(A Barred Owl photo I took several years ago at camp.)
Last night, I signed a contract with Harmony Ink, the YA imprint of Dreamspinner Press, for my novel, Owl. So where the heck did this come from?
Well, I published some YA a while ago under a different name back in the Torquere days. I enjoy writing books with younger characters sometimes, and the idea for Owl came one day when I was thinking about shifters other than dragon, and the characters that sprang to life in my head were young. One is just graduating high school, the other is nineteen. I feel like this story will fit in with my general body of work, so rather than try to resurrect my now defunct YA pen name, I decided to publish Owl here. My books have always been all over the heat spectrum from BDSM in Winter and Webs to fairly hot in Another Healing to milder in Notice. Obviously, Owl will be on the mild side in terms of sex, but the plot is intense and I think the characters are engaging. So it will say YA in the description, but it’s the kind of book that I would enjoy reading as a adult. I hope you all will, too.
Anyway, Owl is about an owl shifter who gets banished from his clan and trapped in his owl form. He survives on his own for three years, and he’s close to losing his humanity and sinking completely into owlness, when he meets a young human man with troubles of his own…
I haven’t forgotten about Wings Over Water, the next in the Notice Series, don’t fear. My editor said it needed a bit of rethinking (which is the polite way of phrasing this) so it’s getting a major overhaul. I am very close to dumping it back on her lap for the next round of edits. So I will definitely be self-publishing it at some point hopefully in the not so distant future. It’s getting better all the time. Stay tuned…
And further down the road, I’m going to put together another volume of my out-of-print novellas. This one will include The Glass Man, Ice, and Webs. I think. It’s only just starting to take shape. I really feel an urge to get my older pieces back out there, now that I’m getting the hang of self-publishing after Notice and Flights of Dragons. I think I’ll just keep working slowly at it.
And I’m working on a brand new novel called Windkind, which is pure Fantasy in a whole new universe. It’s pretty cool. I’m about half way through the rough draft.
So that’s where I’m at as we move through spring, which has been cold and rainy and good for being inside and writing!