Working on Dragon Fae and The Vampire is MINE!

It's not written completely yet, started, but I wanted to share a new cover I have for a YA book coming up! :) Don't you love the cover???

*sigh*

I need more hours in the day!

Terry

Dragon Fae, Book 5, at Least the Cover...

I had a bit of fun with making the cover for the 5th book in the World of Fae series, Dragon Fae. I'm going to try and change the title some to make it stand out more...What do you think she's looking at?

Doesn't she look like she could be one of the dragon fae???

Off to work. It's going to be a really long week!

Have a super Saturday!

Terry

www.terryspear.com

Fairy Tales Give Us a Place to Hide Away

It's time for the New Year, and I'm searching for a new cover for the fae series, but I wanted to pause and show off this beautiful artwork of a fairy princess by Nene Thomas.

I love fantasy and this embodies it. A winter fairy scene, the wise old owls, the loyal steed, the beautiful fae princess.

Note she is wearing flowers despite the cold environment, the tiny touches of greenery and berries give a bit of color to the crisp white scene.

In The Ancient Fae, Princess Ritasia doesn't believe that old stuff from a dig site would ever yield anything important, but she discovers that there's no telling what importance an object can truly have...

Hope everyone is having a wonderful time for the first day of the New Year!

I'm off to work on edits for the first jaguar shifter story. Then it's another search for the perfect fae cover for book 5.

Terry
"Where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com

Demon Trouble Too (Demon Guardians Series)

That's the problem with being a writer. Truly. I have all these demons in my head. Well, not really. But I can be minding my own business, and the next thing I know, a story is filling pages. I had this teen book halfway written, the scenes just coming to me for Demon Trouble Too. I wrote 16 pages on the flight out to see my son and daughter-in-law in Pensacola, and when I was there, I was revising and writing and having fun.

Because that's what creating stories is all about. Sweating through the bad stuff. Not my bad stuff, but their bad stuff. Trying to figure out a way that despite all that's going on, they can have a happily ever after.

Oh, sure, I know a lot of teen drama doesn't have. But sorry. When I was a teen, my dad was laid off with countless other space program employees. We struggled to keep our house until we could sell. I love happily ever afters. I want a happily ever after. So even if the stories are a little dark, as my daughter would say, there's always a rainbow.

What about you? Do you love the tear jerkers? Or are happily ever afters the preferred reading material for you?

The Trouble with Demons (Demon Guardian Series, Book 1)

Ebook By Terry Spear
Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: March 10, 2011
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Words: 65301

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Witches and warlocks hide their true identities from the rest of the human population, while three teens with demon heritage living with human families, become unlikely companions in a race against time to deal with a demon threat to humankind in their own quirky way.

Extended Description

Alana is a half Kubiteron demon, half witch who witnesses a Matusa demon murder his summoners. He sees her in her astral form watching him and she's next on his list of victims.

Hunter is half human, half Matusa demon, fighting to keep the evil ones out of the human world. When he's poisoned, he sees the vision of a girl watching him, only she's not really all demon and not really all there. She offers to save his life, if he offers to protect her from one of his kind. But no lesser demon dictates terms to a Matusa.

Jared is a full Elantus demon, raised by humans, who's searching for his real parents. When Hunter saves his life, he vows his loyalty to him and designs a tracker device to locate demons entering the human world.

When Alana beats on Hunter's chest to get his heart beating again after he dies, twice, he knows the half demon is hot for him.

Often at odds, the three teens work together to stop the plans of a group of Matusa to take over the human race before it’s too late.

I finally finished Demon Trouble Too, book 2 of the Demon Guardian series. Book 1 was The Trouble with Demons. They're both about teens who are part demon, or full demon, who take it upon themselves to stop summoners from bringing demons into the world. Sometimes it works out well. Sometimes not!

Demon Trouble Too

Demon Trouble Too

Ebook By Terry Spear
Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Oct. 24, 2011
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Words: 43165
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Alana Fainot is a demon gate guardian, stuck in her last boring year of school. But not for long. Hunter and the rest of the gang show up when her astral form can't return to her physical form, and she's at the police station trying to talk her way out of having seen the murderer of a summoner. Hunter always knew Alana was trouble, but his kind of trouble, and he's not leaving Alana alone again.

Extended Description

Celeste Sweetwater, a new kind of demon, joins Hunter and Alana and the rest of the demon guardians in a fight to find a new kind of portal device that can summon several demons at once. But not only that, another Matusa has been unleashed on the unsuspecting human world and the demon guardians must stop him before he wreaks much more havoc.

But this time, the police are involved, paranormal investigators pounce on the area, and the whole mess seems to be spiraling out of the demon guardians' control.

Have a super day!

Terry Spear
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

The Trouble with Demons (Demon Guardian Series, Book 1)

I hadn't realized I'd already changed this cover 3 times!!! But, when I first uploaded a cover, I used a picture of the stormy fields. I thought it was cool. Looked ominous.



But then I thought it ought to have a teen in the picture...to show it's a YA. So I had this one professionally made. It's blah though. I still like the teen, but the picture itself just doesn't say much of anything.



Later, I began to figure out how to work Photoshop more and so I found a cool red sky, like that which is in the demon world, and a girl that would be more suitable for the lead character. She has attitude. Crossed arms indicates a defensiveness, which suits her well.

My critique partners say the cover for the second book is too similar. Girl too old. Etc, etc. So I found another picture of a girl that is perfect. Can't wait to make the cover! Now...I need to write the story! THEN make the cover!




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It's fun taking a break while creating a book cover. But the bottom line is that I need a story to go with it. LOL

All right, so I'm off to write for the day!

Do you ever get the cart before the horse???

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

I Have Nothing to Say...Except....

...that's the problem with writers. They don't have anything to say, but they'll say it anyway!

First, thanks to everyone who stopped by Karen Nutt's blog yesterday. I couldn't get signed into Twitter, so couldn't spread the word that way. But I finally was able to do it today.

Second, I joined YARWA to try it out. It's a young adult chapter of the Romance Writers of America.

Now, I have to say I was trying to wrest the wheel away from the pirate. Note that he has taken us aground. And I am sure I can sail better than he can.

Why did I picture this here? The YARWA motto is say it like a pirate: "yarh" or something like that!

I thought it was cute.

He's not though. He's rather on the scrawny side. No meat on his bones. No muscles. No golden tanned skin. Even bald, if I can make out the situation under his pirate's hat and all.

Now note, my hat is also a pirate's hat. Well, maybe not real piratey looking, but I've worn it in many an ocean, protecting my Celtic skin from sunburn, and so if you look really, really close, you can see the salt from the Seven Seas. Maybe not the Seven Seas--doesn't that sound like a pirate's yarn to you?

But several--lakes and oceans and the Gulf too.

And that's what I have to say today...nothing at all!!!

Have a terrific Tuesday, and remember...if you feel the urge, be a pirate and yarh!~

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

The Winged Fae's Video Trailer is Up!

And the 3rd book in The World of Fae, THE WINGED FAE is available!

I'm working on another couple in the series, and also Tom's story of the wolf fame! :)

The Winged Fae

Ebook By Terry Spear

Published: Sep. 02, 2011
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Words: 45210

Serena, a royal member of the Mabara winged fae, has one goal in mind. Stop an impending marriage with a dark fae. As the fae are known to do, she stirs up trouble that she hopes will make her point and get her off the hook. Only nothing goes as she plans.

Niall, a royal member of the Denkar, aka the dark fae, is visiting South Padre Island when he catches a winged fae painting graffiti on a wall on the island claimed by his people. He is at once fascinated with the lovely girl and intrigued by her audacity, but as one of the Denkar, he must take her to task. Yet she's armed with a sleeping potion that makes his life intolerable. Between freeing her from his people's dungeon, her own tower, and fighting a knight in her honor, he wonders if he's lost his mind over one beautiful winged fae--when she's betrothed to his cousin!

Available at these fine stores:

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In The World of Fae, I have also highlighted a location I love--South Padre Island, Texas. It's just as magical a place as Salado is to me.


What do you think of the trailer?

Terry
www.terryspear.com