Author Christine d’Abo

This picture makes me giggle.

I can’t believe today is December 1st. I’m shocked in a way, like a university student coming off of a weekend bender. I barely know who or where I am and what I should be doing. I’ve noticed I do in fact have a family and that they are somewhat pleased to see me.

I also apparently have most of a book done. I have one chapter left to write, which I’m about to work on after I post. I’m really happy with Taber and Fallon and I thought I’d share a snippet of what I wrote while I was neglecting you all. This is an unedited first draft, so be gentle.

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“Oh lord, call me Fallon. I’m a bartender, not an officer. I’d be more than happy to show you and Mr. Taber where I found Nate.

She was about to turn when the alien spoke.

“It’s just Taber.”

She’d done her best to try and ignore the seven foot tall giant standing in front of her. And until he’d spoken, she might have been able to manage it, pretending he was nothing more than a moving wall. But there was something about his voice, the way he said his name that made her really look at him.

He was by far the most attractive man she’d ever seen. His eyes were dark blue, so dark they almost looked black if it weren’t for the crystal blue flecks near the center. They were eyes that showed intelligence, sadness and strength. His black hair was cut short along the sides of his head, with the top a bit longer. She could tell by the way he stood, wide and confident, that he was military.

His muscular, wide shoulders were barely contained in his midnight blue tunic. The belt around his waist that held his tunic in place would have wrapped around hers three or four times. And his legs were clad in snug fitting pants. She assumed it gave him free and easy movement for when he had to chase down the bad guys. It also gave her an amazing view of the massive muscles of his thighs.

What would it be like to have a man like that in her bed?

Somehow Fallon brought her eyes back up to his face and managed to smile. It took a lot to make her blush, but for a moment she thought she might be as red as Tony. The thoughts of what he could do to her body with his large hands and wide, full lips made her shiver. When she tried to speak again, nothing wanted to come out. Her heart was starting to increase in rhythm and there was sudden stirring in her lower belly. He seemed to notice her dilemma and cocked a single eyebrow at her in question.

“We found his body back here,” Lance piped up and made his way over to the back supply room.

Thank you, Lance.

Fallon followed quickly behind her co-worker, trying desperately to ignore her long forgotten sex drive. Lord, she was pathetic if it only took the thought of a large cock to get her tongue tied.

Hello my friends. I promise I will be a better blogger and blog friend soon. Taber’s story should be done this weekend! NaNo has been fantastic and I’ve managed to write  62k in the past month and have been really excited about the end result. That said, it has taken a lot out of me in more ways than I can count. So once I get Taber done I’m taking a short break from writing so I can concentrate on other things, like all of you!

I have company visiting this weekend and then I’m going to a conference on Monday and Tuesday for my day job. I’m looking forward to the change of pace. What are you up to?

Hello everyone! I’m taking it easy this morning and let myself sleep in a bit later than normal. I’m about to hit my writing for the day and am getting anxious to finish up Taber’s story. I really want to go back and re-read what I have down on paper LOL! That’s the one problem with NaNo - no time to look back.

Today I’m posting over at The Romance Studio’s blog about Chasing Phoenix and secret identities. I’d love for you to stop over and tell me what you think of them!

And I also wanted to have a quick shout out for my friend Red Garnier’s new book The Sheeman from Loose ID. This book sounds so hot, I can’t wait to get my little fingers on it.

I managed to somehow drag my tired butt out of bed this morning (stayed up late to watch a nail biter Patriots game), and managed to get the last 1,500 words I needed to cross the 50,000 word mark for NaNo!! I was doing the happy dance all alone on my couch.

That means that The Bond That Consumes Us is sitting at 56,787 words and I’m getting close to the end of my first draft. My goal is to cross the 60k mark by the end of the week and then go back and try to plug up all the holes I’m sure are there. I’d love to have this story sitting at around 70k.

I’ve also managed to get my edits for Wizard’s Thief out the door and need to finish up my edits for The Bond That Heals Us. I know there are a lot of people out there anxious to read Sara’s story.

How was your weekend?

Still working on my NaNo this weekend. I have to do some editing first though…I’ll keep you posted.

I’m so close now I can taste it! After this morning’s writing session I’m sitting at 45,073 words done for NaNo. I plan on plunking my butt down this weekend and wrapping NaNo up, even if it’s not quite the end of the story. I’m going to try and push through at this writing pace until the end of November, but it will be nice to know that I’ve reached my goal.

I’m also super excited to say that Chasing Phoenix, my EC Quickie that will be coming out December 14th has made it to the coming soon pages! I don’t know why I haven’t been checking to see when it was going to be up, but it’s there! And I love the cover. I’m hoping to get a copy of it today, so I’ll post it for you as soon as I do. If you just can’t wait, check out the Coming Soon pages for a sneak peek!

This weekend I only plan on cleaning my house and writing. Oh and buying new snow boots for my daughter. She’s grown…again…

What are you up to??

Eek!! I haven’t had a lot of time to write the past little while. I have managed to write 10,000 over the past week, but I’m still behind where I wanted to be. I currently have 39,375 words written for NaNo. I’ll be able to hit 40,000 tonight easily, but I was hoping to be closer to the end by now.

I’m at that point in my story where I’m not entirely sure where I want it to go. I could start to wrap things up and move it into the final act, but I’m not at the word count where I want to be doing that yet. I think I’m going to have to throw in at least one more dead body to make this work, maybe even go back a chapter or two and add some stuff in. And to make matters worse, I still haven’t worked out all the bugs for my heroine’s internal conflict.

Isn’t NaNo fun!!

I’ll keep pushing forward and hope I can fix everything up when I hit the other side. At least I know the second draft will be interesting.

My day job has been keeping me pretty busy these days. I’m finding I’m gettng very tired when I come home at night, so it makes writing a challenge. I’m trying not to push myself too much, but it’s in my nature. I’ll be able to have a bit of a rest once December comes. Then we’ll be in to Christmas fun and my last vacation of the year will be on me. I think I’ll be taking a break from everything that week- even writing. Well…we’ll see.

How is everyone making out?

First off I want to thank everyone who came by the Naughty’s chat yesterday, and also thank the Naughties for having us. What an incredible time! I bought a hot new book from December Quinn and Anna J Evans, called As The Lady Wishes. I can’t wait to read it tonight.

Needless to say, I didn’t get much writing done yesterday. Between the chat and working on my edits for The Bond That Heals Us, poor Taber had to wait until this morning. The good news is I managed to write 1787 words this morning and am moving into the third act of the story. I’m still struggling a bit with Fallon’s internal conflict, but I’ll clean it up when I do my second draft.

This puts my NaNo total at 37,603. I’m really hoping I can hit 40,000 in the next day or two. Depending on how I’m doing with my edits on Heals, I might try to sneak in some more writing after supper.

How was your weekend?

I got scared yesterday as I was working on The Bond That Consumes Us for NaNo. I finished chapter nine and was about to work on ten when I realized I had no “issues” for my heroine. It didn’t hit me until Taber asked her a simple question and I had her running out of the room. Why, why would she react that way.

And then her entire backstory hit me. Now normally I’m one for planning out my characters intensly. For some reason I didn’t do this with Fallon. But that’s okay because Taber saved my baccon by asking a simple question, “Why the hell are you out in space as a bartender when you clearly don’t want to be there.” Okay he didn’t actually say that, but it was along those lines.

So I now know that why and will be able to work it in to the rest of the story. The good news is it will be easy enough to add in elements into the parts I’ve already written and it will really help with the ending of the story.

*does the happy dance*

I managed to write 5100 words yesterday, bringing me to a total of 35,583 for NaNo. I’m hoping to get more done today before our chat session with the Naughty Authors. If you are free, you should stop by and say hello!

I’m hungry. That’s my big relevation this morning. I’m hungry. I guess that means I should get up and eat.

It was a bit harder to get out of bed this morning. Not because I didn’t want to write, but because I wanted to keep dreaming. Taber is everywhere these days…

So up I got. I have also just received the beginning edits for my Jewel of the Nile novella, The Wizard’s Thief. That means I’ll be working on new material in the morning, and doing edits on Thief when I get home from work. Thankfully, my husband had gotten huge chunks of our stuff put away already, so I don’t feel too guilty writing instead of cleaning.

On another note, Red Garnier has a new release today. You all need to run over to Ellora’s Cave and pick up Spin Some More. OMG this book rocked. Hot, hot, hot!! Jason is getting his dues this time with the devil - and boy does he get them. If you’ve read her other Devilish Games books, you really don’t want to miss this.

Go…buy!