Category: On Writing

So Camp starts next week. AJ’s planning on Editing for the whole month. We’ve decided that we will share with you starting in July the rewrite of the Power of Succession. It was a short book around 40K when last shared, now it’s about 58K which is better. The story is more fluid and things follow the right path.

The rewrite takes into consideration the fact that the Magical book was stole in the prior book where it was not actually mentioned (one of the fixes AJ needs to make)

This is an important fact going forward.

The other thing it doesn’t take into consideration is the fact that Jace is my bully and Venatori as this was a change AJ is making while she editted the first 3 chapters of the Call of the Dragon.

It still feels weird calling it that. It’s been the Last Phoenix since forever. But it fits better with the third book’s events where I actually rise from the dead!!! instead of the name of the clan. We will probably be changing that clan name. So if you have any suggestions on what a cool Dragon Clan name would be I’m all ears.

So coming July we’ll see book posts. in August we’ll see what I offer you if I offer you anything in addition to the story. My goal is to provide something. So we’ll see.

First things that comes to mind is Johnny Deep’s Captain Sparrow “Stop shooting at my ship!” Or was it stop blowing holes in my ship. Either way cannon.

The second thought was things that were canon in my world that might not actually be known yet.

Did you know Isabel actually remembered her first life and falling in love with Ant. She’s pissed at him because he didn’t recognize her right out of the gate. But in his defense he thought I was his soul mate and he had resigned himself to being alone for my life time. Which now turns out to be a very long time. But that was just another soul connection.

And now that we are souls here is our latest theory on soul energy. Or at least MY soul energy. Energy is neither destroyed or created it only is. It can change forms but split from it’s original form and reused in separate peices equally or unequally.

So the running theory, let me know if I’ve already posted this but it’s kinda a big peice of what’s coming next so it’s on my mind a lot – so it’s possible I’ve already said it once.

Alex and I are soul mates, sharing 1/2 of a soul that was originally together and soul energy is drawn together, the more of it the more powerful the draw – thus you get soul mates.

And we all know Ant, Alex and I share a soul. Which is why Ant was drawn to me and I to him and Alex tolerates vampires – specifically Ant because of that connection. So the triumvirate is 1/3 of a soul energy in each of us.

So that leaves 1/6 of my soul unclaimed (and 1/6 of Alex’s soul). So AJ has this theory that those other size pieces (we are going to split them equally to form a hexad). These six souls form another powerful union if I can find all six. So AJ decided that no matter how much Alex and I fight, we are bound by our entire souls together. He is one of the hexad.

AJ hasn’t decided 100% that Ant is part of it yet. He might be, giving him that extra soul mate draw makes sense. Why he thought the way he did when we met.

So there are 4 other souls to be bound to me. Two of them have already come to me – Alec Moretti, Master Vampire of the Domination Bloodline. Alec came to me freely and willingly because he felt something inside of me. Neither he nor I know about this connection yet, but it is the reason he swore his oath of loyatly to me.

And the second is Darwynn. Who also easily and freely swore his oath to me. That’s vampire and werewolf.

AJ says the other two need to be Venatori and Dragon. AJ’s got all sorts of ideas about who in my life can fill this need. We can introduce new characters, or she can be evil and put in some people we don’t really like…. aka Jace (who is Venatori in the series despite his current human origins in the series – one of the changes coming in the edits. And Margo who is a dragon.

Or do we go off and find two new people to bond with. The search for the two could be fun. It’s actually part of this next arc as this hexad is going to save New York City to some extent.

It’s that time of year again where AJ enters the annual Summer Writing Contest at The Write Practice. So I’m going to be a pompous ass and tell you a bit about it.

It’s all about me – of course!

AJ’s taking a different perspective and writing it Third Person PoV so you won’t get my usual rambling – and I’m five so there is that.

But AJ’s looking for beta readers. Sorry Alpha has already been passed – we are on draft two officially, but it’s technically draft three since AJ has already written the scene once before – but this one is a little different.

A few facts change and I like them. A lot.

So if you are interested in reading leave your email in the comments or shoot me an email at nox.durante@gmail.com and I’ll sent the link on over to you.

It will be posted here after the entry is published with all the other contest entries.

So you will eventually get it here, but right now AJ’s looking for feedback!