A'mara Books Update - August 26

This week, at A'mara Books...

Best Laid Plans...

First of all – following on from last week’s post where I was in severe TMJ (temporomandibular joint – or “The Mouth Joint”) pain, this week, I ended up having a wisdom tooth extracted. At 45, this is the first adult tooth I’ve lost as until now, I’d kept all my wisdom teeth as well. I think that’s why I feel a certain amount of loss and sense of failure in losing one now. Strangely, I got more writing done on that day (Tuesday) than I did the following day…

Wednesday was crazy. First, we had our monthly trip to our two credit unions in order to pay bills (mostly online) this week. Then, we had to organize and orchestrate the collection and delivery of my new (to me) electric piano! (I have played since a young child – and haven’t had an instrument now for about five years.) I got to rest a short while as my husband had a doctor’s appointment. Finally, we spent a few hours at my brother-in-law’s house so all the cousins could play together. So, that day, I got almost nothing done.

The rest of the week, thankfully, went a lot better, so that I added…

Over 14,000 new words

What is really unusual though is that all those words went on exactly ONE story…

Learn of Magic

I am really loving this story, but as I worked on it, I started realizing that it was not going to want to close in only 25,000 words (It’s more than that now)… The Pandora’s Box on this one is open and it’s not going to fit within the Acting the Part set as I had initially planned. Rather, it’s going to end up being the first of the Courtship of Princess Shana set (probably a trilogy set into one book.) It may even end up taking place over two years 852-853 Terrenden Common Era (T.C.E.) I can definitely keep some hints towards it in the Acting the Part set, but the story of the Sacred Trio (to be introduced in Brighid’s Blood) will be continued in the Courtship of Princess Shana... So, tons of work on this one book – only to discover that it has to move!!!

Moving this story caused a knock-on complication – i.e. a gaping hold in the Acting the Part set. I already had a partly-developed plot for one of the novellas for this set, but now I need to construct a new one – probably from the very beginning as my existing under-developed novellas and bunnies don’t seem to fit what I need here. Fortunately, I still have some time to get these two up to speed, but with Birth of the Neví in full swing and only one other story between that and Acting the Part, I’m feeling the pressure right now. (And an anticipated trip out to the coast (and a local move) at some point – two times when I won’t have so much time for writing.)

Research points

The only thing that turned up this lackluster week was something interesting from the Sci Show about whether trigger warnings are effective. (Short answer: we don’t know.) Here is the link as it’s quite interesting.

Coming this week…

Six more chapters of Birth of the Neví for your reading pleasure – this includes the chapter that gets the trigger warning this week.

Hopefully, I can make serious progress on Janys’ story and make a good start on this new one – which I think is going to take place on the border of Kri’enden and Yezi’im, involving some sort of border skirmish…

Anyway...

That’s what’s been going on here at A’mara Books this week! I hope you manage to take a few minutes to immerse yourself in my world of Terrenden – which I’m so delighted to share with you!

Please catch up!

Rebound of Power is available at a digital store near you! It’s also still FREE – if you’re digital store has a price, try another! It’s also still available at Dbooks for free.

Friendship on Fire is available at a digital store near you for $2.99! It’s also still available at Dbooks for free – limited time only.

Courage to Trust is available at a digital store near you for $2.99! It’s also still available at Dbooks for free – limited time only.

Elect to Change is available at a digital store near you for $2.99! It’s also still available at Dbooks for free – limited time only.

Ocean of Empathy is available at a digital store near you for $2.99! It has not yet been released on Dbooks.

Don’t forget!

I’m still offering 1 Steem Basic Income share for any newbie (100 SP or less) who asks me a question which prompts an “Ask the Author” post! I’m thinking about putting these into a Dbooks ebook all its own, actually.

Image Credits:

Cover art based on image from Pexels – creative commons, no attribution required.
Shaze based on a katana from Pixabay – creative commons, no attribution required.
Shaze chapter ender from Wikipedia Commons – used within terms of license – sword adapted for use as a shaze.
Grass texture for maps from Pixabay

All maps/editing by myself on GIMP and Photoscape, both free programs.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any names or characters, businesses or places, events or incidents, are fictitious. Although the penalty of knowing me in real life is that you will influence the creation of my characters; any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.