The Vampire...In My Dreams available today!!! Winner of Joy Nash's contest also!

The winner of Joy Nash's contest is: Dawnm (8/16@4:32 am) Congratulations, Dawn! Just email Joy with your snail mail address at: joy@joynash.com and she'll send you the book. :)

The Vampire...In My Dreams is finally available in print form!!! After selling it to another publisher who then closed their YA line, it is finally available.

I love the exceedingly devilish cover and can't wait to have the book in my hot little hands. :)

But for now, Amazon is offering a 15% discount, so buy one while you can! :)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599988372/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr

It's appropriate for ages 12-adult. They've got the age listed wrong on Amazon so my publisher will have to straighten that out with them. But it's finally available!!! :)

The Vampire...In My Dreams is truly a dream come true! :) Never give up!!!

Have you ever had a dream that you didn't think would ever come true but you kept on trying until it did?

Terry Spear

www.terryspear.com

Writing Short

Yes, I'm short, but I don't mean that kind of writing short. :) The other day we had a call for short stories from one of my editors, and I had been wanting to unload my computer of short stories I've already written. But three of the ones I like best--because they're paranormal--have already been published, although I do have the rights back. I just sold "Trick or Treat" to True Romance.

So I was looking at some of my other stories--really great beginnings, however, they already have too many plot threads to turn into short stories. So what makes a short story a good read, but still short? I was just talking to an author friend who says he always has too much story to tell to write them short. And another who said she loves writing short, but can't wait for the day to write long.

I write both because I love the variety. To take a single plot line, a few really great characters and make a story come to life is the ultimate goal for a short story. Or several plots/subplots, lots of twists and turns and write a full length novel.

But I'm lazy. I have tons of story starts, and several short stories. I want one of them to work. After editing Deidre's Secret all day yesterday, editing a partial for another editor, a blurb for yet another, and working on Allure of the Wolf, trying to wrap my mind around another story--and make it short, isn't working. I hate it when I have no control. I'm the writer, right? It's my story.

*sigh*

One that I was working on last night, that's already over the word count for a short story limit--is great. I love it. I've trimmed some of the extraneous stuff and not so extraneous stuff, but the problem is still, I have too many plot threads. Too many, and there's not enough time to tie up all the loose ends. And I love the way I've started it, so, that means it'll just have to be a longer story.

Back to the drawing board. If I'm going to do this, I'm going to just have to give in, bite the bullet, and---heaven forbid, start a new story.

Terry Spear

The Vampire...In My Dreams, coming to bookstores August 26!!!

Deidre's Secret

Deidre's Secret
Coming Wild Rose Press, Climbing Roses Line

When Deidre Roux has premonitions of danger, watch out! Faced with thwarting bank robbers and protecting others from the high school bully, she must reveal her secret to her new friend, Mark Cummings. Can she convince him that she truly sees a world of imminent danger headed their way before it’s too late?

Not only must Mark deal with his girlfriend’s premonitions, which he has a hard time believing, but his convicted uncle has returned home. Humor, suspense and conflict rule the day as Deidre’s crazy aunt tries to write a true crime story on Mark's uncle. Deidre attempts to keep her out of it before she gets mixed up in a much darker business of robberies and murder—her own, if she’s not careful.

I've always loved stories of mystery and intrigue...and adding a paranormal element adds even more fun. When I first wrote about Deidre, she was an adult, serving as an officer in the military, not wanting anyone to know she sees snapshots of future events. Afraid she'd get kicked out of the Army and she gets mixed up in a life and death mess then.

I really enjoyed creating her character and wondered how she would have handled her special gift, that sometimes felt like a curse, when she was a teen. And so I went back and wrote her earlier story: Deidre's Secret.