Amber's Ramblings

Okay, so I don’t have a HOT topic to talk about today. I spent the weekend celebrating my grand daughter's 1st birthday (today) and my youngest daughter's 13th birthday (tomorrow). Two parties, tons of family in town, non stop running.

I DID write THE END on Spend The Night With Me, book two in the Freedom Fantasies series. I know I need to add one scene, before sending it off to my editor. Hoping by Friday the latest.
Play With Me, book three, will be submitted at the same time.

Still waiting to hear about Submit With Me. It’s a short-short 7k. It’s a role playing story like the others in my series.

I did receive a few good reviews over the weekend I’d like to share:

Body Shots:
http://www.joyfullyreviewed.com/reviews/Apr10/bodyshots.as.html

Title: Wild Lickins
Author: Amber Skyze
Genres: GLBTQ
Site Date: Feb 23, 2010
Online Link: http://www.nightowlreviews.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.aspx?daoid=6184
Score: 3.25 / 5


Off to edit! Have a fun week.

NaNo Writing

This month I joined two author friends for our own version of the NaNo challenge. It's been a great experience for the last three years and I hoped this year wouldn't be any different. I'm pleased to announce it's been just as successful this year.
For those who don't know what NaNo is, it's a National challenge to write a 50k book in a month. Last year and the year before I finished to romantic comedies of more than 50k. This year my focus is a little different.
I've been in a funk for the last two months and couldn't find a way out. Suddenly as of November 1st, I'm writing 1,700-2,200 words a day. My normal average is 1k. I've finished a novella that had been sitting since August. Now I just need to polish it up and sent it off to my editor.
I'm a few thousand away from finishing another novella and plan to finish the other two in the series before month's end. If I don't finish both I know I'll come close.
I can't explain why, but November and NaNo have been freeing for me. I'm not going to question it, I'm just going with the flow.
And this year I'm having lots of fun doing research for my three book series. It's about a club where three women will live out their fantasies. Along with researching women's fantasies for the books, I'm also planning a short story for one of my editors based on role-playing. So, one idea is leading to another. I'm stock-piling these ideas for when the well runs dry, because it will or come very close in a few months when I get burned out from writing so much. :) But that's okay, because I'll have books out to editors to hold me over.

Off to do more research! :)

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