New Review! 4 cups from CTR!

this is what Kathy had to say about Beyond the Vision of Dreams: 4 cups!!!!

Ms. Stella and Ms. Audra Price have written a steamy story of hot sex and fated love between fantasy shape shifters. Chrissy easily accepts Remy’s dominance, intuitively recognizing her one true love; while Remy, with his carefree attitude, instinctively marks Chrissy in hopes of wooing her. They both fall easily into a preordained pattern of partners for life, the shared camaraderie evidenced by their instant closeness. I loved their easy way with each other, and the conclusion tops off an engaging read. It is definitely worth keeping.

We are so happy!

Two New Reviews! 5 Clovers Each!

So we got two new reviews! one for The Blessings of the Storm (out August 1st,Mardi Gras Publishing) and one for Beyond the Vision of Dreams (out now with Forbidden Publications)

You can check them out HERE and HERE

Im damn excited.

Stella

What Eververse Demon race are you?

Well to kick off our mont long celebration for Sugar and sin (albiet a little early but i cant wait!) we have started off with a Quiz... And you know your curious!

So if you blog it,or myspace it let us know (in comments)... we are going to give away a mini demon goodie basket...

Let the games begin!

Take the quiz HERE

Beyond gets its second real review

http://euroreviews.eu.funpic.de/bookdetails.php?book_id=432

We got a review at Euro Reviews for Beyond the Vision of Dreams.

Well needless to say i just feel like we cant win with it.

Cant please everyone.

Stella

Ikea and the Beyond Effect.

Tomorrow i have agreed to go to the wonderful world of Ikea with Jojo. this i dread. Why? because its like a fucking time warp in there. what feels like 20 minutes is about 6 months of your life. it sucks your will to live, trys to playcate you with sweedish meatballs and sticky buns and cheap cool furniture, but really all its doing is stealing your life force. I swear.

Joe and i had went in for a Chair. 4 HOURS LATER we emerged, the sun was down and i was completely bewildered as to how i lost the afternoon. it was the dreaded IKEA monster. I tell you, i know how they can sell a snazzy couch for 150$. its made out of the souls of the unfortunates that never made it out. and they are seelling them at bargain price!

So help me. If you dont hear from me by 8pm on tuesday night, Send the millitia to the Paramus NJ IKEA and burn the place down. I might still be inside but id rather burn in a firey blaze then have my soul suched out and miss time. There are house i dont even remember... and ill never get that time back. So thats on the list now too...
Time ill never get back:
~the two hours from watchin house of 1000 corpses
~the 2 hours spent watching the forgotten
~the half hour(i swear that was all i could stand before my brain went numb and i started drooling) of Dumb and Dumber
~20 mins(that turned into 4 hours) in the Paramus Ikea

Im sure there are more, but damn it im almost missing a day already. where the fuck did the time go?

Stella

Summer Block Party!

This Friday, July 21st come and hangout with some of your favorite authors for fun, excerpts and a lot of great surprises!



When: July 21st 2006 ALL DAY (midnight to midnight)


Where: Http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eververse 


What: multiple author excerpts, q and a, giveaways and goodies galore



So come and hangout, get to know some new authors and fill up your summer reading list!




Authors! If you would like to participate, simply join the group. No RSVP needed!



We look foward to seeing each and every single one of you!

Back to work.. in so many ways...

Marsh and Janey have been sent to Phaze for consideration, and stupid me, i started yet another project. this time its a somewhat short story, and i got about 2k down in an hour last night it really flowed from me, but it needs bulking, what i have so far, and im hoping i wasnt under the influence too badly last night to right it off as drivle. We will have to see.

So Now, with audra coming for nationals on the 26th, we have just enough time to finish Arcady and Snow, which really only needs a fight scene and the epilogue, things that Audra already has partially finished. Marsh and janey ended up at 38, 391 words, and Arcady and Snow will probably be around 70k, seeing as right now its it 68... i think.

So the 26th-30th Audra will be here in the states, which rocks, and well be going to RWA nationals for ONE DAY ONLY. it sucks i know but we needed to get our asses there, and with family comitments, and audra's short stay, we are trying to fit it all in. Thank god we didnt register.

So when our fun time is finished (not couting the promo we have to do for Blessings with MGP) then its back to work full steam on current projects. What projects? Our dragons (that have apparently caught the intrested of the EIC at MGP), our Fallen Series (which is going to be mentally draining), our Ghosts (still trying to figure a direction on that Horror set up), Lady Luck (Jake and Nina need to get back in the saddle and get to being intresting again), and our Cursed objects submission. its going to be a very wild august.

I do have Dragons Book two, titled Deep water, about 1k, which is good cuz we had nothing, only the premise a short time ago. Book one, Fire in his Eyes, is going well, albiet slowly, but im hoping that changes after nationals...

And now we need to find another Siren. One of our own left for her own reasons, which sucks, though we wish her the best. So finding someone new we gel with is going to be a PITA.

off to work.

First review for Beyond the Vision of Dreams

4 Stars!!!!

Reviewed by Michelle Ellis © 2006
Genre: Dark Fantasy/Shapeshifter
Heat Index: Erotic/Extreme
Book Length: Mid-Category
Publisher: Forbidden Publications
Price: $3.99

Beyond the Vision of Dreams has an excellent premise. People who are snakes! I found this amazingly intriguing. Stella and Audra Price do have some good plot ideas up their sleeves.

From the first word I thought this was going to be a sleazy porn story, as the first paragraph describes a dream, with rather colourful language/imagery. Giving the book a chance, as it does indicate ‘Extreme’ in the heat index, I read on.

Remi Crane belongs to a ‘nest’ of snakes. Sexually frustrated, he had many dreams of mating. With sex predominant in his mind, his thoughts on his dilemma, he bumps into a woman in the foyer of the nest. Said woman, Chrissy Stanford, has come to live at The Compound (nest) and Remy knows he will have to administer restraint when she is around.

Chrissy meets the nest leader, Elise, who shows her round The Compound. I found the idea of humans changing into snakes quite unusual, though I will admit to not reading this type of premise before. The snakes in this nest have a ‘changing room’ where they change into snakes before going out to hunt. The whole mental image from this scene made me light up inside. I thought, ‘Well, how cool!’ Really did enjoy this part.

Reece, another snake at The Compound, for the brief moment he appears in the story, is an utter pig! I wanted to slap him at the very least, and kick him where it hurt at most!

With the mention of a carnival ride called ‘The Zipper’ I was instantly transported back in time to my childhood. This ride was THE scariest thing on earth to me. I went on it once and lost all my money when it spun upside down…ahem, back to the review…

So, not giving any more of the actual story away, I will say I enjoyed this shapeshifter story. It didn’t grip me as some tales do, but held my interest. I wasn’t bored, which is the main thing! Not one for the traditional HEA, this tale didn’t smack of ‘Oh bloody hell these two are going to end up together’ as you get that idea from the start. It’s more of a ‘I’m glad they did get together’ story.

Best part? The premise itself. Brilliant idea.
Permission granted for the authors to use this review.

4.5 hearts at Love Romances!

We got our review from love romances today... 4.5 hearts. Not too damn bad. the reviewer obviously liked the story, which rocks.

So you can Check out the review here.

Stella

Im back to droolin over Fallon

Well i got some new sexy pics of everyones favorite pirate, but these are exactly how we see Fallon so You guys can get the full effect. So for a few days here im going to be posting Johnny Depp eye Candy... So... Onward!



Ok not a bad one to star off with... Quite yummy actually... Back to droolin and making goodiebags.

Stella

Contest Notification

So we have decided to do another contest... this one is for the eminet release of our paranormal romance, The Blessings of the Storm, on August 1st with the next big publisher... Mardi Gras Publishing. Its an easy one... and a thoughtful one.

You can check out the contest here

heh...

We are going to blog it up after the contest is done...

Stella

Countdown to Audra

So my sister will be here the 26th of July. Im freaking out. its going to be such fun to go to RWA with her and hangoiut with the few fans we have going, and some of our fellow Sirens. Im so tickled. So find us if your around, We will have goodies galore..

Marsh and Janey book two will be sent by friday, and we have a new series in the works to work on after the Dragons are sent to MGP. *giggles* i love it when a plan comes together.

Back to promo goodiebags prep.

Stella

Awsome review for Wishes

So Joyfully Reviewed sent Phaze their review of WISHES... and its damn good. You can read it here...

Damn nice to see that today... and its nice to know our work isnt being misenturpreted... did i spell that right?

Stella

PS: Juts Saw Pirates... And im more then ever convinced that JD would be the most Screen Fallon ever... Now to make that damn Screenplay....

We have our main release date.

Sugar and Sin will be out (god willing theres no holdups) August 25th. Aud and i are freaking out, and it looks like the girls on the street teams are excited as well. Major step for us as this is the book that started us writing, and its finally going to be published.

This is going to be a pretty good summer. So, updates! We have narrowed it down for our author branding, there 5 slogans we like so, well keep you posted on that, still looking for the perfect icon though. Poo.Marsh and Janey will be done in a few days. I have it back in my possession, and Today, after work, MArsh is going to do it like it should be done. im hoping by tuesday well have our part finished and that Aud can look at it once more.
Our edits will be in in a week or so. It shouldnt be that bad grammar wize, we have two people look it in the past 7 months. OOh and the edits for Blessings, our straight mainstream paranormal is in. Im really surprised we actually pulled it off (though Cash is still threatening death and desertion if we try writing something that fluffy again... and hes right)
So now, with the book coming out...im hoping the Anthology will do better. After all, people want backstory dont they? And you can pick this awsome little ditty up at LULU.com, in either print or E book fashion. Its 9 stories from the Afterverse including The Sleeping, our short story with Pretty Scary. Youll meet some new characters in this book, and some that youll come to love soon enough. Interested? Pick it up HERE
the last but not least update is that Book two, Silk and Steel,(the tennitive name of course) will be to our Publisher by the projected date of July 21st. We are going to celebrate with a big excerpt party at Eververse, with a bunch of authors we know and love comming to give everyone a great time.(i hope... these things never work out for me so well see).
So on to todays musings...

Why the hell is HEA so damn important? Im sorry life isnt happily ever after and with so many cookie cutter books out there, whats the problem of being different? Well the problem is that it takes longer to get published. We have been guilty of changing things, mostly the end of a story, to fit the HEA mold. Well im happy to say we dont have to anymore. Granted some things might be depressing, but on the whole, i think our endings are pretty damn good. True some are going to have the HEA, cuz lets face it, some characters need it, but most arent, and the book isnt going to end on a down note, but a nutral one. its all a question of presentation i think, and i think that you can have a book that isnt HEA in the romance genre, and still do well with it, if its marketed correctly. For us, if a story is a HEA story, it will end with HEA. if its not, and its just a story, a damn good one, then its going to stay true to form.
So why the fuck is HEA so damn important as a reader? i dont like them much and think the cheese is inflated when i see them in a book that could have had a better ending if they werent forced into the mold of HEA. gimme something dark anyday...

Stella

Author Branding

Well it has come to our attention that we need to get branded. Which is very true, nothing like selling yourself as a comodity. The problem stems from audra and i just not being that damn creative. Using the old book idea is out, even though most of our books revolve around a spell dealer and grimorie seller. We need to decide on a genre, if thats even possible... and a logo. this is all becoming very confusing.

So i have no clue as to doing this. well thats not true. I have some clue, but christ if i can figure out the right thing for us. ugh. Any ideas?

The 4th

So its the 4th. we have a lot more written with Book two, which rocks, and i think it will end up at 70k, a bit more then we expected, but hey im not knocking it.

The sirens are starting a few contests for July, so well see what coolness ensues there.

The countdowns have started, Joes birthday, RWA...

So let it begin...

Work Resumes

We are at about 58k with book two for the eververse series, and i think its going to end up at about 62k, which is more then ok with me. Im just hoping to get it finished soon. We might make our July 21st deadline still.

Marsh and Janey still needs another pass through, but its around 37k right know which is great, we are thinking it will wed up in the 40's and that is satisfactory as well.

With all the preparation for RWA, my bedroom is promo central. Its insane, but hopefully it will all pay off. For those of you going to RWA, find me, ill have tons of goodies to give out, not just from us but from some other authors as well. im really turning into the promo queen.

and i think the edits that were sent to us from MGP are now done, which is one less thing i have to worry about. yay. Well im back to finishing bookmarks...

Stella

A weekend Fucked

First off...

I went to the mall on friday with Joe, Yosh and yosh's new playmate. Shes ok. no biggie. So we were walking through the mall, and im not dressed my best, a pair of capris, black tanks, studded belt, sneakers, and scarf around my unruly hair. so what happens? We walk past a model search and two of the plastic queens stop me. they are all like. "WOW you have such an edgy look, and i bet with a little make up and some extentions you could be really hot."

Now, i dont know who taught them that sales pitch, but its seriously lacking. I used to be a model, and could still be if i enjoyed getting up as the ass crack of dawn to smile pretty for the camera and live a vapid existance. I mean that was the most underhanded doublesided cut i have ever heard. Um newsflash... not to toot my own horm here but im 27 and dont look it. When im in my 30's ill look in my 20's and they cant say the same with the pound of make up they have on thats killing their skin.

Well needless to say i detached the model leeches and told them to get bend. Compliment my ass..

So to cheer me up Joe let me shop.... on him. so i have some cute stuff im thinking of saving till august to wear for th signing. Yum, i am very cute i swear.

So on to saturday. I spent almost all day with joes family at a grad party and didnt drink a thing. See hes not 21 yet (i know im a cradle robber but if you look as young as i do youd get away with it too... and relax, hell be 21 in two weeks) So i dont drink around them, heaven forbid i look like a bad influence... right like the tattoos and the piercing and writing smutt for a living isnt adding to the bad influence image.

So i got my ass chewed up outside by Skeeters and not get drunk. not to mention i was informed if i brought senior lappy with me i would get it tossed in the river. Le sigh. so i ate and brough a notebook, and tried my damnedest to get along with them. I guess its going ok, but i have to go there for a BBQ tomorrow.

Oh and did i mention i ahve gotten NOTHING done writing wise in two days, soon to be three?yeah marsh is talking about having my beating heart on a plate, and right now i dont blame him. Not to mention i have the Blessings edits i need to get through....

ugh. this weekend blows ass.

Stella

first pass done

So...

we got the first pass of marsh and janesy book two finished. Now comes the bulking. Its ar 37k and im hoping for 42-45k when we are done. Its sa lot of bulking i know, but it does need it. Im looking foward to getting this one done and sent to phaze, though it dosent have a name yet and i need something snappy.

We are supposed to know this week about who won the sambas. Im not sure if we will make it, But at least i know we have somewhere to send it should we not get it. So im not worried, but im really hoping we get it. i love Phaze and they really rock, but on the other hand, the sotry for the samba can easily be turned into a full series... and that might be good elsewhere.

So tomorrow is working on edits for MGP, starting the bulking on book 2 for marsh and janey, and hopefully gettng some promo done.

Im beat.

Stella

First Review for Bargain by Starlight

Well the readers, or at least a reviewer, has spoken. Our first review for a story a some of people didnt think would review well got 4 wands at Enchated Ramblings! See i was really worried in the begining, when we were told that odds are the story wouldnt review well. Well i think the reading world is ready for our brand of storytelling, and i think at least half of our reviews will reflect that. So what that we dont write fluffy! We write real! and i think readers are ready for that.

so heres an excerpt of the review...

Written in a direct, uncompromising style, this story grabbed me from the first page despite its harsh subject matter. The Price sisters have done a great job on Alli's character, making her tough but never mawkish. I wish this had been longer for more plot development, as I felt that the ending was a little rushed, but overall I enjoyed this story and look forwards to reading the further adventures of Dimitri and Snow in the Eververse Demons series.

You can read the full review here.

Go Stella! its your birthday! Go Audra! its your birthday! Yeah... the demons are whats going to make the world fall, im saying it now. Cash was right... hehe...

So you can buy Bargain by Starlight here....

And i hope you do. Work like ours is a lot different then what your used too, so give it a chance...

Stella

New Wishes Review!

Heres our review from Sensual Reads

Nicodemus “Nick” Marsh is a powerful Djinn who is sent to break the
one woman who controls the demon assassins. It should be easy enough.
With his magic, charm, and looks, he had brought many of ladies to
their knees. But what he found in his newest assignment was more than
he had hoped for.

Janey Duvall is a human woman that stands her ground. Refusing the
demon prince was more for the thrill of being able to do so. What
could he do to her? She was dying anyway. When Nick appears in her
life, offering her three wishes in return for one hundred years of
sexual slavery, her first two were easy enough. But with each touch,
she comes to realize she wants something more.

Nick is falling for the human, and finds himself holding his breath,
waiting for her last wish. When it comes, it is more than he himself
could have hoped for.

“Wishes” is a fast paced, heated love affair that will leave you
breathless. The heat between these two is scorching. Not only for what
they bring out in one another, but what they bring too one another. If
you like a hot read that will have you cranking up the air, look no
more. “Wishes” is hot, entertaining, and one hell of a fantasy ride.
Kudos to Stella and Audra. I enjoyed this short story immensely.


Reviewed By Shay

Pretty damn fine if you ask me!

busy busy busy!

Well we have gotten some more work done on Marsh and Janey's book two, a project we have still yet to title. Its going well and is right now around 32k. We are hoping that with bulking and the rest of the story its going to be 45-50k. at least thats the plan.

And we have set our Summer goals as of today. Im hoping we hit them, the main once being we finish the dragons and submit them to EC. heres hoping.

And we have our edits in and done for Beyond the Vision of Dreams, and the release is next friday, June 30th. thats going to be a good release party, YAY for WERESNAKES!

Stella

NEW COVER!!!

Such a sexy cover for our first Mardi Gras release... Audra and i are just tickled. Im really looking foward to working with them more... they are just great to work with and we are so happy to be part of the family.

So today we got 1300 words added to Marsh and Janey. Mal and Miranda, our supporting characters, have finished their naughty scene, and ill tell you, for a vamp Mal is fantastically sexy. Tomorrow its back to Marsh and Janey and their next little adventure in the book, a auction... heheh...

And it seems Dimitri and Remy now have Myspaces. Dimitri's short story comes out on friday and we are looking foward to having yet another release out. and we are going to be playing around at Bianca D'Arc's cyber party with excerpts and other goodies. So it should be fun.

time for night night. Long day ahead tomorrow.

Opening Day!

So i just looked on the MGP site and we are opening day authors!!! i cant believe it! this is so cool. we are the first release for the French Quater Romance line too! Woot Woot! So we spoke with our cover aritst yesterday and shes got some great ideas, and well be seeing it soon i think, so as soon as we do, well be posting here.

And talking with the bosslady today, we got some stuff looked at, and gave her some ideas. MGP are going to be with us at the All Souls Faire this october... damn if im not excited for that. Things are working out well, and im just findng it refreshing that we are working with companies that dont fall on pretenses. these ladies are real, and very commited, and dont play any favorites, which rocks. I love knowing we are part of these companies, and that they belive in our work. its so awsome!

Stella

Today is an odd day

So its Johnny Depp's Birthday. Woo hoo. The hottie is 43 and damn if that dosent bother me one bit. Im not one for the older guy but i do have a list...
Johnny Depp
James Purefoy
Sean Bean
Gerard Butler
Colin Farell (ok so hes only 3 years older then me... but that still counts!)

Yeah i know i got issues... but damn if they arent yummy and museworthy. Yummy Yummy... i love me somma that.

So back to real life... We have been stalled the last few days due to mAudra scrambling to get some work done on her college crap. Im just glad we are almost done with it. that means lots of work this summer.. and it also means my goal i set is attainable. that is good news on this end.that makes me happy.

So for the next few days its getting new stories prepped to go and hopefully our edits for the Snakes. im itching to get to the main series...

Stella

We got our Photographer!!!!

So we got the photographer we wanted to do our pictures for our webby and our author head shots, David Apuzzo. Hes an extremely talented and a good friend that got to squeeze us in, so when Audra is here, we are going to drive to CT and have a shoot and hangout with a friend and his lady. Im so excited!!! David is the only [person thats ever taken pictures of me and made me look halfway decent... So i guess i better have some primo hair going on.... and some new clothes.

*grin* ooh its all good. We ordered buttons for RWA that say "I do it demonstyle" and the conglacio concubine graphic. Well see how many we give away at RWA. Seeing people wearing them is going to be a trip. hehe. And these pictures are going to be so great!!! Im so excited! Aud and i are going to have such a great time!

Excited. and WHAT WHAT!

Sunday better be better then saturday. It rained, and i got wet a lot, and Audra wasnt about and we got no work done. Poo. where we are with the Djinn, its her turn (and i notice it tends to leave off like that a lot) so im stuck you see, and i cant write much else. Maybe after i get back from work this morning ill be greeted by some goodies, and my sister staring back at me ready to work. Well that would be good. Otherwise its all about graphics again today, and maybe getting those damn bookmarks finished. Either way, its really not such a bad thing. I do have to make a new Bookmark design though. Le sigh.

I did find yesterday a place to get the mini buttons done for RWA. for 30$ i can split an order, get 50 of two different designs. So well have two Eververse style pins at RWA and for give aways i think. these wont be in the goodie bags, they will have to be asked for. hehe. im looking forward to this more and more each day.

And we have a go from FP for our Promo plan for the Eververse series, so that is a big plus as well. Honestly, it just feel great being able to talk to your publisher in such a freindly way. I dont feel like its all business even though it is. it really feels like a family at FP and i think the new authors there are lucky.

So the Samba is slatted to end tonite. I KNOW they got some fantastic entries for this one and heres hoping ours is one of the ones being picked. We will find out in two weeks. Ah yet another waiting game. heh..

So im off to work in a few... Just wanted to pop in and give you this purely sexy picture of Fallon... Damn i swear, the man just flat out does it for me. PURRRRRRR.
If that picture dosent scream "I AM FALLON" i dont know what one does. good lord. thats the epitome of Fal right there. ok im sweating, and drooling... I gotta go...

progress is my favorite word

Yesterday we sent out a submission to the new pubby Mardigras Publishing. We will shee how we do. I think its a pretty good story, so either way someone will take it.

And we got a little over 7500 on Marsh and Janey. its not too bad, considering it is just barebones of the story. its going to need bulking and another run through later on to really give the reader a feel of what has happened since Wishes but i think it will be ok. Im looking foward to finishing it. And Marsh is not going to let us start anything else until its done. Im happy he let us finish the submission.

So today after work is Marsh and Janey day. lots of work hopefully... and i got my PSP X back working on the lappy, so im looking forward to making some new graphics for pins and tshirts at Cafe press. heh. lots of fun.

two weeks. Two weeks till Bargain by starlight comes out, but more importantly, two weeks till i get to see NINE INCH NAILS again. hell yeah. great way to start the summer... and the list of WIP we have is fantastic. we are going to be writing all summer and i cant wait.

and if you cant guess... i traded Fallon out for Drake today. i just felt the sick fuck needed a cameo. enjoy.

Yesterday....

well to be honest thursday sucked royal and for only a few reasons. I'll be honest i didnt expect much outta yesterday, and i have a headache still from trying to figure out why my COREL pspX wont download to my compy.Little did i know i just had to enter my purchase code in my trial version. Wish they would ahve told me that. *Sigh* and we didnt ger anything done work wise yeaterday, poor Audra's eyes were killin her. that wasnt any fun. And i sent out 14 packages to fans and contest winners. yeah i know, but i am a promo whore. its good to get pressies in the mail though. So why am i posting at 5:33 am? cuz my ass has to be at work at 6. not fun and not fair. Im hoping today will be a more fruitful endeavor then yesterday, one with more positive results. and i think we might have found who we are sending the Ifrit story too... so fingers crossed there. Time to head out. Enjoy Fallon. Ill be back later.

We are sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled Fallon...

So we have been busy. I started bulking the Blessing of the Storm tosay. I personally got it from 13,500 to 15,500 and Noras part hasnt been bulked. So im really looking foward to finishing this one.

Marsh and Janey are back on the balot in the morning, though Nina from Lady Luck is still asking to get back to her story. Arcady is thankfully quiet, knowing that hes got a good time frame till we even get to publishing that story. though it is very cool. I think the worls is going to like snow.

So today i went to the store and got a set of the metallic gell pents for 1.50$ and im hella happy. some of them will go for gifts in the giveaways with the journals we got.

And im happy to say we are slowly building a fanbase. that makes me happy. I sent out some review requests today, im praying for some good reviews. and we have a hour chat at Pink Posse to promo Bargain by Starlight on thursday, and it seems TRS is going to be hosting our contest for the release so that should be fun. And with Beyond the Vision of Dreams release later this month im excited for that. Renee told us we should have our edits for it this week, so im psyched for that.

Well. off to bed... and hope you liked your Fallon fix today....

Memorial Day craziness...

So we did a lot today, though i still have to update the website. Sadly it has lost its appeal, and im thinking we need another layout, and that means either learning how to do it, or finding someone to do what needs doing. Sigh. Yet again money i dont have to spend.

Speaking of money i shouldnt spend, I ordered the last of our stuff for RWA. so thats done. im waiting for early july to order more of the anthology for RWA and NJRWA. but the gifty bags for the confrence are super cool. im looking foward to it.

and we finished fleshing out the second Marsh book today. its comming along nicely but hes commited to telling it in its entirety, though im not too sure im going to come out unscathed. he really is a lunatic when it comes to Janey....

Stella

Sugar and Sin has a Cover!

New cover for Sugar and Sin! We got the cover and its finally real to us! we sold it yeah, and it wasnt until now that i have really let myself believe that i was going to see it beook out to the masses. Im so dazzled. its such a dark cover... beyond fantastic. M.L. Benton has done it again!

Stella

X men, Marsh, work.....

Fallon. Great way to start the morning. Ask Astrid, she starts every morning with him.

Well im up at the fucking ass crack of dawn to to to work for 4 hours. thats right 4 HOURS! eh its not so bad, i do get to see X men this afternoon, so that is top choice. then after that, its play with Marsh, Janey and Taylor (aka Cash) for a little while. And maybe, if im lucky, figure out what is missing from our ifrit story. We are thinking of subbing it out soon so to really round the edges would be stellar.

I gotta order the rest of our promo materials for RWA too. I keep putting it off and its not really due to procrastination, its due to me not being able to make up my mind as to what to get. *sigh* im sure it will all make sense after i have had a cup of VERY strong tea and dealt with every backward-ass fuck on the planet. ugh working is not my cup of tea.

I am slacking on getting the prize stuff done for the Bargain by Starlight release though. hopefully ill just get enough time to get it all done, but im not making any promises to myself. its just not worth it, though the charms i got for the book thongs are very cute, and top shelf so maybe ill get to it this weekend, after everything else i have to do gets done.

No rest for the wicked.

Stella

Chat and Ranting...

So Marsh is ranting about a televangelist.... i dont really wanna know, but hes telling me the whole sorrid tale. I seriously think hes just doing this to break me.... But at least i know he will be raring to go tonite for the chat.

So dont forget to come by and let him rant at you... you can come and play here

So my sanity for the day? As usual... FALLON. ummm yummy.... ooh and today is Astrids birthday. Fallon and Her are off for the weekend, where i have no clue, but i did get a lookie at the bracelet he got her, pretty blue topaz bauble... shes happy. So yeah dont forget to attend the chat... who knows... you might get to see Sean Taylor, AKA Cassiel tonite...

We got Nominated!

We were just told that our Cover for Beyond the Vision of Dreams was nominated for cover of the month at Erin Aslinn! you can view the Gallery at Moonglad Designs here We are so excited! M.L.Benton is our cover artist and shes will be doing all our covers for our snake series and our Eververse Series.... i LOVE that we have our own cover artist that completely undersands our work! So voting dosent begin till Sept. 3-30 (around the time the first Eververse book is comming out) and we will remind everyone about it... this is So cool!

Stella

Monday Monday

So today has been a big deal. 2.5k done on book two, some characterization on a few others, Setting up for the Marsh and janey Chat, and we got a review! 4 wands from Enchanted Ramblings!!!! im so excited! Not too bad for our first posted review! Im happy.

And we were talking with ML about our new cover, thats one im freaking out about. If we get it by wensday, it will be the best birthday present ever. Everything is going well So well in fact im actually smiling. this week is starting out pretty damn good.

Stella

Dark fantasy...

So after reading an awsome article... on Pretty Scary... I feel i have to comment on it here. And give you what they think on Dark fantasy. So heres what Heidi, wild woman extrodinare had to say on the subject of DF:

First, what makes a Dark Fantasy?

1) The happy ending is always overshadowed by the bad events that have taken place

2) Horror elements such as gore, ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and demons are always present.

3) Often set in a high-fantasy world. (Dragons, princesses, castles)

4) Main lessons include: a) there is a little bad in everything good, and a little good in everything bad, b) Vengeance is empty and hollow, but you should let it run your life, and c) True Love can SOMETIMES overcome evil, but not always.

And, the Dark Fantasy hero/heroine is usually differently than in regular horror films or in fantasy film. In horror, the protagonist is usually running for their lives, and in classic fantasy the hero is a youth who is pure of heart and who matures and fulfills his/her destiny by the end of the story. In Dark Heroism, the primary motivation is to overcome the evil inside oneselfoften vengeance, violence are motivatorsnot a heroic sense of duty or desire to do good.

Revenge is a deep motivator for Dark Fantasy films. It is sometimes the only thing that separates them from regular fantasy and that gives them an affinity with horror. Really, what is more horrifying than revenge? When revenge as a motive is absent, it is often the concept of duality is the main plot line. The ideas of Good and Evil having to co-exist in order to exist at all allows for dark and horrific things to populate even the most romantic fantasy world.

Well that does say it dosent it? Its one of the reasons why we consider ourselves Dark Fantasy. And i think theres a soild readership out there for this kinda work, and obviously its movies. Movies like Legend, Labryinth, The Crow, The Dark Crystal, Edward Sissorhands.... Its all the movies we have come to love and adore, and see the overly sexual meaning in most.

These movies have shaped my life, and inadvertantly drove me to write. All of them are directly respondsible for both of us going to school for special effects, and i wouldnt be the person i am today or had the experiences i have had. We owe a lot to the Dark Fantasy Genre.

So how it relates to Eververse? Well for starters, lets look at what makes a Dark Fantasy.
Our happy endings are always forshadowed by the evil and the crap that happened to get to that singular perfect moment for the characters. And no matter what, after that moment is over, its always going to be there and its going to mold what the characters are.

Horror elements present? Um HELLO! we write demons...

Often set in a high fantasy world? Well we are set in a fantasy version of the world as we know it... so ill give us that...

Main lessons include: a) there is a little bad in everything good, and a little good in everything bad, b) Vengeance is empty and hollow, but you should let it run your life, and c) True Love can SOMETIMES overcome evil, but not always.

I think we hit ALL those points. I mean Look at our subject matter? Hookers, pimps, hitmen, arms dealers, theves and killers, Assassins and masochists.... and they really are good people...

So do you guys get it now? I mean get it a little better then you did before? I just really want people to know what they are getting into with us.

Now books we can be compared to, Genre wise? The Anita Black and Merry Gentry series, The Vamprie Huntress legends Series (minus all the urban slang), the Hollows series.... and more recently, the Mia snow books by Gena Showalter. Not to mention the ever incomproable, Poppy Z Brite... I swear one day well be on the same plane as Lost Souls.

So thats me... and thats what i think of what we write. What do you think?



PS: ooh i didnt forget... some more fallon to drool over...
Ummm... Yummy....

Stella's no good Rotten Very bad Day... With a twist

So Audra and I went from a 44k ms to a 49,560k novel in three hours. OOh I love when we write like this. Makes things so much easier when we are on point. So thats a good thing.

So now for the horrors of my day. I swear today was NOT my lucky day. Working at 6am, I was barely awake today for the first two hours, but thats not whats to blame for my GARMONBOZIA. (And for all of you in into Twin Peaks, that means pain and suffering.) I dont know what bad luck fairy decided to mess with me today but after 5 hours at work, i ended up with second degree burns on my right hand, and a bone deep cut on my index finger that requires stitches. How you ask? Well I work right now at a coffee and bagel place and im the early morning coffee girl. its a monkeys jub but tips are great and i dont have to handel anyones food, so yay me. But i was getting some Yahoo his tea and he tapped me on the shoulder, and i flinched, the cat went rolling and about half a medium starbucks coffee cup full of boiling water ended up on my hand. i look like a freaking lobster. So needless to say i cursed a bluestreak, and i think i made up some new words so colorful i hardly remember them now. Well that was the good stuff.
Then... im told to open up a boz of coffee bags to fill filters for tomorrow.. No biggie i do it every time i work. Someone must have given me the "bad luck boxcutter" cuz one minute im cutting a box open, then next im running the blade through the meat of my LEFT index finger. I FELT it nick bone. It was not fun. So once again, I spew out a string of colorful phrases about someones mother, a cat, a jar of peanut butter and H. R. Puff n stuff (the creepiest tv icon ever imagined!) and tell the box cutter im sending it back to hell where my boss found it.
Well my boss freaks, sends me to energeny and i get 4 stiches, and cat type worth a damn with my left hand. Not to mention the right one isnt doing so well either, as it burns and stings like a muther..
So then i think my day is over right? NOPE! Went to Joes house (for those of you wont dont know, Joe is my very supprotive and very caring boyfriend) and trip walking up the stairs to the bedroom. I hit my shin on the stair... and have a bruise that vaguely resembles Tennessee. Maybe its a sign to get the hell outta Dodge. We were thinking about Tennessee to move to. Anywhere is better then NY.

So enough about my horrible and rotten day. There is an upside. Since Bargain by Starlight is comming out in June i have started to gather all my crafting expertise and am getting the prizes together for that contest. the book thongs given out for that one are going to have little star charms and the journal is going to have a custom cover done by me in material, with stars on it as well, not to mention the Grand prize Jewelry is Beyond Star Fantasitc. I think we have outdone ourselves.


OOh and i ordered our goodies for RWA... im so excited.... its going to be a good time no doubt.
So enjoy the sexy picture of fallon above.... I know i did. Man makes me drool.

inactivity

I hate days like today. Days when everything gets in the way of getting shit done. Ugh. Audra and I were on a roll yesterday, well have to see if it picks up again tomorrow.

On a side note, a couple of us have made an authors group called Romance and the Written Word and we have a website. its just a prelim site but its going to do its job, hopefully. you can check it out here and well be having chats there in the future.

So i have had a shit storm of a day, so im just going to leave you with a sexy tidbit i like to call Fallon... yeah he gets me through the day... Just so damn sexy he brightens any minute in my life.... though it is news to me that he can play the bass... heh... and yes, im drooling here. he is the perfect end to a wretched day...
Ciao!
Stella

Lots of work.

So we did our thing... 4k today and boy did it fly. Im so excited to be working again on the characters we love so much. it went so quickly... getting it out on the compy was a relief and we have our outline set... ooh its so exciting... Audra is tickled.

So im off to edit what we did today... and i shall leave you with a pretty pickture of our Muse for Arcady... Stella.

lots more work, and lots more fallon...

Well Audra is in top form today, having done two posts at shadow heights before i even woke up. Fine with me, anything to get her writing... Today is a bit of Booke two if we are lucky, and maybe getting some of the short stories outlined. I love busy days.

So lets see... ooh how about some more fallon???? Umm yummy.. it gets me throught the day.

Stella

Book two update.

Well looking at what we already have for book two, im feeling in a good place. We are about 300 words over 40k, whick is about 10k over what i thought we had. And its comming along nicely. Im happy with it, and looking foward to working on it in the next couple of weeks/months.

Book one is great, and finished, so we are just waiting on edits for it. Hopefully they will come soon... but we still do have the first Snake story to get at with edits, but thats not too icky so im not worried.

So today is hopefully working on the second book, as long as Audra gets here in a timely fashion. and we did a Interview with May Reviews yesterday, im looking foward to seeing the interview... and im wondering if they have Wishes for Review... Ill have to find out.

So ill leave you with a little goodness... Fallon... baby.... Lord is he Yummy.... Asty is a lucky lucky girl.... Im just hoping you will enjoy their story as much as we have enjoyed writing it down.

Marsh and Janey chat Next Thursday

May 25th, thats next thursday, We will be chatting with Marsh and Janey at the Eververse Chat Room at Http://eververse.bravehost.com at 8pm EST. Marsh and Janey are eager to chat with you all so i hope you will show up and say hi...Weh know you have questions... and Marsh and Janey have answers.

Hope to see some of you there!

Stella and Audra

Havent read Wishes yet? pick it up at Phaze.com

More Fallon...

Mmmmm. Fallon. not much to report today, just wanted to put some more Muse candy up...

Stella

More playing with Fallon today, and his lovely lady Astrid. Youll meet her some time soon i imagine. So its all about getting back into these books now, and Fallon and Feyd are pushing at us with both barrels,... well trust me, its not a hardship *snicker Snicker* heh i cant wait till you guys really meet them.

fallon and feyd are in the anthology, and i know your damn curious... so go and get to already!

Stella

Fallon... and why I adore him.

So if you cant guess, Mr. Johnny Depp is our muse for Fallon. Why? WHY NOT! hes gritty, sexy, dirty, the kinda guy you want to meet in a smokey bar with an accent that could... and i get ahead of myself. Fallon is a perfect tragic soul, a man devistatingly attractive with a past he wants to forget... not to mention hes a demon. So hes a character yes, hes vivid, and way complex. And that voice... good lord... needless to say youll see in time if you havent already, but honestly, he could very well be a perfect man.

Not to mention he is rather gifted at torture. And looking like that, he can torture me anytime.

Back to drooling and working.

Stella

The samba is done!

Well after a restart, a back track and a lot of bitching, our SAMBA submission is put to bed, and we are happy with it. Its a beginning story, and we hope well be able to do a few more with these two characters, apparetly they wanted a longer book, but settled for a short as long as we promised to write some more about them.

So we will see if they take it for the samba. *fingers Crossed!*

Now the real fun begins! Audra and i can finally start working on the main series, the exact reason why we started submitting to publishers in the first place. These books are our babies and are a far cry from the shorts we have already released and soon to be released. these stories are our passion, and granted it took a while for them to get contracted, i think they are in the right place with Forbidden. Rene will give them the consideration and the leeway they need, and not screw with the books vision, which is a god send for these. Its too much to ask that they remain purely what they are, but i have all faith that they will end up as close to the original manuscript as possible.

This is beyond exciting, seeing those sexy and wild characters of our soon to be out in the world for everyone to adore is really exciting. I just cant wait to see them dont, and in print... not to mention we are both DYING for the cover for Sugar and Sin from ML... i cant wait for that.....

Stella

our first review!

Rating: 4 Kisses
Reviewer: Jodie Boulter

Wishes begins with sex that is not only hot, but dirty as well. If you like rough talk and equally rough sex scenes, then this one is for you. With a tough as nails heroine and an alpha male that is more alpha then you can believe, you are in for a wild ride.

Well im surprised. Its no secret that we dont write anything the masses like, cuz lets face it, real life isnt all sweetness and light. it takes a very open minded person to enjoy what we write, and apparelty Jodie is one of them. So we love her and she rocks for taking the chance and reading our new release.

This Just In.....

Our anthology, Enjoy the Afterverse, is now available for purchase at Luluin PRINT! now its a "self Publish" because we wanted it out in print, before the main books come out as they are prequel stories. So you know your curious about then main books, why not buy the anthology and see what its all about?

Also, if you do buy the book and bring it to any of the signings Audra and I are at, we will hook it up. well be at RWA, a signing with Phaze in August(more on that as it comes to us) and Dragon Con...(Well ill be at Dragon...)

these wont be around forever, so get them while you can!

(And if Blogger wasnt being so dumb today, we sould have the fantastic cover on here for your viewing pleasure... alas... just go to the link as see for yourself!)

Stella

And So it will begin.

So now that the main books are contracted, we have a plan of attack, just as soon as we finish the damn samba, which should be by the ened of the week. Seemswe had to bactrack, the characters didnt like hwere it was going, but now we are on the right track, and things should progress nicely.

Im looking foward to seeing if this one is picked up, especially because its one story we can stretch out to other Heat Sheets. So we will see.

The Anthology is pretty finished, just some formatting is involved, and then it will be avaiable in print through Lulu. So we will keep you abreast of that situation. Im looking foward to getting it out, and Audra is beside herself with it all.

And i cant waitto get the first cover for Eververse... ML is fantastic, so i ahve aall faith in her....

Back to formatting and the samba.

Stella

Eververse SOLD!

Thats right!

We sold the 9 book seires to Forbidden Publications! it was the right decision for the work and Audra and I couldnt be happier. Now its more a question of letting it sink in and absorbing everything. We are going to be so damn busy for the next year with writing, and edits and conventions....

thank god audras wedding is pushed back... lol.

So anyways, with that done, now we can get the anthology set up for the printer... and get it all ready for release. its going to be a couple get to know you stories for the series, and is limited to 150, so get them when they come out. and oh... did i mention the main books, ALL 9, will be in print as well as e book???? god this is such a dream come true for us.

Stella

Bamboozle and no work done.

Today my hunny and friends are dragging me away from the compy to go to the second day of the bamboozle festival, and i gotta say im not all too thrilled. But its just as well, Audra is going out with her hunny to do something sinister... so i guess we need the day off.

the Samba is going well, slow really but we still got at least a week before i go completely mental and start threatening bodily harm on my sister. So well see how it goes. heh.

I have the feeling somethings that are good are going to happen today, and wouldnt know know it, its when im not going to be glued to the screen all day. Its just as well, its like they say, life happens while your busy making plans. Well shit. I guess thats me in a nutshell. ofcourse it could be because its 730 am and i have been up since 530 getting ready for this clusterfuck of a concert. Im not looking forard to seeing old flames, and i know i will, cuz they are on the bill. So its more me hiding from people then anything. what do you say to your ex that you ahvent seen in ages besides "Wow you got real ugly. what the fuck was i thinking?" Well if anyone knows, let me know, though it wont reach me till tomorrow. Bloody all day festival. At least ill have my celli so i wont be completely diconnected from our reality. heh.

So thats me, heading out the door to Mushies place to pick his sorry ass up. I hope Audra has a better day then i do... lord knows anything is better that 30 thousand screaming wannabe punk and emo kids harshing my mello.

tomorrow is another day.

Bribery and Some comfort

So i can be bribed. There i said it. I CAN BE BRIBED. Bribed by what you ask? Well its not chocolate, and its not trips to exotic places... no its Ugly dolls. thats right i said it. UGLYDOLLS. those wonderful little toys above. thats what i can be bribed with. Ok i know it, im truly insane but toys, especially unique toys are what makes my world go round. So now you know.

On a comfort note, im feeling comfortable with a few things going on recently, and a bit more at ease. Our snakes are in the process of being set up for edits, and the past two weeks we have engaged in conversation with the editorial staff, just idle chit chat while they were online. Its really refreshing that they were intrested in getting to know us before they started editing our work. Now granted i dont know who is going to be our editor, but i can safely say i feel comfortable with all of them and we both feel our "voice" and our writing will be in the best possible hands. The fact that they took the time to get to know us and our work, asking questions and the like and not going in there cold was fantastic.

Im a firm beliver of getting to know the people you work with and this situation is no different. In fact, i think it needs it even more because of the intimacy of the work your doing. I mean this is another persons words thatyou are playing with,its only fair to know the person if your going to play with what they write. I feel really good about the edits comming up now and about our future submissions.

another awsome thing that happened was an editor we have setting up a Yahoo group to keep in touch with the people they edit for. thats freakin service. and it cuts out a lot of emails, as long as the editor stays on top of it, but i know they will. I think more editors should do that, especially if they KNOW there is a possibility of working with the person again. I know we dont know much about the "industry" but if things keep like this, we will stay happy.

Stella

Beyond the Vision of Dreams New Cover!!!!!

Isnt it fantastic? We got our cover this morning from our cover artist for Forbidden Publications. Im beside myself. the cover is beyond what i ever though we could have for the snakes first book, and I hope shes going to do the rest of the series too. Im sooo excited, its such a fantastic cover!

Stella

The anthology is finally finished.

So we finished the anthology, it came in at 26+k and has 9 stories. Audra and i are so happy with it. Its stories of the characters in the main books, and its going to be in print through us for a limited time only. As soon as we get it all finished and formatted... everyone will know! We are really excited for this one, and it will so get you hooked on the characters... some of the stories you have read before, but about 5 of them you havent.

it feels good to finish something else... Now all we need to do is finish the Samba submission tomorrow and take a much needed break so that Audra and i can acclamate to life and everything else.

Now all i have to do is write the blurby for each story, and find some good cover art...

Stella

Saturday and Stupidity

So yesterday was a sucky day. I started my new job, which is beyond awful, and then got stuck in 7 hours of traffic cuz some idiot took a header off a building. Ok maybe its just me, but I feel like people that commit suicide are beyond Selfish. All cuz they had to end their life (And it was a Suicide, they even said it on the news) they had to make gridlock traffic on every major road, and stop people from getting home. Pure selfish. Im not a believer of pitying the person that takes their own life. my heart goes out to the persons family.

So we did get the edits done. *sigh* one more to go for that story. With Audras schedule i dont even know whats going on with anything dealing with it. I only hope we get it soon.

And today, tomorrow, and monday is working day. The goal is to finish the samba, the four short stories we are doing to an anthology, and crack the whip on the dragon. hes being difficult. And we have a pretty good turn out for our contests so far. I cant wait to see how the major one does.

OOh and Dont forget that Forbidden Publications is having their opening this week! We are going to have goodies for give aways!

Stella

surprised

Well i was totally surprised at the turn out for the contest on phaze yesterday. being that we are so new i didnt think anyone would show, but there wrre a few and i was totally surprised. It was a good feeling. I would really like it if it was amplified by 100 but im sure we will get to that point one day.

And we sent out our book to two review sites that i knew Phaze wouldnt, and hopefully it will touch the right people. Everyone must love Marsh and Janey.

So today is trying to finish the edits for Bargain, and maybe if time allows, finishing the short story we have been working on, or possibly the dragons or the Samba. either way, i think getting something done is a good thing.

Off to write/edit.

Stella

Guess whos blogging at Phaze today?

Hey Everyone!

So today we are blogging for our new release at the phaze blog:

http://phazeromance.blogspot.com

And we have two chances to win goodies and a free copy of our book, Wishes. Just check out the blog entry! And everyone is eligible to enter!

So go for it, you have nothing to lose!

Stella and Audra

Things piling up.

So today i have had to promo for the new book, crack the whip with Audra to get some of the dragons written and we still havent touched out second edits. Im at that point were im just not excited this week, which isnt good. I think things are starting to pile up for me to do. And there really isnt enough hours in the day. And i should be greatful i know, but i just dont enjoy getting everything at once.

And theres the chat at novelspot tonite for Phaze, for our release Wishes. And im not sure if Audra will be there with me but heres hoping. Tomorrow has got to be edits day or else i dont know when will be. this week is just hellish with everything...

this isnt procrastination. its just time management.

Our first book has been released!

Hey everyone!

I know im not around a lot, nor is my sister, Audra, but Biance came to our group and extended a lovely invite to come and tell you wonderful people about our new release, and i gues our upcomming.

So Im Stella, and my sister and i write Dark Fantasy Erotic Romance, or so we have recently been told. We have three titles out in the next two months, one of which, came out today with PHAZE!

So Wishes, our surge title is now available through the Phaze store!

http://www.phazebooks.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=82

You know you wanna go and pick it up! What? you say you dont know much
about it? Well, let me enlighten you!

As a Djinn, the most powerful race of genies, Nicodemus Marsh is sent
in to deal with a fiery Janey Duval after she refues to help the
exiled demon prince in getting rid of the problems in a business
endevor in the east. Oozing with sex appeal, Janey can barely resist
him and after a very erotic encounter, she finds out shes bound to
him, and has three wishes to make. The bargain? Three wishes and shes
his sexual slave for 100 years.

You know your intrested... So pop over and pick it up!

And please, check out our website You could win an awsome pendant or one of 5 other goodie bags. And of course, Pop by our Yahoo group for other goodies this week!

Thanks again Bianca! And i hope we will see some of you around!

Stella and Audra
www.stellaandaudra.com

Friday!

So today is Forbidden Publications day at our eververse group and its done pretty well so far. We will be chatting once again at 4-6 tonite in the Eververse chat room at Http://eververse.bravehost.com and will be giving away goodies through the day.

So we are further along on the dragons, or we got about 6k done in the past two days so that is a very good thing. And Edits... ugh edits... Waiting for Audra to pop round for edits is killin me. So well see when they get done. this weekend is going to be a wild one for me so lord knows.

Im just excited that the dragons are comming along so nicely. it will be good to finally finish the first one and send it out.Where though, thats the question.

Stella

Wishes Contest!

So our first Published work, Wishes will be out April 23rd and for the release we have decided to have a big blow out contest! So it’s really simple, Buy the book, answer the three questions and send the answers along with your name and Email address to Contest@stellaandaudra.com to be entered. The contest will run till the end of May, and will have five winners of some fabulous prizes!

What prizes you ask? Well Grand Prize is the pendant you see in the picture, along with a bookmark and homemade book thong, and any other goodies we can get to you. Other prizes:
• Mini bath set and a bookmark and book thong
• Antique looking incense holder and 20 sticks of incense, bookmark and book thong
• Aromatherapy Oil in cherry vanilla and a terracotta pot to hang in the car, bookmark and book thong
• Bookmark and book thong, and other one of a kind goodies.

So… The questions?

1. What is the name of the associate that Janey calls for information on the Djinn race?
2. What happens after the 100 years are over from the bargain?
3. What is the name of the woman Marsh enslaved last before meeting Janey?

Good luck! The winners will be chosen at random, and will be notified the 31st of May. All the book thongs are homemade by Stella and have a charm or stone affixed on the end.

So enjoy the story and enter the contest! And don’t forget to sign up at Http://www.phaze.com/forum so that you can stay in the know with Marsh and Janey! Good luck everyone!

Edits Part two

so we got our second round of edits for Bargain... and thats tomorrows work to do. Today, its finishing up a bit more of the dragons, and getting ready for the Chat tonite at literary Nymphs with Phaze.

And we got our postcards today, they look great and im looking forward to getting more! Hopefully you guys will see them soon.

And we found out our book with Phaze, will be out either the 21st or the 23rd i think, so well keep you posted. Im just looking foward to getting Marsh and Janey out there.

Stella

Our first interview

Well the wonderful ladies at Pretty Scary did a kick ass interview with us for the website And we are sooo excited! Granted theres some discrepancies (IE: Bargain by Starlight not out now, but as far as we know it will be out in june, more on that as we get it) but on the whole everything else is accurate! I cant belive we got an interview!!!!! So go and see it and let us know what you think!

Stella

New Cafe Press Store

Like the tile eh? We got a new Cafe Press Store for Eververse stuff! Right now we only have CONGLACIO merchandise, but im working on getting some different stuff up and out... Graphics are fun, but im so damn bad at them. So im hoping this does well, either way, we are going to have Eververse merch to play with for us, and thats the good thing. Audra is already freaking out about the mug. So what are you waiting for? go check it out, support your favorite demons and Enjoy the Eververse!

Stella

a very productive day.

So we finished the first pass with Surrender in Moonlight, Reece and Carmen's story, at 27759 so far. it still needs bulking with discription and detail and we are figuring its going to end up around 30k, the longest of what we consider a short story, and second in the Snakes trilogy. We are really proud of this one, and i hope that if and when its published, youll like it as much as we do.

I started our Samba submission today, and boy are the characters in that story talking. in the last three hours I have written about 1,163 words and I know Audra is going to love picking up the slack on this one. Again, this one is really amusing, and i hope it will do well. the way this one is working out, well have this one done quickly, and waiting in the wings for submission.

And we have about 6k done on the dragon story that we picked up today again, and its slow going, but i think it will prove to be a good one as well. The question is where to send it when its done? I feel that its a good idea to send to different publishers, and since we have three under our belt already, we should send to another right? I would love to send it to EC, but the wait there is insane. So well see were it ends up.

Our Rune story for Cobblestone is on the back burner right now, the characters just arent talking. thank god we dont have a deadline for that one. and maybe we picked the wrong Rune, but time will tell.

back to work.

Stella

edits.

so we got the first round of edits. audra is almost finshed with her end of it. which is cool.

Reece is not cooperating with working on the snake story, and that kinda blows. And the dragons are not dealing well either, Char is being very bitchy about talking. eh...

So we didnt get as much as we wanted to done in the past two weeks, but at least we got the interview in for pretty scary. so promo is good.

Stella

Frustration

the situation is growing tense, and i dont like feeling like this, especially about my work. with everything that was said recently, i had hoped that the situation was taken care of, but still, its tuesday and no edits. I dont know what to do.

truth? I wanna email and bitch people out, this is not cool, bordering on disrespectful, and is confirming my suspicions that we arent important there, and reinforcing the fact that we arent in any way priority, and at the best, an afterthought. Its not like the story is long, and it should have been taken care of before the other people that got contracted after us. this is neither fair not good for business. and i feel like maybe we shouldnt submit there anymore, especially if our work is going to be overlooked like it has been.

So i dont know what to do, and i dont know how to broach the subject either, aside from flying off the handle. this just really is rude now, and in all fairness we should ahve been taken care of first, and if we couldnt with our current assignment, then the assignment should have been changed. We all do have other things in our lives, work, college... the fact that we have been delayed so much is really disheartening.

What to do now?

Stella

We sold the Snake Series!

So Forbidden Publications is now the home of our Snake Shifter Series ! Try saying that 3 times fast! So we are delighted to be working with Rene Walden and all the other wonderful ladies on Forbidden. The company opens in May, and with what i have seen, your going to make it one of your top five pubs. The covers are awsome, the writers are brassy, wild and no holds barred, and the stories are erotic, sexy, and wonderful.

So that said heres a blurb of the first book in the series, Beyond the Vision of Dreams

Being one of three breeding age males in the Shadow Heights nest, Remy
Crane is a Were python beyond ready to start a nest of his own and
settle down. He begins having some extremely erotic dreams about a
woman he's sure doesn't exist, and he chalks it up to his subconscious
mind wishing for his perfect woman. Imagine his surprise when he wakes
up one morning and finds the woman of his dreams standing just inside
the front door of the Weresnake compound. He recognizes Chrissy
Stanford as his mate, albeit instinctually only, and decides he needs
to have her in his bed. Little does he know she's going to become part
of his heart as well.

Sounds good right? We thought so and apparently so did Forbidden. Youll be meeting Reece and chrissy as soon as we finish the story so keep your eyes peeled!

Stella

Edits done for Wishes

Wishes is now done edit wise, i think... and it wasnt too bad. Im looking foward to seeing it in the Phaze store. *Sigh* So we havent heard back from forbidden yet, which i guess is cool... and Reece and Carmen are a bit over 17k right now and we are about half way with them i think. thats a great story and probably one we are the most proud of so far, other than the main work which we adore.

The trick is to get you guys to read snakes.

Char and Alcyone are up after we finish this story, and i think youll like our dragon elementals a bit too. We have two of the four stories started, so well see how it goes.I do love them...

so today is the mall for a bit, and hopefully transfering the website over to the new provider. wish me luck with that...

Stella

Progress....

So we have made progress on the second weresnake story. Im loving this... its been so much fun writing them, and i think the reason is there no frame of refrence with it. With wolves and cats (even though i detest wolves ill talk about it) You have to wrack your brain for stuff that hasnt been done yet thats not too far off them mark. With snakes, its all new and im really enjoying shaping their part of the Eververse. We are looking at three stoires for them, Three cousins by blood (though three different snakes)living in the upstate NY nest, the only three adult males left. Each has their own reasons for wanting or not wanting a mate, but rest assured, they all fall at Fates feet for the women they love.

I hope that people will put away their predjuices about snakes when they consider reading these stories, if not they are going to miss some very sweet and touching stories. Why is it that people accept Wolves and Cats so readily? Personally i find Snakes beyond facinating, and love writing about the nest in NY. Dont think scaly and icky. If you do your ignorant. Snakes are not icky, and they are smooth, actually warm and and not Scaly at all.

these snakes arent looking to get you.... then again most snakes arent. I just hope that we get a better look at this then what we have gotten so far in the future. Innovantion and keeping things fresh is what keeps the world revolving, and like your mother always said, how do you know you wont like it unless you try it?

Stella

Chat tonite on Phaze!

tonite is our first chat on Phaze and we, all the surge authors, are spolighted! so come and visit and chat it up! we will be chatting about our submission, WISHES

hope to see you there!

Stella

wonder of wonders...

So it seems that we will be pretty finished with the Weresnake story by tuesday, and thats encluding all the awsome padding and the editing. So im psyched. We are going to be sending it to our publisher Cobblestone Press and hopefully they will like it enough to publish it. If not, well we can shop it around... no biggie...

Anyway, News on the Phaze front is that We got our Editor!!!! Kat is our editor and im super excited about it... i cant wait to get WISHES out! (Well it will make room for the two others in the wish races series..yay!)

And Promo Crystal has set up a chat for the Phaze surge authors as well. More on that was it develops (time and room) but its on April 19th, a Wensday, so mark your calendars! We will both be on hand to talk about our story and the ever delectable hero, Nicodemus Marsh.

So another thing thats come up recently is Interviews and i have no clue as to how to go about getting us interviewed... but i guess its something i better learn. Thank the saints for Crystal, shes really pushing for all the crazy shit none of us know about and leading us through by hand... shes so getting goodies when i see her...

Stella

i do love getting work done...

so as it is, we have 15k+ on the snake were story, its really going well. we have one chapter, and epilogue to do, then a shit load of bulking up... when we start stories like this, they do everything they can to get them out to us early (meaning the characters) and then after the gist of the story is down, they go back with us and fine tune it by adding a good portion of discription. this makes me happy. Audra and i have decided that we should possibly do another one, and odds are we will, but just sit on it till we need it.

We got our editor assignment for Cobblestone, and im extremely happy, we are just now waiting on edits... for both CP and for Phaze... so well see what we gotta do there.

our biggest question right now is where to send this story... and damn if the name isnt freakin awsome. Should we send it to CP? or maybe to forbidden? LSB? Loose ID? New Concepts? Lord knows.... Ill have to see about stuff.

Back to writing....

Stella

Dragons on the Back burner, Snakes on the forfront...

Well Remy kinda knocked Char and Al out of the forfront... seems he wants to tell his story and hes not fucking around with it. We have gotten about 8k done in two days, no guff, hes just talkin and talking... and for those of you who dont know who the picutre is, Remy told me that he resembles Suly Erna from godsmack... and boy is the man yummy... So Remy Crane has my vote.

So the dragons are pushed back till we finish this one, or until remy looses steam, but i have a feeling the former will happen before the latter. Damn hes hot. So i just thought i would give an update...

Back to the hot Python...

Stella

Sexy right? Well hes out model for the first dragon in our Elementals series. His name is Char, and well, youll get to meet him soon enough. Hes a fire elemental, which is fitting given his personality.

So anyways, we still have yet to get our editor assignments from either of our publishers, and im really hoping we dont get them both at once.

Our promo ideas are in full swing, and i think anyone going to Nationals and the NJRWA confrence in october, and of course, any thing else i decide to get out to, will be plesently surprised. I just love giving out free stuff, and while this kinda stuff is different from the work i used to do in promotions (actually promoting a book and a band are relative) im still getting the hang of OL promotions. Well see how well we do with that...

Stella

our SURGE cover and other things.

Well thats our cover for WISHES. Cool right? i thought so. So we are just waiting for our editor assignment (for both Phaze and for Cobblestone press) and well be set.

We re submitted the original body of work to Phaze after we paired it down. its still over 85k, but i think cutting over 11k from it was quite astonishing. And today i learned all about promo items i never thought about... so well have some sweet goodie bags at nationals. its all going well...

oh yeah... I did a new site today here and its all about the series and the books... theres links on the author site to it. and did i mention we have a CHATROOM on it? Yippee! so all the character chats will be on there. so i was busy today.. hella busy!

Stella

And yet ANOTHER change in gears!

Well, since the inception of the Residents of the Eververse Community Forum, the guys have decided that we should take back control of the blog and they can play there. So if your intrested, they answer all their questons on the Forum now, as well as bitch and complain. So thats a good thing. we got the blog back...

So let's see... We got picked up by Cobblestone Press for our Story Bargain by Starlight, and PHAZE for our Surge submission, Wishes. needless to say we are estatic about it all and cant wait to get down and dirty promoting.... which will be soon enough on my end..

So what have WE, meaning Audra and I, been doing? Writing.. and a lot of it... We started full force our Dragon series, and as long as Char quits being stubborn, story one should be completely finished in a week or so... which is good... im a big fan of progress.

We finished the Ifrit sotry and are going over it to send out to PHAZE (its part of the trilogy of stories about our genies) and it looks pretty good... I think you guys will like Sinclair... I do...

OOH and i finally got my hair cut a way i like... so Kudos for my new Hairdresser Naomi...

And Audra is making her pans for this summer... and im so excited to see her...

Stella

Wishes, Surge Submission...

Marsh walked into the lavish living room and saw the beauty pouring herself a drink from the brandy decanter. It was true that he had been sent in to meet her, but god if she wasn’t fine as hell. Cash said to watch her, do anything to gain her trust, and Marsh fully intended on doing just that.
The woman was all curves in all the right places, a mane of hair that would do a lion proud. Good god, hips made for fucking and a set of lips ripe for a cock. He was going to enjoy this, a lot.

She noticed him standing to the side of the doorway, more in the shadow then in the doorway, and he was certain that this gorgeous little human wasn’t sure how he got into the room without her noticing the door opening.
“So, you’re Janey? You’re the little tart Taylor sent me to work with on this? Or was it sent me to play with? I can’t remember, but I think I shall enjoy the later more, you like the sound of that?”

She regarded him with a bit of interest. “I suppose I might ... of course I’ll have to put you through some very... rigorous testing...”
Yeah she was interested alright, but then again, most women were, until they got into it. Then that was a whole another ballgame. “Yeah? Well... I’m sure I can oblige you woman... lord knows I need some rigorous activity to get be back in the swing. You like it raw baby?”

The look in her eyes was enough of an answer. She smirked at him. “Raw and wild.” She ran her hands over her body, over the luscious curves that were her ample breasts and he was close to salivating. This woman had no clue as to who she was playing with. Taylor told him that it would be a “Who fucks who” situations to prove who was boss in this job, and Marsh planned on being the one to win this little battle of the sexes.

Sounds good doesnt it? Well it better, its my story. Wishes just got picked up by the sexy ladies at Phaze and both Janey and i are estatic... Be on the look out... the story is all true, i swear. *Wink*

Marsh

And I beat Cash.

Hey everyone. So i found out recently that mine and Snows Story, Bargain by Starlight got picked up by the beautiful ladies at Cobblestone Press. Needless to say Im greatful... after all, I beat Cash.*grins* Yep, I got something published before the big brother did. Hes stewing just so you know.

So anyway, we havent seen the cover yet but the girls are estatic, and i better get off this thing so Snow can tell you all about her feelings. The woman is fantastic. So Ill be around more as our release date gets closer...

Dimitri

So it seems I'm First..

Hello all you lucky people!

I never thought any one of my stories would be published first, but here it is at Pretty/Scary, The Sleeping. *surpresses a giggle* Sorry but Remembering that night always makes me giggle. Drake, ooh lord what can i say about him that night? He was in in demonic twenties, and i was a bit older than him, and i think personally had that Mrs. Robinson complex going on, lord knows The Freshman wasnt even a thought in its creators mind when this went on.

So, Im Alabaster, second Princess of the Succubus house. people tell me i look like Penelope Cruz, but i say she looks like me. I mean, im much much older than she ever will be. How old you ask? Dont bother, a lady dosent reveal her age, especially when she looks like shes in her thirties.

So im sure you all have questions for me or the rest of the guys, and youll get to,
I should say thought that that was the only encounter Drake and i had, soon after i met Sallos, and well, i never looked back. So I'm sure youll hear more from me in the future, im just super psyched that i got to be the first to start posting here. Im not sure if Drake will be posting here, if ever, but, you can always leave a comment and let him know you wanna see what he has to say, i know the lunatic reads this, especially if he thinks theres going to be something said on himself.

So thanks for reading mine and Drakes story, your going to love each of our respective books... Hot hot hot... just like my Sallos....

Alabaster

The Sleeping.. and a change of gears...

So we have been asked to join with Pretty/Scary in their Fiction endevor, and came up with the story called The Sleeping. Its about Drake and Alabaster, and sicne its tecnically our first published work, we decided that we were going to do something a little different. From now on this blog will be inhabited by everyone in the eververse, and if you want info on the series and Eververse in general, please visit out Live journal (http://www.livejournal.com/eververse).

So from today on... enjoy the people of the Eververse.

So long.

~Stella~

how cool?

So yesterday we got told that Eververse, got some press on the Pretty/Scary website.

For those of you who dont know, Pretty Scary is a horror website made by women about women. They have a horror and paranormal romance area and they do reviews and what not.

Well they are super cool, and we love the site, and they did a blurb about us on it. Im SO excited about this, the books arent even out yet and we have some really positive press. Its super amazing. Now all we need is the book series to get picked up... and my fingers are still crossed...

So i hope you all enjoy the blurb...

~Stella~

apparently some people just dont get it. We are the bad guys. we are just slightly less bad then others.

So I have a gripe about a rejection we got yesterday. We were told that our "Heros" werent really heros but Badguys. Duh. Now im sorry but im seriously tired of reading about the "Good" guy thats all sweetness and light, who never had a parking ticket in their life, let alone persued a career in B and E.

Our heros are the Anit hero. They are the guys that are good, and mean well, but circumstance has dealt them a shitty hand. They are the guys that dont put themselves off as the good guy to the world. They are taboo, forbidden, the kinda guy you fantasize about taking you and ravishing you just because they want to. They Love their women, and family, and do whats right for them, but that dosent mean they are upstanding citizens. We have Thieves, hitmen, pimps, Spell dealers, a Fence or two, enforcers, Kings, Princes... and lest we all forget, they are Demons... Since when are demons all sweetness and light?

I think that its unfair to judge them on the fact that they arent the perverbial heros, that they have questionable morals and even more questionable jobs. Youll see further down the line, our resident pimp, well hes not what he seems. Yes, hes in the flesh trade, but hes very good to his girls. and, ever thing its not something he really wants to do?

So thats my gripe about our characters. Im still stewing about it... and apparently, they really just didnt get it, and enough people have gotten it... and like the refreshing change of pace. We are diffrent, and our books are diffrent. I dont think anyone has really attemped this before, fom what i have seen, but im hoping we get the chance.

Curious yet?

Stella

So the next contest is again, another set of lyrics. It pertains to a
couple that has been written about.The song is When one 8 Becomes two
Zeros by Glass jaw.

I'm glad that you're near
And I'm sad when you're here
This is what it's like to be me
I'm glad that you're here
And I'm sad that you're near
This is what it's like to die alone.

This all hurts me so much
That I honestly belive
You're the one this is hard for
Iv'e barterd tact for wit
And Iv'e already made up
A billion stories about you.

Knee deep in static
I hear you breaking up
I'm breaking up
I guess we're breaking up
You're not the other woman
You're just another(woman)
Another hobby for a guy like me.

You've given me a heart like a gun
And I'm so shocked that I made it through
These billion days.
I didn't think I could tough it out for those days
A billion.

Knee deep in static
I hear you breaking up
I'm breaking up
I guess we're breaking up
You're not the other woman
You're just another(woman)
Another hobby for a guy like me.

So we're growing?
I'm sure
There's no other I can turn to
Theres no other I can turn to
If not you, heart
Who else can I belive???

Knee deep in static
I hear you breaking up
I'm breaking up
I guess we're breaking up
You're not the other woman
You're just another(woman)
Another hobby for a guy like me.

I hope you enjoy dying alone

Now the contest is....

1. Name who the song represents
2. the song is the thoughts of the certian individual, who are they
thinking about
3. Bonus: A song partial, called Hotel of the White Locust.

Now I kiss up to God my fists
and I pray to keep my head
though I like your pretty eyes better blackened
and my fists all fucking red.
Through sickness and health,
I've kissed up to God two years, I have focused..
On the cameos made by the tiger in the valley of the fucking locust.

Who could ever..
Who the fuck could ever..
Take the place of me?
Who could ever..
Who the fuck could ever..
No one can the place of me?

Wipe...
Wipe off your mouth.
Get up off your knees and make me your god.
Who could ever,
Who the fuck could ever?
It's sexual debauchery you fucking cunt, you fucking whore,
You cost what you're worth.

Followed by a boy like this,
Reignited by all your visits.
As long as your mouth is shut you'll still be fuckin beautiful.

Pack your shit and leave, and take my memories of her with you.
(I don't need to know)
[x10]
...And take her fucking with you

WHo is the character in question talking about here?

Winner of this super contest will wind a aromatherapy prize. the prize
includes cented oil, a lightbulb defuser, incense, an incense holder,
candles, bath salts and some other goodies... Good luck to all!