Etched In Silver, Camille, & Birthdays

So, tomorrow is the release of Etched in Silver—the stand alone e-novella that first came out in the Inked anthology. Etched in Silver tells the story of when Camille and Trillian first met, long before the girls ever came over to Earthside, and explains their relationship and how it started out.We’re releasing it as an e-special so that the people who don’t normally buy anthologies would have the chance to buy it, and there are a couple of extras in it—the first two chapters of Shaded Vision, plus a little something I wrote a few years back. A very few of you may have seen it, in its first incarnation,but for the most part, most of you haven’t.

I love writing about Camille and her men. Weaving one woman’s life into three men’s lives—especially supernatural men—is a complex task, and I fully enjoy watching how the relationship meshes and changes as time goes on. I must admit, it pisses me off when people call Camille a whore—in my world, polyamory is absolutely acceptable and the morals of most humans don’t apply to the Fae.To me, a ‘whore’ is someone who doesn’t care who s/he sleeps with, who has sex for money, and who approaches the act, not with love, but with a business sense. And quite frankly, if that’s what someone chooses to do, then I have no qualms with them, either. But Camille—Camille loves her men, she loves sex, is highly sexual, and she’s happy being Smoky, Trillian, and Morio’s wife. For her, the ‘one-and-only’ concept doesn’t fit—and neither does the picket fence,minivan, and 2.5 kids average. While I have one husband, and pretty much plan on it staying that way, I understand Camille on a gut level. She and I are a lot alike, and I love being able to let her turn her sensuality loose with the men she trusts.

Next month, Shaded Vision releases—I’m so hoping to see sales go over the top, especially the first week. And I admit, I’d love to see a climb back onto the NYT print list (meaning the top 1-20 books). It’s harder to get there now, with the split in e-sales and print sales, but I can hope. ~laughs~ After Courting Darkness, you can expect a little more humor in this book—it is a Delilah book, after all, but the stakes are getting higher for the sisters and the storyline is going to remain tense.However, you’ll also get to see Iris’s wedding—which I had a blast writing—and this month and next month in the Moon Daughters Web Comic, Jayelle and I are exploring the wedding in ways I couldn’t fit into the book. So be sure to follow the comic, too.

So, back to work. I’m writing Shadow Rising, right now and am on a tight deadline. After this I write book 14—Haunted Moon, Camille’s fifth book.AMAZING that I’m going to be starting book 13 in the series in about six weeks!I am so grateful to all of you readers who keep me in business…thank you for buying the books and taking the sisters—and Cicely from the Indigo Court Series—into your hearts.

Next Tuesday is my birthday. I’ll be celebrating with good friends and good food (albeit, mostly low-carb), and I’m seeing this birthday in happier,healthier, and lighter than I have in a long, long time.

So Bright Blessings. And by next week, I’ll be adding one more year on the ‘age bracket’ scale, but ya know, that’s okay!

Yasmine