elizabeth_oswald

Zoey/Rouge I

Zoey was a flower girl, and it was surreal. She’d been in her mom’s second wedding when she was five, and she’d deliberately thrown handfuls of flower petals in the guest’s faces as she wal...

Vexxx Part 2

Ajax ripped the headset away from his face, nearly fumbling it as his thick gloves got in the way. “Damn it!” He glared at the headset as though it was responsible for what had just happened. 2023-06-16 15:18:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Vexxx

Note: Yay, I actually get to write instead of angsting about things! Today and tomorrow we'll have Vexxx's story, which leads into the long-awaited Rouge novella starting Monday!

2023-06-15 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Cuckoo's Aria!

Aria is done! We had one last SNAFU with it yesterday, so we spent an hour or so chasing that down, and then I went through and made the cover and uploaded it, so  it's actually live! I did pu...

Principles and Practicality

I really, really hate KU's exclusivity rule, especially since you 'enroll' for a three month period, so if they screw you over (like they did me) the rest of your books are stuck for up to three mo...

Grimalkin's Test

Test is done! (At last! 🎶) I'm going to spend today uploading it and making the print cover. Fun fact: I can't design that cover until I have the print pdf, because the spine changes wi...

Aria is in!

I just sent Aria off to the formatter. (A third, since the first is still working on Grimalkin, and the second is on vacation until the 14th. Goodness.) I should have an epub for ...

'Another night'

I've been having fun creating enough of a relationship between Ava and Veronica that it would be realistic for Veronica to tell Ava about the rumor that Amy wasn't actually Amy. It also allowed me ...

ConQuesT 54 is on the books!

Here's my current setup! I added some book-related enamel pins, as well as stickers and buttons of Khor...

Off to the con!

I'm pausing editing while I head to ConQuest 54. I'll be doing that all weekend, and I'll send you a photo of my setup once I get it, y'know, set up!

Social media freaks me out

I mean, I know it's something we have to do, but still...

If anyone wants to help me out, I'd love it if you would share my announcement post!

And now, back to editing...

Cuckoo's Lament!

I got Lament back! I'll leave this post up for a few weeks, so everyone can snag their copy. Today, I'm going to get the print book uploaded to Amazon and B&N, and the ebook on B&N...

How's next Tuesday for you?

I'm switching formatters for Cuckoo (Wish me luck!) Hopefully, this formatter will be able to get Lament back to me by next Tuesday, and I'll send you guys a copy as thanks for su...

That's a wrap!

Cuckoo's Lament is now complete, and I'm sending it off to the formatter. (Who is still running behind. Sigh) I'm moving on to Aria, but I thought I'd send you guys the art I'm us...

Changes!

Most of the changes I'm making are pretty subtle, though I added a bit to the scene when Ava asks Amythyst why she picked Ava, rather than hiring someone, or picking someone else.

The biggest...

Goals!

I'm going to finish edits on Lament this week, do some minor updates to the cover, and get it all to the formatter. I probably won't have anything for you until that's done, but I'm workin...

Just over here editing...

And I still hate it 😂 My kiddo is sick at home, so I only got five chapters done, too. Sigh. But I at least have some bits and pieces for you, left over from my cover-creation efforts! I had two...

Aria cover

I know, I know, I said I was going to work on the cover for Aria after edits, but then I did the pictures for Grimalkin, and realized that sometimes my images require minor text/s...

Grimalkin images

It took me until about ten last night, but I got these bad boys finished, placed in the book, and book text updated to match the images. I mean, usually you make the images look like the book, but ...

Today...

I've created some images to go in Grimalkin. Once those are edited and in the book, it'll be ready to go to the formatter, and fingers crossed, ready to publish by this weekend. Yay! I'll upload th...

CA Epilogue

Aria grinned down at the little girl clinging to her leg. “You’re going to have to get off, kiddo. Time to log out.”

“Don’ wanna,” the little moppet said, lower lip protruding. �...

CA Chapter Forty-three

It’s dark.

Dark, and nothing hurts. Is this what death feels like? Surely she didn’t survive. Is she being reincarnated? Ava floats, and she wouldn’t have been surprised to see an umbil...

CA Chapter Forty-two

Heat, smoke, and crackling fire surrounded her. There was no way out through the door. No escape the way she’d come in. She’d have to go after Veralt.

Sudden urgency flooded through her, ...

CA Chapter Forty-one

None of the security stations were manned, but they really didn’t need to be, since the doors they were guarding couldn’t be opened anyway. Instead, all of the people who would have been watchi...

CA Chapter Forty

A piercing siren woke her from a restless sleep, filled with nightmares where she chased after a green-gowned figure she could never seem to catch. When she sat bolt upright in bed, her hands stret...

Aria is complete!

I got into the final arc, and settled into a groove, and just finished up the book. I wrote four chapters, 12000 words, which is 21 pages in Google Docs. I usually write 2-3k per day, so this is......

CA Chapter Thirty-nine

Taking a shower alone went surprisingly well. She set the temperature as low as she could stand, and the cold blast brought her to herself better than any amount of caffeine. It was difficult to ge...

CA Chapter Thirty-eight

A gentle but urgent hand shook her awake. “Alpha,” Myles said. “Wake up.”

Groaning, she tried to push him away, burrowing back into the pile of furs that someone had put around her wh...

CA Chapter Thirty-seven

They were six thousand seven hundred and forty-two wrong turns - according to Vexxx, anyway - into the next level when Tess sat down and clutched at her head. “I just can’t do it,” she groane...

CA Chapter Thirty-six

“I can’t believe this is the only thing we got from that stupid farmer,” Vexxx complained, holding up a brass key with a shank as long as his hand. The head of the key was, not surprisingly, ...