I Saw a REAL Live Piranha Yesterday!

Well, a real dead piranha actually! How fortunate for me that one of my coworkers had a sister who was in Peru just a week or so ago, visited the Amazon Jungle, brought home native pipes, and other hand decorated items, and a "stuffed" piranha for her brother. I say stuffed, but it looked more dehydrated, flat and skinny and evil eyed with wickedly razor sharp teeth.

Think of swimming with a whole school of them!

Now, in The Highland Wolf in Paradise, I wrote about schools of colorful fish nibbling on the heroine's legs because in the islands, they do. But think of piranha nibbling on your legs and it's a whole different scenario!

Yes, welcome to my world of jaguars!!! Not exactly paradise! :)

Off to get ready for the day...

Anyone want to take a trip into the Amazon? Fish for piranha? There are excursions for both!

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

Working under Pressure?

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Do you get more done when you're working under pressure? Or do you do better when you don't have deadlines looming?

For me, I work better under pressure, with deadlines looming (often of my own making) and set goals to get stuff done. I really HATE to procrastinate!

SOLD!!! LOVING THE HIGHLAND ROGUE is going to be contracted with my historical publisher...3rd in the medieval historical series. This one is the middle brother's story. He has such a way with the ladies....

Which means??? More pressure! Woohoo! I love it!

When I have more deadlines, I stay more focused!

Speaking of focused, got to get ready for work.

What about you? Pressure or no pressure work best for you?

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

The Finished Cover--Heart of the Highland Wolf!

Woohoo, it's coming!!! Isn't it gorgeous? He's gorgeous! Just how I'd envision Ian MacNeill! And all his hunky brothers! Oh, and it won't have those black boxes around the words. When I converted it from PDF to JPEG, that's how it showed up, but in the PDF version, they're not there. :)

I was sick all day Saturday and under the weather yesterday and still not feeling all that well today, but don't have enough coverage at work to take off sick...

But, even so, I finished The Highland Wolf in Paradise and sent it off to my editor on Saturday, AND wrote the first chapter and part of the 2nd for Heart of the Jaguar!



I listened to jaguars growl, the sounds of the Amazon jungle, read and read and read about the Amazon and about jaguars and started the story...

I'll have to see what my critique partners say first, but so far, I'm loving it!

Okay, off to work! Wrote until late, got up late, and I'm totally thrown off my schedule. It's a Monday....

Have a super Monday!

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

Time to Research Jaguars!

I have finished and sent off THE HIGHLAND WOLF IN PARADISE to my editor!!! Woohoo! I had so much fun writing Duncan's story--he's the youngest brother, the dark warrior, from HEART OF THE HIGHLAND WOLF (coming Jun 1). On a mission, he intends to find get their stolen money back from Sal Silverman--only he catches a whiff of a female wolf at the airport at the Grand Cayman Islands...and that's all she wrote... :)

Normally once I've finished a wolf book, I'd just jump right in to start my new wolf book. (Actually, I've already started Tom's story.) But this time, I have to start on the new jaguar shifter. Which means it's time to research them. Thanks to Donna for sending me some info and the picture above.

I was watching some videos photographed in the Amazon on jaguars. And I've been reading up on them...just like I did with wolves. I keep seeing the hero pacing as a jaguar...wonder where the heroine is--see her, see her surprise at seeing him.

:) I keep coming up with different scenarios of why she's there, why he's there, how they meet, and what the trouble is for both...and all that neat stuff.

It's fun starting a new series. It has all kinds of neat possibilities. Until I begin to build my new world--the possibilities are wide open. But once I start the first book--that's it! Because once the world is set up a certain way, I can't deviate from that world from book to book. :) Sure, there can be exceptions, just like there are in any REAL world. But in general, the world can't change at whim, or through forgetfulness. :) Me forget my world? Nah. LOL

Just think--what if my wolves, who upon death, revert to their human form if they were a wolf upon death (that's because in the werewolf literature I read in days of old always showed their world that way)...then if in one story I didn't do this--could I?

Of course! BUT I'd have to show a darned good reason why. :)

So if a jaguar shifter dies, what happens?

Well, the world is new, wide open, I can do whatever I want with this series. But what if I kept it the same as the werewolf world? What if any shifter would end up in the same way?

I think there was a black panther movie that I saw where when the shifter died, he became human again. But I can't remember for sure.

Or, I could do the opposite. Which would be more intriguing? More difficult to deal with? Which would work better for the story?

Essentially that's the key. What works better for the story? Or in this case, the series.

So I'm off on a big cat adventure--and to start the new series.

It's a challenge--but I'm excited to get started. Have you started any new projects lately--that make you wonder where you're going next?

My garden makes me wonder that all the time!

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

Imagination--Where Does It Come from?

I wonder why some have an imagination, and some do not. Is it inborn? Something triggered early in our childhoods? Something inspired by reading? Or something else?

When I was at work the other day, a fan said she had written nonfiction work, but she didn't have the imagination to write fiction like I do. How do I create worlds like I do?

I'm not sure exactly where it comes from--but as a child I LOVED to read mythologies and folktales from around the world. I enjoyed ghost stories and true stories. I was very eclectic in my reading habits. Just like I love to write in a variety of venues.

My dad told us stories as I was growing up--spooky fictional tales and true tales of adventure. I imagined crossing the causeways between the rest of Florida and Merritt Island where we lived--imagined the dark things lurking in the dark waters beneath the bridges. Imagined the creepy things in the swamps I explored. When I was living as a child in Sacramento, I drove my car to the elementary school, and carefully parked it in a parking space. My car being a bicycle.

I played with cars and the old fashioned yesteryear cars were the men and the modern day sleeker models, the women. :) I've always seen romance in a variety of situations, I guess!

And I played with dolls--oh yes, Ken and Barbie, and the kids. The baby dolls too.

But no matter what I did--exploring the huge culverts that would take away the flood of water when we had too much rain in Sacramento (and actually drowned a couple of children--so my parents told us never, ever to play in them) and the swamps and sand dunes around our home...sailing on the Banana River in Florida and boating on the lakes in California--all of it helped to foster an active imagination.

I've always told stories, made up stories, thrived on stories. :)

What about you?

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

RITA and GOLDEN HEART Calls on the Way!

Okay, so after having nightmares about work for two days, I've got to quit doing this!!!

Today is the big RITA/GOLDEN HEARTS finalists day--calls are going out--the lists will be clogged with congratulations, there will be merriment in the air. I'll be at work--thinking about workly things. LOL

I've only entered books since last year for the published RITA. Never entered the GOLDEN HEART because I kept thinking I needed to write a book really well before I entered. :) And then I sold two teen novels and couldn't enter.

Of course the books I sold also were with the publisher who closed down the YA line before they were published. Which meant that they never were up for sale (Scratch that--one is up on Amazon--Ghostly Liaisons, but



I'm revising it and will put it up again--only this time it really will be for sale).

So I was a published author and an unpublished author in a span of two years. :)

But once you're "published" even though I hadn't been, you can't go back to being unpublished according to GOLDEN HEART rules.

Which meant? Darn it...I had to get published AGAIN!!! And then I could enter the RITA.

And show them that make the rules. LOL

In truth, I don't imagine I'll final, but it's like any gamble. If you don't make the effort, you won't fail, but you won't ever have the chance to win either.

And that's the same with publishing work. If you don't send out your work, you won't have to worry about rejection. But you won't ever find a home to publish with either.

Do you ever take a chance at something and win?

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

Dreaming of the Wolf...

One of the things that makes it feel real that you have a new release really coming out is when it's finally listed on Amazon!!!

There's no gorgeous hunky cover yet. No description yet even. But it's up there now. :)

I've been checking for a while. But nothing. Then when I got home, a Google alert! Dreaming of the Wolf on Amazon!

Jake Silver doesn't believe in fate or dream mating, despite the fact his brother and other family members have been afflicted with this strange notion. But when dreams begin to plague him about a woman so seductive, he wakes up in a sweat and he's losing way too much sleep over it, he seeks to learn the truth. Can dream mating be a reality? Is the woman real?

Alicia Greiston doesn't dream. Not ever. So when a man visits her in the first dream she's ever had, she's startled, pleased, then alarmed. He's not going away, and the dreams take a sinister turn. He's in trouble, and if the dreams are a foreshadowing of the future, she has to save him.

Anyway, I was excited!!!

Also, Huntress for Hire is going up sometime tomorrow. :) Hope you love it! I have the sequel started if I didn't lose it in the tons of crashes I've had!!!

Available now at Smashwords, Amazon and B&N.

He’s a hunter turned vampire, she’s a huntress of vampires—he’s needs her cooperation to free his family; she’s trained to kill his kind.

Rebel vampire huntress Rachael Bremerton wants revenge against Piaras, one of the most ruthless vampires in Dallas , for the murder of her parents. But when she’s lured by another vampire, Adonis, into the darkness—the same darkness she’s feared since she was a child—she’s torn between her huntress sensibilities and some strange desire to be with the creature she’s meant to despise and destroy.

Adonis, a hunter turned vampire, has been ordered by Piaras to bring Rachel to him untouched. In return, Piaras will release Adonis’s family unharmed. But when Adonis first sees Rachael, his hunter desire to have a huntress mate kicks in, or is it the dark heart of the vampire that makes him crave her so?

Turning Rachel over to Piaras becomes less of an option. But can he find a way to free his family, claim Rachael for his own, and keep her family from discovering he is a hunter turned vampire—a creature they will all feel obligated to hunt down and kill?

I had a lot of fun writing this story! What would you do if you were a huntress and the most intriguing vampire ever caught your eye???

Off to work...It's Thursday, late night, but then it's Friday--TGIF!!!

Hope you all have a terrific Thursday...

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com

More and More and More!

I'll be working on edits to Huntress for Hire soon, a vampire romantic suspense I wrote a long time ago, that needs some reVAMPing (couldn't help myself) and hope to have it up before the end of the year. I'm also working on another vampire romance--Dangerous Liaisons, which I might change the title of--which is the sequel to Deadly Liaisons, where Atreides has his own bout with an interesting and troublesome huntress. :) It has a long ways to go--about a 1/4 of the way done.

And I received another couple of bear orders yesterday while I was at work from a lady who's ordered them for years from me but I hadn't done any for a couple of years for her, so that was a surprise!

And I volunteered to review some works for the well respected fantasy publisher TOR site...I used to do reviews of authors' works for another great site, but the published authors that were running it found it too much to manage. But it's great fun and I'm looking forward to doing it every so often. It's not like I don't read lots of books in between writing my own!!!

And...I will be reading over Heart of the Highland Wolf one more time before I send it off to my editor this weekend, and will begin the opening of the first of the jaguar stories.



Now--in Heart of the Wolf, I had that both hero and heroine were wolves. The same with the second book, Destiny of the Wolf.

With this one, I'm leaning more toward the heroine being strictly human. And he's the one who is a jaguar. What do you all think?

Do you ever feel you could do more each day??? I think I'll soon reach my limit! Or not! :)

Okay, off to do some more writing before I have to ship bears at the post office!

Have a terrific Tuesday!!!

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

Is it Okay to Love Your Own Stories?

As a writer, you better!!! Once a long time ago, I pushed myself to finish a story I didn't like. I had to have resolution. I had started it, I had to finish it. I hated it.

Would anyone like the story? No. Why should anyone? If I didn't even like it!

After finishing writing The Highland Wolf in Paradise--I was looking over a YA fantasy I had written some years ago. I laughed so much while I was reading it, thoroughly enjoying the story, and thinking to myself how much I loved it.

I used to write a lot of fantasy. I never tried to sell it. I just loved writing it. Then, I wanted to do more realistic, so I began writing and researching medieval times to write my medieval Highland romances and researching the 19th C. old west for the time travel. And I began to write paranormal contemporary--psychics and then more hardcore--vampires and werewolves.



But I still love my fantasies. I grew up on fantasies. The mythologies around the world. The stories that were chocked full of morals. So I will be periodically uploading my fantasies--that were just too fun to write that it shouldn't be allowed.

:)

What do you think???



I love this picture, and no, I don't feel at all like this today, despite it being a Monday!!!

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

The Bears are Done!

The bears are done and ready to ship, which was what I was working on most of yesterday. And I finished and uploaded:

The Genie's Wish, another novella for 99 cents--it's up!!!

The Genie's Wish

Ebook By Terry Spear
$0.99
Published: Mar. 19, 2011

B&N
Smashwords

Ebook Short Description

Lizzie Mason just wanted to buy a birthday present for her older brother who loves antiques. What she doesn't expect is to end up in a world far from her own with a mission to save a man's life before it's too late.

Extended Description

Genies are only fairy tales. At least that's what Lizzie Mason thinks until she manages to summon one from an antique vase. Now she's in real trouble as she vows to save the man imprisoned in the bottle from a fate worse than death and ends up in his world, hoping to change fate without getting herself killed.

The genie must right the wrongs of the past before the curse placed on him can be broken. But will the woman who has freed him be able to manage in a world where deceit and death await them?


I had so much fun with him!!

If you could have 3 wishes for anything in the world...what would they be?

I'm off to really work on The Highland Wolf in Paradise, ALL DAY! :)

Have a super Sunday!!!

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

A Blue Day...

or a blue night--who says blue means sad???

Donna sent this to me and thought it was beautiful and I have to agree.

I sent off the newsletter last night...hope everyone received it all right and you enjoyed it!

Dreaming of the Wolf is off and now I'm back to working on The Highland Wolf in Paradise.

When I have to stop to work on other characters, I have to get back into the story again that I'm currently working on. I truly miss them, but I enjoyed getting to see Jake and all the trouble he had with Alicia in Dreaming of the Wolf!

Okay, as to the laundry question in an earlier post---it was Heart of the Wolf--- :)

Have a terrific Saturday! I'm off to write!

Oh, and I've got to start working on the jaguar story soon too!

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

Are You Wearing Green Today?

I reminded everyone to wear green today at work for fun, and now I have to remember to do so myself!!! What about you? Are you wearing green today?




I tried to find some wolves in a St. Patrick's Day setting, but the cute Siberian Huskies were as close as I could get!



Isn't this spectacular? I wish I could take pictures like this!

And if you're an author--here's a chance at a pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow:

Leah of Sourcebooks is wishing you luck in pitching your contemporary romances
to her today, so if you have something ready and want to give it a shot, feel
free!

http://casablancaauthors.blogspot.com/2011/03/your-lucky-day-contemp-pitchapalooza.html

Being Irish (as well as Scottish!), I want to wish everyone a lovely St
Patrick's Day!



And some fun--A GHOST OF A CHANCE AT LOVE was tagged on Facebook by the sexy model, Jimmy Thomas, otherwise known as a rancher who rescues the heroine in both the past and the present...

Off to work on Dreaming of the Wolf where Jake Silver gets his own pot o' gold in the form of one sexy bounty hunter.

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

Happy Hump Day!

Thanks to Donna for sending me this endearing wolf picture. Who said all wolves are just...wolves?

I'm making this really short because I've got to work on edits of Dreaming of the Wolf before work, and everything that could go wrong has gone wrong this morning on the Internet---firefox froze up, then my image showed it uploaded but it hadn't, then it was like everything was frozen again.

So I'm off to edits, but I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Hump Day! And hope that the problems I've been having is not an indication that today is going to be a Monday all over again!!!

We swore there was a full moon out on Monday!

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

Making the Mundane Not so Mundane?

I write paranormal romance--with mystery, intrigue, adventure, conflict and humor. But what if I wrote about the mundane--

Doing laundry.
Weeding the garden.
Scrubbing the toilets.
Vacuuming.
Mopping the floors.

Oh, the drudgery. And who wants to read about it?

But put a fun spin on it and it can still be a part of a story. Can you remember instances when I did this in a story?

In one book, the wolves did the laundry--or at least planned to--remember which story?

Here is a hint:

"As soon as he pulled into the garage and shut the door, they both shed the rest of their wet clothes. Then together, they gathered them up and dumped them in her dryer where she put the load on high heat for an hour."

Now, this would be boring if I stopped there...but I didn't...doing laundry would never be the same...

In most books, I have them cooking meals. Which can be the usual old thing--but I try to make them fun and important in a wolfish way. Can you think of instances that still stick in your mind?



I even have vacuuming, or at least the mention of it, in an upcoming book.

Did any of you watch She-Devil? Where Meryl Streep stole another woman's husband? She was a romance writer and doing well with her best selling books until she began to write about love in the laundry room, but not as in sex in the laundry room...just the love of home-making.

Blah.

And her agent was ready to fire her.

Even so, we can take the mundane, which everyone can relate to, and make it something different, special, and fun as it relates to our stories.

Or we can add a pet to the equation--I had cats and dogs...and they did make doing the chores more of a fun challenge. Though these are not my cats--they represent just what my cats would do--curl up on my freshly washed laundry, or even before it was washed. Tackle the mop as I tried to sweep it across the floor. Dig up my newly planted flowers or bulbs and roll in them.

This one looks just like the cat I took home as a kitten who had been rescued from near a dumpster in NJ.



My dogs and one cat would lie in the grass and watch me on my riding mower, not bothered by the noise, but wanting to get close enough to me while I mowed. :)

Hmm, so maybe doing the chores isn't always so mundane after all. Throw in a wolf, and it's definitely not the usual kind of thing!

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

Cover for A Ghost of a Chance at Love!

Here it is! The proposed cover for A GHOST OF A CHANCE AT LOVE, coming from Vinspire Publications in September. What do you all think? Isn't he, I mean, it gorgeous???




*sigh*
It's awful having to be patient and wait for soooo long to have him. The story. I mean.

Today I'm also at http://kmnbooks.blogspot.com/2011/03/terry-spear-and-10-reasons-to-indie.html talking about Indie publishing.

And at Casablanca: http://casablancaauthors.blogspot.com/2011/03/overindulgence-in-storiesby-terry-spear.html About having an overindulgence in stories!

And I'm running behind because of springing ahead. Argh. Couldn't they have done this some other year instead??? :)


Terry

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

Yummmy

Need I say more?


He's just plain wicked...

Yesterday after work, I was trying to get as much stuff done as I could--student lesson critiques, a critique for one of my critique partners, 2 more to do today, and answer emails. Which are all very important!! But I also watched a movie, and read the opening of a Jane Feather historical.

Now today--I wanted to share some great news!!! My Sourcebooks editor loved DREAMING OF THE WOLF, and so I'm delighted. She suggested some minor edits and I'm off to work on those this morning.

But it's always wonderful when your editor loves your book!!!!

And I received my first review for SEDUCING THE HUNTRESS, so I was thrilled!

5.0 out of 5 stars Vampires Fans will be Enthralled with this Dark and Dangerous Romance, March 12, 2011

The vampire Sarzoven makes a bet with his sister that may cost him his life. He must seduce the huntress Miranda, who has marked him as a rogue vampire.

Miranda will eliminate vampires only after there is proof they've gone rogue. Sarzoven is on her list, but the sexy vampire doesn't fit the profile of a vampire who kills for fun.
When there's an attempt on her life, she's convinced someone out there has a list of his or her own. But can a huntress and a vampire work together to find a common enemy before it's too late?

Ms. Spear has a way with words, drawing the reader into the dark and dangerous world where hunters and vampires exist. Sexy characters and tense plotting makes this short vampire tale an alluring addition to the paranormal genre.

Karen Michelle Nutt, author
Review for PNR Paranormal Romances

Okay, off to work on Dreaming... talk about yummy!

Book 8

Anything yummy going on in your life today--that you can speak of?

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

Who Changed the Story???

Have you ever been reading an author's work, and you've noticed her or his voice has changed? It used to be one way, maybe lighter, now it's darker? Or maybe sadder? Or happier? Or more in-depth? Now more shallow or rushed?

Life happens. Just like with anyone else, life intrudes and we change. So it seems that our writing would change also.

Our voice is probably the same. And something about our work is the same. But I think about how I was writing A Ghost of a Chance at Love, and my mother was enjoying the story as I wrote it. Or even the very first story I had written, that I still want to publish--that my dad read and loved. They had heart also...but it was a different me back then.

We do grow as authors as we write--improve, learn to edit better, hopefully entertain better.

But sometimes in that growth, our work becomes something different. I remember my kids saying that about Rowlings's Harry Potter series. How it became darker and darker.

I wonder why. Is it that she can write what she truly wants to write now? That with the income and the freedoms she has to have some say she could do what she wants?

Or is it that her life has changed so much that it's affected her writing?

And I love Heather Graham's work, but she started writing suspense and not so much romance. I loved her romantic suspense. But we must do what our heart tells us to do.

Change is inevitable for all of us. Sometimes it affords us a chance to spread our wings and write what we want. Sometimes it molds us into what we write today.

With that profound thought out there--what do you all think?

Have a super Saturday!!!

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

Forbidden Love--Need a Little Bite in Your Life?

I've been busy!!! I've uploaded two new stories, a vampire romance and a teen demon story, and am still working on THE HIGHLAND WOLF IN PARADISE, thinking about scenes before I drift off to sleep, and am about to work on the newsletter and send it off! Then I've got to work on a couple of bear orders. There are not enough hours in the day! Or, I should say "free" hours in the day!!!

But I wanted to share this with you before I get to work on the newsletter, which if anyone noticed, I contacted tech support at Bravenet and they very kindly fixed my problem with no edit button on that first section, so no one has to look any longer to vote on TO TEMPT THE WOLF!!

So without further adieu, if you need some more bite to your life--this one starting in the Highlands--here 'tis!!!

FORBIDDEN LOVE is now available!

This isn't the same clan as in DEADLY LIAISONS. In that one, they live in Oregon. In FORBIDDEN LOVE, they live in Maryland where I used to live. It's a story of reincarnation, beginning in the Highlands, of a love so strong, the hero and heroine might be star crossed lovers forever because of a curse placed on the heroine by her kin. Will anything ever break the curse?

B & N

Also coming to Amazon soon!

Forbidden Love

Ebook By Terry Spear
$2.9Published: Mar. 10, 2011
Category: Fiction » Literature » Fantasy (paranormal)
Words: 88151 (approximate)





Huntress Alena MacLeod is given a mission: work undercover to discover a rogue vampire’s secretive work, then terminate him.

Ephraim MacNeill, aka Sutton Bastrop, knows Alena is his Elizabeth MacLeod from an earlier time, and he’s determined to return to the past and right all the wrongs to end the curse placed on the love of his life before it’s too late—again.

Together, they must risk all to stop a war between a newly formed Brotherhood of rogue vampires, tired of the status quo, and the League of Hunters, who have ruled for centuries over the vampires—both changed during the Black Death—some of the survivors becoming vampires, and others hunters of the same.

And also available now on B & N :

Like with my wolf series, I wanted to show a world where some demons were the good guys, fighting evil to ensure the human population would survive. Instead of focusing on adults, though, I wrote about teens and their struggle to make a difference in their world. But Alana Fainot isn't just a lesser half demon pitted against the stronger demons slipping into the world. She's also a witch, if she can just learn some spells in time to help her newly found demon friends. But it has adult themes.

The Trouble with Demons

Ebook By Terry Spear
$2.99 Published: Mar. 10, 2011
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance
Words: 65352 (approximate)





Witches and warlocks hide their true identities from the rest of the human population, while three teens with demon heritage living with human families, become unlikely companions in a race against time to deal with a demon threat to humankind in their own quirky way.

Alana Fainot, a witch and half Kubiteron demon, witnesses a Matusa murder his summoner, and she knows he’ll target her next. Raised by her mother, she has no idea who her demon father is. But when she’s pulled to a demon portal, she meets Hunter Ross, half Matusa, half human, who returns demons to their world, but who’s been poisoned by a Matusa and is more dead than alive. His human mother gave him up for adoption, and he doesn’t know who either of his birth parents are. His friend Jared Kensington, full blooded Elantus demon, less powerful than the Kubiteron, is a whiz at electronics and helps Hunter track demons in the city, but was abandoned by his parents on Earth world for reasons unknown. He’s determined to find help to save Hunter. Alana knows aiding any Matusa is a mistake, but when she learns Hunter is half human, she makes a deal—he protects her against the Matusa who will come for her, and she helps find his dad in the demon world to save Hunter’s life.... (Read more) Alana Fainot, a witch and half Kubiteron demon, witnesses a Matusa murder his summoner, and she knows he’ll target her next. Raised by her mother, she has no idea who her demon father is. But when she’s pulled to a demon portal, she meets Hunter Ross, half Matusa, half human, who returns demons to their world, but who’s been poisoned by a Matusa and is more dead than alive. His human mother gave him up for adoption, and he doesn’t know who either of his birth parents are. His friend Jared Kensington, full blooded Elantus demon, less powerful than the Kubiteron, is a whiz at electronics and helps Hunter track demons in the city, but was abandoned by his parents on Earth world for reasons unknown. He’s determined to find help to save Hunter. Alana knows aiding any Matusa is a mistake, but when she learns Hunter is half human, she makes a deal—he protects her against the Matusa who will come for her, and she helps find his dad in the demon world to save Hunter’s life.

Often at odds, the three teens work together to stop the plans of a group of Matusa to take over the human race before it’s too late.

Okay, off to work on the newsletter before time gets away from me!!!

Have any fun plans for TGIF?

My day is already overbooked! :)

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

Ten Reasons Why Werewolves Shouldn't Stray....

1. It's not part of their moral character.
2. No wolf wants to be considered a dog.
3. Their mate has awfully big teeth.
4. If they have offspring--it's even worse than having just one extra kid, but they'll end up with a whole litter of them.
5. Wolves can smell other wolves. So if a wolf plays around, his or her mate will know!
6. They're hunters.
7. They're predatory.
8. They have long memories.
9. They don't get mad, they get even.
10. Did I mention the really big teeth?

Can you think of any other reason why werewolves really shouldn't stray?


It's coming soon!! I can't believe it's almost here!

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

A Ghost of a Chance at Love

A GHOST OF A CHANCE AT LOVE

Time travel western romance.

Vinspire Romance

Release date moved up from December to September!

The past clashes with the present, and one woman finds herself fighting for her own identity in the past so that she can have a future with the man she loves--but with her ancestor's hold over her--Lisa Welsh and Jack Stanton only have a ghost of a chance at love.

Lisa Welsh only wishes to leave a messy divorce behind for a couple of days stay in Salado, Texas, but wakes to nightmares and a cowboy in her bed, and she has no earthly idea how he got there. But the situation gets worse when she wakes in the morning and learns she’s living in 19^th Century Salado. Even more worrisome is the tall dark stranger and everyone else in town believes she’s some woman named Josephine Rogers. Only she’s supposed to be dead.

Jack Stanton can’t believe the clerk gave him an occupied room at the Shady Villa Inn, but worse, he was ready to ravage the woman in that bed—until he realized his mistake. Now the woman he thinks is Josephine, claims to be some other woman—and though he could never abide by Josephine’s fickle ways, this Lisa Welsh intrigues him like no other. Still, everybody in town believes her to be Josephine, and he steps in to help her find her way back home.

Murder, mystery, ties to family roots in the past, embezzlement and murder in the present, and a man she can’t get off her mind no matter what century it is, Lisa has no choice. She must solve the mysteries and face the troubles in her world and Jack’s or they will never be free to share the love that binds them across the ages.

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It all began with an amethyst necklace and a trip to Salado, Texas and a stay at Room 3 in the Stagecoach Inn.

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One of the fun things to do when you have a book coming out is to be asked for the cover art facts! So last night I was asked to provide blurbs for the book and ideas for the cover art. I've loved the covers I've had with Vintage Romance in the past and look forward to seeing what the cover looks like now that they are Vinspire. :)

The picture above is a picture of the Stagecoach Inn of Salado, also known as the Shady Villa Inn at the time of my story. But it was the stagecoach inn of that time. :)

Have a super Monday!!!

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

Vampiric Calling is Coming!

I uploaded a revised version of Vampiric Calling to the 99 cent ebooks offered! It's still processing at Smashwords and Amazon, but it's up at B&N!

It's still not listed with my other titles at B&N yet, so the only way to pull it up is by the book title if you just happened to look for titles by Terry Spear :)

Ebook Short Description

A vampire targets a huntress for his own, and she's torn between wanting him and knowing she should terminate him. But in the dark of night, who will win the battle?

Extended Description

Samantha Ramsay’s always been different, a huntress born with the gene that makes her kind take up the sword to terminate rogue vampires, yet something isn’t right. They’ve never targeted her before tonight, and now she realizes she can’t kill the sexiest vampire she’s ever encountered, who claims her for his own.

Ralston Vaccarra has waited all the huntress’s life to have her and no one, vampires or hunters alike, will have the woman he claimed for his own the day she was born, only will a huntress be able to accept him and his kind for what they are?
It's almost twice as long as the version I had in the newsletter as I added quite a bit to it to flesh out the story some more. :)

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I took this picture when I chanced to look out the kitchen window and see a red sky at night...It was like the whole sky was on fire, even more brilliant than in this picture. :) And I thought the smooth bark of the tree added to the picture nicely. :)

And I received another bear order--2 new bears for new baby births in January! Luckily, one is for a grizzly and he's made. I just have to embroider his paws for the baby. The other I need to cut out from scratch and start all new. :) I can't seem to keep ahead where I have a bunch made up already.

Off to write on Heart of the Highland Wolf--I'm at the near end--just not sure how to end it. Time to do some heavy duty brainstorming.

Ever do that? Can't figure out what you're going to do--whether it's take a trip or tackle some other problem? And you brainstorm?

Sometimes forcing myself to continue to think on a solution works. Sometimes just revising the rest of the manuscript makes me realize I had some neat plot threads that I didn't go anywhere with and voila--that's the solution!

I do love writing where the characters come full circle when it works in the story. Sometimes it just happens. Sometimes I have to really work on it.

So I'm off to brainstorm!

Hope you all are having a lovely Sunday! We skipped flower shopping--it was raining and colder than the dickens here! And still is!

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

Writing the Story of Your Heart

As writers, we hear this all the time. We must write the story of our heart. Yeah, okay, so what does that mean?

It means this--we feel the story. We love the story. We can't quit thinking about the story. We HAVE to write it and get it out of our system or we can't write anything else.

Not that I might not write on something else also....but we HAVE to finish that story. The story of our heart.

Do you think GONE WITH THE WIND was the story of Margaret Mitchell's heart?

When I began my wolf tales, they were the story of my heart, because I have always had an infinity for wolves ever since reading Jack London's CALL OF THE WILD and WHITE FANG. He made wolves real for me. But part of the reason I also wrote the series was my deep need to set the story straight on werewolves--or at least my werewolves--they are not evil to the core.

Which goes back to wolves. Neither are they. They've gotten a bum rap. They exist, co-exist, and are needed for the ecosystem. In a future story, I'll mention about one such scenario that has changed the Colorado landscape.

Another story that comes straight from the heart is the upcoming release: A GHOST OF A CHANCE AT LOVE.

My mother and I loved to go to Salado. It has all kinds of quaint gift shops, the big Celtic fest, art shows, and a wonderful history of outlaws and ghosts and many old buildings left over from the old days. Every time we ate pecan pie at the Stagecoach Inn, or watched the stagecoach take tourists up the road, or stood next to the moss-stoned filled creek, knowing that at one time cattle used to be moved through the water, muddying the town's drinking water, or that one time one of the buildings had been a saloon....well, I couldn't help thinking about a contemporary woman caught in that time and how she would manage it.

I lost my mother a couple of years ago now, but I had written the story while she was still alive, and she and I would sit in the restaurant at the Stagecoach Inn and talk about the details of the book. :) She was excited to let all her friends know I was writing about Waco and Salado. And so were they.

So when it comes out in December, I'll remember those times we shared with fondness and of course, it'll be dedicated to my mother.

That's what writing the book of my heart is all about to me.

Hope you all have a great Saturday!

I've been up forever, and am behind big time. We're to go flower shopping today, but it's 32 degrees out and the wind chill is worse. It was raining a few minutes ago. Not supposed to do that! :)

So I think the flower shopping will have to be postponed a couple of weeks!

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."

www.terryspear.com