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Busy, busy, busy.
I will be looking in to social media sites first thing in the morning, when I answer my emails, and last thing at night, when I am on my laptop. I am fully committed in the next two months with things I have promised to do, my own work and marketing. I don’t have the physical time to take on anything new. Sorry about that. It is what it is.
My ongoing commitments include helping with the debut launch of an awesome Sci Fi book written by a BFF, Rhonda Garcia. Lex Talionis is one of those special books that occur once in a lifetime. I can’t reiterate how awesome this book is. There are plot layers, fantastic characters, incredible setting … I could wax lyrical until the sun rises and sets again. Please look out for this one.
Decisions, decisions.
Alrighty then, I have the stats in from Wattpad. I already know my contractual obligations and I will be working on those, which are not posted on that site. I wanted a third runner to work with alongside those. Angelus it is. This is a pure sci fi and is a tad different. No surprises there, coming from me. LOL.
For some obscure reason, I need to work on three at once. Three is the magic number as it is the maximum I can load on my wide screen monitor and still have a good view. I find the need to jump from one story to another and I get a lot more wordage written in that way instead of concentrating on just one. My goal is to get two finished into first draft by the end of March. I am so serious about this that I will be limiting my time on social media until this is accomplished.
Arthur has always been a loner, set apart by his exceptional telepathy skills. He doesn’t want the life of a Seer in the undersea city of Avalon. He wants to use his skills to fight the overlords on the surface world, who are subjugating humanity, but to do that he must register as normal. What is normal for a man without a clue who his parents were, or maybe are? Why are his birth records sealed?
Curious about the lives of the slave people on the surface, he begins the study of one who escaped. Once highly placed, Shadow has become a mercenary serving Avalon to fight the beast overlords. The deeper he gets into her life, the more he attracts the attention he doesn’t want. What was once a fun diversion from his Seer studies now takes on deadly overtones. Someone is lying. It could cost him more than his life.
The trailer. http://animoto.com/play/aa6Em1ucQe5yHQwiW7v9Qw
http://www.amazon.com/…/B00GAN…/ref=la_B00DJS9QP0_1_1…
http://www.amazon.ca/Shadow…/dp/B00GAN6HMG/ref=sr_1_1…
http://www.amazon.com.au/Shad…/dp/B00GAN6HMG/ref=sr_1_1…
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/shadow…/1117299037…
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/shadow-over-avalon
https://itunes.apple.com/…/shadow-over…/id735615772…
As promised, a tiny snippet.
This is from Shadow Over Avalon and you will not get this from the Amazon extract.
Ector flinched. “Why is this girl the only one we found with any idea of Nestines? Why didn’t she react to us with the usual Terran panic? We may have picked up an unexpected advantage, Tarvi. One I’d be a fool to overlook.”
“Nestine ship to the West,” Suki called, from the edge of the lake. “They seem to think there’s something out there worth landing for,” Ector said, watching the bright disc descending. “Cut that animal free from reins, and then it’s time to leave.”
Ector scooped up the Terran, throwing her over his shoulder. With his unit behind, he headed out into the lake depths.
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The copper horse whuffled night air, puzzled at the sudden quiet. It pricked up its ears, heading home when pink glints of dawn light rose over the horizon. Midnight-colored eyes faded back into rock as the lonely bark of a dog-fox cut through sleepy silence while ripples calmed on dark water.
Shadow Over Avalon
I have just found out how to get my trailer for Shadow Over Avalon on to my website. It wasn’t working before as I have a full site here and not just a blog. Now it works. Yay!
links.http://www.amazon.com/…/B00GAN…/ref=la_B00DJS9QP0_1_1…
http://www.amazon.ca/Shadow…/dp/B00GAN6HMG/ref=sr_1_1…
http://www.amazon.com.au/Shad…/dp/B00GAN6HMG/ref=sr_1_1…
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/shadow…/1117299037…
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/shadow-over-avalon
https://itunes.apple.com/…/shadow-over…/id735615772..
Resolutions for 2014
I am ashamed to have to admit I have five half finished books. This is not good. Must work harder.
1. Finish one book off every month. This is possible.
2. Work on house renos. With daylight increasing I should be able to get stuff finished. Artificial light means I miss bits. Sigh.
3. Work on weight loss. I have lost 14lbs but then I hit a plateau. Nothing gained back, which is good, but I need to be more active. This means using the treadmill. I can do this.
4. Work on a better way to promo my books.
5.Start working on artwork again. Maybe I haven’t got the fine control I once enjoyed, but I can still gain joy out of this hobby.
6. Get my act together and get moving on the quilting projects I have planned. I have the materials, so there is no excuse.
7. Plant seeds for the growing season to come. I can’t do much, as I don’t have the space, but I can get the early starters going. Maybe I will have another Claude, the petunia this year?
8. Get out to do the yardwork very early in the morning before the new neighbors, the ‘mumbles’ are out and about. I really don’t need my creativity mangled by the site of a seventy year old woman in a crop top and low cut shorts. Shudders. I wouldn’t wear anything like that in public view.
9. Get some quality time in with my little grandson. He is such a good baby and he is growing so fast.
Now I am committed.
Fun Artwork Challenge.
There is a lot of indoors happening in the Northern hemisphere this time of year and it is a great moment to take out the art supplies. Just for fun, who would like to try their hand at giving a picture of what some of my characters look like? The main characters in Shadow Over Avalon are Arthur and Ashira. In Darkspire Reaches, they are Raven, Connor and Kryling. Of course, a person could pick any charcter in their normal setting, or freestanding.
This is just for everyone to see how all perceives these characters and won’t, in any way, be used in a book by me. The pictures may be posted here. Just put your name, or designated tag on the body of the picture, and who it represents, so it cannot be pirated. I would love to see what you all think. It can be in any medium, but please, no stock images, which are licensed and need to be paid for.
I will start you off with one I have just finished for a Work In Progress. 
And here is the first. A picture of Raven, from Darkspire Reaches by Gillian O’Rourke.
Apparently my site is not being cooperative so can pictures please be posted on my Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/C.N.Lesley. Thanks.
New books.
I am working on the sequel to Darkspire Reaches and am 60k in. I am also playing with another work in progress. Mordred, from Arthurian legends, was always given a very bad rap. What if there were extenuating circumstances? What if he were not a bad guy, but one who was forced into a bad saturation. Now make that bad situation propel an ancient warrior into the modern world he did not understand. I am having fun with this.
My research has come up with some very interesting stuff. The Isles of Scilly were originally one land mass. They sunk due to the melting of the glacier in Scotland causing that to rise and subsequently causing everything south to sink. Google Earth provides some very interesting pictures of the underwater farms and roadways. There is a connection between the Isles to Cornwell. The Vyvyan family in Cornwall has a white horse as its crest that legend has it carried the sole survivor from the deluge. A white horse was kept by the family for many generations. The Seven Stones reef is purportedly the last visible remains of the sunken lands and the site of the city of Lions. Oh yes, I am having fun with this.
The elephant in the room.
Yes I have one and it is huge. I have been trying to sell my lemon condo for three years. Yes, that is right. Three years of HBO fees, etc. I have finally Fed Exed my agreement to sell this lemon to an interested buyer. I am really crossing my fingers that she is so deep in lawyer fees that she won’t wimp out. I have had in excess of five flubs, but none of them have gotten to this level.
It is a very good apartment, right in the center of town, with its own parking, which is a huge plus. I have replaced all the flooring to meet with the demands of the market. I had the place repainted. I had Molly Maid go in there to make it squeaky clean. So why is it a lemon? It is a senior retirement pad. I need to find the right crumply to want to live in it.
I am so hoping this place if off my back and that noting else can go wrong. I would like to be able to get on with my life without fretting about this. Crosses fingers.
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