Yeah, the votes and views on both new stories pretty much came to a dead halt about 10 last night.  Well, somebody took the time out of their evening to 1-bomb Queen 4 times, but otherwise… *rolleyes*

So, I put them in the queue at SOL a few minutes ago.  If you’re from SOL and feel like tossing me a bone, follow the links a couple of posts back and drop a vote on the contest stories at Lit.  Even though I’m not eligible to win this round because I won on Earth Day, it’s still nice to have a solid vote total in contests to survive the sweeps with the 25 votes to qualify.

Queen of the Isle really needs the help.  It’s sitting with 15, and those last 4 will get swept away for sure.  They’re way too obvious as pattern voting, and the system will surely chew them up.  That leaves me 14 votes to make up to get to qualifying range.

And I like that story so much *sigh*  Let’s see if it was just bad placement in the new list, or the crappy limits at Lit for synopsis that hurt it.  If it tanks at SOL, then I know it’s just not nearly as sweet and fun as I think it is, I guess.

Having another “blah” night.  I wrote a quick transition scene plus the beginning of another for SOTM 17, but I just can’t seem to get over the hump of a little bit of narrative to get to the upcoming sex scene.  I may try jumping ahead to that in a little bit and see if that works, coming back to fill in the gap later.

Otherwise, I added a couple of quips to that potential LST3K.  The boy is just too wound up tonight for me to get in the flow.  I’ll put my brain on SOTM muse mode tomorrow and see if I can’t get psyched up.

Still waiting on the edits for the two stories I have finished.  Once those are back, I’ll put them in the queue once activity on the two that are already out trickles down.

Don’t forget about Queen of the Isle and Ride No More.  If you haven’t read them, please do 🙂  Queen is especially struggling for some reason that I can’t fathom.  If the voting doesn’t pick up on that one, it’s not even going to qualify for the contest that I can’t win *laugh*

I’ll probably post Queen and Ride to SOL once the feedback begins to trickle down from the two stories that are in editing right now.  I want to make sure to give the contest stories at least some exclusive time on Lit for the contest.  Then the other two will go up there when the feedback trickles down from the first two.

Trying to spread the good vibes from reader feedback out for as long as I can 😀

EDIT A LITTLE LATER:  The young one went to bed not long after I hit submit on this.  I almost finished that narrative, so within a few lines, I’ll be up to the steamy part of the chapter.  That and the closer is going to round this one out.  Maybe I’ll be able to get this chapter in the can within a day or two.  Up to 7900 words.

Queen of the Isle

Ride No More

Go read, vote, and comment 😀

Covers are linked in my previous blog post.

Two new stories going live at midnight for the Summer Lovin’ Contest.

You can check out the cover for Queen of the Isle (NSFW!) as Darkniciad and Ride No More as Les Lumens here.

I’ll add them to the temporary covers page in a minute or two, and post again with the links to the two stories after midnight when they go live.

Only managed to get another 400 or so words written on SOTM 17 today, but I did a lot of musing on the upcoming scenes at work.  Weekend is coming up, so I’m hoping to have the opportunity for a flurry of writing like I did last week.  That could very well put this chapter close to, if not completely done.

Finished my cold read of Kindred, and alerted ML that it’s ready for hacking and slashing.  Got back Ride from Roust, and it’s in the queue at Lit for the contest.

Off to relax for a bit, then I’ll probably write a little more — either on SOTM or a third-pen name story that I started.  Depends upon which one is singing to me.