WIPs and update (January 2023)

marek.sokk — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:16:43 +0000

Book #1 Charm & Mayhem: The Goddess of Fate – is just out – January 19 and Life & Death: The Goddess of Light is in paperback stage (e-book comes out February 8). I was struggling a bit with Love & Money — not, not in real life – but book #3 in the Goddesses Series until I printed all the snippets out and started putting them together. Seems I do have another book on my hands and it’ll probably come out in July as my dev.editor is reaaaaallly busy. Hans – yes, yes, the twin brother to Greta from Cinders, that’s the one — decided in Life&Death that he fancies Dita (short for Aphrodita whom you might remember from Goddesses: The Bet) and now they have a book of their own. I’m trying to recapture some of the hilarity from Charm, so Dita will be anti-relationship and Hans will be 100% sure she wants him.

/…/ ‘Can’t stand the sight of blood, huh? Even fake blood?’ Dita asked, looking at the man Hans was now arranging in Savasana, the corpse pose.
‘It’s not fake blood. Are you going to help or what?’ Hans asked and looked straight at her.
‘Not fake? Wait? He really is hurt?’ Dita gasped. ‘What happened?’
‘If we won’t start his heart, he’s going to die, that’s what’s going to happen. Pump or breathe?’
‘Breathe,’ Dita said, kneeling. There go her pristine white jeans.
Hans started pumping his colleague’s chest, but on the wrong side.
‘The heart is on the other side, you idiot,’ Dita sneered. ‘Left. You need to pump left. Let me…’ /…/

Liked it? Snippet from Love&Money. Just sayin.

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As for other WIPs, I’m happy to report that:

To Find a Queen for Twice Upon a Name (out April 2023) was submitted to the set managers on time and I’ve read all the other stories and they are AMAZING!;
To Steal A Kiss for Enchanted Flames (out June 2023) is still with betas;
To Catch A Thief for Three Time’s the Name (out summer 2024) is also a first draft;
Book #4 in the Goddesses Saga – Fire & Ice – I’ll get back to it in the summer;

So… erm… you can see from the above why re-vamping Someone To Watch Over Me has taken a bit of a backseat this fall. And winter. And probably also in spring. Heck, I think I’ll get around to it in the summer.

Soooo…. that’s me and my works in progress. Oh, and since Mellie makes an appearance in Life&Death and guess where she’ll be… then besides reading a ton of books on Nutckracker, I also got a few Wonderland books for Christmas. It’s research. I swear. Every damn day.

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WIP = Works in Progress = In the works (Sept 2022)

marek.sokk — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:02:00 +0000

The first book – #1 Charm & Mayhem: The Goddess of Fate – is not even out yet (Oct 4th), but Life & Death: The Goddess of Light is underway. And it even has a publication date – February 8, 2023. Yes, I write multiple books (and short stories) at the same time. Yes, it takes discipline, planning, agreeing with editors as well as periodically panicking, beating my head against the wall and glugging copious amounts of wine. Hemingway was right – you have to drink something, but I usually write my 1k words in the morning and with coffee. But I digress. I’m happy to report I have at least 2(!) ARC readers who are eagerly anticipating Victor & Ellie’s story in Life&Death. In case you didn’t get enough of them in Ash: Crooked Fates. Ellie was a little cagey and snipey there, but she warmed to our arrogant dark angel in the end. So, I decided to write their love story. If you’re thinking mushy-squeezy, nu-uh. Per aspera ad astra and all that. I’ll give you a sample from today’s morning batch, since I’ve reached 30k on the first draft and I’m sure it’s a book not a short story that will cap itself at 20k. I don’t know how it’ll all end, but – spoiler alert! – I do know the magic shoes are going to make a reappearance.

/…/ ‘I’m not going to feed you blood like Yumiko, though,’ Ellie told the boots. ‘Is there anything else you… eat?’

The shoes glimmered once.

‘Blood?’ Marina squealed and stared at Ellie’s feet.

Ellie shrugged. ‘It just occurred to me they might need some juice to work on. You know, like batteries?’

‘And blood is like batteries?’ Marina shook her head. ‘Curiouser and curiouser.’

‘Maybe they run on anything they consider a fair exchange?’ Ellie suggested.

The boots flashed once. /…/

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If you think that’s the only thing in the works, well, don’t laugh, but…

To Find a Queen for Twice Upon a Name (out April 2023) is in first draft stage;
To Catch A Thief for Three Time’s the Name (out summer 2024) is also a first draft;
To Steal A Kiss for Enchanted Flames (out June 2023) is with a few betas;
Book #4 in the Goddesses Saga – Fire & Ice – started manifesting before book #3 Love & Money; so am writing snippets of that;
Agreed to co-write a retelling of The Nutcracker with Astrid V.J. – this will be so much fun – we have a historical timeline and ideas how we’ll write and what about and what it all means and we might have gotten a liiiiitle bit carried away with ourselves coz… oh, but I’ll tell you later;
So… erm… you can see from the above why re-vamping Someone To Watch Over Me has taken a bit of a backseat this fall. I’ll get back to it as soon as I get Death out the door aka to its developmental editor.

Soooo…. that’s me and my works in progress. Oh, and Mellie still wants a book of her own about Wonderland and I’m inclined to acquiesce to her request.

Stay tuned.

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WIPs and update (January 2023)

WIP = Works in Progress = In the works (Sept 2022)