Wednesday greetings, everyone. It’s been a strange Spring in my neck of the woods. Colder than usual, and then when the temps heat up, they really heat up, and it’s like being in the middle of summer. These swings in temperature have been going on for the past decade here in the Midwest. However, not the longer periods of colder weather.
But no complaints! Given what is happening elsewhere, in this country, and all over the world. Mother Nature is on the rampage. The energy changes happening on the sun continue to ramp up Mother Earth’s force, fueling weather extremes and more superstorms. Likely this will get bigger and badder as we head toward 2012. No time like the present to prepare and strap yourself in for one humongous bumpy ride.
So, no, this wasn’t the topic I had in mind for today. Lots going on in my writerly universe. However, that news is suited to THE ROMANCE STUDIO BLUE blog. Suffice it to say, I have a new release coming out in August 2011. Right now, I’m in the cover art phase.
My latest WIP is a shapeshifter novella based on the ongoing story a group of us authors have been penning at SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS. Talbot’s Peak is a town in Montana taken over by a werewolf pack, but is fast becoming a haven for all manner of shapeshifters, witches, goddesses and gods, the fae, time travelers, extraterrestrials, many other paranormal beings, and the humans who love them, or just lust after them.
I’ve been sharing as I complete each chapter. So, here ya go.
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*Unedited Six Sentence* progress...
White Fang, Ace Reporter
Chapter One ~ White Fang Kent
Talbot’s Peak, Montana
White Fang Kent seated himself before the used desktop computer he’d picked up in town, not four hours ago. As an instant upgrade, he slid a formless silicon device into the USB port. Brought from his home planet, some four light years away, the adaptive technology did his bidding.
With urgency eating at his gut, he positioned his chair, then removed the specialized pair of eyeglasses he often wore while in public. They helped disguise the odd intensity of his eyes and changed the blue coloring to a shade Earth humans didn’t question him about.
In no time, White Fang scanned the online version of the town’s newspaper that had recently been taken over by a werewolf pack.
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Chapter Two ~ Z’Pasha of Dendera
Z’Pasha stepped back into the concealment of the shadow she had created. Prepared to swiftly transport herself with magick, she observed the Super Wolf leap over the deck rail.
After quickly looking around, he focused like a hunting dog on a trail. Because he would remain unaware of her existence, Z’Pasha watched him flash inside the ethers. With her feline-superior gaze, she followed the streaming lines of his frequency.
Once the lines dimmed, she dissolved her shadow.
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Chapter Three ~ Truth, Justice and the Shapeshifter Way
White Fang Kent sniffed the odor-laden air inside Talbot Peak’s courtroom. An unfamiliar, yet enchanting and sultry fragrance kissed his nostrils. If he didn’t know better, he would have said there was a goddess present. However, the magickal ancient ones rarely left their mist-shrouded enclaves for any length of time.
Even though, White Fang wanted to hunt farther down that luscious trail, the current situation demanded his complete focus. Besides, he would have recognized the pungent feline scent, now assaulting his nose, beneath a pile of New York City’s garbage.
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Chapter Four ~ Drinks With a Renegade Werewolf
“Pasha.” Smiling with an allure she knew most men responded to, Z’Pasha introduced herself to Dante.
She offered her hand in the current-day, American manner to the werewolf biker. Earlier, Z’Pasha had singled him out as the alpha in charge of the rough-tough bar hidden away in the depths of the forest surrounding Talbot’s Peak.
He rose with careless gallantry from the barstool he’d occupied since she’d entered, about an hour ago. Dante clasped her hand, his gaze enigmatic and disconcertingly direct.
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Chapter Five ~ A Story With Bite
White Fang stealthily moved behind a row of tall prickly bushes. Werewolf musk hung in the night air as heavy as his own balls. That is, ever since he’d first caught a whiff of the potent mating odor.
Hidden by deep shadow, White Fang halted next to the roughhewn lodge. He’d discovered the place inside an isolated forest clearing. By simple observation, he’d found out it was a local alpha hangout for bikers, and any shifter who was wolf enough to bloody his fangs, and ride with the top dogs.
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Chapter Six ~ Shere Khan’s Dishonorable Ninjas
A whirling wind heralded dawn, and blew through Z’Pasha. Once Earth’s breath intermingled with her essence, she knew she had achieved her desired diaphanous state.
Z’Pasha retained the full use of her magickal skills as she would while fully materialized, yet she could also travel as the wind. Aware Shere Khan possessed a similar sorcery due to his disciplined practice of the esoteric knowing, Z’Pasha sent breeze-like tendrils to act as her alarm.
While the Yakuza leader’s ninjas were advanced in the art of fighting astrally, they did not match his abilities, as Z’Pasha had discovered. She considered Shere Khan a dangerous enemy.
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Chapter Seven ~ Interview with the Biker Alpha
White Fang followed Dante through the bar’s rudimentary kitchen. The Biker Alpha halted, opening a storage room door.
Instead, they stepped onto a carpeted platform, and White Fang held his tongue as they moved down a wide, newly installed stairway at a brisk pace. Once they walked along a spacious corridor, atmospherically lit with gaslights, he estimated they were a good twenty-five feet below ground.
Dante stopped before a door at odds with the nineteenth century setting. It could have come from a medieval castle, and White Fang’s brows raised as he read the ornate sign: There Be Shapeshifters of Every Kind. Beware of Fangs, Claws and Tails.
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Happy Romance Reading in the Month of May...
Savanna
Savanna Kougar
~ Run on the Wild Side of Romance ~
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Savanna Kougar is a bestselling ebook author with Siren-BookStrand Publishing. She is also a print author with Siren-BookStrand and MojoCastle Press, and an ebook author with Liquid Silver Books, Aspen Mountain Press and MojoCastle Press. She writes love stories because that’s her deepest heart. She writes in the futuristic/fantasy/paranormal subgenres because that’s her fiercest passion. You can find her at her personal blog ~ Kougar Kisses ~ and at the following blogs as a contributor.
SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS
HAPPILY EVER AFTER
LINDSAY’S ROMANTICS
Romance Writer’s Behaving Badly
TITLE MAGIC
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