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Blood Trade is Out! Available at Smashwords.

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Blood Trade is out and available now at Smashwords for $2.99.  Follow the link below:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/86413.

Vegas is going to hell– literally. Werewolves run through the streets and the vampires are taking over. Former army ranger/Goth tattoo model/private eye Xochitl McKenna doesn’t like it either, especially when it comes between her and her clients. But are the vampires and werewolves the greatest threat, or is it something or someone much closer to her? Warning: Adult Content.

Two Years One Month Anniversary

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Wow!  With the beginning of school and working on three books, I completely forgot the anniversary of this blog.  On August 12th, it was three years of daily blog posts here at City of Amathar Blog.  I wanted to have something exciting to celebrate the event, but I guess I’ll have to settle for a 3 Years 1 Month Anniversary Celebration.

Today and Today Only, you can go to Smashwords by following this link and get any of these ebooks FREE with the coupon code.

Princess of Amathar, Free with coupon code JL94K.

Voyage of the Minotaur, Free with coupon code VG65A.

Women of Power, Free with coupon code SE28F.

Blood Trade, FREE with coupon code JL94K.

Pick up one or all four, and thanks for visiting City of Amathar Blog.

Blood Trade: Editing Halfway Done

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As I write this, I’m exactly halfway through the final editing of Blood Trade, though since I’m a few days ahead on my blog posts, hopefully I’m all the way through by the time you read this.  For some reason, this book really takes it out of me.  It’s sucking away my soul like the vampires it contains when I work on it.  Therefore I can only manage to edit a chapter at a time.

As soon as the book comes out I will let you know here.  It will be available as an ebook for $2.99.  I also eventually plan to have a paperback as well.  It will carry an adult only warning, because of sex, violence, and profanity throughout.

Observant visitors will notice that Blood Trade already has a book link to the right and is already available for sale at Smashwords and Amazon.

Blood Trade: Coming in September

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Just a couple of days ago, I was saying that Blood Trade would have a November release.  I don’t know why, but I was being grossly conservative.  As I write this, the last revisions are all done, and I’m in final editing.  It may take me a week or two, but definitely September.

Revision in Progress

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I’ve started in earnest revising Blood Trade.  First up, I’m going through all the notes from alpha and beta readers.  I’ve essentially got 20 copies of the book, chopped into chapter long pieces, filled with notes.  I’ll make the suggested changes that I agree with and leave the rest as is.  Then I’ll go through and do a close re-write.  When that is done, it may be ready to start editing.

Blood Trade: Cover Contest Results

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The votes are in and this is the cover chosen.  Now that Women of Power is in the can, I can get on the first revision of Blood Trade.  At this point I’m expecting it to take till the end of September, so you should expect a release about November 1st.

Vote on the cover for Blood Trade

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Vote for the cover you prefer by posting a comment.  If you have a suggestion beyond that, for instance you think parts of one are better and parts of the other are better, please feel free to speak up.

Writer or Slacker?

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My original goal for the summer was to write eight pages a day.  I amended that to four pages a day, because I knew the first goal was simply unattainable.  Well, the summer is more than half over and I’ve written about an average of 1.25 pages a day.  I felt pretty miserable about that until I figured that if I managed to write 1.25 pages a day over the course of a year, I’d write 456 pages– four or five books.  I could live with that.  So, here I am.  Writing a page or so a day.  I’m about to finish the first draft of Women of Power and then I’m back on draft two of Blood Trade.

First Draft Completed!

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The first draft of Blood Trade is done!  I’m so happy, I’m giddy.  I’ve been working on this since early March.  There is still a lot to be done.  I just read chapter six to the Shared Word Writers Group, and while the reception was positive, there were many typos and mistakes to fix.  There are also more than a few rough spots that need to be smoothed out and some major revision to be done.

I’m setting it aside for at least a week, so that I can get a set of fresh eyes.  Then I’ll do the second draft.  That should only take me a few weeks.  I’ll let you know when I get there.  For now… Hooray!

On the Last Chapter

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Yay!  I’m on the last chapter of the draft!  I should have about four more pages to write.  This means, as I predicted that the draft will come in a bit shorter than originally plotted.  93 pages instead of 104.  That is primarily due to some huge rewriting at the end.  Everything originally plotted happens, but not in the same way or the same order that I originally thought it up.

I’ve been kicking myself because I haven’t been able to write the four pages a day that I originally planned.  But today?  Five pages!  Woot Woot!  Okay so that means the publication date is going to be somewhere near September 1.  A couple of weeks for draft number 2.  Three weeks for editing.  Maybe a draft 3.  And then I can forget everything I know about vampires.