If you look really closely at the eye, you can see she's got an eye on Savage Hunger! I was trying to learn how to change eye color in eyes! I did play around with it and I didn't do what it was supposed to! But it kind of did. :) This was Silaynne's original eye.
Silaynne has some neat tutorials on how to do it.
Anyway! I'll keep playing around with it another day! Have to keep writing.
But I used a different technique to change the eye color, made it a little more visible in Dragon Fae....She has very pretty pale green eyes. I didn't want to change that to a bright green, but wanted to make her green eyes stand out a little more. :)
Only 13,000 words to go!!!
I had ARCs of A Howl for a Highlander come in last night, that I didn't realize were sitting next to my front door and figured I'd put out the call on Facebook to see if any reviewers wanted a copy to review, and voila! Within an hour, they were all asked for. I was shocked!!! First, that I got any copies, and 2nd that they went that fast!!!!
I'm so glad everyone is having fun with the wolves!
I expected to be getting requests for days until they were all gone. Shows what I know!
Now I've got to run out to get envelopes to ship them in. I could have sworn I bought two bundles of them, but I probably used all those already!
And...I have to say that about the man who jumped into the tiger's zoo pen--yikes!!!! Was it really worth it?
In my books I talk about the shifters becoming one with their shifter halves, but hey they ARE shifters. So they can do that!
I don't recommend anyone getting that close to a big cat!!! With wolves, which is why I never can understand that people make the comments that wolves will kill people because they don't, cougars and bears do, and tigers and lions do...(jaguars don't)...but you just don't want to pet the big cats. Or bears.
Okay, off to write and then I have to run into town for envelopes.
Have a nice Sunday and remember...if you are not a shifter, and even if you are--a werewolf or jaguar shifter don't belong in a tiger's pen...don't try to pet the big cat. Get a little one.
Or get them in my books. They're hunky and very safe. :)
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
I thought this was a fun way to show a little branding and have some fun with it. It's free at imikimi.com and this one shows just where I'm at--floating in the clouds as usual while the wolf is fully grounded!
Could be that the wolf is part of my pack and he's thinking about me. You never know.
Someone said I was having too much fun now that I am writing full time. You better believe it! I'm writing, of course. 3-4,000 words per day with the fast approaching deadline of Jaguar Fever, and then A SEAL Wolf Christmas after that. But getting creative is what it's all about when writing and promoting.imikimi - sharing creativity 
imikimi - sharing creativityI write in a fae world. Or...about a fae world, but here, if you just use your imagination a tiny bit, this is how the fae see me!
I had no idea the fae has an eye on me. Maybe wondering if I really do know something about them?
That can be dangerous, you see. The fae are tricksters visiting our world to amuse themselves at the expense of humans. So anyone who can see the fae are a danger to them.
That's how it all begins. Making up stories, that is. We have to feel them. Be the characters. Share their experiences. The more conflict they have, the more conflict we have. We don't just send our characters out into the big, bad world and let them take care of it all on their own. Not when we made up that big, bad world in the beginning.
It's just not fair. So WE have to experience all the joys and the downers, all the good stuff and the bad.Too.
The World of Fae
Whatever you endeavor to do, make it fun. Life is too short not to! Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to enter a fae world? Dark and mysterious? Light and majestic? Awe-inspiring? Terrifying?
Like humans, they all have their own interests, agendas, likes and dislikes.
The Dark Fae They're not Tinker Bell-tiny, or make funny little tinkling bell sounds to get someone's attention.
The Deadly Fae They don't always get what they want but it doesn't deter them from trying.
The Winged FaeThey have human desires but magical powers.
The Ancient Fae They can be devilishly fun and devilishly bad.
The Dragon Fae --coming
What would you do if you came across the fae?
Trying to conserve water, reduce evaporation, all that sort of thing, I spread bark mulch underneath my shrubs. It looks nicer than bare earth too. Great idea, right?
Except for one thing. My neighbor has chickens and they dig in it. So every time that I sweep it off the brick walkway and back under my shrubs, the chickens invade and scratch it all back onto my patio.
That's me above. Only I don't get the eggs!
When I lived in Oklahoma, we had problems with a neighbor who had cows. He believed since he sold the land to folks on the ridge and the rest of the land around us was his cattle grazing land, he shouldn't have to fence them in. That we had to fence his cattle out. Didn't work. The calves got beyond my split rail fence, the cows reached their heads underneath the lower posts and yanked out all of my newly planted shrubs, killing them. After all that work of planting around 30 shrubs, I was pretty angry.
Now, I like animals. And I have to admit those doe-eyed cows and calves tugged at my heart, but the farmer only cared about eating them. And he didn't care anything about what they did to the properties that he'd sold to others.
Free range went out a couple of centuries ago! Free range meant he could graze his cattle anywhere. Then barbed wire fencing came into fashion. Instead of barbed wire though...I just got a lawyer's letter explaining we weren't living in "that" world any longer and he had to fence his cows to keep them contained off our property. He moved his cows, knowing he couldn't put fences up here, and there, and everywhere. Too many homesteads. The property all cut up. Talk about wanting your beef and eating it too!
I still love living out with the "wild" animals.
Only, I wish they'd quit messing with my garden! The good thing about the chickens is they do eat bugs. Have at it! I've got plenty of those!
Ever have problems with neighbor's pets???
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com
See the little path and the slight rise in the hill and then the hole in the rock? That's an entrance to the castle.
I just loved it. I could envision guarding that entrance from enemies, or hoping that if I entered through there, I would be thought of as friend, not foe.
The castle sat high above cliffs so not easily accessible.
I envisioned the lairds who ruled over the castle and lands--whether they be the usual sort, a little wolfish, or even part of the fae world. :)
So if you visited here in the distant past, who would you have encountered?
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com
Some thought that the blurred photo I used in The Dark Fae book trailer was photo shop magic.
But it's really true fae magic.
Okay, here's the secret: We were driving through a really cool tunnel of trees. I was sitting in the back seat, trying to take pictures of everything and anything, and I wanted desperately to take a picture of this mystical area after leaving the B&B. We drove through it several times, seeing a deer in the thick forest the one time as we had to find a place to eat dinner, and we ventured onto one of the islands the next day and returned to the B&B that night.
So I took the photo from the back seat, trying to get a picture through the windshield. We were really going slow as it was pretty much a one-car road and it wound around so you couldn't see head-on traffic coming up. Actually, if I had been driving, we would have been going slower. Which would have meant we probably wouldn't have seen half as much of Scotland as we did! :)
Luckily, we only encountered another car coming from the opposite direction once. And the other good part was that it didn't matter which side of the road we drove on. There weren't two sides. :)
Clever, the Scots, eh?
The only thing I photo shopped out was the rear view mirror, that had the nerve to be in the picture, and a little bit of one of the head rests, same story. :)
And that's the story...how we fae transported in Scotland. :)
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com
Who needs sleep? Well, I do.
But when the story is keeping me awake, I have to write it or I'll keep thinking about it over and over, trying to "remember" it for when I wake. Which can have disastrous consequences. In other words, I don't recall anything I thought of once I wake. Or, I don't ever sleep, and still can't remember what I was thinking of.
So what happens when the story hits in the middle of the night?
I see full scenes.
Sometimes it just happens. Last night, I woke from a nightmare and couldn't quit thinking about work and whatnot, and couldn't get back to sleep. So I forced myself to think about a scene in The Winged Fae I needed to write.
And that's when it happened.
I can stare at my computer screen every minute I have free from work and not get anything written. So sometimes I just have to get away from the computer and brainstorm, and then if it comes to me, I begin to write it down by long hand.
Which is why I'm up really early typing my notes up now.
Well, actually, I never got back to sleep.
It's really a major scene, the turning point in the story. I need to write more that leads up to it. And flesh it out more, but I actually wrote the whole scene--9 pages long, 3,000 words. :)
Less than 9,000 words to go and The Winged Fae will be done!
Did it come to me in a dream? Absolutely not. I was fully awake, sort of. Now I'm even less so.
:)
I told you the fae are mischievous!
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com
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