Isoellen's Blog - Posts Tagged "book-release"
Style and Encouragement
Did you get an ARC for Choosing Her Alpha? You can post reviews to goodreads and book bub now - and you can post reviews to amazon after it's official release on the 31st! Thank YOU. I am in final edits now, after getting it back from the professional. I want it to be perfect for you guys...and spend five minutes looking at a sentence wondering if I should leave a word in or out. We all know I'm a sloppy writer, so maybe you didn't know that sometimes I mean to leave a word out - stylistically, I often do it on purpose, chopping away at extra verbs, articles and contractions.
---- This sentence ----
"His self assurance and power were unlike any she had encountered before."
>>Sounds better to me without the verb 'were.' Maybe not alone, but add it to<<
"His aura chilled the room, a leashed threat. His self-assurance and power unlike any she had encountered before."
And I feel like the second sentence has more power. I'm writing romance. I'm writing smut. But I want readers to hear it in their heads like poetry.
Is that too much to ask? While the professional editor has helped me be more commercial, going through the MS again I find myself cutting things out. The grammar police are gonna hunt me down, I just know it. But I can't help myself.
ANYWAY! Don't forget your reviews! I appreciate you, and thank you for the time you take. It means so much to me!
---- This sentence ----
"His self assurance and power were unlike any she had encountered before."
>>Sounds better to me without the verb 'were.' Maybe not alone, but add it to<<
"His aura chilled the room, a leashed threat. His self-assurance and power unlike any she had encountered before."
And I feel like the second sentence has more power. I'm writing romance. I'm writing smut. But I want readers to hear it in their heads like poetry.
Is that too much to ask? While the professional editor has helped me be more commercial, going through the MS again I find myself cutting things out. The grammar police are gonna hunt me down, I just know it. But I can't help myself.
ANYWAY! Don't forget your reviews! I appreciate you, and thank you for the time you take. It means so much to me!
Finding Her Heart is OUT
Hey readers!
The second Orki War Bride book is out. Some of you love it and some of you not so much. I am not sure if I needed more time in edits or if I needed not be so stubborn– and stop trying to be so clever. But it is what it is and, actually, I am very, very proud of that book.
It was a killer to write.
For lots and lots of personal reasons that involve some dirty laundry, too stinky to air. Some of that stink slips out if you listen to my Podcast but I have more restraint when it comes to a blog post.
There will be a 3rd Orki book that ties the series together but it is nothing like the others. Finding Her Freedom. Brace yourselves. Set in the future and on a different planet it is about an Orki that was separated from his brothers and his warg family. It has dual points of view and is more traditionally omegaverse. It will be somewhat less–literary? Poetic? Bad Poe? Overly earnest Robin McKinley? But less all of those.
She: Is a highborn omega who does not want to be used as a pawn or womb or sex toy.
He: Has been captured by a race of slavers who try to use him to their advantage, try to execute him, then finally paralyze him and shut him up in solitary confinement for years on end hoping he will die.
Previously published in the “Auctioned Anthology,” this version uses “Proper Behavior,” as a template. And a lot has changed.
There are humanoid bad guys, a creature bad guy, and some stressful times during attitude adjustments.
There will not be a ton of baby Orki rearing, but there will be baby Orki.
And maybe a unicorn.
Watch this space for ANOTHER 12 Sectors update coming soon.
Isoellen
The second Orki War Bride book is out. Some of you love it and some of you not so much. I am not sure if I needed more time in edits or if I needed not be so stubborn– and stop trying to be so clever. But it is what it is and, actually, I am very, very proud of that book.
It was a killer to write.
For lots and lots of personal reasons that involve some dirty laundry, too stinky to air. Some of that stink slips out if you listen to my Podcast but I have more restraint when it comes to a blog post.
There will be a 3rd Orki book that ties the series together but it is nothing like the others. Finding Her Freedom. Brace yourselves. Set in the future and on a different planet it is about an Orki that was separated from his brothers and his warg family. It has dual points of view and is more traditionally omegaverse. It will be somewhat less–literary? Poetic? Bad Poe? Overly earnest Robin McKinley? But less all of those.
She: Is a highborn omega who does not want to be used as a pawn or womb or sex toy.
He: Has been captured by a race of slavers who try to use him to their advantage, try to execute him, then finally paralyze him and shut him up in solitary confinement for years on end hoping he will die.
Previously published in the “Auctioned Anthology,” this version uses “Proper Behavior,” as a template. And a lot has changed.
There are humanoid bad guys, a creature bad guy, and some stressful times during attitude adjustments.
There will not be a ton of baby Orki rearing, but there will be baby Orki.
And maybe a unicorn.
Watch this space for ANOTHER 12 Sectors update coming soon.
Isoellen
