind
Sky Woman will always hold a special place in my heart as my first “official” novel. It was born from a rather steamy daydream I kept having in the car on my commute home from work. It was so pervasive, and ate so much of my brain, I finally decide just to write the damn thing out. I let is sit for a long time, then stumbled into the world of fanfiction, where I discovered to my surprise that I could write 50,000+ words in thirty days – again and again and again. So I put Sky Woman up on Smashwords and Amazon, and I hoped for the best.
It turns out my readers loved Miri and her family as much as I did, so I went on to write the Seeder Saga, and that, as they say, is history.
In this scene, Miri makes a decision – after being transplanted on a planet far from home and meeting Lunan, first son of the first son of the House of Falenua. And this decision has been a long time coming… Continue reading
The poor man probably had no idea why she’d freaked out on him…
It’s not like she could just say “Oh, sorry, I’m a
little on edge since they hired my arch-enemy.”
1 Line Wednesday
Theme: Line from page 5, 16, 27, 38
Tidbit Tuesday: The Call
Michael was dreaming he was wearing a large, heated hat. So large, in fact that in order to fit through the doorway, he had an emergency beacon that activated, so that everyone could clear out of the way.
He tried to step through, but the hat got stuck, pressing down on his head with punishing force as the noise of the beacon increased, bleating louder and louder until he opened his eyes and realized it as the middle of the night.
It was the middle of the night, his phone was ringing, and there was a cat on his head.
There was a cat on his head, and she wasn’t going to budge.
“Get off, you sodding feline,” he grumbled, pushing her off the pillow. He got a kick to the side of the face for that, and uttered a curse word as he fought his way out of the covers. He finally succeeded in putting his feet to the floor and stumbled over to his pants, still wadded up near the dresser. He pulled his phone from the pocket just as it stopped ringing.
“Shite!”
He swiped the screen angrily, pulling up the missed call.
Amy. Amy had called him.
Britt DeLaney 