Unity and Lost Gods have been nominated by Fantasm for best cover for both books and Unity for best futuristic. Voting is open on the covers. Click on the finalist icon to see some uber-fine artwork.
Rites of Romance Reviews also nominated Unity for best cover and Lost Gods for best Sci fi. Nice *grin*
At the minute, I have the luxury of the house to myself for about six hours during the week whilst the monsters are in school. As I potter about – yes, I am mobile without pain at the minute, yay – I talk over my latest wip to myself.
I realised as I sorted through my make-up bag this morning why I was having trouble with Ramius and Chance. So, I had a chat to myself about it. I don’t think I’m alone in doing this. Other writers do it. I hope…? *gulp*
Something about hearing, feeling the words makes the problem somehow more solvable. I realised why I wanted to head hop between the two characters. They were at a state of realisation. Both of them had to admit to themselves – but not each other, no way! lol – how they felt. They both needed to acknowledge this before I could move them into the final section of the story, where their feelings would get them into a whole heap of trouble! *grin*
So now I know what I have to layer in when I rewrite this couple of thousand words and what to take forward.
Sometimes it’s good to talk…to myself, hehe
I was in the edits weird place where I start to wonder if my writing sucks, lol, when my CP found this review for LOST GODS in the JERR newsletter:
Reviewer: Francesca Hayne
Rating: 5 Stars
Heat level: O
(Here’s a snippet)
Wow. Lost Gods is jammed packed with action, mystery, and definitely passion. I loved that I didn’t know who Katya was, until the very last minute, and that goes doubly for James. One minute I thought I had James down and the next he threw me for a loop. The uncertainty was exciting. The revelations were so well done that I never guessed at the truth of just who James was. This kept me on my toes and turning pages just to find the truth. The passion between Katya and James goes along well with the plot. There are no unexpected sex scenes or misplaced carnality. Overall, I recommend Lost Gods as a fast paced, science fiction thriller that kept my interest while allowing the romance and sexual tension to remain infused in the plot. This one’s a keeper.
How cool is that?
I was nattering about this on Romance Divas…so I made another one 😀
…because then I could be rid of nurses, lolol
I’m having reactions to everything they put on my back, getting mixed messages from them every day and now – over two weeks after I had surgery – the bloody wound-which-will-not-heal is infected and hurting like a bugger.
They’ve also told me I have to go to a treatment centre from now on – though I’m arguing that. Me bouncing around on a bus with this leaky hole in my back? No sooner had they dressed it then I’d get home on a bus and it would need dressing again. It’d be a vicious circle and I’d never be out of the place *sigh*
Just seriously pissed off today *sigh*
Crappy, crappy, crappy Orange. No sooner were we back on line, than it was down again. The Ent ranted for a week, somebody pulled their finger out somewhere, and now we’re back again. Yay. We were both seriously in withdrawal, lol
On the kidney front, I have only one hole left and it’s being a bugger and refusing to heal. Practically all the pain is gone, but I have to restrict movements as everything seems to keep this bloody thing open.
And writing… I can give the hint of another sale, this time to Ellora’s Cave: Exotika 😀 I still have to sort out the details, and write a blurb, so more soon.
Now, I’m off to surf, surf, write and surf…
WordPress lost my post *grrr*
Our internet connection is back after being off when I was in hospital.
My back has three holes in it and I’m finally flushing out the last of the morphine *blech*. And I’m back home, yay. I feel better without the constant fear of infection and now I’ll have the chance to have a proper sleep. I was only in there from Monday night, but it feels like forever *sigh*
The district nurse will be round tomorrow to change my dressings, which is another relief.
Me + blood = passed out Kim
Our internet went down on Friday. It’s just after a Bank holiday here so it always buggers up *sigh* We think the engineers go in to make double or triple time and always mess up our connection…
So, I’m in the library, using IE *blech* and having the slowest connection ever.
I also have to go into hospital today – just waiting on a time – and my surgery is tomorrow.
Wish me luck!
KIM KNOX 