haven’t got much to say today, so I thought I’d put up a teaser. Here’s the first few lines of Bound to Shadows….

I’ve come to accept the fact that I’m a guardian. I’ll even admit that I enjoy hunting down those rogue supernatural elements who prey on human and non-humans alike.

But that doesn’t mean there still aren’t times when I absolutely hate my job.

Getting a call-out at three AM on a bitterly cold winter night was definitely one of those times. Especially when the call sent me to an area rapidly gaining a reputation as the ‘it’ spot for blood whores–which was the common term for humans hooked on the pleasures of a vampire’s bite.

Normally I didn’t have a problem with people getting their kicks any damn way they pleased, but for humans–and it only seemed to afflict humans, not the rest of us–becoming addicted to a vampire’s bite was definitely one of the quicker ways to court death. They simply didn’t have the strength, the speed, or even the will power to battle a vampire if things went wrong. Hell, many supernaturals didn’t, either.

And while most vampires were generally law abiding and only took enough to give the addicted his or her hit, there were always some abusers who pushed for longer, stronger rushes, and there were always vampires willing to oblige.
And sometimes that meant death.

It had become such a problem in recent months that the government had set up a think tank to find ways of curtailing the growing numbers flocking to the vampire bars. There were even calls to outlaw the practice–though how the hell anyone was going to police that I had no idea. It wasn’t like ordinary cops had much hope of tracking down and arresting vamps, and there simply weren’t enough of us guardians. Not if they wanted us to do our real job.

Personally, I think they had about as much hope of stopping this craze as they did stopping all the designer drugs that were constantly hitting the streets. If a junkie wanted his fix, then he’d find it no matter how difficult or how illegal the government made it. And at least all the whores were of legal age–the vampire ‘pushers’ were careful about that. They had to be, because otherwise they had to deal with the Directorate. Regular drug dealers just got jail time, at worst…

Sorry, that’s it! (hehehehehe!)

Just a quick one–gotta go watch Castle.

Story–Captured by Vengeance

New pages – 9
Time spent writing – off and on over the weekend
Current page count – 340
Intriguing things – brothers who aren’t brothers
Annoyances – story taking forever to get to the final scenes
Music – Dralion & Varekai
Location – The desk.
Taking care of Keri – ate chocolate and cake over the weekend. Not good for the diet, but might good for the belly and soul 
Muse food – Torchwood. Final episode. Wow. Great writing, but totally, awesomely, sad.

well, episode 3 of Torchwood continued the great action of the previous episodes. The first half hour was more getting the gang back together and having a bit of fun, but the underlying threat was still there and still building. The second half ramped up the action (a little), and the tension (a lot). Loved the way the aliens arrived, loved the ghostly bits we saw of them, loved the smilies on the contact lenses, and can’t wait to start getting some answers! But the big question right now is, why did Jack do what he did back in 1965?

Story update–Captured by Vengeance

New pages – 11
Time spent writing – 6 hrs (with breaks)
Current page count – 327
Intriguing things – silver removed, discussions about a bad cop underway.
Annoyances – damn cliffhanger endings on torchwood!
Music - Dralion & Varekai
Location – The desk.
Taking care of Keri – went shopping. Tip to self–don’t buy pants on sale without trying them on. If they suck–and they did!–you can’t return them.
Muse food – watched the taped episode of Being Human. Funny and yet sad. Loving this series almost as much as Torchwood.

episode 2 of Torchwood–children of earth was on tonight, and it was another cracker.  I wondered how they were going to get around what they did to Jack, and I have to say, it was awesome. Gruesome, but awesome. The story and tension continues to build nicely and I can’t wait for episode three. I’m damn glad it’ll be on tomorrow night!  Here’s the update:

Story–Captured by Vengeance

New pages - 7
Time spent writing – 5 (with breaks)
Current page count – 316
Intriguing things – a gun fight, silver bullets, and a vamp up to no good
Annoyances -  getting lots of ideas that need to go into the earlier sections of the book
Music – Dralion & Varekai
Location – The desk.
Taking care of Keri – the diet is slipping, Must get back to it 
Muse food – naked Captain Jack!

Wow.

Just…wow.

That’s all I can really say. Brilliant set up, brilliant episode. And I can’t wait to see how they get Jack out of this one.

well, I did finally hit my target, although it took me most of the weekend to get there. I’m now officially sitting at 300 pages done, and on the downhill run to the finish. Ideally, I’d like to get the rest of the book finished within the next two weeks, as that will not only give me time to edit it properly, but it’ll give my beta readers time to read it.  Hopefully, the ruddy thing will all make sense, because I’m still not entirely sure it’s working. Here’s the official update:

Story–Captured by Vengeance

New pages – 10
Time spent writing – wrote in fits and starts over the weekend
Current page count – 300
Intriguing things – an escape from a dangerous situation. A plan of revenge underway
Annoyances – the goddamn dog farting constantly! My study is too small for such a smelly barrage!
Music – Dralion & Varekai
Location – The desk.
Taking care of Keri – did a whole heap of gardening over the weekend. Oh, and built a bookcase
Muse food – pancakes, strawberries, cranberries and lashings of cream. Yum. (Okay, it’s more warm-my-belly food than muse food, but that’s beside the point    )