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by Chautona Havig · 6 Comments

Inspirations.

Thought I’d give an update on where I am and what I am writing about these days.

Here We Come-  I was stunned at the sales for Here We Come.  They were much higher than I expected.  I’m not sure why, but I kind of thought I’d sell fewer of them, but I think I sold more than I sold of Ready or Not.  It was weird.  However, I wanted to thank everyone, while I have the floor here, for all the encouraging words that I received from it.  I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to get an email or Facebook message that says, “Hey, I just finished this book and I loved it!  I can’t wait to see what you come up with next.”  It just gives me that extra boost to keep writing faster, stay focused, and do an even better job so my editor doesn’t want to quit.  😉

Everard- I know, you keep hearing about him but where is he?  He’s coming!  I promise.  Seriously.  For some reason I had a drag out with him in March.  I’d planned to finish it by then and just couldn’t.  I needed a break.  So, he and Sassy got set aside and I moved along to a new and exciting project (stop laughing at me).

Valle de Morado–  No, this isn’t the title of the book.  It’s the title of a SERIES of books that I’ve gotten pretty much planned out now.  Ten of ’em.  Yep.  Ten.  The series follows a family in California from 1841-1941.  I am so excited about this series that I am a bit giddy.  I have also been driving my friends crazy asking all kinds of questions about WWII, Napa Valley, the Battle of San Jacinto, and snow on grapes.  Yes.  It’s all related.  It is going to take FOREVER to write all these books.  We all know me and my ADD issues.  It will be impossible for me to just write ten books about the same thing, knock ’em out, and move onto the next subject.  I’ll have a dozen other books going at the same time.  So, because of the length of this series, I won’t be publishing any of them until the last one is written.  I just am not going to do that.  Then I can put them on a 4 month schedule and voila.  Not too far between them but not so close that it becomes a financial burden.  Oh, and go ahead and laugh at me and my historical series.  Apparently my distaste for it doesn’t extend to me writing ’em if the fancy strikes.  Snort.  The first book, Casa de Sueños (house of dreams–and no, I am not channeling my inner Anne Shirley), is actually complete.  Can you believe it?  Not bad at all!  I hope to finish at least one more this year, but two would be GREAT.

Webster’s Bakery-  This will be this year’s “Camp WriMo”  I plan to write it this June.  It’s not going to be an easy write, but I think it’s time that this story is told.  I’m already plotting the timeline and getting the outline fleshed out.  I have great expectations for this book.

Legends of the Vengeance-  Book two is August’s Camp WriMo story.  I can’t wait to get back to Sebastian, Jaime, and the angst-riddled Nicolo and see if they can figure out that piracy is not their only option (Sorry, Mr. Ferrars.  It really isn’t.).  Once the third book is half finished, I’ll publish the first!

As you can see… I’ve got a full plate.  Back to writing!  Oh, and I really think Adric (Thirty Days Hath…) should be out by June as well.  One for the kids, one for the moms… life is good, no?

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  1. Rebekah says

    April 18, 2012 at 10:42 am

    Your comments are turned off on your last two posts… not sure if that was on purpose or not.

    Great post today! As of yet, I haven’t gone very far in the Publishing step… just editing. But the others are I can completely relate to. Especially plodding. Sometimes I want to jump so often from story to story, to poem, to story that I never get anything *finished*! :p

    Oh! and your Valle de Morado series covers 100 years? Wow! Sounds like a neat series though! 🙂

    To the KING be all the glory!
    Rebekah

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    • Chautona says

      April 18, 2012 at 3:15 pm

      Thanks! I fixed it. Why am I always forgetting to turn those things on!

      Reply
  2. Mary says

    April 16, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    Wow, you do have a full plate. Excellent. Keep writing, and great meeting you. 🙂

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  3. barbara says

    April 16, 2012 at 10:55 am

    nice update…looking forward to Webster

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  4. Rebekah says

    April 16, 2012 at 10:12 am

    I always enjoy hearing about your writing! I love the Legends of the Vengeance story… by the way, your “Camp WriMo” links weren’t there. It was a “page not found” problem. 🙂

    I do think my jaw dropped when I read about Valle de Morado! Ten books?! Wow!!! How do you know it will be that long? Do you have an outline for each book already?

    Oh! and by the way… I tagged you over at my blog. I don’t know if you do tags or not, but somehow this one made me think of you. I won’t be upset if you don’t do it though. 😀

    To the KING be all the glory!
    Rebekah

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    • Chautona says

      April 16, 2012 at 11:48 am

      I don’t know how scientific it is, but ten books happened because I knew the year it started (and back to the pre-start) as well as the year I wanted it to end. With that ending, there was pretty much a 100 year span. So, then I started looking at how I could break up 100 years and well, more than 10 years or so apart in the books seemed like huge leaps. So, I checked out the California history timeline and what do you know… there’s something pretty big in general or CA history about every 10 years– something interesting to keep the family growing, moving forward, and working to that final scene that I am just dying to write!

      Off to check out your blog!

      Reply

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