A New Year!

Isn't it nice to pretend we can flip over to a new untarnished sheet and start all over?

Yes, maybe that's what we should do. We've learned some lessons in the past year (we hope), and are moving on to better things--if not bigger. Let's try not to overtax ourselves.

Since my year was so full of both disappointment and overwhelming projects, I'm looking forward to a new year where I hope I'm not having to go back three steps and try to correct a lot of errors, and then do the job that someone else screwed up. Trying to get out all three books that my publisher dropped was a job, but I did it! Plus put out the one I had been planning on as well.

Having gone Indie over the summer was freeing, but also putting a great deal of pressure on me, because now I have to promote. This isn't always easy. Especially if you are busy doing other things, including working outside the home in a job you don't really relish--sound familiar? A number of you out there do the same thing. We're all in this boat together. And take care of a home and family, as well.

My hope is to merely get two books out in 2014. Period! I'll be working on other projects as these things get done. I'll continue my Sabrina Strong series--since I've got the 4th one Vampire Caprice, coming out in 2014, and have #5-#7 written, and need to work on those in order.

So, as things settle down with the confetti, and I get over the hang-over (just kidding!), my work will continue on these projects. I think the key word for next year will be MODERATION!

What are your plans for 2014?

Happy Brand New Year! & Teaser Tuesday

Well, here we are into a brand new year. Some of us are happy to see the old one go out. And like some of you, hoping for good/better days to come. Optomism. That's the key!

I'm giving you another teaser from one of my published books in the Sabrina Strong Series. Those of you who have read the first two might remember this scene where Sabrina finally meets Vasyl face-to-face after being rescued from a car accident, and being shot.

I knew I wasn't asleep but in a fog--or rather deep in a vampire's thrall. I recognized that when I opened my eyes as the thrall lifted. The aroma of straw and horses caught in my nose. I realized that I lay in a bed of straw in the second floor of a barn. Most importantly, my Knowing also told me that I wasn't alone. He was here with me.

My movements set in motion the male form across from me. Vasyl slowly turned around. His dark silhouette bisected silver moonlight framed in the open haymow door in the upper section of the barn. His white silk shirt almost glowed against the ebony of his long, waby hair. The wings were gone, now. Invisible, or whatever it was master vampires could do with them.
copyright 2011 Lorelei Bell

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING LORELI'S MUSE IN 2011! HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL IN 2012!