Yes, it's true. After all this time off due to surgeries with my kids, illnesses, holidays, kids' snow days. Things are still not going smoothly and the road back to full-time writing is going to be bumpy along the way. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow for a few troubles I've been having including chronic headaches and some joint pain and swelling in my left knee and right shoulder. Also, my oldest daughter, Scarlett, is having ankle surgery on the 5th of February and has a final appointment with her ENT doctor from her surgery back in December on Thursday.
I will be getting back to blogging on a regular basis, writing more on The Council and Train Wrecks, and updating my website to keep up with what I'm working on. This may be slow going as I still have to work around doctor visits and such, but I should be able to get a lot more done now than I have in the past few months.
While I've been off from writing and blogging, I've been thinking about The Council and have lots of ideas for rewrites I would like to make. I want to make the vampires more unusual than what I've read about in other books to keep them unique to my series. It's hard to introduce a set of characters that people already have preset thoughts and expectations about and still make them stand out as different rather than just copycats from other books. They need their own set of rules and truths that dispel the mythology people are used to. I need to make them just as unique as Stephenie Meyer did with her own vampires in the Twilight Saga.
Speaking of the Twilight Saga... I have now seen New Moon five times and have plans with a friend to go see it one last time in the theater sometime this week. Yes, call me a die-hard fanatic if you like. It would totally be the truth. LOL!
The music of the moment today is from my iTunes playlist of recently purchased songs. My husband, Jim, got me an iTunes gift card for Christmas, and I finally used it last week to buy some new songs. The particular song I'm rocking out to right now is 3OH!3's song "Starstrukk" which features Katy Perry. As far as I know, this song has not gotten radio play, but I found it on iTunes when I was looking for their song "Don't Trust Me" and saw that it had Katy Perry who I like to listen to as well so I couldn't resist and bought this song too. I LOVE IT! It's got a danceable beat with a pumping bass to it, perfect to go walking or working out to. Since buying it, I've played it at least a dozen times on iTunes and made a mix CD including it so I can listen to it in my minivan. (I rock out in the minivan! LOL!)
Well, today is Tidbit Tuesday and I've decided to share a little bit from The Council with you. I know it's been forever since you had Tidbit Tuesday so you're probably anxious to hear a snippet from the sequel novel to Awakening of a Guardian. Here goes:
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Evander still was not over the ordeal back in August and was slightly jealous of the time I was spending at Jackson’s house, despite the fact that my reason for being there was to be taught by his mother, not to spend time with Jackson. Nothing I said or did changed the fact that Evander could not get over the images of Jackson and me together before I recognized I was linked to him and not Jackson. I continued to feel guilty that he had to go through that ordeal, knowing he was already deeply in love with me. I knew it had to be hard to see me kissing another guy.
Six months together did not make the jealousy between Evander and Jackson any less. On Jackson’s side, he was jealous that Evander had ended up with me. Although the whole plot was manufactured by his father, Liam Hunt, Jackson had grown fond of the notion of being with me during the short time our romance lasted. Evander could read that in his mind and it did not make things any easier. Jackson respected my feelings for Evander and our relationship, but deep down, he had some feelings for me himself that were obvious to anyone who could read minds.
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