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Man alive, I'm jacked about all the neat stuff happening with my writing career this week. I'm in the home stretch for Love Bites. It's coming out a week from today. If you want autographed copies of Love Bites, please email me  Margie_church@yahoo.com. I don't have pricing yet and I believe availability will be sometime in late July or early August.

In the meantime, I got a lot of work done on the sequel, Dangerous Love. I've got the characters well-defined and I finally came up with a name for the Master Prophet: Dirk. I don't know why I was having so much trouble with his name and I was asking everyone on Facebook to chime in and then, wham, it came to me. Dirk became a shape shifter when he was killed as a pirate in the 1800s. He's a nasty creature with fewer morals than an earthworm. Between him and that crazy vampire, Ladislov Husek, there's going to be a serious contest for the Sick and Twisted crown. In the middle of all their evil shenanigans will be lovers Jui and Wade, who are desperately trying to keep Jui from being turned into a vampire. A new vamp in stiletto heels, Tori, has a thirst for blood and blackmail. Poor Wade has his hands full. Subscribe to my blog to get progress reports on Dangerous Love.

Also yesterday, I got the illustrations for my children's book. Now I don't have a problem yacking about that on this blog but you better believe I won't be talking about my adult books on my new website for children's books. First Spring will debut on my new website and I'll post the link as soon as it's up.

What else!!? I organized a fan fiction challenge. Ten writers have thrown their pens in the ring to write 10k words minimum. It's all for fun and I'm having a blast with this. I love writing fan fiction between more serious work. Frees my mind. Stories are due August 1.

Driving in this morning, I came up with a YA (Young Adult) story. Noble Romance is starting a YA line and maybe this will work well for them.If you're an author, click on  the Noble badge to learn more. Did I tell you writing fan fics gets my muse out of the box? LOL

Lastly, I picked up a slug of magazine features this afternoon. I adore feature writing. These are for my favorite New Orleans commercial contractor – McDonnel Construction. What a great company and great group of people they have. My clients always inspire me to reach higher goals.

Looking over this list I add a marketing plan. I'm a writing fool and never happier.

Happy belated Father's Day to all you dads, dads to be, and dad wanna bees. My memory is pretty foggy when it comes to my dad. It is what it is. It ended well between us.

Until the next time.

Margie