August 1, 2015

Hey! So I have to run a few unexpected errands, so I’m ending the giveaway a half hour early. Thanks to all nineteen entrants! I wish you guys could all win but that would defeat the purpose 😛

So I’ve contacted Jasmin and Jane with the link to the ebook. If you didn’t hear from me, check your spam folders or reply here and I’ll see if we can fix it.

Additionally, every time I do a giveaway, I also release the ebook to my Patreon supporters, so just $1 a month, you can get the perks of advance copies and deleted scenes.

Everyone else will get the last chapter and access to the book on August 10.  Thanks again!

Before we go, I just want to say I’ve decided to push Bittersweet back. I was being a bit too ambitious suggesting I would be able to add another story to my roster at the moment. I’ll be going back to work in September, but I’m also going back to school to get my teacher’s certificate and I’ll be taking five classes. I don’t want to pretend I’ll have as much time to write.

So Bittersweet will be premiering when I wrap up The Best Thing. Thanks guys! I’ll see you on Monday!

July 29, 2015

When you’ve been fighting for it all your life
You’ve been struggling to make things right
That’s how a superhero learns to fly
Every day, every hour, turn the pain into power

I’ve been singing this song in my head for like three straight days. I hope it’s your earworm now. Ha.

The Best Thing, Chapter 25 has been posted. The Jason/Elizabeth stuff in this chapter is one of my favorites I’ve written. While this story is difficult sometimes, I think overall, some of my personal best Liason is here, so I hope you guys like this chapter as much as I do.

I’m going to the Philly Zoo with my mother, my aunt, my sister, my sister-in-law, and five children under the age of 5. So…say a prayer for me.

July 28, 2015

It’s that time again! We’re two chapters away from the ending of All We Are, and I’ll have the ebook ready by Friday, so the giveaway will run from today until Saturday.  Here’s how it’ll work

10 Entries – 1 winner

20 Entries – 2 winners

30 Entries – 3 winners

So the more people who enter, the more books I’ll email. So, in order to enter: Comment on this post and my plugin will randomly select a winner. Good luck!

Just a few ramblings from me.

One, I updated Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 of All We Are with a few corrections thanks to the ever fabulous Cora 🙂

Two, I added three chapters to Tangle as well as two of the many slideshows I created in 2008. Head over to the Tangle story page for all of those updates.

I will be rewriting Tangle as Feels Like Home, and I’m aiming for a late Fall, early Winter launch of that story.  However, there is some unreleased material for the old version of Tangle. A full chapter and a few scenes from another one that I never posted–you guys will be getting that as well as full outlines for the final few chapters. You’ll know how I intended the old story to end.

 

July 27, 2015

I really really really hate writing titles for these posts. It’s either boring “Story Title Here Updated” or just “Round-Up” or something else equally inane. I’ll have to work on that schtick.

allweareSo let’s get things underway. First, I have Chapter Fifteen for All We Are. There are only two chapters of this left — we’re still scheduled to finish up on August 10 as scheduled. However, I still haven’t had these last two chapter beta read, so I won’t be posting this at Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own, or The Road to Nowhere until they are. I really really hope to have the ebook ready by next week so I can do the giveaway.

Second, Damaged was updated on Friday. I hope you guys have read it — please remember to drop me a line if you damagedenjoy it (or hell, if you hate it, I can always use some help). I’m going to start posting over here that it’s updated since I can’t figure out how to get my Facebook posts to automatically updated from that installation the way I can for this. Anyway. Not important. What is important is that Damaged, Episode 2 was posted and Episode 03 will arrive on schedule.

Third, Bittersweet is offically a go. I’m storyboarding the scenes as we speak and plan to post the bittersweetfirst chapter on Monday, August 24. So check out the story page that’s already set up and get ready to turn back the clock thirteen years to a time when Courtney was the sweet girl that AJ loved and Sam was still Livve on Port Charles. Ha.

And lastly, I’ll be updating tomorrow with the Fiction Graveyard story, Tangle. I’m still cleaning up the other stories, and they haven’t really been on my list of priorities.

Have a great week! Let me know what you think of All We Are. I’ll see you tomorrow with Tangle, Wednesday with The Best Thing, and Friday with Damaged. 🙂

July 23, 2015

Hey! So a few weeks ago, I was working on the comments template, but the coding broke the site for a bit. I thought I had fixed it, but today I clicked on the story page for All We Are, and noticed that if I wasn’t logged into my account here at CG, it didn’t show up correctly.

I can’t figure out if this is my computer or not, so could you guys who aren’t logged in to comment please check to make sure All We Are is showing up right?  You do not have to be logged in to comment now (I just approve first-time commenters manually) so I would appreciate knowing if this page is broke or not.

 

Update: According to my lovely posters, you guys are seeing All We Are showing up correctly with the sidebars and whatnot, so merci bien.

July 22, 2015

I added Chapter 23 to The Best Thing today. Not much chatter today (which is nice, I’m sure for you guys, ha). I didn’t get a chance to add anything to Fiction Graveyard yesterday due to a leaking air conditioner and my allergies being a pain in the ass, so I’ll tackle that tomorrow. Thanks for reading 🙂

July 20, 2015

allweareHey! So I added Chapter 14 to All We Are, but I’m not posting it at the other archives because it’s not beta’d yet. I literally sent like 30,000 words to Cora over the last two weeks and haha, I think it was too much. So I’m keeping this chapter here until I hear from her, and then I’ll post it elsewhere.  It’s Chapter 14, and after this, we only have three chapters and epilogue left. I’ll have the giveaway up by Friday.

I’m also pretty excited–I was working on the outline for Bittersweet, and while the first half of the story has always worked really well for me, I had trouble ending it. And then, I had (if I say so myself) a pretty brilliant idea. So I can’t wait to wrap up the outlining and dig into this story.

July 16, 2015

bestthingA bit of a roundup update. The Best Thing, Chapter 22 was updated on Wednesday and I posted Damaged, Season 2 a few hours early. Not much chatter for a change. I hope you guys like the updates and please remember to leave feedback. I like hearing from my readers 😉

July 14, 2015

hmdSo, somehow, I have a few types of updates today. So first, I mentioned that I was planning to work on Bittersweet now that All We Are has wrapped up. (I’m done writing it, it just needs to be beta’d). Well, I was playing around with a few ideas for which story to work on once The Best Thing was done (and I should be able to wrap that up by the end of the summer–writing it anyway). So rather than Mad World as the next project, it’s time to put Hand Me Down back on the schedule. More specifically, the rewrite of Tangle I’ve been promising for more than a year: Feels Like Home.

So in honor of it finally being put back on the schedule, I’ve designed the Hand Me Down subsite in the same vein as Damaged and launched it. I’m super excited about this smaller site for a really dorky reason. For more than a decade, I’ve been using Dreamweaver MX 2004 and never upgraded to the newer versions. I did so last weekend and fell in love with it. So I actually handwrote the code for the theme and the style sheet from the ground up. It’s cleaner and better than even this site or Damaged.  It’s still a bit a work in progress, and I’m hoping I can get the comments moved over to that site, but it’s up and I love it.

And related to that, I’ve relaunched Fiction Graveyard by posting chapters from Tangle, the precursor to HMD. I fictionposted the prologue as well as the first two chapters. I had plotted out through the finished product, so you’ll get the sixteen chapters I posted, then you actually get a seventeenth chapter I never posted, some scenes from Chapter 18 and then the outline for the last six chapters. I’m excited to bring this story to CG for the first time because I know you guys loved it and I might actually play around with writing the final six chapters to have it completed, but remember — I’m revisiting the concept and doing it better in Feels Like Home.

I’ll be back tomorrow with The Best Thing Chapter 22 and Friday with Damaged, the season two premiere. See you guys later!