Emily Veinglory

-1: I was told about someone file sharing Broken Sword
+1: The file sharing site pulled the file within an hour.
-1: A suit I ordered from China arrived. It was meant to be UK14/USA12, which I am by a safe margin. However it arrived with a jacket one size too small and the skirt at least two sizes too small for me.
+ 1: Samhain sent me a birthday card. Several publishers have sent me Xmas cards but this is my first birthday card. :)

I will call the day a draw.

I am almost 36, the age both Marilyn Monroe and James Dean died. I suppose it is now officially too late for me to become very, very famous and then immortalise myself by dying while still gorgeous.

Is it venal to talk about money? I like to have goals. My current goal is to get my average (over 6 month periods) online earnings up over $500. It currently lurks around $300. Because there are only so many books I can write I want some other avenues to contribute. Here is the baseline, up to the end of May.

The book income should have a spike around July/August with two more books due from Loose Id and one from Samhain. They entered the pipeline at rather different times (about a year apart) but fate has contrived to pop them out the other end around the same time.

I need one of these

The cover gods, and Croco Designs, be praised.

Labels: The Nameless God

Of course, I probably would write that. Except I think it's been done.

I am busy on the edits for The Nameless God. In the meantime here is the new way I am going to graph my online earnings. Just the monthly dollar figure but divided by three income sources, books, photos and advertising. Currently the latter two are pretty low but I will be working on that and the graph helps me track progress.

Labels: The Nameless God

One of the books I am meant to be working on is an urban fantasy called 'The Goldiamond Paradox'. One of the more annoying characters is this cat. She's as mad as she looks and also magical.

Labels: The Goldiamond Paradox

The Nameless God seems to have the potential to slip into a very early publishing slot at Loose Id, so it may be coming out by the end of July. It does need not only copy editing but modifications to some scenes--so hitting the early slot will depend partly on me getting the edits done promptly. This story is a particular favorite of mine so I look forward to seeing it released.

I am also finally starting to get the website how I want it. If any of you get a chance could you please go to the main page and look the the bottom of the right column. Is the blog display widget displaying correctly for you? I like the idea of giving a blog preview on the index page but I worry about the widget being slow loading or nor working on all browsers....

Labels: The Nameless God

I have my first book-specific page on my website, for the upcoming print release of Father of Dragons. It's a bit dull so far. I could sure use some reader's comments to put in the right side column. If you have read Father of dragons and have one or two sentences to say about it that I can use please post them! Or better yet, a picture of you reading the book :)

Thanks to Sandi for the pic.

TITLE: A Heart in Shadows [Maewyn's Prophecy 4] by Emily
Veinglory
PRICE: $4.99
CATEGORY: Erotica
LENGTH: 31248 words; Reading time: 89-124 minutes
EPUBLISHER: Loose Id, LLC Published: 2007
DESCRIPTION: Dark visions plague Giffen, and when he meets a beautiful young incubus of uncertain motivations, he grows even more troubled.
It doesn't help that...


TITLE: A Heart Aflame [Maewyn's Prophecy 3] by Emily Veinglory
PRICE: $4.99
CATEGORY: Erotica
LENGTH: 30370 words; Reading time: 86-121 minutes
EPUBLISHER: Loose Id, LLC Published: 2006
DESCRIPTION: Aussie thug Archer contributed two things to the world: being a loyal soldier of the elf-queen, and loving the polished,
civilized elf Roman. But his...

Labels: a heart aflame, a heart in shadows

I am getting a little addicted to watching the progress of EarthRace, a biodiesel boat going for a round-the-world record. It doesn't hurt that the guys are cute. Check out the latest clip (all clips are just a few minutes long). Just click the top left link for a list of clips. The top one is asking for sponsors and the next one down in the latest update (with a nice shirtless shot of the captain. Okay, I guess he's taken, but I'm just lookin')

Just in case any of you missed it, I want to make it clear. Father of Dragons is not a sequel to King of Dragons, King of Men. KODKOM is a stand alone, sorry. There will be a sequel for Father of Dragons called Lover of Ghosts. But it isn't listed at Samhain because I haven't written it yet. So any similarities between my current paperback releases relate solely to my fondness for high fantasy and unimaginative titles....

Labels: father of dragons, KODKOM

I have my lovely author's copies of Father of Dragons. You to can be a proud owner of a copy on June 24th. You could, or course, preorder a copy now.

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Journey's End with be available from Torquere Press until some time this month. Although its sales have been low-ish, Fictionwise ratings suggest this book still has some potential. So I have identified a reputable e-publisher that would entertain the idea of publishing it as a reprint. If you read Journey's End and have any comments about what I might do to revise and improve it, please let me know.

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A quick sketch for those of you waiting for me to finish 'Lover fo Ghosts' the sequel to 'Father of Dragons'. As you can see, Drinia remains something of a vexation for Xeras.

Labels: father of dragons, lover of ghosts

I came across the following in a Starbucks bathroom. It is impossible to know for sure, but it looked like it had been there for a while. I suppose the wide-eyed cartoon makes it seem non-threatening or ironic. Perhaps the staff don't recognise that 'yif' refers to sexual activity, but 'fag' and 'hell' mean what they always have.

Labels: poetry

When I made the book list for my website I realised that in previous years I have been quite prolific. Things have changed and I do not quite have the same amount of time to devote to writing. But I am always writing something and various works are making their way through the process. There are normally some brief notes about this to be found on my webage. Works that are in the process of being written are mentioned in the right column, works that are being edited and are approaching release are mentioned at the bottom of the page.

Currently Wolfkin (werewolf, MM, high fantasy, novella) is fully edited and has its cover, and it is scheduled to come out with Samhain soon. The Nameless God (magical, MM, high fantasy, novel) is unofficially accepted by Loose Id. I have sent in the contract but not received the countersigned copy quite yet. I have the blurb and cover forms but haven't submitted them yet. That is very much on the 'to do' list (i.e. should have already been done by now). I have also finished writing the short story The Swan Prince which will be assembled with three other stories and sent to Aspen Mountain Press as a proposed sequel to the ebook Shifting Perspectives (shape shifter, MM, anthology).

What I am writing right this very day is a short story called Foolish Potions to be submitted to Freya's Bower for the anthology Dreams & Desires #3 and a novel called Freelance (sci fi, MM) whichwill probably be submitted to Loose Id. And I have not forgotten about the many sequels I need to get going on. Also in a weird break for me I am starting to make some progress on my long-shelved urban fantasy (not MM at all) the Goldiamond Paradox.

In sadder news Broken Sword has gone out of print with Torquere and next month Journey's End will follow. Broken Sword was my first novel and might be due to be retired. However I will be looking for a new home for Journey's End.

You may notice that I am experimenting with some advertising. My reasoning is that if I am going to continue pledging royalties from upcoming books to charitable causes it would be helpful if my website supported itself (financially speaking). So far the ads provided by Project Wonderful have been inoffensive and often for quite suitable products. So if you are interested in them then by all mean have a look. The ad spaces are clearly labelled to make sure you don't mistake them as relating to one of my own books. If you think the advertising is annoying or affects page loading times please do let me know as I am not wedded to the idea of continuing with it--although I am reasonably happy with the idea so far.

Yes, it is the Eighties on the stick, from the ruched dress and power hair to the dry ice and somersaulting man-titty. But it is still pretty damn glorious, if you ask me.

I think I finally settled on a format for the book page of my website that is reasonably clear and looks okay. There are still a few stories not listed but most of them are up. Any feedback would be appreciated. Is there anything 'off', any other information or links that I should add?

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