The Lost Firefly is for sale on Amazon

Hello my little Nightshade's,

Great news, The Lost Firefly has been submitted and accepted  by Amazon!!!

To refresh your memories, that was the novel that started this challenge, and you can view the progress in earlier blogs from November last year.  I'm soo happy, it proof that you can get your work published, maybe not mainstream in shops, but on line anything is possible.

So never give up on your dreams ever ok, i know it feels like forever before anything happens but they will if you make it happen.

Never give up and tatty bye

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It's my birthday and I'll write if I want to!!! ❤️

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So as you can guess, I'm another year older! Whoohoo! Hopefully I can write out a small piece today, the synopsis is doing my head in to be sure!

I want to do a outline for Reave's past, Reave being the sexual beast in To Waltz with Shadows, how he met Nightshade, how they fell in love and how he became the man he was in the novel.

So fingers crossed I can at least write a small piece that will contribute towards this challenge, or else this will just be a blog in my litarary adventures.

Tatty bye and take care

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Christopher Aurum/Leon Gold character progress.

So as you know the synopsis....here it's right royal doing my head in. I have managed to narrow it down, it's not quite so long so that's on advantage really if nothing else.

The Nightshade series has taken a great turn for the better, you know I have been trying to sort out Christipher/Leon character.  He's all sorted. Ow, I have written a full plot outline for him, he's to in it as much as I thought, but it works sooo well as her life partner. He's secret, he's mean,he's completely two,different people as he should be.

I think I might make a novel of just him where he starts off before the story, during and after it too, quite the lovely character to write with.  

For those of you know don't know, Christopher/Leon is a complex character that first appears in the second novel as Leon Gold, a cold, mean and down right nasty character, cursed for all time with power and the ability of not dying, just to,live with his pain. He then appears in book four as Christopher Aurum, Aurum being Latin for gold, he's a young, cute, he wants nothing more than to settle down with Kayleigh-Lou. 

So after her death in her past, Christopher Aurum turns from the kind hearted soul to the cursed state Kayleigh-Lou meets, he changes not only his appearence, his demener and entire character but his name to Leon Gold.  

I won't tell any more, I don't want to ruin it for,those of you wanting to read it, he's such a lovely,character to work with.  

So my lovelies take care and tatty bye

For march I have written a fan fiction

I just wanted to update you, I know I have been working hard on the submission for next month, but I have been writing on paper a fan fiction, I've been wanting to for Grave Encounters for a while now. Now it's finally finished in my note pad, it's long, but not epically long and to be honest I really don't want to count them until it's on the computer.

It's a third instalment where shawn rogersons character uses the internet to lure a girl into the hospital, her twin is lured too but by the hospital. So they go, male twin to take the Micky of the movies while the girl is going to meet someone she met on line.

Now what happens in Alex from the second movie comes to try and save them, but shawn rogersons character ends up really falling for the female twin. They split up within the hospital and the building makes shawn and twin think they have escaped, they end up running to his house and doing the naughty. Whoo Whoo!

Basically, everyone but the female twin escapes,the building keeps her and let's the others go. Nine months later each of them recieve a video of the femal twin in labour, their little naughty time created a child and the building has decided he will keep the female and the baby, but why no one knows, it's all in the myster of the building.  

It ends on shawn rogerson, back to full health standing outside the hospital, base ball bat I had, looking up, swearing he will go in and rescue female and his baby. He has thought of nothing else since the video.

It's just the out line of the story and I do not have any creative merit for the Alex, shawn and building characters, mine is just the twins really. Fan fiction is quite fun to write, adding your own characters to the already created characters.

Well I hope that's ok, writing a note pad fan fiction, it still counts as part of the challange 

Take care and tatty bye

So here's my short brief

I have been researching deeper into the world of the synopsis and well, it has helped an awful lot.  So now I have two briefs, one short and one long.  My novel is kinder summed up in one sentence, it's hard to do it because there's so much going on but I have managed to pick out the high lights to put together a decent synopsis.  Eye catching if nothing else.

Here's my short brief, my novel in one sentence.

The Birth of Arcane is a fantasy fiction novel about a young woman who wants to achieve her dream of enrolling at a world famous academy, only to discover a magical truth deep within her.

The longer has a little more detail, but that's it in a nutshell,without all the frills and spills of the loner, the rival, the mishaps, magic and so on.  I wanted to add she's a reluctant hero, but it shows more so in the second novel in the series.  

So fingers crossed this new synopsis will polish up nicely, I think it will.

Until then my lovies

Tatty bye and take care

Where do they days go?

Hello lovies!

How are you,nice weekend? I decorated for all of the weekend myself.

As you know the write a thin has been out on hold so I can do the final checks on Nightshade and work on my synopsis.  Let me tell you, while checks are slow but great, the synopsys is doing my nut in! Like my best friend Kassie said, in not so many words, how can one possibly condense an entire novel into a short story, because that's what they want you to do when you think about it.

Look at it this way, you spend months, maybe a year or two to make it perfect only to discover that you have to write a short essay, a short story even explaining the highlights of the novel,characters etc. fellow novelist out there will sympathize with me I'm sure, it's the bane of a writers life to be sure.  First of all, from what I can see, there are so many and different ways of writing a synopsis.  I think the best thing I have found recently is asking your chosen publisher directly what they want from a synopsis, or lookie on their website.  For example, one major player in the business wants a full synopsis, from layout, to,characters, from plot to twists to resolutions to revaluations and even the possibility of any follow on.  In other words do youmhave a series and if so a quick out line of the first possible paragraph of the next in line. (Anyone who has researched this will know whom I am directing tht part at) they are very......demanding because of their high standing in the publishing world.  I'm not sure if they mind the max number of pages for all this information. They didn't hint at anything, but of course I camt send in a twenty page synopsis, so I guess it's just common knowledge.  They also require double spacing too.

Now a smaller publisher who concentrate on schools and libraries ask only for something smaller, who,what when where why and how it ends. Something that is to the point and the expected no more that four or five pages Long.  

Then there's word count, I fall into the hot stuff barge pole category and I don't mean, wow this is the next Harry Potter.  Nope, my novel is over one hundred thousand words, it's very fifty fifty as to whether I will get main stream or not for this fact, so I have to make this synopsis the best ever.  

I'm really lucky though, I have Kassie my best friend, she has given me some great advice, she's the best because she gives me what I need.....the truth.  Friends and family will say, ohhh,that's sooo good it's amazing.  But they won't tell you if there's a real problem to save your feelings.  Grrr. I need truth.  Everyone needs a Kassie!

 My muses have been very silent recently, they seems to have given me a flood of novel ideas and said, there you go, get on with it. Hehe.

Well enough of me ranting bout the dagger in my side that is the synopsis.

Tatty bye and take care

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From a dream to the page: A little interlude

From a dream to the page: A little interlude: So, the novel writing from scratch has been put on hold for now due to the exciting opportunity of submitting to Crooked Cat Publishing.  Ri...

A little interlude

So, the novel writing from scratch has been put on hold for now due to the exciting opportunity of submitting to Crooked Cat Publishing. 

Right now I am currently working hard on a synopsis and my gum it's harder than the novel itself, that just flowed and even wheni did stop for researching purposes, it just flowed like a river. From what I have researched, it must tell the entire story, have the main characters emotions and motivations and the resolutions to them. Well I have an outline I'm asking a few people to read it, one person who has never even read any of my Nightshade notes let alone the old revision. 

To be sure, it really is a bane of the authors life, a synopsis, blurbs are easier because it's just a taste while the synopsis.  Let's just say, you could have the greatest novel in the world but if that synopsis is rubbish the publisher won't even entertain it.  It will be thrown to one side without your manuscript even being looked at.  Kinder hard I hear you say and it is, what a lot of budding authors don't know is this is a business, publishers don't publish and distribute their books for their dream or out of charity, they do it because the story is good and will make them money.  It sucks that while our dreams are coming true, someone else is getting rich off them, whether that be a publisher or a literary agent or both. But that's life, just think of all those agents that turned down JK and Harry Potter, they must be soooo gutted.  

I named this blog an interlude, well apart from putting the new novels on hold and finishing an old one, I have decided I want to knit something. Normally all I knit is scarfs, but inhave found a nice easy patters for hand warmers. Nice. I have too much wool from when I was expecting my son you see.  I can't really knife anything complicated so this is nice. I think I will make some for my friends if it works out well.  

So I was thinking I might finish my synopsis and maybe, but only maybe put it up here. But that's only a maybe.

Tatty bye and take care lovies