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Terry Spear--USA Today Bestselling Author of Urban Fantasy Romance, Medieval Highland Romances, and Paranormal Young Adult Romance

Monday, September 15, 2014

Finished! A Silver Wolf Christmas! And Tomorrow: Tall, Dark and Paranormal Releases!

There’s nothing more fun than finishing a book! Then after I finished reading it and sending it off to beta readers, it was time to cut out more bear orders. Received 4 more yesterday. Somehow, I don’t think I’m getting ahead of the game!

Steampunk and Rainbow Bears in Process
Steampunk and Rainbow Bears in Process

It’s amazing what a few hours will do–turn fur into fun creations. The two on the left are finished, though I still have to embroider all their paws. But the bears and outfits are made. And here they are! The other 4 are ready with their vests in their laps and their hats in progress. Have to make new style dresses for them.  On the rainbow bears, the one is ready to be embroidered. The next needs a nose and he’s ready to be embroidered. The last needs a head, eyes, ears and a nose, and then he needs to be embroidered.

Steampunk Bear--Sold
Steampunk Bear with navy vest–Sold
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Steampunk Bear with Tapestry Vest–Sold!
If I was only making bears, I’d have them all done by now. But my day job…and night, is writing. So I do the bears AFTER I get my writing done. Or…like yesterday while I was working on rereading A Silver Wolf Christmas for the last time, I was working on the two Steampunk bear hats at the same time. I usually don’t do that, but they’re not furry, so I could. Fur in the keyboard probably wouldn’t help my writing. :)
So next project to finish up? Call of the Cougar. If I can figure out the ending, I’ll have it made! :)
But in the meantime, I did cut out another 5 bears and they’re now in process. :) I still have more to cut out for orders. Waiting on fabric for two of them.
Okay, off to write. Oh, AND, TOMORROW is release day for TALL, DARK and Paranormal!
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I read Regency. I love it! But I don’t write it. Which is why I read it. I also love Highland stories, but only because I never see them written in the time period I write in. I don’t read werewolf books. After I wrote my first cougar book, I read a short novella that was supposed to be a cougar shifter book, but guess what? No one shifted. How can you call a book a shifter book if no one shifts???

One of the things we do as an author is make a pack with the reader. If I say it’s a wolf shifter book, I’d better show you some shifting. Into wolves! If I say it’s a medieval Highland book, I’d better show you some Highlanders in medieval times. And if I say it’s a vampire book…well, you know the drill–sharp teeth, hot and sexy (yes, my vampires are hot and sexy, not cold and dead) ….

Hope you all have a lovely Monday. I opened my blinds to get my morning blue light–remember: blue light is good for you, for your psyche, and it’s pitch black out. Somehow I will have to survive another hour or so with no blue light, orange light, or any other kind of light! Oh, yeah, I can turn on the overhead light, but what’s the fun in that?


Have a super great Monday!!! Tuesday is the big day!

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
www.terryspear.com
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Another Steampunk Bear Creation!

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Many know I write wolf and jaguar shifters, but I wasn’t sure how well cougars would be received. Like with the exotic big cats, jaguars, and the wolves, with cougars, I do a ton of research to make the big cat shifters as realistic as possible based on their other animal half. I've been asked if I would write bear shifters. Anyone game? It would be much later, as I have so many have-to books to write.

Cougar’s Mate has been well loved and so Call of the Cougar will be out by December. Earlier, if I can manage. I’m trying to finish up A Silver Wolf Christmas revisions today, then tomorrow start working on the end of Call of the Cougar. It’s nearly done! Just needs another 15,000 words and an ending. That helps, you know.


And, I have one of the new Steampunk Bears completed–this one with a suede vest. All the ones I’m making now are sold. :But this shows the faux leather hat I created for this bear also, and I’m making more of the same hat for the rest.

Steampunk Bear with Suede Vest
Steampunk Bear with Suede Vest

But after I complete orders, I’ll be making a new one that will be for sale.


Off to work on A Silver Wolf Christmas and then turn it over to the next phase of the process.
And only 2 more days and Tall, Dark and Paranormal will be in your hot little hands!
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Have a super great Sunday!!!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
www.terryspear.com
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

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Tinsel Bear
I made this for a requested bear order for a small bear, now have one for a large bear, but was excited to learn a new “sewing” technique. Creating an eyelet-decorated vest for the Steampunk Bears. I have 7 orders for them, so have been working on the bears and the vests.  So I got the eyelets, and the eyelet clamp to add them and read the directions and was clueless. Tried a number of things, and finally gave up and looked it up on Youtube for a video demonstration. Within seconds, I had my first eyelet-decorated vest.


I do Google searches all the time to figure out how to do something that’s escaping me, so why not for something like that? And it worked! Love the Internet.

Anyway, there’s her eyelet-decorated vest. She still needs her hat and this bear is sold.  Working on 7 more. They’re all a little different from one another and when I have them finished, I’ll show them off.
Steampunk Bear without her hat

Steampunk Bear without her hat

In the meantime, I’m working hard to read through the rest of A Silver Wolf Christmas. I’m having trouble with saving. I save and go back and find that my edited work HASN’T saved. And I’m having to revise sections I know I changed. So not sure what’s up with that.

And I have another bear to make that is a really unusual fur. A customer behind me at the fabric store asked me what I was going to do with that??? And I said, “Make a bear.” I think it will be cute, but I never know for sure until I actually create the bear. So far, I have only had a couple of “ugly” bears by taking a risk. The fur was curly and the fabric too stretchy. So it wouldn’t hold it’s shape when stuffing. I say they were ugly, but they actually turned out cute, but I gave them away as freebies.


It turned COLD. 57 here today. And that’s COLD. But I’m loving it. Though this is not a shorts day. And it’s ONLY getting up to 78. Can you believe it? And we had rain last night! Love it!

It’s going to get back up to the 90’s, so glad to get some refreshing cool weather.

And that’s it! Have a lovely, cool day and I’m off to revise more of A Silver Wolf Christmas and hope my revisions stick!

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Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
www.terryspear.com
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Wilde & Woolly Bears
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Morning Pictures–and the feel of the Paranormal

I “finished” writing A Silver Wolf Christmas, which means I’m still working on revisions, but it’s done! And so I worked on bears, still have about 20 to go but here is a picture of the 9 headless bears! They’re stuffed, and some of the arms and legs are closed. I’ll finish the rest tonight, and sew heads. :)
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To go along with headless bears and the look of Halloween, the paranormal, etc., here is a picture of the full moon this morning!
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And if that wasn’t enough, my chewed up pistachio, but it’s kind of hard to show that the grasshoppers are devouring it.
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And a really cool picture of a spiderweb, perfect for that Halloween look.
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And I started re-reading Call of the Cougar, so hopefully I can finish writing that in the next couple of weeks and edit it too.
Off to ship bears!
Have a super great, wait, got to get the garbage out Wednesday!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
www.terryspear.com
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Ye Olde Bear Factory--Wilde & Woolly Bears Style


Confetti Bear 1

Sold!

And here the bears are at the cutting and sewing room. No dinner guests, please.
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Cutting and Machine Sewing
And then here the bears are in the stuffing room.
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Stuffing and Jointing Room

The stacks of body parts and plastic boxes of embroidery thread to add names to their paws when they are finished.

Next up, attaching arms and legs to bodies. 

Still working on A Silver Wolf Christmas, and am 3500 over word count and still going.  Revising, need two more scenes, more edits, then read it all through again to make sure I didn’t change something somewhere and need to make changes elsewhere.

So it’s still an ongoing process this week. And four of my 17 students have finished their online writing course, so working with the last 13. Oh, and it’s going to get cooler by Friday!!! Instead of 99 degrees, it will be 89 degrees and 60’s in the morning instead of 70’s So excited. Life is great!

Hope you are having a lovely Tuesday!!

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
www.terryspear.com
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Saturday, September 06, 2014

SOLD!!! 3 Wolf Books and a Jaguar Book!!!

Horde of arctic wolves in a zoo

I didn't make my word count last night. Didn't make any bears. What was I doing all day??? Do you ever have days like that? You were really busy, but you have NOTHING to show for it?

Okay, well I did work on about 15 student lessons, 3 of the 17 students finished. And I did get half my word count. And I talked to my daughter about her work and what I was doing. And that was a 2 hour conversation. We hadn't had time to talk in a while. So here's part of the conversation:

"I quit writing to work on bears."

"No, you couldn't quit writing."

"No, I got my word count in for the day so I could work on bears. I'm not quitting writing. I love writing. And I love making bears."

Anyway, so I had to run into town to ship bears yesterday. And I don't know. The day just...vanished.

About the new books sold:

I pitched 3 and somehow ended up selling 4!

It's kind of like wolf and jaguar cubs. They come in multiples. I had a reviewer snark about how I had so many twins and triplets in books. What was the deal with that?

I write my stories as realistically based on the real animals as I can. Sometimes I only show one wolf, no siblings. But usually, I have multiples. Not because I'm thinking that I'll have tons more books to write, because especially early on, I really wasn't thinking of how I would be writing these series so long. Why not, you ask?

Sales. We never know when sales will allow us to keep writing. Or if a series just doesn't take off. I really work hard at making my stories as new as possible so that each story is really different from all the rest. I'm still finishing up A Silver Wolf Christmas, which is book 17 in the wolf series. I sold another Silver pack book--Eric Silver, the eldest of the quadruplet brothers, who butts head with Darien, his cousin and the pack leader. He's a park ranger, runs into trouble with another wolf pack, and meets the she-wolf running it. I had started this story a long time ago, but lost it in a computer crash, so I'll be headed in that direction again.

I don't know the order the books will come out, but I sold another SEAL book because they do really well, and this one is A SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble. It's Allan's story and he's on the police diving team when a human female he's interested in discovers a nearly dead wolf and wants to put it out of its misery, but the wolf is one of Allan's pack.

Then, I had to write another jaguar story, and this one is like the end of the season premier. I can't talk about what's going to happen in that one just yet. It has to do with a cub and that's all I can say. But you know me, before long, the cat will be out of the bag.
And that was what I pitched and sold!

Then my editor was telling me that she just totally loves the cub story and babies and billionaires sell well. Wait, I needed to write a billionaire wolf story!

So there you have it. The unpitched Billionaire Wolf story. Not sure on title or what it's going to be about, but I'm excited about writing it.

I had two billionaire stories I wrote--Exchanging Grooms, and Marriage, Las Vegas Style, more comedy romance, no paranormal. And I had fun with them.
Exchanging Grooms
 
Lisa Robbins has one mission in mind–sell back her UNUSED wedding dress to the wedding shop, but when she has no success, maybe she’s going about this all wrong.Peter Crawford is intrigued by the woman who has somehow hooked Dallas’s most eligible confirmed bachelor, Pembrooke Hastings, Peter’s staunchest enemy. Not only had she gotten a commitment from him, but she left HIM standing at the altar. Dating the vivacious woman certainly appeals and Peter wants to know just how she hooked Pembrooke, but also why she didn’t marry him.Lisa Robbins is not dating and not marrying anyone, so she assures herself, her family, and her boss. But when Peter takes an interest in her, she’s wondering just what to do about Dallas’s most eligible confirmed bachelor number two, when he just won’t take no for an answer.
 
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Marriage, Las Vegas Style
 
Marcy Taylor wants a divorce, but she doesn’t want her husband to go after the family fortune, so she’s trying to do this the easy way, no fuss, no muss. The only problem is Michael Lindquist doesn’t have a wife, and he’s sure she’s running a scam to try to get his family’s fortune!It all began in Las Vegas when Marcy threw caution to the wind. Boy, was that a mistake. Twenty-five thousand dollars richer with a husband to boot and one powerful hangover, she’s got to right the wrong.Now that Michael has a wife he doesn’t know he had, he’s not at all sure he wants to lose her. At least until he can unravel the mystery about her. And that’s how the roller coaster ride all began.
 
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And I HATED my cover for my Collection of Vampire novellas, so yes, all right, it's like an indulgence of chocolate and I didn't want to tell you exactly what I was doing yesterday INSTEAD of writing and making bears...I was playing around with redoing the cover! So what do you think? My vampires are getting a bit of a revival because of Huntress for Hire coming out in the TALL, DARK and PARANORMAL box set.

Femida, Goddess of Justice, with scales and sword against dramatic stormy sky
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Okay, before too much more of the day slips away, I'm off to write, lessons are stacking up and I need to work on bears!

Have a super great Saturday!!!

Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
www.terryspear.com
Connect with Terry Spear:
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Friday, September 05, 2014

Tall, Dark, and Paranormal! 99 Cents for 10 Full Length Novels!

Dream big!  The nice thing about this box set is that you can consume all you want and not gain an ounce! Now how cool is that? You can have dessert, eat it too, and not pack on the calories!

It's rich and filling, and okay, so you might crave more, but the great thing is that these hunky hot paranormal bad boys are totally fat-free!

So get them while they're hot!  And cheap!!! Though they'd give you a darkly sexy smile if you told them just what a cheap date they were.


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10 Thrilling Tales of Sexy Alpha Bad Boys
CRESCENT MOON – From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Lori Handeland
FOREVER FREED by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Kaye
SPELLBOUND by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Opal Carew, writing as Amber Carew
SINS OF THE FLESH by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Caridad Pineiro
SPELL BOUND by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Stephanie Julian
HAUNTING A COWBOY – A Brand New Story from USA Today Bestselling Author Randi Alexander
HUNTRESS FOR HIRE by USA Today Bestselling Author Terry Spear
DEAD SEXY by USA Today Bestselling Author Paige Tyler
ASMODEUS: DEMON OF LUST by Bestselling Author Sara Humphreys
BEAUTY AND THE BEST by Bestselling Author, Judi Fennell

CRESCENT MOON by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Lori Handeland A cryptozoologist travels to New Orleans to investigate whispers of a wolf in the Honey Island Swamp.

SPELLBOUND by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Opal Carew What is Lucinda, a tenth level wizard, to do when Destiny pairs her with a man who is utterly domineering, overwhelmingly masculine, incredibly irresistible and, according to her most trusted friend, extremely dangerous?

FOREVER FREED by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Kaye A reclusive, empathic vampire falls in love with a woman he planned to kill, and must fight his ancient guilt, bloodlust, and an old vampire rival who threatens everything he holds dear.

SINS OF THE FLESH by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Caridad Pineiro Mick Carrera is a mercenary hired to eliminate problems, but the genetically engineered woman with the superhuman powers is nothing like what he expected.

SPELL BOUND by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Stephanie Julian A warrior born to defend. A young witch in need of protection. A dangerous desire neither of them expected.
HAUNTING A COWBOY – A Brand New Story from USA Today Bestselling Author Randi Alexander When a ranch foreman hires a ghost whisperer to handle the spirit that’s haunting him, the attraction between them is…supernatural

HUNTRESS FOR HIRE by USA Today Bestselling Author Terry Spear He’s bound to get her killed, so why does the huntress desire the vampire-turned hunter more than life itself?

DEAD SEXY by USA Today Bestselling Author Paige Tyler Can her love save him from a curse worse than death?

ASMODEUS: DEMON OF LUST by Bestselling Author Sara Humphreys ASMODEUS: When Kai Kelly discovers an unusual ring in the attic it leads to much more than she bargained for. She may not realize what she has in her possession, but the boys in Hell sure got the message.

BEAUTY AND THE BEST by Bestselling Author, Judi Fennell Reclusive artist Todd Best hasn’t produced anything since the death of his wife…until aspiring romance novelist Jolie Gardener enters his life and turns it upside down.

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Still not up on Barnes and Noble, but I keep checking!

Here are the two bears I finished last night.
Personalized Rainbow Bear Small
Personalized Rainbow Bear Small
Personalized Best Friends Sweater Bear
Personalized Friends Bear


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Rainbow Momma Bear and Baby
Rainbow Momma Bear and Baby

These were taken before they were sold and had their paws embroidered. 
This shows the pose-ability of the large bear!
Rainbow Momma Bear Reclining and Baby Bear
Rainbow Momma Bear Reclining and Baby Bear
Momma Bear is sold!
Rainbow Momma Bear and Baby Sitting
Rainbow Momma Bear and Baby Sitting

Okay, off to get the day going on word count! 8,000 words to go!
And I might have word soon about the books I pitched. Will let you know.
Have a super great TGIF!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
www.terryspear.com
Connect with Terry Spear:
Website:
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Wilde & Woolly Bears
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

New is NOT Always Better!

Have you ever thought that? You get used to doing something a certain way, perfectly content with the way that you were doing it and without your permission, someone changes it??? (Oh and by the way, you had to learn this way in the first place and that took some time to figure out?)

Sometimes, the powers to be are good about it–they ASK you if you want to update. Sometimes they don’t. And they just DO it. Sometimes you think, sure, it’s new and improved right? And you soon learn it’s a nightmare to handle.

That happened on my email program. Change to this cool background. Okay, click of a button. But after that, there was no going back. My emails nested. I couldn’t write in response to emails sent to me right on the email, which really helps when I’m commenting point by point without copying and pasting their whole message to my email. Finally, there was a way to UNnest the emails so I didn’t have this problem. But there were complaints all over the boards about it. The problem is if you’re in groups where you talk about stuff, you’re supposed to trim messages. With this new and IMPROVED email version, we couldn’t do it.

Anyway, WordPress changed something for the better, and I don’t know if I agreed to it and forgot, or they just changed it, but I didn’t like it and they gave me the option to go back to the old way of doing things.

Sometimes the old way is the best way. Sometimes I can’t wrap my brain around a new way, since I’m always learning new ways to do a million different things, and I just don’t need one more new way to do something that is working well for me.

Do you ever feel that way?
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Here are some pictures of my hot Labor Day. Isn’t this beautiful?
I’m surrounded by cornfields that look like these on three sides. The one in front of me has been cut, but guess what my neighbors were doing for Labor Day. Shooting off fireworks.
Shaking head.
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Why did the dragonfly have to be sitting on top of a cornstalk that was right in front of a telephone pole? I couldn’t move to take the picture because he flew off as soon as I did. But I still thought it was a cool picture, him pausing on the tip of a cornstalk. Next time maybe my model will stay put so I can move around and get a better background. Or, I can show it as just a slice of life–telephone pole and all.
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Do you see the scissor-tail flycatcher on the lower right? The sparrows are on the upper left. I’m not usually able to capture one in a picture.
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Here is a cardinal in the piracantha. I was watering the new shrubs and that always makes the birds jittery, particularly since my neighbor was also shooting off firecrackers.

But what I had seen that was so cool were four sparrows clinging to the cornstalks. I wanted a picture of them. But when I ran back to get my camera and returned, they were gone. It was the first time I had seen them actually doing that. The rest of the time, I’d just see them fly off.

So instead, while I was watering, with camera in hand, I got pictures of the dragonfly, the beauty of the sky and the cornfields, the scissor-tail and the cardinal.

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Oh, and a dove in the piracantha. It’s a wickedly thorny shrub, but the birds love it. Nice and protective

Well, I’m back to word count, caught up on student lessons, and I’m still keeping up on word count, behind on bears. But I did cut out two more last night. :)  I have 6 bears ready, just need to embroider their paws. :)  But that takes time too.  And somehow, I’m always running out of it.

Do you ever find that too?
Okay, back to writing!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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Monday, September 01, 2014

I Wasn’t Going to Blog Today, But….

I just got word I’m up at USA Today’s Happily Ever After Today talking Scotland and how I used it for settings in my books.
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This is moss on stone in Scotland. I love moss. In Texas, you have to pay a lot of money to buy a mossy stone. LOL

I know. It’s amazing what fascinates me. This reminds me of a faery world.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/happyeverafter/2014/08/31/willa-blair-scotland-romance-setting-diana-cosby/14908099/

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Her Highland Hero
Lady Isobel is a Norman laird’s daughter, living near the Scots border where her father, Lord Pembroke, is trying to keep the peace. But her mother was a Highlander and the man Isobel loves most of all is Laird Marcus McEwan, who has been bringing news of her mother’s people for years. But now Isobel’s father wishes her wed to an English nobleman, who will carry on his title. Isobel will wed no other man but her heart’s desire—and that is one braw Highlander from her mother’s homeland.

Laird Marcus McEwan has loved the feisty lass forever. For years, Marcus has tried to convince Lord Pembroke to allow him to wed his daughter. But the Norman lord will not allow it. Then ambushes and murders make it too dangerous for Marcus to reach a peaceful resolution.
Nothing goes as planned and keeping the lass for his own is fraught with danger, as they try to determine who was behind the killings. Isobel and Marcus will do everything in their power to ensure they are together as they have always vowed they would be.

Audiobook will be coming, and print is coming soon.
Barnes and Noble
Amazon
Kobo
ARe Books
Smashwords
Google Play
Print

I also set A Highland Werewolf Wedding there, after I fell in love with the ruins of Dunnottar Castle.
A Highland Werewolf Wedding: He never thought any woman could get him to the altar…
Book 11
Amazon
Kobo
IndieBound
Chapters Indigo
Mountain, Fall, Reflection, Scotland
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Isn’t it beautiful? I love reflections.

And, we have a new FB page dedicated to the box set.
Tall, Dark and Paranormal with all our covers

https://www.facebook.com/TallDarkandParanormal
tall, dark and paranormal fb party

We’re also having a FB party on Sep 16, day of release, with goodies to giveaway:
https://www.facebook.com/events/514036032064445

So you see why I had to blog today?

When all I thought I was going to do was catch up on student lessons AND work on finishing up A Silver Wolf Christmas. All kinds of folks are vying for a say in whodunit. I’ve got to figure this out!


The fun part is coming up with the end, and then editing it to make sure it’s the best it can be. No loose ends. No walk-on, walk-off characters, no plot holes. :)

Okay, off to do it! Goal is to have the book done by Sunday (word-count wise). It always ends up being 6-8,000 words longer than I expected…but shooting for the minimum by Sunday.

Have a super great Labor Day!

I’m off to labor. What about you?

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