THROUGH A RAIN OF FIRE Completed!

A very exciting update on writing on the "Wings of Fire Series"!  For Christmas, Nina Hansen finished THROUGH A RAIN OF FIRE for me!  I'm absolutely thrilled that she did it and I'm very, very happy to have it done!

Previous to this it was very close.  It had a few tweaks to be made.  Little edits.  She went through and did a full edit on it, fixing the whole thing from start to stop and working the whole thing together so that it all runs smoothly!  No more cobbling together copies to try and read.  No more annoyances when there's a line missing or something does not flow smoothly.

It's done, and worth of being shown to an agent right now!  I cannot believe that we've actually made it this far.

Thank you, God.  This is a dream come true!

A FIRE IS WOKEN Desktops

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THROUGH A RAIN OF FIRE Desktops

Promo time!  I have been working over the weekend on graphics for the first two novels of the WINGS OF FIRE SERIES, and I came up with some pretty cool desktops.

These are free for personal use, but are under law of copyright and cannot be used for profit by anyone but me.

That legality out of the way...

Characters You Care About

Nina and I talked it over and asked a good deal of questions and we've decided to not let Red n' Ritten have “Through A Rain of Fire”.  It was a pretty tough decision, because I was really hoping the deal would go through.

Red n' Ritten demanded more rights than we were willing to give which was what drew the line.  In one way I'm kind of glad that something came up that stopped it.  I'm not saying that I don't think that Red n' Ritten would have done a good job with the book or anything.

But Nina and I have had a dream of going big with this novel right from the start.  I can't say why, but it's like that's what we ultimately want from the novel.  Something large.

I think it's also that these books are our babies.  We love them.

I'm realizing that as I'm finishing NaNo.  I've loved writing in November, but I'm having a tough time getting through “Gumpaw”, my third novel this month.  It's light and funny—a detective story about a dog. But as I'm writing the humor and the laughs I'm realizing just how much I love the books that I write with Nina.

I realized just how much I loved “Strike in the Dark”--another NaNo novel I did.

I love the depth of those books.  These books...  Peter has this deep and marred personality, and I love it.  It gives me the shivers and I love it.  The depth of the emotion—that raw passion.

Nina and I were talking about personalities the other day and she brought up the fact that Peter seems to be pretty emotional for a Thinker.  (he's an ESTP)  I thought about it and I realized that yes, he does feel a lot.  But it's very ST feeling...deep.  And no only deep, but when STs feel emotion it's...  I can think of no word to better describe it than 'raw'.  There's no softness on the top.  Just raw emotion.

I love that.

I also love the power of the novels.  Talking to my sister last night I realized how much I missed writing the vivid imagery of “A Fire is Woken”.  It was a huge challenge writing that book, because I saw the whole thing in my mind like a movie.  And then trying to write it was hard because to try and get that imagery down on paper...

But I miss it.

I can't wait to get back to working on them.  I also like being able to take my time and write my heart into every word.

I don't know what I'll do when we finish the series.  I think I'll miss them a lot.