Dragonlots - current projects

[dragonlots]

Hi all,

Here's what's currently on my plate.

Finishing Winter Emergence both at the insistence of my publisher and readers.

Pitched a partially finished novel to Maggie Bonham, Sky Warrior Books, at MileHiCon. She wants it when it is completed because she loves the idea. This is a huge step considering normally publishers want the work done before they'll even consider it. My advantage here is that she knows I'm a good writer and that I will complete the book.

Submissions closed for Different Dragons 2 and Supernatural Colorado. (Although I may be reaching out to specific writers on the latter if I don't have enough stories.) I also have a backup publisher for SC in the event it doesn't work out with the house who said they were interested.

My first romance Worth the Wait has been submitted. Am waiting to hear back on it.

God's Gift will be released by WolfSinger Publications later this year or early next year.

My story Lil was published in the ezine Lorelei Signal. Originally I had submitted it to Lee Martindale for an anthology. Although she didn't accept it, she did tell me it was a good story. I've submitted it to various markets ever since and finally, it got accepted.

At ComicCon this year, my publisher sold ten copies of Winter Awakening and another eight that I edited. This was Different Dragons and Time Traveling Coffers. I don't know for certain how many were sold during MileHiCon but I did sell three of WA after my reading on Sunday. AND I DIDN'T EVEN READ FROM IT! I read from Winter Emergence and God's Gift.

Ian Tregillis who was one of the guests at MHC complimented me on a good reading. I hadn't even realized he was in the audience!

My WolfSinger publisher did tell me she's expecting me to move on to larger houses. Sort of caught me by surprise. While I'm planning on it, I guess I didn't actually think I was good enough. Nice when others place that kind of confidence in you.

Just a FYI, half the writers in Time Traveling Coffers are Christians and about a third in Different Dragons. When I'm editing I do tend to court local talent and the Anomaly.

On that note, are there any themes any of you would like so see or write on for future anthologies?

[dragonlots]

Forgot to include the collaboration I'm doing with J.A. Campbell. We've combined her vampire/ghost hunting dog and my cat vampires. We approached WolfSinger who will be publishing it when it's completed.

[dragonlots]

God's Gift is on WolfSinger Publications to be released list for 2014.
Here's the back cover blurb:
“God told us you were coming, tell us about His son.”

Major Larry Henry had never expected to hear those words spoken by an alien race. Let alone one with sharp claws and fangs they used for hunting and could easily shred him, his youngest sister and her boyfriend to shreds! But when his other sister Susanna and their good friend Kal Devon disappeared from their colony, Larry and the rescue party made the astonishing discovery they weren’t alone on Galilahi.

Yet Kal had hinted there were secrets being kept from the colonists. Both his friend’s sister and Susanna’s husband had been killed in hover accidents. The civilian and military leaders made a show of agreeing in public while Larry knew about the conflicts between them. Susanna had made discoveries about the dark fates of earlier colonies. Not to mention a jump in technology which should have taken centuries of evolution not just a few decades.

Now stranded on Galilahi with no way to relocate or return to Earth, Larry found himself wondering if the human colonists could co-exist with the feline natives or if human history would repeat itself.

Or did the God Larry believed in and trusted, have another plan none of them knew about?

[fluke]

Great!

[metalikhan]

Congratulations, Dana!