Upon the Wings of Greater Things
The creative endeavours of Starla Huchton
Wow. So, the cover reveal for Maven was a HUGE success. Like OMG huge. I never expected the level of participation I got with that and the number of eyeballs that ogled my precious astounds me.
I figured since that went so well, why not have even more fun with this book? The squeaky wheels in my brain started turning and here’s what I came up with.
Today is the day!
I’ve been bouncing out of my chair for about a week now, overwhelmed, excited, terrified, humbled, grateful… so many things. But IT’S FINALLY HERE!
On May 4th, I put out a call to anyone that had a blog that might be interested in helping me reveal the cover for my upcoming release, MAVEN. I did this thinking I would get a handful of folks that would say yes, maybe, oh, ten, possibly a dozen. I sat back and waited. I saw my friends RT the request. I sent out a few emails to blogs I wanted to specifically target because of their audience (genre specific). But mostly I just crossed my fingers and hoped I wasn’t throwing a party no one would show up for.
And then… it got crazy.
I promised news on the availability of the first book in the Endure series, Maven, earlier this week, so here I am, back to tell you all about what’s going on.
After a few nibbles from the traditional publishing world (which was pretty exciting and frustrating and well, you know), I’ve decided to take the plunge and go full-bore into self-publishing the series.
So when can you expect this out in the world? Well, after embarking on another round of edits to make sure everything is as tight as it can be, I’ve set a date.
By now you’ve met both Lydia and Daniel (if not, follow the links to see those excerpts), so this week I’m giving you a taste of what brings them together as protagonists. I wasn’t kidding when I said I did a lot of research and that this book has a lot of science in it. It’s not all smutty prose, folks! I mean, it’s there, yeah, but there’s also PLOT. And the smut has a purpose. No, really. It does! Stop laughing!
Welcome back! Are you ready for another peek at Maven?
This week I’m giving you a selection that partially introduces you to our dashing hero, Daniel Brewer. There’s more to his story than what you’ll see here, obviously, but I think it’s a good place to show you what Lydia’s up against when she arrives on the DWRC Endure.
The book is written from dual perspectives. The story unfolds through both Lydia and Daniel, which presented some interesting challenges. I think it’s difficult for an author to really know if they’re writing the opposite gender properly, but this tale decided that’s how it needed to be written. Last week’s teaser was through her eyes. This week, you’ll see the world through his.
Welcome to my first ever Teaser Tuesday post!
I’ve decided to take the next three weeks and give you a little taste of the Sci-Fi Romance Endure series I’ve been obsessively slaving away at for months now. I’m a good chunk of the way through book 3, Progeny, as of this posting, but I can’t give you any of that until books 1 and 2, Maven and Nemesis, are out in the world. Hopefully, I’ll have some sort of timeline on their release very soon, but for now you can get a little taste of what’s coming.
If you’ve ever written anything remotely Science Fiction-related, you’ve probably done research. Personally, it wasn’t something I had ever really considered up until a few years ago. That was the beauty of primarily writing Fantasy: you can make it up and no one will question it (usually, there are outliers).
I’ve found Science Fiction to be an entirely different animal. I have to be honest here. I was never much into “hard” sci-fi, full of detailed explanations of tech and high level theories. I always preferred Fantasy’s “wave a wand and call it magic” approach, thus negating the need to explain why things happened (I’m not arguing rules of various magic systems here, just go with this for argument’s sake, okay?). This was one-hundred and fifty percent true for me… until I discovered Steampunk.
Wow.
So, okay, I didn’t really see this coming but…
I finished another book. Again, it wasn’t the project I’d intended. In fact, it wasn’t even on my radar.
Book 2 in the Endure series is now complete.
That’s right. Book 2. I’ve finally finished a sequel to something. [Read more…]
So, remember about two weeks ago when I said my goal was to finish three first drafts of novels this year?
Well, I’ve finished one.
It wasn’t the story I was planning on finishing first, but it’s one that’s been with me since I was in high school. I began writing this novel last year about this time, cranked out 68,000+ words, and set it aside as Master of Machines took hold of me and threw me back into the world of Antigone’s Wrath. When reviewing all the projects I started last year, this one called to me once again and I dove in and finished it up in about a week after my last blog post.
Lately I’ve been having a lot of conversations about what I’ll be doing in the next year. In doing so, it’s caused me to wonder if I’m not a little overambitious for everything I’ve got on my list of what’s getting done. I have multiple projects on three different creative fronts, another move, and all the other life things that go hand in hand with being a military spouse.
So many exciting things are coming this year, so I’ve decided to write up a little post telling you all a bit about them.