Wolfman 2 teaser, 1st check in of Round 1!

So how'd I do with my goals the first few days?  Not so well.  I spent most of Monday and much of Tuesday on the networking promo stuff. That ding when I get new email is almost as bad as the phone ringing.  So, I'm going to turn it off except for a hour or so in the morning, around dinner time and before bed.

I did make some progress on my WIP, Wolfman 2.  If I'm going to make my deadline, I'm going to have to make up some lost hours the next few days.  It's really starting to rock along.  Right now I'm working some major conflicts.  Turns out Daniel has a sister!  Maces says she's cute.  Can you guess how Daniel feels about that?

Check back on Sunday to see how I did and more teasers on the plot.

Brannan's #1 post for ROW80: Goals

Normally I get things done one of two ways.
1 Most common: "Oh my God I have a deadline, holiday, whatever coming and I can't put it off any more."
2 Not nearly as often:  "It's that time of day, I'll do..."
3 Sporadic but consuming:  "No, I can't sleep now, I must write.  The voices, they won't leave me alone."

For A Round of Words, I'm going to try something different, more along the lines of #2.  So here are my goals
Write 1000 to 2000 words a day
Or
Spend 4 hours, writing, editing etc.
Plus an hour a day networking and advertising.
Plus once a week updating my website and blog.  Spend at least an hour  here.
Six days a week. Because this is my not just my life but my passion.

So why isn't it easier to get all that and more done?  If it's a passion shouldn't I be setting goals to get the house work done?  Ok, honest, I need help there too.  My big time eater?  Everyone else's great books.  I love to read, obsessively.  So that will be my reward for each goal I meet.
I'm off to get those words written.

Here's a link to others participating: A Round of Words in Eighty Days.

Viking Seduction 2: Blood Slave now available

Boytoy for a sexy blond vampire? No way. This cop has a job: find his daughter, hunt vamps...

Meet Dekker's sister and second in command, Segrun.  Former Viking sheildmaid, vampire, field commander of the Svardraken and all around sexy badass and her new boy toy, Detective Pasquale O'Grady.

Blurb:

I'm a cop. Homicide Detective Pasquale O'Grady. So believe me when I tell you, vampires took my daughter -- along with other missing collage kids. Real vampires, not the Goth wanna-be kind. I even know which one. But the bastard went and got himself dead before Icould track him down.

With my leads gone, my only hope is his killer. I knew convincing another bloodsucker to help me was a long shot. I hadn't counted on his sexy blonde sister who wants me in her bed. It's not that I have something against sex, hell, what man with a pulse would? And since my divorce, I haven't exactly been getting much action. But I'm too damn old to be some Viking Vampire's boytoy -- or worse, blood slave -- no matter how sexy.


Viking Seduction 2: Blood Hunter now at Changeling Press

Read an excerpt here

#1 on Torrid's top ten list!

The Wild One:  Eireann's Tale tops the best seller chart at Torrid Press!  I'm so excited.  I contracted this book before any of my Changeling titles giving it a special place in my heart.  I wrote it as a prequel to a larger, long multibook series.  Now that it's doing so well.  It's time to get that epic novel going.  There'll be more of Eireann and Fridgeir but the lead character switches to Eirik, High King of the Northlands.  Stay tuned for updates.

Posting at D. Renee Bagby's First Chapter blog

I will be sharing the first chapter of Soul Bound on D. Renee Bagby's First Chapter blog on Fri. the 19th.
You can read the first chapters of my other books there too along with a lot of other great reads.  It's a great site to get a taste of many different books.

Now at All Romance books And Fictionwise

Both Soul Bound and The Wild One: Eireann's tale are now available through All Romance books and Fictionwise.

All my Changeling Press releases are on sale until Nov 1, 2010 at Changeling Press.  Use the discount code "NoTricks2010"  

That includes my new book "Wolfman Apocalypse"  on sale as soon as it's Friday somewhere in the world.

"Captured by vicious wolfmen, I expected a quick death. Or a slow painful one. They had other ideas."

  Buy at Changeling Press

  Read an Excerpt

Wolfman Apocalypse coming soon

Coming soon from Changeling Press:  Wolfman Apocalypse.
  I know post apocaliptic stories are a dime a dozen.  This one starts just a few years into the fall of civilazation.  Check out the blurb.

"Life as we knew it pretty much ended with the lightning fast spread of the plague. The media called it Werewolf Syndrome. Women got sick, many died. They were the lucky ones. Men got sick, too, but those who didn't die... changed. A few immune men, like myself, joined the bands of refugees, scrounging for survival in the post apocalyptic devastation.
I lived in a fortified compound with a couple dozen women, a bunch of kids and two asshole straight guys. Sounds like a man's wet dream -- unless you happen to be the last gay man standing. At the time, risking my life scavenging in the city sounded like a fucking vacation.
I went out hunting supplies and found something else. Not a quick death, or even a slow, painful one at the hands of the beasts -- no such luck. Instead I find myself captive to the largest, most well organized gang of beast men ever. Their leader, Mace, wants more than just a generator -- he wants my body. Oddly, a certain part of me likes that idea. The other part –- the part with working survival instincts -- insists I get the hell out of dodge before my smart mouth gets the shit kicked out of me. Again. Tradeoffs..."

Buy here after Oct 29

Brannan

THE WILD ONE: EIREANN'S TALE

It's finally out!  The Wild One is forsale through Torrid Press.

THE WILD ONE: EIREANN'S TALE by Brannan Black
Genre: Fantasy
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-60313-868-0
Trade paperback ISBN:
Rating: Erotica - Controversial Eireann’s world shattered the day the Witch King destroyed her village in the Wild Isles. For her and her younger sister, the last few years have been a struggle to survive. Thinking marriage to a merchant from the mainland will help, she boards a ship which is captured by raiders. Worse, the raiders fall prey to Northmen, the most feared warriors ever known. And one of them wants her for his own. Fiery Eireann would rather fight and die than submit, even if he’s got a body to die for!

When the Northman, Fridgeir, first spots the red-haired vixen half-naked and tied to a post, his heart pounds with more than just battle lust. He must possess the wild woman, even if it means braving her teeth! Can he tame her and claim more than just her body for his own in a world filled with danger and death?

Read a excerpt or buy it here.

Happy Binary Day!

Join me over at Changeling Press to celebrate binary day,  10 01 10.  They are having a one day sale.  10% off every book as long as it's 10/01/10 some where in the world.  Use the code 100110.
While you are there, check out my books, Blood Slave and Soul Bound