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Terry Spear--USA Today Bestselling Author of Urban Fantasy Romance, Medieval Highland Romances, and Paranormal Young Adult Romance
Showing posts with label cardinal. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Dreams Gone Amok

Penny Bear
Penny Bear

I made up my last Penny Bear. She actually has faux suede paws.  The color didn’t turn out in the photo. She looks more like the picture above, color-wise.
Penny Bear Available for Sale
Penny Bear Available for Sale

This is the last I have of this fabric. I’ve always loved it. It’s really soft and it looks like a really light mauve, yet placed against mauve, it looks like a light brown, yet placed against brown, it looks like a really light mauve. :)

I was having fun showing off some of my Christmas fairies, but taking pictures of them with the regular lens wasn’t doing them justice. So I took some of them with the macro lens.
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And that is the magic of Christmas!

Everything’s decorated, cleaned, and while I’m waiting for family to arrive, I finished proofing the print version of The Vampire…In My Dreams
New Cover
New Cover
and am off to proof the print version of Call of the Cougar.
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Oh, and do you dream? Do you ever analyze your dreams?

I had a wild dream this morning. The sharp-shinned hawk has been flying around the area, and my birds have all but disappeared. I saw one of the cardinals the other day on a feeder, but nothing is eating the seeds I’ve left out for them like they usually do. So it’s bugging me. I loved seeing the hawk, but I love hearing all the song birds and seeing them come for food. *sigh*

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Which is why I had the most bizarre dream, I think. I saw the hawk and ran out to take pictures of it. I left my back door open and a black bear cub ran inside the house. (Remember, this is a dream. I don’t want anyone to think I’m a Texas Tall Tale Teller–not that I don’t tell stories–in my books, but…)
Then the sow was looking for her cub. So I’m on the phone to 9-1-1, trying to get them to send someone out to get the cub out of my house. Of course, I’m trying to take pictures of it while I’m talking. You know. To share with my fans. :) While talking on the phone. I’m afraid to try and open the door and let him out and let the sow in. Soooo, what a dilemma. Plus, I had to rush the dog (that I don’t have), into a back bedroom so that the bear didn’t try to kill it. The dog is barking her head off–it’s a big dog, not any breed I’ve ever had, and in fact, I think it’s a mutt of some sort–the house isn’t mine either, just the treed backyard.


Soooo, dream analyzers, what does this mean?

Probably that I need to write about bear shifters next. :)
Okay, enough about dreams. It’s time to proof another book so I can write on Phantom Fae! :)
Do you have weird dreams? Do you believe they’re just a way of dealing with all the stuff going on in your life or something deeper? A fellow author is part Native American and her dreams come to her and she was told she needed to share these stories. That’s how she comes up with her books! I wish it would happen like that for me. Dream about it and write it. Wouldn’t that be neat?

Hey, even neater, if you could just have electrodes sending a signal from your brain, attached to the computer and the computer writes everything down while you’re dreaming. Next morning, you could edit it. Hmmmm….sounds like a cool futuristic story to me.

Did I mention that Her Highland Hero is in audiobook form? I’ve had so many things happen at once, that I’m not sure what I’ve shared and what I haven’t. The narrator is from Scotland, and I love her voice.
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Audible: https://mobile.audible.com/pd/Romance/Her-Highland-Hero-Audiobook/B00PV2ANE0?s=s

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Her-Highland-Hero-Highlanders-Book/dp/B00PX8N790

Back to the real world and cougar shifters! Have a lovely Sunday!

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

More Colorful Bears! And an Old Cardinal?

More Bears!
Sherbert Bear and Amethyst Bear Ready to Trick-or-Treat!
Sherbert Bear and Amethyst Bear Ready to Trick-or-Treat!
Note the wolf howling? Yes, he’s letting everyone know to come to the party! So yesterday, I made up Sherbert Bear and Feather Bear and worked on more steampunk bear hats. I’ve also been working on some other bears. I have orders for 3 rainbow and 2 sherberts now, so going to finish those up next.
Sherbert Bear
Sherbert Bear
Feather Bear
Feather Bear
This fabric is also very soft and ridiculously different, for that really fun and unique bear.
Award-Winning Wilde & Woolly Bears!
Award-Winning Wilde & Woolly Bears!

I wanted to mention this giveaway at Royal Reviews again, because it’s such a huge prize package and she’s not giving it away until Oct 2, so you have until Oct 1 to enter at her site.
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1 lucky winner will win the ENTIRE set of Terry Spear’s Shifter books published by Sourcebooks Casablanca, including a signed ARC of Jaguar Hunt.
Click on the link below and go to Royal Reviews page to comment for a chance to win!
Giveaway is open worldwide and ends October 1. Winner will be announced on October 2 
I’m just announcing it here to everyone who loves my books to ensure you  have a chance to win at the Royal Review site!
My Banner for Signings!
My Banner for Signings!

Don’t you love it? I need to get it made up so I can have it at my book signings.  Linda Boulanger of Telltale Designs made the cover and she does a beautiful job.  The last three conferences I went to, nearly all the authors had some fancy big banner behind them. The ones I fell in love with had something like this. Not a ton of book covers, which for me is a problem since I have like 50-60 books out, so that would be a mess to look at. Plus, I have so many different genres I write, she was trying to combine them and still make it look great–so wolves, cougars, a Highland castle, the moon, which always gives that paranormal feel, and they’re in between urban fantasy and historical, so I love it. And I love blue, so it works for me.  What do you think?

Next, I was having conversations with myself this morning, not out loud, but I’ve been brainstorming about how I need to finish up the book. Though I’m also working on an article for another site. I have another to do also. Less than 8,000 words to go on Call of the Cougar!

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And I have a question. Is this an OLD cardinal? I have two like this with graying feathers. And then I have a brilliant red one. Is this just different ones, or does this mean the two like this are older? Inquiring minds want to know.  I’ve only seen the bright red one before, so it might be that these other two just found my sunflower seeds. Or it could be that they are the older generation. I had two baby cardinals in a nest this spring, then again, the only cardinal I’d seen before this was the brilliant red on with his mate. And the two in the nest were brown, so I figured they were females. Hmmm, I probably should be thinking more about how to finish Call of the Cougar, but this has become curiouser and curiouser.

On Facebook, several thought they might be moulting! That's it! Looked it up, and that's what it is. So instead of one bright red male cardinal, I have 2 moulting and 1 that's still bright red. I would never have known I had three if it hadn't been that they were moulting! And came down to feed at the same time.

Cardinal
Cardinal

Off to finish my article and then I’m off to write on Call of the Cougar while I’m working on steampunk hats.

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
www.terryspear.com
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Website:
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