IA News and More

I haven't posted in a long time, and the truth is because I've felt a recent lag in my writing. The block I've suffered from has spanned almost four months basically, but now I've got a new incentive and am feeling better since the start of my second trimester. I got the first edits back for Ivory's Addiction and my editor doesn't think it will need a second go-over! I'm so excited and can't wait to get the release date, which of course, has inspired me to work through my block. SO much is going on right now, though, it's hard for me to stay on course. Sean is leaving for NTC in a week and a half and I'm going to be heading up to PA for a baby shower. On top of all that, when he returns in September, he must go to Al for more training and then, block leave. November is on it's way and it's coming way too quickly. It will be a trying time for me, one as my own DH leaves for the mission he's been called to do with his unit, and two, as I will be pregnant with out child.

My writing and my animals will be all that I have to lean on until family comes for the birth, and truthfully, when he leaves, I'm useless for at least a week. I'm an emotional zombie incapable of putting two sentences together through all the tears. Anyhow, enough about me. Recently, a US soldier was captured in Afghanistan and I just pray he makes it home safely. If you love a service member, then you know the inherrent fear it strikes in your heart thinking it could have been yours. I'm sure God will take care of him.

Can't wait to reveal the release date for Ivory's Addiction. And I will be editing Axel's Obsession soon to go ahead and send it off. Hopefully Amira likes it as much as they do Ivory. Well, Luke's story is tentatively titled Loving Luke or could be Sarah's Submission. Not sure which direction I want to take with it.

The cats away and the mice will play...NOT

Sean is in the field for nine days, starting today. So, as you may guess, it will be a long night for me. I keep waiting for him to come home. Bah. I finally got to write again, though. And will probably be up all night for crits. Anyhow, I wanted to talk about The Distance. This poor story has gone through the wringer and back only to find out in the final stretch, it lost it's second wind. Damn, don't you hate when that happens? Well, I'm putting that story to bed. I've started chapter 14 on Axel, and am excited to start on Luke and Sara's story, which at themoment, it untitled.

Back to spending nine days alone, God, I pray the storms stop. It's one thing to be alone in the middle of nowhere, but something else entirely to be in the middle of nowhere on a dark, stormy ngiht...sounds like the beginning of a bad horror story. At least I've got Sean's 1911, now, if I can just cock the sucker I'll be good to go. Here's to hoping I don't need to use my home protection!

By the way, baby medeiros is giving me heartburn on top of all day morning sickness. I HATE being pregnant (so far).

I sit here alone tonight

As I sit here alone tonight as my hubby is out with his guy friends celebrating a troops 21st birthday, I'm thinking to myself what about me? Okay, so yeah, I'm pregnant, can't drink, probably shouldn't be up all night, but I want to have fun, too. So here's my question to you, is it wrong to feel left out on 'guys night out'. For a single moment in my mind, I'm thinking to myself, I'm pregnant, and these bars they are going to will be full of young, beautiful single women. now, not that I'm not young and pretty, but it was the pregnancy blip in my mind. Lol...I'm not upset at him for going, and I infact encourage him to. At least he'll have a good time. In the hours between though, I find myself with a dilemma: What do I do with all the extra time on my hands now? Watch my dog chase around the cats? Play with the gerbils? I've already updated my website and promoed my butt off for as much as I can do on a Thursday. I'm fresh out of brain cells having written 3k today. Movies are alright, but when I want to sit down and watch a movie, I've already seen everything on or I don't care for whatever they are showing .Okay, so I'm picky. Here's the romance part: This would make a great comical relief for one of my stories. The pregnant wife gets left behind in favor of beer and women. Sheesh. I feel so cliche at the moment. Then again, Sean always makes up for these moments with double the love. It's why I encourage him to go. Okay, so I'm playing the guilt card, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. Lol...I love my husband dearly, but sometimes men are just buttheads.

Axel, Ivory and The Distance

I finished up chapter seven of Axel's Obsession yesterday morning and happy to report I like where it's going. Now they have an excuse to leave the plantation home for three days straight! Oh, the joys of all the things I can do with that. Also, Axel is starting to suspect things aren't waht they seem and they haven't been for years. I've also introduced Shooter, who of course, will get his story as well.

As far as The Distance, I finished up the first new chapter this evening and I think it fits well with the story. It's kind of a funny meet-cute, and definitely has potential. Now I can actually work in the first date before the big blow out. I just hope Champagne likes it.

Also, got hte cover for Ivory's Addiction. Since it hasnt' been finalized, I'm not going to post it, but let me say this, it's HOT! I love it. I think the artist did a wondeful job of capturing the characters and their personalities just right. I hope it intrigues everyone as it does me. I can't stop looking at it, though, that could have something to do with my name being at the bottom.

Anyhow, that is all that I have to report. I was once again lured outdoors today for longer than I would have like, but tomorrow morning, over coffee, Axel and Jolene finally get the sex-a-thon I promised them. Hope it's as hot as I want it to be! Singe your brow scorching.

Making my own bookmarks

So, to cut down on costs of the all expensive promo stuff, I've decided to make my own bookmarks. No...wait. Let me go back. I don't want to always write about my writing. That's kind of boring. Let me start the day off as I started it off. I woke up, my husband, who is my alpha male, was very mad that I woke him up at 9 on his day off. Next, I sat down to write. I only got a couple thousands words out, but i finished the chapter while listening to Theory of a Dead Man "Bad Girlfriend." It's sorta of my anthem. Next, I went fishing at my little pond and cuaght four blue gill, however, I"m pretty sure there is an alligator and her babies living there. Okay, seriously, when you rent property, they should disclose there are gators in the pond.

Afterward, my husband and I went to Statesboro, of course, having to lock Ranger up, and I hate to do that. When we got to town, we went to Petsmart, my favorite place in the world. Do you know why? Chinchilla's! I've been wanting one for some time, but my husband says you have a dog, three cats and two gerbils. You cannot have a chinchilla. I, on the other hand, want two of every animal ever made, that way I can have my own ark. The problem is, I have only the same sex. Two boy gerbils, three female cats and a boy dog.

Then of course, we went to see Wolverine, which of course, begrudgedly I say I liked. Then onto Hobby Lobby. My friend Robyn said it's a great place to go, and I fell in love the moment I walked in. Whicker furniture, black wood and all kinds of crafts. My husband is an artist as well as soldier, so he didn't mind.

I picked up everything that I needed for my bookmarks, and I did a mock up tonight. It turned out alright. At least now I know what i have to do to make it look better. Anyhow, I thought I'd share with you a day in the life of Teirney. It's not too exciting, but hey, I like it.

IA has sold!

Amira Press offered me a contract for Ivory's Addiction, and I am so excited. I can't believe I actually did it. I sold my novel. I hope it holds up to the expectations of my family and of course, myself. I'm already working on Axel's Obsession, which is the next in the series and have planned out the next few characters and their ladies. I will hopefully get to post more soon, but I am afraid at the moment, I am sick. Been lethargic and sick to my stomach the last two days, so I have not done much. Darn sean. He jinxed me. LOL. Oh well. I will write more soon.

IA and it's journey

So, TWRP rejected IA based on the children being an essential part of the story. After my initial anger, I realized that the story as is may just not be right for their company. The Distance was requested in full by the Champagne line is now under review. I hope it goes well. After the initial sting of rejection and outrage, I submitted a query to another romantica press, Amira. I queried early in the morning, and received a full request for the entire manuscript that night. I've sent it this evening, and impatiently await to hear a response, lol. I hope they like it. I hope it's not too hot, and just right for them. I don't use that bad of language, :) Anyhow, I'll keep you updated.

Oh, and we have a dog. His name is Ranger. he's a Weimaraner puppy. So cute and adorable, but very mischevious. His favorite delicacy is rocks. Yes, I said right. He eats rocks. All the Time.

The Reason for my absence

Sean and I are getting ready to PCS to Fort Stewart GA in two days. We have recently bought a new car, and I've been out driving. Seriously, I make up things to do so I can drive the car. I am proud to say I have finished Ivory's Addiction (the first draft) However, it will be a day or two before I can start my first round of edits. I've been busy, busy, busy with moving. I've been given the joy of travelling with all three cats in my car. Should be fun, but at least I am used to driving that way. Lol..I've done it many a time. I've joined a writing marathon where you try to complete a book in a month, and I've decided after the first couple days of the move, I will start on Axel's Obsession, trying to juggle that with moving, editing IA and sending out query letters, I'm boing to be a busy little bee. Oh well, it's what I love most about my life. It's never dull.

Maybe I should back up a little...

So, I realized though I've told you about who I am today, I have not revealed how I have become who I am. This may take a while...

When I was twelve, my older step-sister's first boyfriend broke her heart. When she told me, I thought to myself, well, maybe I can create her an alternative ending and bring a smile to her face. So, I wrote my first story ever, giving my sister the ending she would have liked.

This is when my obsession began. In highschool, my creative writing teacher, who will be first and foremost the one person I will always remember for her nuturing and postive attitude toward my writing skills. She said to me, I believe someday I will see you in print. And the seed blossomed.

Why Romance?

Because, it is in, my opinion, the only thing worth writing about. When God created man, why did he create us? To love him. From the day of our conception, we are born of a mother's love. We are introduced to love from the very beginning. So why not write about it? Let me explain a little further. Why love?

Love is the essence of life. It is the one emotion in this world we cannot do without. I'm not a liberal, I don't believe love can solve problems, but I do believe love can introduce solutions. I know from personal experience, even the strongest man or woman can fall victim to love, and be better for it, stronger for it.

My husband and I spent our first year of marriage apart, he in Iraq and me in Kosovo.

Yes, I was military myself just a year ago.

A journalist, in fact.

However, this did not feed my soul. It is my passion for creating love stories, reading them and constructing characters deserving of it that grips me. I am a slave to my bleeding heart, or some might say, but in reality, if I can put my heart into one story, then I have done something right.

So, now that you know my short, but inspiring journey, I hope you understand where the emotion and love come from. I am simply a vessel for something to be said, through my written word. I absolutely love writing about love!

Monday Morning Blues

I had hoped to hear back from the WRP today, however, my inbox didn't bring me happy news. Still nothing. The waiting game sucks, but it's still early in the day. I may just get something yummy later, or even later this week.

So, I'm not one to put much faith in my horoscope, I mean, really, but I did get a career horoscope that said I should look over contracts carefully on Apr 10th or something like that. I admit along with not changing my nail polish since I got the first email from the senior editor, and it's all chipped and yucky, (I'm a bit superstious), it made me happy. Btw, I hate looking at chipped nail polish, it's black on top of that, and I like red better. The husband and I went out, and i wore all black, so I did my nails black. Phewy.

Heres a little secret about me: Don't laugh. Well, you can laugh, it's actually kind of silly...but when I'm writing the erotic scenes for Ivory's Addiction, I have to put on red lipstick. Don't ask, but something about the red lipstick screams BAD to me, and when trying to pound out a heartracing, getting down and dirty scene, I need some back up. I also have to listen to r and b music, because let's face it, rock and metal are good for Jax's internal monologue, but for getting busy, Usher, 112 and Ginuwine take the cake. They've got some good baby-making music. I guess you could call it getting into character!


Happy news: One of my bf's had a baby over the weekend. She was in labor for thirty hours and I cannot wait to see the little bundle of joy.

Future news: Sean and I are getting ready to PCS, and that means, permanent change of station, and we're headed to GA. I had a horrible nightmare last night we were put in this dingy housing and someone broke into our house, and I cut the guys head off, and do not ask me why, but once I did, the head told me I had to carry it around with me. So, I was looking for a ziplock bag to stick this shrinking head into (yes it got smaller and smaller) to freeze it. I held with the very tips of my fingers, and everytime I noticed blood on my nails I would drop it and the thing would freak out! I don't know...no more late night caps.

oh, the joys of being a military family.

I wonder what the head shrinker will say about that dream!

Oh, and I woke up this morning with pixe sleeping on my hair, pumpkin on my stomach, and snickers behind my legs. I was pinned. Don't you hate when that happens? I hated to disturb them, and they twitched their tales several times. Happy to report: They all fell back to sleep immediately.