I'm published!!!!!

*runs around screaming* Yes! I am that excited. *chuckle* Now to wait for someone to say yay or girl, sit your azz down somewhere and stop the story telling. *lol*

Don't worry.  I have NOT quit my day job.

*feet tapping with excitement*

Soooooooo…

I am sitting here on pins and needles.  I just uploaded my first story to Kindle Publishing.  Elyrian Brides: Octavia by Sunshine Taylor Reddick.  *shaking my head in wonder*

I can’t believe it.  The pen name is a nod to my father, maternal grandfather (love that man who I never met), and my mother.  I like it and it suits me.

So now I sit and wait to see if anyone is interested in what I have to say.  It would be nice if at least one person liked the story.  It is part of a series of stories that I’ve been working on for over a decade.

I know, a decade! *chuckle*  It all started one day when I was watching a talk show.  There were men and women from each skin color represented.  They were all discussing why they didn’t date their own skin color.  I think that is the weirdest craziest thing in the world but I digress.

Anyway, when they got to the black man...I don’t even remember what he said.  I just remember how sad he made me feel with his words.  I turned away from the tv and started to write a story about a world where black women are adored.  That is where I came up with the idea for these stories.

It is such a hateful world out there.  It seems like so much of it is directed at women right now.  There are so many books worshipping every other woman on the planet.  Black romance novels are just that, black romances.  I thought it would be nice if someone put us on a pedestal or at least tried.

I really like these stories and characters.  I just wish I was a writer.  *chuckle* I am not a writer.  I am a story teller.  I love telling stories and dreaming them up.  I just wish my writing skills were better. *sighs*  If wishes were money…

Anyhoodles, may the Lord God grant me a receptive audience and my own little niche…or big niche.  I’m not choosy.  I’ll take a cottage industry like Tyler Perry’s to quote Time Magazine.  *cheesy smile*

The argument continues...

My muse and I are still going over just how many more scenes are left to this story. *sighs* I don't know why I am even bothering.  It is not like my muse will leave me be until the story is completed they way he/she wants it. *eye rolls*

The argument is an exercise in futility.  To that end, Chapter 16 of TTOC.

Me and my muse.

Me and my muse are having a disagreement.  I say there are 3 scenes left in TTOC.  My muse says there’s more.  Pray for me.

New Projects

So, I've been kicking around this idea in my head for the past 10 days or so. I'm skeptical about it because it is a horror story and I just don't normally do them.  I've only done one and that was in high school for Lit class. I got an A on it.  My teacher liked the surprise ending. I was surprised she was surprised. *chuckle* Then, I usually can figure out where a story is going long before it gets to the end.  I stopped reading mysteries because the last one I read, I figured out who the murderer was by page 50 and I had a few hundred pages left to read. And it was a very good story.  It was even made into a movie. *chuckle* That's just the way my mind has always worked.

Still *shrug* my muse doesn't normally go in for that kind of stuff.

I thought it was just one of those ideas that swirl around my head for a moment and then disappears after awhile.  Then I saw how the story ends and realized, it could be my sort of thing after all. *chuckle* Now to figure out when, where and how it starts. I already know the why and a few of the who.

For the record, there is nothing wrong with Horror stories. I love a good scary story. Scary, not necessarily gory. I am a Stephen King stan! *chuckle* Though I haven't read any of his recent stuff. I've been too busy working on my own stuff.

Maybe when I get a few more of these stories out of my head, I'll have time to put some other people's stories into my head.

To that end here is Chapter 15 of TTOC.

Chapter 14 TTOC

Well, looky me. I'm back with chapter 14. I'm kind of in a hurry to finish this up now. I have another project or rather projects I'd like to get busy on. So without further ado...

Chapter 13 TTOC

Happy New Year!  And new chapter! *chuckle*

Yeah, I know, whole year later and still ain't finished? It has been an interesting year though muse wise though. My mind and stories have opened up in ways I hadn't thought of before.

Here is to a productive new year!