First of all, huge thanks to Delilah for having me again. I always have a great time here.
I’ve been working for a while now on my goals for the next year (if you’re a writer and haven’t participated in Delilah’s Write 50 Books workshop, you should put it on your list now for next December!), and now am hoping that by the time you all read this, I will have finished fine-tuning them.
Before I could look ahead to what I want to accomplish in the next year, I had to go back to my plans for 2016 and see what I accomplished from last year’s goals list. 2016’s list was doable. I had built-in time for adjustments to the timeline, because something always crops up to mess with your plans, doesn’t it? Turns out even that wasn’t enough to make up for the things that cropped up in my world this past year. Nothing that other people don’t also have to deal with. Nothing that will change anyone else’s world but my own. But enough to really throw a wrench into my own aims for the year. So for the next year’s goals list, I built in a lot more time to handle the things I’ve been handling for more than half of this year, because they’re not going away any time soon.
Kinda makes me want to take it easier on my characters in the book I’m working on now. But I can’t do that. Their problems are different from my own, and sometimes life-threatening, so they don’t always get to look as far forward as I do. Sometimes they only get to look as far as how they’re going to get past the current obstacle or danger they’re facing. They might want to look farther into their futures, but life (or the villains!) keep throwing monkey wrenches into their plans. They usually reach a point where they can’t imagine making it past their current problem, let alone imagine a happy ending.
So. How many of you set goals or make resolutions for yourself for the new year? Anything you want to share? Or maybe just your method of setting achievable goals (or at least goals that don’t make you feel like a complete failure if you don’t quite make it)? Maybe the rest of us can pick up some pointers. And everyone who answers that by midnight on Dec. 31, 2016 will have their name entered into a drawing for an e-book of Hunting Medusa.
Hunting Medusa
One murderous mission. One killer case of PMS. Who said “the curse” was a myth?
Ever since the original Medusa ticked off Athena, her cursed daughters have been paying for that mistake. To this day, successive Medusas play cat and mouse with the Harvesters.
When Kallan Tassos tracks down the current Medusa, he expects to find a monster. Instead he finds a wary, beautiful woman, shielded by a complicated web of spells that foils his plans for a quick kill and retrieval of her protective amulet.
Andrea Rosakis expects the handsome Harvester to go for the kill. Instead, his attempt to take the amulet imprinted on her skin without harming her takes her completely by surprise. And ends with the two of them in a magical bind—together.
Though their attraction is combustible, her impending PMS (Pre Magical-Curse Syndrome) puts a real damper on any chance of a relationship. But Kallan isn’t the only Harvester tracking Andi, and they must cooperate to stay one step ahead of a ruthless killer before they can have any future, together or apart.
About the Author
Elizabeth Andrews has been a book lover since she was old enough to read. She read her copies of Little Women and the Little House series so many times, the books fell apart. As an adult, her book habit continues. She has a room overflowing with her literary collection right now, and still more spreading into other rooms. Almost as long as she’s been reading great stories, she’s been attempting to write her own. Thanks to a fifth grade teacher who started the class on creative writing, Elizabeth went from writing creative sentences to short stories and eventually full-length novels. Her father saved her poor, callused fingers from permanent damage when he brought home a used typewriter for her.
Elizabeth found her mother’s stash of romance novels as a teenager, and-though she loves horror-romance became her very favorite genre, making writing romances a natural progression. There are more than just a few manuscripts, however, tucked away in a filing cabinet that will never see the light of day.
Along with her enormous book stash, Elizabeth lives with her husband of more than twenty years and two young adult sons, though no one else in the house reads nearly as much as she does. When she’s not at work or buried in books or writing, there is a garden outside full of herbs, flowers and vegetables that requires occasional attention.
www.ElizabethAndrewsWrites.com
