The Day after Thanksgiving

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Here I am talking about Bringing Characters to Life!

http://ffnp.blogspot.com/2009/11/bringing-characters-to-life-by-terry_25.html

I'm trying to get some word count today. Need 4500 more words... but I did get the whole master bedroom painted, fixed the ceiling and caulked etc. Next is the bathroom, but not this weekend. I'm thrilled that I at least got as much done as I did, while stopping to work on the turkey. :)

So the day after Thanksgiving, what do you do? Shop? Eat more turkey? We decorate for Christmas! But right now, bright and early, I'm still writing Wolf Fever. 4500 more words by Sunday for my weekly word count. Will I get it done? Nope. Not today. Soon, we'll be ringing in the Christmas spirit!

Have a terrific day after Thanksgiving! :)

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Wishing my turkey and decorations already looked like this today!!! :) Although I enjoy cooking it and smelling the aroma of turkey roasting.

One of our folks in charge of the library system came by and said that she has 25 at her home for the holidays. Twenty-five! Wow. And a patron said that his house was full of people and he was staying outside as much as possible. LOL My daughter and her boyfriend will be here for the lunch and probably playing chicken foot dominoes. :)

Then, they'll run off to his parents for Thanksgiving dinner and I'll paint and write.

But this morning at 5 AM, I'm planning to paint....

And it's all my daughter's fault. She started it! And now it has to be finished.

Here is a gray wolf stalking his own turkey dinner. When we lived in Oklahoma, we'd see wild turkeys sometimes running around in the woods! A wolf would have been very happy and had his Thanksgiving at anytime! :) So here is wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving for all those who celebrate! And for those who don't...wishing you the fun of the holiday season coming soon!

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male!:

www.terryspear.com

She's Making Me Paint!

The last couple of nights, I've been trying to get my bedroom ready to paint. I wouldn't be, but my daughter has some time off from college so she wanted to "get this done."

:)

So at 9 pm after working at work and then working to get everything taped and puttied and vacuumed, it was ready. Except that it was 9 pm. And I have to go into work really early this morning to get groceries for Thanksgiving. Sooo, I told her I couldn't paint tonight. It would take too long. If I didn't have to work the next day, I would have.

Sooo, then when can we paint? We've moved furniture everywhere. The place is a mess. And tomorrow we're having Thanksgiving. She said she'd come over and paint while I'm at work today! Yes!!!

I'm going to try and get new curtains during my lunch hour. And then when I get home, hopefully my daughter will have painted (although if she hasn't, I can) and I can hang the new curtains, and begin to put some of the furniture back that I can. The rest we'll have to move when they come over for Thanksgiving lunch. It still sorely needs new carpeting, and I need to get some stuff to patch the ceiling and hope to tonight to fix that, but if we can do the rest, that'll work in the interim until I can order and be home to get carpeting.

*sigh* Next bedroom???

I'm truly grateful and thankful that my kids are both super at helping me with projects like this. With two moves, they've helped to clean and paint and patch and wallpaper. I couldn't do it without them!

Have any major projects you're working on???

Now it's time to go in early to work, and hope that we don't have too much of a hassle with chasing folks out of the library at 5 pm, when we normally close at 6. Two years ago, one of my coworkers said they had a terrible time getting everyone out on time! I just need my wolf companions, and woohoo, everyone would be headed for the exits. :) I know, I know, I'm sooo very bad. :)

Have a super Thanksgiving eve!!!

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Have a Howling Good Time at Thanksgiving!

My son and I had a wonderful Thanksgiving feast--the turkey turned out perfectly. And it's nearly already all gone. 12 pounds of it!

We watched Serenity, Unbreakable, Defiance, 12 Rounds and 13Th Warrior during the 3 days he was here. :) Couldn't get him to watch Bride Wars with me. LOL

And yes, I still got my word count!

One year, I was sicker than a wolf... Fever of 103, vision blurry, really, really sick. My mother hated to cook. So my then 14-year-old son stepped in and made the turkey and all the veggies, while my 11-year-old daughter made the gravy and stuffing. :)

Even though I felt like death warmed over, I couldn't have been more proud of my children and how they took over the cooking of our Thanksgiving dinner and made it all the more special. My son will soon be joining the ranks of the AF and I wish him well, and hope he gets some "good" assignments where I can visit! And some day when he's married, his wife will surely appreciate that he's a great cook too!

The picture of these wolves makes it look like that trick photography where it's one wolf and then superimposed with it's opposite view. But it's truly two wolves who look very similar that very graciously posed for this fantastic picture. :)

They are wishing you and your families a lovely Thanksgiving too!

I'm off to work in a few minutes...two days of work, two days off. A day of work. A day off. I could get used to this schedule! Unfortunately, that's the last of it!

This review was just sent to me by our Sourcebooks publicist from a book club:

To Tempt the Wolf Terry Spear

The story was fast paced and a little different angle to werewolves. As I read it became clear to me who the killer was but I was surprised by the reason for the killing. I enjoyed the story very much and look forward to other books by the author.~~ Chey

Oh, and my daughter's making me paint while I'm off. *sigh* Slave driver. When we painted my home before we sold it, I was hearing music that didn't exist. And saw a strange letter C on the wall of my son's bedroom (well, all of us did--my mother, son, daughter and me)...so what will happen this time?

Hmm, if I start seeing wolves, I'm in trouble. :)

Have a great Tuesday!!!

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Joy of Family at Thanksgiving???

In Relative Danger, family get togethers can be murderously dangerous. But a family who plays together, stays together, right?

One year, my mother-in-law cooked the turkey at my home because my daughter was only a few days old. Now, my mother-in-law doesn't like to cook. Period. And I was in no shape to cook the turkey for our family and my husband's. Sooo, she made the turkey.

When the big time came to pull the perfectly roasted turkey out of the oven, my father-in-law promptly said, "You cooked it upside down!"

:) She was not happy, mad at everyone for not telling her which way to cook the turkey. Ever since then I always worry that I'll get the silly thing wrong side up. But you know what? It tastes great no matter whether it lying on its belly or its back!

Here's hoping your family gathering, whether big or small, is fun-filled!!!

Oh, and I've got an interview here today, compliments of Karen Michelle Nutt!

http://kmnbooks.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-with-terry-spear.html

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Ready for a Little Bite???

Woohoo, Deadly Liaisons is now available for preorders!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Liaisons-Terry-Spear/dp/160504332X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_8

Review

“Ms. Spear has a way with words, creating a paranormal mystery sure to hold you spellbound as the twist and turns of the tale unfold. A must read!”

~ Karen Michelle Nutt, PNR Paranormal Reviews

“Terry Spear writes a gripping story that holds this reader spellbound.”

~ Cherokee, Coffee Time Romance & More

“There were some get-the-ice cubes love scenes between the two, and the mystery and the twists about all the killings and the investigation kept my interest throughout.”

~ Amazon Nymph, Literary Nymphs

“Daemon made me fall in love with vampires. He was so real and sexy I wanted to say, ‘Bite me, baby. Bite me!’”

~ Nicole North, author of Devil in a Kilt and Red Sage Secrets Vol. 27 Untamed Pleasures

“Readers will be quickly engrossed in Daemon and Tezra’s emotionally charged story. Terry Spear’s world of vampires will have the readers begging for the series to continue.”

~ Rhonda Valverde, VampireRomanceBooks.com

Product Description

He resisted the dark huntress…now he’ll use all his powers to make her his own.

Tezra Campbell treads a dangerous line between her job as a telepathic investigator for the Hunter Council and her alternate life as a renegade. Beneath her cool, professional exterior lies a dark obsession to find the rogue vampire who murdered her parents ten years ago and left her sister a traumatized shell. An obsession that drives her to use herself as bait.

Daemon, former bastard prince of Scotland and now head of the American vampire clans, sees Tezra as a danger to herself and to his people. Especially if the killer vampire takes her bait. Concerned his own brother might be accused of the crime, Daemon takes Tezra into custody, intending to keep her out of the way so he can find the killer himself.

Things don’t work out the way either planned. The more she fights him with her telepathic powers, the more she stirs up his sexual bloodlust—the kind only a mate can cool. And Tezra begins to wonder…is her desire for him real, or just a way to use Daemon to find the murderer?

It’s a deadly game they both aim to win—even while they try to keep their hearts intact.

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What was my inspiration for the story? Hmm, Dracula in a couple of plays...so suave, so sexy, who could easily make a girl swoon for him.

What I didn't care for was the idea they had to sleep in coffins, with dirt, and were dead. :) Sooo, my version is very much alive. :) Just altered because of the Black Death in medieval times. Plus, some of those afflicted with the plague were altered in a different way--as nature's way of dealing with the vampire threat--hunters who had some of the abilities--the strength of the vampire, and the ability to deflect their mesmerizing gaze. Which puts them at more of an equal status.

And like with my werewolf stories, there are good and bad of every kind. :)

So if you'd like a little bite--check out Deadly Liaisons! :) My manager at the library came in after she had read it, her cheeks as red as her hair, her brows raised and said something to the effect it was really hot. :)

Yep, no cold dead bodies in this story. And if they shapeshift, they prefer the wolf form. But then that doesn't surprise you, does it?

Off to work some more on Wolf Fever!

Oh, and I'm here also: http://paperdragonink.com/terry_spear.htm

Plus, I'm teaching: December 1-12

(2 weeks--11 lessons--$10)

Jumpstarting Your Muse:

What to Do if Your Muse Takes a Powder

Great way to start out your new year---

Creative ways to recapture your muse. Practice sessions designed to jumpstart your muse. Finding other writing avenues to give your muse the stimulation it needs to want to write again.

Have a super Sunday!!!

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

Feeling Spaced Out

Hmm, I'm thinking my Plight of the Wolf, now officially: Wolf Fever, isn't doing what's it's supposed to be doing. Soooo, that means I'm going to have to do something about it!

*sigh*

Today, my son and I are supposed to be having turkey dinner. I pulled the turkey out of the fridge at 6 A.M. and...it's still partially frozen.

*sigh*

I'm still feeling halfway lousy with the galloping crud. But at least coughing didn't wake me up last night.

But in the middle of the night, I was mulling over the story. I love action and adventure, and it's going to happen, but I need the romance too. So it seems that has taken over and pushed the action and adventure aside.

*sigh*

So it probably needs a whole different opening. I loved the opening, but...I need something more. Is this unusual? Nope. I think only one of my stories retained the original opening. Well, two, Heart of the Wolf and Destiny of the Wolf. Each of the others: To Tempt the Wolf, Legend of the White Wolf, Seduced by the Wolf, and now Wolf Fever, have all had different beginnings. Do I ditch the old beginnings? No, they're good and I placed them later in the stories, but I just want to start at a different point in the story to open it up.

*sigh*

After I post some blogs, that's where I'm headed--to rewrite and write some more. And you know what? I'm going to have fun doing it while the rain continues to pitter-patter outside!

Oh, and the exciting part is that now that Wolf Fever's title is official, the cover art will be worked up! I can't wait!!

So what are you doing on this fine Saturday morning?

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com