Heya Kittens! Since my real life is boring as the summer winds down, I thought y’all might prefer a sneak peek at my current work-in-progress (aka the thing I’m escaping into lately). It’s a a true gothic romance set in late-Victorian England, and the heroine is an American heiress doing the husband-hunting tour. And sheContinue reading “WIP: The Adventuress and Her Monsters”
Category Archives: Works-in-Progress
Taming Plot Bunnies and Getting It Done
One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2019 was to be more productive and disciplined in my fiction writing. I’d spent the last three months of 2018 finishing a project that I’d been working on sporadically for years and ignoring everything else, and that had taught me that I actually produce more and better storyContinue reading “Taming Plot Bunnies and Getting It Done”
The Viking and the Witch – Chapter Seven
Two days into the voyage, the girl fell ill from her wounds. By late afternoon, she had fallen into a delirious stupor, and by nightfall, she was completely unconscious. Asmund’s men said nothing, but he caught them exchanging glances. He knew they hadn’t forgotten Stian’s warning that Maeve was a witch. If she had beenContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter Seven”
The Viking and the Witch: Chapter 6
Once again, Asmund woke up alone. He had dreamed he was with his father, walking through a lush, green wood in spring. He couldn’t remember what they had talked about, but he woke with a deep sense of relief, as if some great conflict between them had been settled at last. But he was alone.Continue reading “The Viking and the Witch: Chapter 6”
WIP: The Devil Makes Three
Just to prove I am still writing things – a snippet from the work-in-progress, a Southern gothic horror novel. Who likes a haunted house? The “he” is Jacob McGuinness, a rich and famous Irish horror writer. The place is an abandoned plantation house that’s been abandoned since a mass murder took place there in theContinue reading “WIP: The Devil Makes Three”
The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 4
Asmund woke up naked and alone. He opened his eyes to a patch of blue sky through a hole in the roof of a tiny hut. He could hear the roar of the sea and the screams of gulls and ravens. He felt hot but not feverish; someone had covered him with blankets heContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 4”
The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 3
Maeve had walked the path from her home village to the place on the beach where she had built her hut at least a hundred times. She couldn’t possibly get lost. But this time, she seemed to be walking for hours, and she was still in the woods. She couldn’t even hear the ocean inContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 3”
The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 1
So here lately, most of what I’ve been writing and publishing has not been historical romance. But y’all know me; I can’t just give it up. So I’ve been working sporadically on an old school paranormal just for my own amusement, and it occurs to me that y’all might want to see it, too. AllContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 1”
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Comma
You know how to write a great story, but you still need to fix the damned commas!
In defense of “Write What You Know”
In a recent writers roundtable over at comic and fiction writer Sean H. Taylor’s blog (Bad Girls, Good Guys and Two-Fisted Action, and if you’re not reading it, you’re missing out), we talked about the best and worst advice we’ve ever received as writers. More than half of us piled on the hate for thatContinue reading “In defense of “Write What You Know””
Lucy Blue Writes 