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The first draft of my first Berkley Heat book, WHEN SPARKS FLY (which, okay, might not be the final title at all). I always feel a little numb after finishing a book, like my brain can't process it. I keep opening the file, picking at it, and then just staring at it again, trying to think of little things to improve.
Eventually, it'll sink in!
Right now, it's 82,000 words. Which FEELS short, but that's actually a good starting point. Stephen King says in ON WRITING that he always subtracts 10% in his second draft - I'm the opposite. I always add 10% (or more). I'm guessing this book will end up right at 95k, which is a nice rounded length. It's also the sexiest and most risque of anything I've written. I tried to push boundaries a little, but I have no idea if I succeeded. We shall see!
I'm going to take the day off from the book tomorrow and work on my side project just to mentally separate from the book itself, and then print out and begin the second draft the day after, I think.
Also, the fourth Succubus Diaries book has been on my mind constantly in the past few days. I had a plot, but I thought up a better one, and I'm ditching the old in favor of the new. I'm not gonna lie - I'm totally excited to write this book. I don't have room in my schedule to start it earlier, but...I might anyhow. (shhh. our secret.) Anyhow, if I *do* start it, I might post the first chapter in a few days. Maybe!
I wanted something more playful and island-y to go with the theme of the book. Like it? 
Wooo! Finally!
SLAVE TO HER DESIRES is now up on Kindle, Nook, and All Romance Ebooks. Also available on Kindle & ARe is a discounted bundle of SLAVE, FOREPLAY, and ZANE'S TALE that I am calling 'The Succubundle'. (See what I did there?) So if you haven't bought the other two Succubus Diaries stories on your Kindle, you can buy the bundle at a discount.
It's not up on Smashwords yet, so if you are international, you will need to buy on ARe (or wait patiently for a week or two while I upload to Smashwords).
Whee! I love SLAVE TO HER DESIRES, and I hope you like it too. If you're thinking about trying the Succubus Diaries series, but aren't sure if you'll like it, STHD doesn't require that you read the series to enjoy it - it stands alone. If you ARE a fan of the series, well, there's a hint or two about what Noah's been up to in there. I'm just saying. 
Hopefully this will serve as a little filler until Succubus Diaries #4 hits the virtual shelves.
Here's the blurb for it:
Immortality is not always a blessing. Turned into a succubus against her will, Olivia Rhodes has lived the past 120 years as a slave to her cruel and vindictive vampire master. She’s escaped him, but he’s closing in fast. Her only hope? The fallen angel that abandoned her when she was turned, David Thornton.
But David’s not the cold-hearted monster she’s always thought he was…nor did he abandon her. And when Olivia’s hatred of David turns to desire, will her need for revenge against her vampire master destroy the one beautiful thing in her life, or will she find a way to make David love her despite the creature she’s become?
This novella (34,000 words), features a succubus enslaved to her needs, a sleeping beauty, and some explosive sex on a monastery floor.
(Note: While this novella is set in the world of the Succubus Diaries, it is not necessary to read the series to enjoy the novella.)
EXCERPT:
“I didn’t know that he was cursed,” I said softly, then looked up at Noah. “So how would I lift this curse if I wanted to?”
Noah gave me a wry look. “You could try the old fashioned way.”
A kiss to wake up a sleeping prince, like in the fairy tales. My stomach churned at the thought. I’d known that I’d have to sleep with David to survive – my succubus instincts had accepted that part of the bargain – but for some reason, a kiss was…personal. Romantic. Tied to emotions that I couldn’t possibly feel. I didn’t want to kiss the man I’d just spent the last century hating. To make matters worse, I wasn’t even sure that my hate was justified. I brushed my fingertips over his cool face again, thinking hard. Did I want to wake David up? What would I say to him? I wanted to hold onto my anger, but what…what if he woke up and it was totally unfounded?
Who was I if I wasn’t bitter with hatred for both of my masters?
I shook my head. This was stupid. It was just a damn kiss. I leaned in and slid my hands under his neck, pulling his face toward mine and pressing my mouth against his. His lips were cool, unyielding against mine, but the feel of them evoked a strong surge of emotion in me that I didn’t like. I stroked my tongue into his mouth, parting his lips with my questing. Like it or not, I needed David, and his being cursed was a damn nuisance and an even bigger pain in the ass than I’d anticipated.
And he tasted better than I remembered, too. That was galling. Perhaps it was just my succubus curse, which was due to drive me insane within hours. Perhaps it was something to do with the Serim themselves, but his mouth was sweet under my own, and as I brushed my tongue against his, I felt a spike of desire.
I had to kiss the bastard. I hadn’t expected to like it. Disgusted with myself, I dropped his head. It thunked back against the pallet and made a hard noise that my disgruntled psyche found oddly pleasing. And I watched him, waiting.
Sure enough, David’s jaw moved slightly, then flexed in a yawn, and as I watched, his eyes fluttered open.
God, he was beautiful.
God, I hated him.
God, I was so, so confused.
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After finally getting a few hours to do so, I've uploaded MIRRORLIGHT, ISLAND HEAT and WICKED GAMES to All Romance Ebooks. If you're international, this is another outlet you can easily buy books at. As usual, I am totally DRM free.
http://www.allromanceebooks.com/
No SLAVE TO HER DESIRES yet, but it should be up in a few days. I'll keep you guys posted. In the meantime, I'm going to be doing some website maintenance for a few days, so if you see stuff shuffled around or looking strange, you know why!
Cover art!
I'm bound and determined to have the book up by the end of next week for sure. What do you think?
I’ve been sitting on this for a few weeks, trying to figure out the best way to put this out there. Bear with me while I try to get my bearings straight. Let's see if I can recap this without totally confusing everyone.
A few people have noticed that my next book is up on Amazon. Yay! A few people have also noticed that there's a different author name on it.
Yup. For multiple reasons – some of them including branding, and some of them including sales, I’m going to be writing additional books for Pocket under a different name and not Jill Myles. It’s not my intention to be coy or deceitful or try to make you all think that I’m leaving my Jill Myles stuff behind – not at all! Mostly it’s about differentiating the two series in the minds of readers and buyers. I hope that makes sense.
I’m sure this brings up additional questions as well, like…will you continue to write as Jill Myles? Yup, I will! I will continue to self-publish under Jill Myles. I’m going to have a Succubus Diaries novella up by the middle of April, as long as edits on it don’t eat my brain.
And remember that Jessica Clare pen name for the contemporaries? Yeah, I’m writing under that too.
Isn’t this a whole hell of a lot of names to remember? Yes, yes it is. So I’m going to try and make it as easy on you as possible. I’m putting together a newsletter that you can subscribe to so you don’t have to keep track of it. I’ll only email you when I have a release, so it won’t be a constant spam-fest. Best of all, if you sign up for my newsletter, I’ll give you a coupon for a free download of one of my Smashwords books.
This brings me to the 800 pound gorilla in the room. When is Succubus Diaries #4 coming out?
Well. Pocket has declined a 4th book in the series. The sales just aren’t there. I could try and make it pretty and say that it’s because of e-books, or pirates, or distributors not carrying my books, or me not advertising it enough, or the Mayan Prophecies, or something. That it’s not me. The truth of the matter is…the sales just aren’t there for Pocket to carry a 4th Mass Market Paperback of a series that is not performing. It IS me, to an extent. Maybe it’s the economy, or something in the water, but there will not be a 4th Succubus Diaries book from Pocket. It is what it is, and I’m not unhappy at Pocket for making a business decision. I’ve seen the numbers.
However, that doesn’t mean it won’t come out. I intend on self-publishing it and releasing it to fans on Kindle/Nook/Smashwords/All Romance Ebooks. If I can squeeze the book in the schedule this year between everything else I’m contracted to write, I will do my darndest to get it out by the end of the year. It might not happen, but it is a big priority to me, because I want fans to have that 4th book that answers what happens with Jackie, the angels, Noah, and that little promise Jackie made to a demon…
There’s still a lot of story I want to cover in that world. I’m committed to continuing to write stories in it, as long as the audience is there. I just won’t be going through a traditional publisher to do so (unless someone comes out of the blue and offers me something!).
But I wanted to let you guys know what is going on. So, to recap.
Jill Myles = That other chick.
New Name and Website of Shiny!
Succubus Diaries #4 will be self-published and is a priority for me, but I don’t have a firm release time-frame.
I’m making a newsletter so you don’t have to remember all these names, just me.
Please feel free to ask questions if you have them – I might not have explained something correctly. It’s all perfect in my head, but what is in my head and what comes out on paper is not always the same thing.
Whew! STHD clocks in at exactly 30k in the rough draft, and almost 100 pages. It's got some messy parts, so I need to do a read-through and some fixes before moving to the next round. But I'm happy with it! For the most part. I always hate the first draft, but I'm just pleased that it's done.
This hit Publisher's Marketplace a little earlier today, and I wanted to share it here.
Jill Myles writing as Jessica Clare's WHEN SPARKS FLY, in which a woman seeks romantic revenge on the boy-next-door turned hockey hunk who did her wrong in high school, until they reunite and she finds herself caring more about the romance than the revenge, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Heat, in a two book deal, by Holly Root at Waxman Literary Agency (World English).
I'm really excited about these books! The first one is already half written, so look for it to come out summer of next year. These books are contemporary romances, and, unlike my paranormals, are told from third person POV. So it's a bit of a change for me, but it's still fun, sexy romances. The Berkley Heat line publishes Jaci Burton and Lauren Dane, so I'm going to be in good company!
This IS a trade paperback line, though, so just be warned that the format is going to be a little different than the normal mass market paperbacks. Jessica Clare is going to be my steamy contemporary name, and I'll continue to post updates here so you don't have to follow a jillion websites to figure out when my books come out.
You might be wondering what this book is about? Both of the sold books are set in a small town in South Texas called Bluebonnet. In the first one, Miranda Hill is the local librarian, with a naughty, unjustly deserved reputation for being the town slut. It's left her with a few hangups, you see, and she can't get past the moment that her reputation was destroyed. So when the man that destroyed it returns to town, she decides to get her revenge on him...but finds herself falling for him instead.
It's a LOT of fun and I'm so excited to write these!!
