Works in Progress

I’ve entered Mills & Boon’s New Voices contest by posting chapter one of All’s Fair in Love and War at their site. I would appreciate a look-see. Chapter one of the contest is judged by professionals from the industry, but the entries are available for the public to read, rate and comment upon (registration required). Semi-finalists and Finalists will have a popular element to scoring.

My entry is here: All’s Fair in Love and War in the “Warm and Cosy” category because it’s a humorous workplace romance.

Note: If you vote, you get ONE CLICK of your mouse on the scoring continuum and one click only so position your cursor at the far right side of the 5th rose (hint, hint, no pressure or anything LOL) to give a full 5.0 roses score. If you click in the middle or left side of a rose, it will only count the first half of the rose.

Like the proud phoenix that she is, my character Dori, of My Fair Vampire, has been born again. Only this time she’s 106,000 words of tangled plot and backstory / infodumps. She’s got all her fingers and toes and has added quite a bit of baby fat, a little too much. Premature before, she has carefully been nursed in the NICU (natal intensive care unit) but now seems viable.

Thus begins the equally arduous task of training her to be a big girl who may one day grow into a woman worthy of gracing the shelves of Barnes and Noble, the vast warehouses of Amazon and dare I say it, the tables of Costco and racks of Target.

(And I really hope I don’t have a third first draft of this one to announce. For everyone’s sake, I’ll just call it draft 2 if that does happen and keep it to myself. Promise.)