Well, I did it. More than 100,000 words written in one month. Now I have even more work to do revising and polishing what I wrote.
In the meantime, don’t forget that personally autographed books make wonderful gifts for the special kinky someone in your life. You can purchase them from me via PayPal. My limited edition poetry book, Pain of Love, is only available through my website and is free to anyone who purchases three novels. See the Shop page on my website for details.
If I haven’t answered your e-mail or otherwise acknowledged online communication, I’m not ignoring you, I’m just immersed in National Novel Writing Month to the exclusion of almost everything else.
Three weeks in and my accumulated total so far is more than 73,000 words. I very much appreciate those following along on Twitter and Facebook who cheer me on. One more week and 27,000 word to go.
I wrote more than 50,000 words of fiction in the first 15 days of National Novel Writing Month. And I’m actually looking forward to the next 15 days.
The goal I’ve set may be crazy and demanding, but I still enjoy writing stories, even when forcing myself to churn words out at a rate of about 3,500 a day (which for some, I’m sure, is low productivity).
Time to change gears from fantasy/romance to mystery/thriller.
I have completed a quarter of my 100,000-word National Novel Writing Month goal.
I’ve drafted almost 26,000 words of the first novel, a fantasy romance which I’m writing under a different name, in eight days. I’ve had a few setbacks, so I’m about 800 words behind where I should be now. But if nothing else goes wrong, I don’t think I’ll have trouble catching up.
I’ve participated in (and completed) National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) twice now. The first time the draft became the two novels Broken and Shattered, published last year. The second time I drafted Playing with Dolls which has yet to find a publisher. (But then, I wrote Dommemoir before Broken and Shattered and it found a publisher this year.)
Sometimes life happens while you’re making other plans. For many reasons (editing, promoting, personal developments, etc.), I haven’t had as much time to devote to producing new material as I would like. I very much want to draft out my next novel – a mystery/thriller that has festered in the back of my mind for many years and finally started demanding my attention last year. But I also would like to draft out a fantasy romance novel that I am writing in collaboration with my submissive, Patrick. I had hoped to have that draft finished before he went back to school in September.
As I mentioned, life happens. So, I’m going to try to do NaNoWriMo, twice. I have signed up as I.G. Frederick to draft the thriller (although that may eventually get published under a different pseudonym). I also have signed up under another name to write the first draft of the fantasy novel from Patrick’s outline. I am committing to writing 100,000 words of fiction in the next 30 days. Needless to say, I won’t be doing much else.
I’ve cleared my calendar, I’ve weaned my Twitter feed, I’ve trimmed my subscriptions. I will post my progress weekly and tweet my word counts daily. Wish me luck.
The Salem launch of Dommemoir was hosted by Addictions Body Piercing & Tattoo because owner Emily Cahal was an invaluable resource when I was researching the body mod scenes in Dommemoir.
Of course, she had to have her own, autographed copy. She didn’t take it home, right away, however. I heard from one of the staff on Saturday who had started reading Emily’s copy of Dommemoir and wanted to know if she could please buy one of her own? On Monday, I stopped by to oblige only to learn that another staffer also had read the first three chapters of Emily’s copy and also wanted to purchase her own copy.
Thinking there might be other visitors at Addictions Body Piercing & Tattoo who might enjoy reading Dommemoir , Emily has acquired a few copies to sell to customers, friends, and lovers of erotica.
So if you’re in Salem and would like to purchase a signed copy of Dommemoir, stop by Addictions Body Piercing & Tattoo at 176 Liberty St. SE.
Yesterday evening, the wonderful staff at Addictions Body Piercing & Tattoo in downtown Salem hosted the local launch of Dommemoir.
With the sound of the tattoo needle buzzing in the background, I read selections from Dommemoir and poems from Pain of Love, and autographed books.
Thanks to all who came and helped celebrate!
On Wednesday (Oct. 7) between 5 and 8 p.m., I will celebrate the launch of my latest novel, Dommemoir at Addictions Body Piercing & Tattoo, 176 Liberty St. SE in Salem.
Everyone is invited to stop by for erotic poetry readings and a drawing to win a signed copy of my limited-edition poetry collection, Pain of Love. I’ll have copies of Dommemoir, Broken, and Shattered for sale. (Anyone who buys all three novels from me will get a free signed copy of Pain of Love as well.)
The local alternative paper in Salem interviewed me for an article about the event at Addictions next week. You can read the story online at WillametteLive.
We’re still tinkering with my website, so check there frequently to see some of the improvements we’re making weekly. I also post bits of news from the front page here and to LiveJournal, so if you want the latest information, subscribing to the RSS feed (in the top right hand corner) or at LiveJournal is your best bet.
I was honored to appear as featured author on the world premier edition of the Inkwell radio show earlier today. If you missed it, you can listen to the archives and the poster is on my pictures page. Host Nyla Alisia asked great questions of all three guests including Cecilia Tan and Paul Beidler. Dedicated to helping writers move forward in their craft and achieve success, The Inkwell is an entertaining AND informative radio program. The interviews on the subject of "So you write erotica, now what …" were so interesting, the show ran an extra half hour.
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