"It's been a LOOOOOOOOng Time!

Yes, it's been over 7 years since last I wrote here.  I lost my publisher in 2009 due to the Managing editor having gotten stressed out taking care of her surly curmudgeon of a father, and her husband being afraid that she'd have an MS episode had her close the site down.  Compulsive writer that I am, I kept on writing, then Kira Cattan, dear generous soul that she is, turned me on to her publisher, Crimson Frost Books, out of British Columbia, Canada.  I friended the Managing Editor Patricia Bates, and sent her some of my manuscripts, all of which she accepted, I've signed 4 contracts, and the rest was history.  The first book to come out will be Palulukon, sometime early in '16.  The title is subject to change.  I'm not very good at coming up with engaging titles, so I'm trusting Patricia to come up with a title that will grab the attention of the reading public.  Stay tuned to this bat-channel for more developments.

Palulukon was my 2013 project for NaNoWriMo.  It's about a young widow to moves back with her 2 kids to her hometown of Flagstaff, AZ, and there is a dangerous monster killing people who abuse water.  It's from a Hopi legend about the underground guardians of water, a precious resource in desert-like Arizona. Janet WhiteDeer has a reunion with her high school sweetheart, who decides that he wants to rekindle the magic they had in high school.  But soon she meets the dashing geologist, and cannot decide which beau she prefers.  Will they stop the killings in the area by the monster and will Janet choose between her two suitors?

The other three books that I signed contracts for are: Takuhi's Dream,  Blood of her Fathers, and Nibiru I.  Takuhi's Dream was published as a Young Adult back in '08, but when FireDrake's Weyr folded in '09, the rights reverted to me, and I put all the steamy bits back into the manuscript.  Takuhi Maimun has just returned from a harrowing mission where only she and one other on her XT team survived.  She has been having nightmares of a monster that has been following her halfway around the Human part of the Galaxy.  Two men are also following her from planet to planet.  What are their intentions, and will she ever come to terms with her subconscious, roiling as it is with half-seen half heard visions of a being she cannot face?

Blood of her Fathersis about a young Wiccan who is forced into the family business of vampire hunting when her best friends are slain by aa bloodthirsty vampire hunting in the City by the Bay.  Will she conquer the vampire and discover the secret the police detective is hiding about himself, when she starts to realize that she is serious about him, as he is about her?

Nibiru I (there is also a II)  is about three young women who are taken across the dimensions, and to a planet on the other side of the Sun from Earth, where Christianity never develops.  Feelings develop between the 3 young women and their "abductors."  But trouble is brewing on their home planet.  radical evangelical Christians discover a whole new population for them to convert, namely their adoptive planet, and plan to invade.  Will the Nibiruans  be able to fend off these hostile invaders in time and will the 6 get together in the end?

To sum it all up, a lot of exciting things are happening.  My publisher suggested 2 posts per week, so will keep you posted on my progress.It seems kind of funny to me that while most people compile bucket lists of places they want to  go and things they want to do, my bucket list is full of books I want to write in the 20 or 30 years left in this incarnation.