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Anna Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586874602251140200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523078946488110723.post-69144288375950377972014-11-19T06:05:00.002-08:002014-11-19T06:05:17.940-08:00Dance With The Devil - JD March on how everyone wants to be a cowboy...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That’s the likely publication date for the first <a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/taking-shield/about-taking-shield/" style="border: 0px; color: #584ca2; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Taking Shield</a> book, Gyrfalcon.</div>
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I am beyond excited. Ridiculously so! It feels real again, after the inevitable time of waiting in the editing queue. Well, I still am in the editing queue but soon, my pretties, soon.</div>
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I’m not entirely sure what to expect when the editing starts. The two short stories I’ve had professionally edited had very little changed. Commas, mostly. I think I over use them so I strike the wriggly little tadpoles down. The editor tuts at me and puts them back. I’ve never had a content edit done and I am rather nervous. I can only hope the editor loves Bennet and Flynn as much as I do.</div>
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Anyhow, for those of you who are unfamiliar with Shield (that is, those of you I haven’t managed to bore witless about it yet), let me tell you a little about it.</div>
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Shield is set in an alternate universe where Earth’s a dead planet, dark for thousands of years; lost for so long no one even knows where the solar system is. Her last known colony, Albion, has grown to be regional galactic power in its own right. But its drive to expand and found colonies of its own has threatened an alien race, the Maess, against whom Albion is now fighting a last-ditch battle for survival in a war that’s dragged on for generations.</div>
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It’s not certain anyone has ever seen a true Maess. They have seen drones: cyborgs animated by a small neural node of organic cells. The first drones the humans met (more than a century previously) were not humanoid in shape but, as the war progresses, the Maess start to produce human-shaped drones.</div>
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Taking Shield charts the missions and adventures of Shield Captain Bennet, scion of a prominent military family. Bennet, also an analyst with the Military Strategy Unit, will uncover crucial data about the Maess to help with the war effort. Against the demands of his family’s ‘triple goddess’ of Duty, Honour and Service, is set Bennet’s relationships with lovers and family. When the series opens, Bennet is at odds with his long term partner, Joss, who wants him out of the military and back in an academic, archaeological career. He’s estranged from his father, Caeden, who is the commander<a href="https://annabutlerfiction.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/gyrfalcon.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #584ca2; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Gyrfalcon" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2108" originalw="584" scale="1.5" src="https://annabutlerfiction.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/gyrfalcon.jpg?w=584" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" /></a>of Fleet’s First Flotilla. Events of the first book, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gyrfalcon</em>, in which he is sent to his father’s ship to carry out an infiltration mission behind Maess lines, improve his relationship with Caeden, but bring with them the catalyst that will destroy the one with Joss: one Fleet Lieutenant Flynn, who, over the course of the series, develops into Bennet’s main love interest</div>
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Over the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Taking Shield</em> arc of six novels, Bennet will see the extremes to which humanity’s enemies, and his own people, will go to win the war. Some of it is not pretty.</div>
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The next big step after editing will be the cover design, I think. Sadly, I don’t think it will look like this. But a girl can hope.</div>
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Anna Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586874602251140200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523078946488110723.post-63541397204240963412014-10-20T05:00:00.002-07:002014-10-20T05:00:57.305-07:00Stranded with Louise Lyons<a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/2014/10/20/stranded-with-louise-lyons/" target="_blank">Over at the website</a>, Louise Lyons is visiting to talk about the new anthology from Wayward Ink Press, "Stranded", and gifts us with an extract from her story in the anthology, One Snowy Night. Come and read all about it!<br />
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Anna Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586874602251140200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523078946488110723.post-85049350860699550962014-10-15T09:16:00.002-07:002014-10-15T09:16:33.548-07:00Twirling A Moustache: Sarah Madison and "Walk A Mile"<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/2014/10/15/twirling-a-moustache-sarah-madison-and-walk-a-mile/" target="_blank">Come to my website</a> where I interrogate </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001474118521" href="https://www.facebook.com/akasarahmadison" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-decoration: none;">Sarah Madison</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> on her moustache twirling and shake a sad head at her lack of technical ability with computers... More seriously, come over to find out a little more about her brilliant new best seller, Walk a Mile and read a sexy little excerpt...</span><br />
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Anna Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586874602251140200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523078946488110723.post-54210093958575810902014-10-03T07:08:00.002-07:002014-10-03T07:08:57.627-07:00LAUNCH DAY FOR SARAH MADISON'S 'WALK A MILE'<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 22.1590900421143px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Today is book launch day for my good friend and fellow critique group member, Sarah Madison. Read my thoughts about it <b><u><a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/2014/10/03/walk-a-mile-launch-day-fly-my-pretty-fly/" target="_blank">over at my website</a></u></b>. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Walk A Mile</em></strong> is published by Dreamspinner and sorry, why are you reading this and not rushing out to buy it?</div>
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I signed the contract with Wilde City this morning for the first two Shield books in the series. Bennet and Flynn are on their way!</div>
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<a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/2014/06/10/uk-lgbt-writers-meet/" target="_blank">Over at the website, as per</a>.Anna Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586874602251140200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523078946488110723.post-68174306343187695642014-06-02T10:52:00.001-07:002014-06-02T10:52:20.320-07:00And we're off...I'm wittering on<a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/2014/06/02/and-were-off/" target="_blank"> over at the website</a> about uneven chapter lengths and you just would not *believe* the angst. What do you all do? Write the chapters as they come or strive to get them all an even length? Do tell.<br />
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<u><a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/2014/05/08/a-minor-inconvenience-but-a-major-triumph/" target="_blank">Over at my website</a></u>, read an exclusive extract from Sarah Granger's wonderful Regency m/m romance, where there are dashing Napoleonic war officers, uniforms, balls, Almacks, French spies and BREECHES!!! Follow<a href="http://authoressentials.virtualwritersinc.com/2014/03/a-minor-inconvenience-by-sarah-granger/" target="_blank"> her blog tour here</a> and enter for giveaways and generally just join in the delighted squeeing.Anna Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586874602251140200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523078946488110723.post-44261225734605795052014-05-05T05:35:00.002-07:002014-05-05T05:35:22.155-07:00The Writer's Guide to Page Numbering<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><u><a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/2014/05/05/thewritersguidetopagenumbering/" target="_blank">Over at my website</a></u> I have succumbed to </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001474118521" href="https://www.facebook.com/akasarahmadison" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Sarah Madison</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'s nagging to post a response to four questions on writing:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">What am I working on?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How does it differ from other books in the genre?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Why do I write what I do?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">What's the writing process?</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /><br />I am, as ever, long winded about it but there are lots of pictures to brighten things up a tad. You'll like the one of Molly. You even get a bonus one here: </span><br />
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Over <u><a href="http://annabutlerfiction.com/2014/03/22/the-delicious-tickle-of-scarab-legs/" target="_blank">at my website</a> </u> I am waxing very poetic about the ticklish qualities of a scarab's feet. Come and be tickled, too.Anna Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586874602251140200noreply@blogger.com0