Seducing Seshat

Is now available!

Check out Cafe Nowhere, a really unique anthology from eXtasy Book authors. The anthology combines story elements throughout the various tales, and also includes a recipe section in the back so you can recreate your favorite foods from the book! I added my own potato pancake family recipe, and it is yummy!

Enjoy–eXtasy’s anthologies are always interesting, never a dull moment

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Hey there!

There’s still time to enter my contest to celebrate the release of my new story, Pleasure’s Power: The High Priestess. Pleasure’s Power is a story I wrote to scratch an itch I had–what if the hero wasn’t as much a muscle bound fancy boy as a solid, loyal fellow who worshipped the ground my heroine walked on? From that idea came Peter and Jocasta, two very unique characters in a sea of alphas. I had a lot of fun writing the story

As a bonus, I’m giving away a five dollar extasy gift certificate to anyone who comments on my blog through the end of today (special extended deadline!). Visit me at http://www.ameliajune.net/blog

Here’s a very adult excerpt from Pleasure’s Power to get you excited for this Monday morning
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So far, NaNo is going swimmingly. I’m at almost 17k and right on target for the month so far. My heroine is trapped in a man’s body, so you know, all is well.

As for my new story, Pleasure’s Power, it is officially releasing on November 15th! I’m pleased to say that I think it is a fun story with some hawt scenes and a neat little killer bee ending. You’ll just have to see for yourself. Here is a blurb and excerpt for you (nsfw):
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Woohoo, edits are back on Sun and Moon!

Things I have learned from this round of edits:

1. I use the em dash way, way too much.
2. I have a comma addiction
3. The universal POV is not okay with my publisher. My poor editor had to fix a TON of head hopping as a result, she must think I’m an idiot! Doh!

That last one is kind of a bummer. I work in third person limited all the time, and now I’m starting to feel that all the stories I read have it too. First person seems rare, and the universal “storyteller” type feel is pretty much out. I find myself longing for a change in tone, just for variety. On the other hand, that isn’t to say that I personally did a great job with universal POV. It was tough.

I think the story turned out very sweet with some excessive naughtiness that makes me smile. The editor suggested a sequel, which is always flattering. This was always a one-off in my mind, so I’ll have to think about it.

I’m pleased to have a release on the way and proud of the work. I hope to have news on a release date very soon, and a cover too

When I started writing about the guardians, I thought I would make things easy on myself.  I set the main characters in the sonoran desert where I grew up.  I set them in the modern day world, set it up so that everything would be basically research-free.  That did make things easier in terms of setting, locations, descriptions.

Then, I started adding magic.  Shapeshifters, for one thing.  That required all kinds of rules–do their clothes go with them, how does it look, what is the process?  Not to mention the fact that not all my shifters live within the same rules, some have different ones all together. They use magic, accessing ley lines of energy.  There are major and minor spells, each shifter able to use them to varying degrees.  There is an entire religious system tied into this magic that required written laws, mythology, lore and backstory. I have a huge One Note notebook with tons of written notes and still it doesn’t encompass everything I’ve written yet.  I need to get the main house drawn up, even, so I know whose room is where.

Add to these things the difficulty of following my own rules.  Things as simple as times of day have to be carefully written, along with moon phases and travel.  If my character shifted in the last scene, she’d better be naked in the next one, for example. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to rewrite a scene for breaking one of my own rules.

Yeah.  This is the opposite of easy.  Oops.

Goats… well you know.

I’ve been enjoying the summer but I am counting the few days I have left until the kids go back to school!

I have also managed to write myself into a corner I can’t quite figure out in Kiara.  I’m thinking I need to take a step back and look at the whole thing again, see if I’m headed in the right direction.  Sometimes it isn’t even the saggy middle but the saggy “get me from the late middle to the end.”  It’s too late to send in the man with the gun, so I need to find a way to both build tension, keep readers interested, heighten romantic affection and cruise toward the peak of action.  All in a chapter or two.

17 million books on writing, and it really just boils down to inspiration in the shower.  I think I’ll be spending a lot of time there until I figure things out…

I’m setting the new Jason Bell story in the slight future, only about sixty years or so.  I’m pondering how things might change.

I’ve decided that most plastic will have been replaced with more reusable and environmentally friendly materials like biological resins.  While paper still exists, in the form of old books and boxes, most people don’t use it.  They’ve traded in their paper for digital forms of data.  This might be a bit self-serving, since I write ebooks.

I’m not sure what transportation will look like.  I’m not sold on the flying car as a viable option, but certainly electric vehicles.  Instead of gas stations, there will be places to trade your dead batteries for live ones.

I do not know what food/space travel/fashion will be yet.  It might not matter, because the setting moves pretty quickly to Jason’s “fictional” universe (I mean, is it REALLY fiction?)

Please note, my paper will still have square corners.  No octagonal paper over here, thankyouverymuch.

In any case, planning for the slight future is more research intensive than I realized.  Is there any story that does not require research?  I’m starting to think that answer is a fat no.  Sigh.