Mallory

The Gold Hairball

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:43 GMT

Yep, that's the title to one of my plays.

I'd forgotten about it during all of last years rush to other things. Then I was looking for something else and rediscovered it. I then had to hunt down my Dramatists Sourcebook and decide on a theater to send it to. After all, it will never be produced if I don't send it out.

See, back then I actually went through the book page by page and marked specific theaters as especially good prospects for various plays.

Even with all that previous work it still took me all day to get the submission actually sent off.

But, it was a good feeling none the less.

For those of you who consider yourself a new writer - there is ONE trick to becoming published etc. - that secret is simply that publishing is a numbers game. You send off X number of pieces and you get X number of sales. That's it folks. SEND OUT YOUR WRITING. Even when you suck someone will buy it.

The only difference between you and those other authors is that what they are offered is currently MORE, not because their work is better than yours - a lot of the time it isn't better - they are offered more because they are slightly ahead of you as a BRAND or you are BRANDABLE (cute, special) - brands sell more and faster. That's it. Don't be sold on the idea that your writing sucks, unless you know it sucks. Mostly writing is decent to okay to maybe good to slightly better to good to even better to really fucking good.

Mallory

ism whining...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:56:28 GMT

It has become popular, almost essential, to demonstrate your alignment with conformity by loudly and persistently pointing out some new form of cultural privilege being criminally perpetrated upon others.

The collective result of all of this whining is fatigue.

Everyone is tired of hearing about it. You aren't a wheel. I won't grease you. Whining and fatigue create a rush to bypass your newest 'same old' meme. By the time some messages reaches mainstream media they have exceeded their active shelf life. Eventually those around you cease listening, cease hearing and your whine effectively silences your message.

Some cultures create stuff.

Some cultures steal stuff.

America is the second one. Got stuff, expect us to steal it.

If your culture is about appropriating, don't be surprised by appropriation.

Oh, while Americans are busy stealing the cultural goodies of other peoples, other peoples are eagerly stealing the appropriation culture of Americans. Goodies. Everyone wants them.

Embrace your greed and stop pretending to moral horror on your way home from shopping.

as a working writer

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:24 GMT

Most people know I've been a working writer for a long time. Working essentially means writing for hire or being paid for writing. This work comes in many forms. At the best of times I work on my personal writing and produce books, screenplays and other similar works. At other points I work on writing for others. Some of this writing is really fun. Some is rather boring but ALL of it is paid work.

When I started writing and for a few years thereafter my goal was for someone to accept my writing. I was very insecure about it. I jumped through a bunch of hoops and frequently had materials published without being paid.

It's part of the professional writer process. You may be early in your career at this moment. You may feel driven to be accepted by editors, to be published in some minor magazine (maybe even major magazine) for very little money. I get it. I went that route for a few years.

Back in the day I used to believe in the 'old' publishing model where I, the writer, had to sell myself to someone in power. I gave them my power and in return they received most of the money for the work I was doing. In addition, they usually wanted to change what I wrote. So, not only was I giving my power and my work's value to them, I was also giving up my original content, allowing it to say something else or be fitted to their agenda.

Taking back your power as a writer means you have to let go of your belief in the current writing/publishing model and system. You have to let go of believing that the people you see advertised and spoken about in the magazines are the best writers out there. They aren't. They are merely more successful at working inside the old model. Most of those writers are good writers. Some of those writers are brands, names familiar enough to maintain their product line. When you read most 'branded' writers you are likely to think that the writing is not particularly good or interesting. These people make the magazines from long-term consistent advertising and marketing and a few good books, usually written a long time ago, before they became brands. You see these well-known writers at conventions, book signings, award ceremonies and heading organizations centered on their genre.

I'm not telling you to buck the system. I am telling you that the system won't work for 95% of you. I am also telling you that the radical transformations in the current publishing world will change the old system forever. The truth is that the old publishing system has only existed for a very short time. It looks longer and more important than it really was. Every publishing system is a scheme for middle-men to take advantage of product creators. The new system is also a scheme but, it is only temporary. Under the old publishing scheme the writer typically made 6% of the wholesale price of the book AFTER the publishing costs were deducted. Today, the writer makes around 60% of the retail price of the book. Do you see the divide of tension? It exists. Today a writer can and should have ALL of their books in continuous print. It's YOUR backlist. Yes, this flood of available content makes it harder to rise into the awareness of the public. But, as a writer you should take 6% of your 60% and pay a publicity company to market you. Trust me. That measly amount is MORE than the remaining publishers will spend on you. So, you earn 50% or more. It's called basic MATH.

What you hear about the SHAME of SELF PUBLISHING is simply those in power trying to stay in power. Don't give your power away. Give up on the awards showering inside the incestuous circle. Give up on the membership requiring you to suck on the old publishing model. Use your sword instead of falling on it.

Prepping

Fri, 03 May 2013 19:42:57 GMT

I'm a big advocate for story prep. You may not think you are doing research by reading articles and checking facts but your work does a lot for a story by immersing the reader in things they don't know, details that make a story rich.

A few years back I was writing a piece on my own life. I had been a writer for a long time at that point. You might think that I could just reel off the details off the top of my head. After all, the subject was my own life. However, I ended up doing nearly as much research and fact-checking as I do on any story. Our memory is flawed and in constant evolution as how we think informs how we remember. At first I was only checking dates, times and things like that but relatively quickly I realized I needed more information. I delved into family records and compared images and family stories to what I was trying to write about.

My point is simply that the reader relies on the writer to convey as complete an experience as possible. At this point in my career I can identify an 'off-the-cuff' story as easily as I can spot a story heavily researched. One gets the details right or right enough for me to invest in what the writer is saying. That investment is critical. If you only capture your audience in a hesitant way, your reader will fall away when they encounter the first bit of detail or information that doesn't jive. Then it won't matter what the rest was about, with the reader gone the writing is silenced.

finding Ms. Goodstory...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:25:22 GMT

Recently I've read a lot of 'screen-writerly' advice that centers on the idea that all you need for a good screenplay is a memorable character. I get it. Viewers, just like readers, hook onto the protagonist for the ride. But, one of the problems I experience with so many recent films is the lack of story. Yes, the screenplay writer creates a memorable character and then leads the character through a predictable series of trite scenes. I learn nothing. I experience nothing. I spend the entire film noticing the plot holes, the set problems, the utterly predictable everything. Is this writing?

No.

It's formula.

Predictable characters and predictable stories produce predictably boring films.

Character is the vehicle that carries the viewer or reader into the story, it isn't the whole of the story. Character acts upon story and story acts upon character. If you don't have this action or if the action is so overdone that it has lapsed into circular thinking then you end up with a vehicle driving in circles passing the same terrain over and over again.

I don't go to watch a film merely to vegetate because I feel too lazy to get up and walk out.

The best films, for me, are those whose premise is small enough to occur in the life of the viewer or whose premise is so gobsmackingly excessive that the mundane is ripped away. That's it, one polarity or the other. Everything in between is filled with the 'deadly middle' ground of nothing special. The ones I find the most interesting are those whose premise takes me where I haven't been, with a character who shouldn't be the heroine in the first place. This is because I, as a viewer or reader, am an ESSENTIAL collaborator with the writer or producer of a film. Without me, your creation remains silent, unwatched and unread. If I am co-inhabiting the protagonist, it better be a damn good story because I don't want to feel like vanilla, mundane, mediocrity. You have to elevate me, torment me, shock me, captivate me and respect me. Without me, you don't exist as a whole piece. This means you have to include me as the co-creator, not drivel down to me from on high.

As the writer I have to create that space for all the collaborators necessary to bring my work to life.

Runaround Saturday...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:35:24 GMT

I'm one of those people who does plotting while driving. Typically I work out entire sections of one or more storylines or if I'm thinking about nonfiction I do brainstorming. This means when I return home I usually have too much to immediately imput into the machine. Lately I've started carrying index cards to jot more stuff down because I used to write all over my lunch napkins and they aren't the best for notes.

Today I can tell my brain will be doing this 'stuff' so I'm not even bothering to bring reading material for my wait periods. Mostly I people watch, think and brainstorm. The best part about today is that I will be in downtown San Francisco which is superb people watching territory, I get to drive over the Golden Gate Bridge (twice) and visit Emeryville for the train station. Lots of opportunities in all of that for neato brain work.

Procrastination Friday...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:32:52 GMT

Yup, I'm an hour away from uhmmm an adventure with a young male of my acquaintance. I'm always a mentally focusing mess in advance of such activities. So, what I do is goof off. I may actually have him sort out my cabinet of naughty things, that sounds like a fun way to muck with his head. LOL

He already messaged me with eager anticipation.

And, I already bathed and quasi cleaned the room. So, with all of this going on you really expect me to do any productive writing work? Heck no. My personal lie is that if I start something I will have to pause once I'm in the middle and then I will be distracted by ...both...

However, I did figure out that photo thing yesterday so this means I can post my book covers here and SPAM everyone I know. Isn't that thrilling, for you?

Truthfully, I totally came up with a major screenplay in my head this week. Nothing much on paper but the way my brain works it will roar out in a few days and then I'll crash, and then revise. Maybe it will start next week. I have a quicky still to finish tomorrow first.

try again

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:56:41 GMT

Second try at photo test

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:41:12 GMT

This should be a cool book thing :)

Test Post

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:36:06 GMT

I like book things and I also like posting images in blogs - this is my test of both.

http://pinterest.com/pin/523050944192599144

If you can see this, isn't it cool?

Okay, time to post and see how it did. :)

Motivation Frustrations...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:32:26 GMT

I would like to imagine that my motivation is constant but it is anything but. What typically happens is more like a roller coaster ride. Some days I can climb the big hill, other days I can't even manage to coast downhill. It's frustrating. The other side of writing is getting paid. Writing is work, even if you love doing it. Work takes time and energy and quite frankly everyone I know has bills to pay. Right now the publishing scene is the Wild West. Everyone is a writer and that puts so much content out there that the reader fatigues trying to find what they want.

My perspective is not to expend more of my time on endless marketing that reaches only the same people who already are not the correct demographic for a lot of my work. Frankly, I'm friends with more writers than with readers. Writers seldom buy other written works unless it is someone they are tight with. Most gush over other publication by writers they are socially networked with, but the gush doesn't manifest as purchases or even the sharing of books on their own network. Most writers view all other writers as competition or the enemy that they are also friends with. You see the problem here? Marketing alternatives require lots of time trying to connect with other networks. I get it. The alternative is to let your work speak to the readers OVER TIME. This means readers must find you, read you and recommend you. It means a trickle of sales.

On the plus side, if your work is good or interesting or even really interesting, eventually you will receive attention and more sales. The cost is trust. You have to believe that what you are doing is good. You have to believe that eventually quality wins out. You have to keep producing new work, trust the old and be frugal in your spending. This is what I do. I trust. I know that my nonfiction is unusual and of good quality. I know that eventually it will reach the right hands and find its place in the universal dialogue of humanity. Until then, I struggle to overcome the familiar resistance to motivation. It's my battle.

Gornoston kickstarter launch day!!!!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:03:18 GMT

Today my first ever kickstarter campaign started. This campaign is for two romance novels: Gornoston and The Bride of Gornoston's Journal. Both are set in the Gornoston Castle universe. Both have intrepid heroines who manage to cause trouble and stir up mischief just by showing up. Please join me in bringing their stories to life. The campaign offers some very, very cool swag gifts and I am hoping it will buy me the time to write both books this fall.

Donate! (yes please)
Share the link with your social network! (greatly appreciated) Here's the link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frrmallory/gornoston-the-bride-of-gornostons-journal-2-romanc

A little or a lot, every dollar will help bring these books to life!

RSS Feed

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:56:52 GMT

Today I was 'creating' a biography on my amazon author page. This is always a bit uncomfortable. Technically the blurb is supposed to convey competence to any wandering reader who stops by. I have a generic bio at this point and used it with minimal changes. Then the prompt asked me for my blog RSS Feed. So I had to surf around LJ for the thing. I found it too. Cool! I also added my twitter feed. These days I've abandoned my author website mostly due to frustrations over how much maintenance was required for my temperamental attention span. I want to write. I don't want to be a website maintainer. My blog here was my compromise. I should do Word Press probably but that means more time away from writing to figure it out.

The problem I have with social media is that it is constantly evolving and all of those evolutions want to place new demands on my time and energy. The sites are in competition so they frequently (update) them which is a euphemism for change things to require new learning and fewer perks. The big sites are really a lot like our national government at this point, money siphons. I don't want to have to be in a state of constant updates. Still, marketing of some kind must be done and social is the current currency and it isn't too costly.

Being public pushes my buttons. I'm a writer - I sit in cool dark places and create. Being public is a different skill set. I have to actively make myself post photos of self and do the promotional minimums. However, I'm the kind of person who recognizes that where I have 'charge' is in areas I most probably need to explore. So, I'm putting more of me out there, more of me in my books and trying to become more transparent and clear. It's tricky. My innards argue about all of this...a lot.

Since I am now actively writing screenplays I also know that soon I will need to pitch one or more before people who represent or buy screenplays. I'm not afraid of public speaking but it isn't what I seek out for pleasure. I remind myself that I am only dealing with one tiny step today - like fixing up my author page on amazon. I'm not pitching today. So, I'm not borrowing that step until I need to do it.

Book Marketing

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:50:52 GMT

I've had a rough month financially due to some unexpected bills coupled to one income source simply not paying this month. On the other hand I've had a remarkably excellent first quarter in terms of finalizing and having three books published, a tremendous feat. The struggle is that these books require a marketing budget that has been undercut due to the above mentioned issues. Much as I dislike pimping my books the reality is that you can help by sharing my posts or by actually buying one of my books. True, I won't get the cash right away but expanded sales now means marketing properly will arrive faster and some of the anxiety I feel will subside.

If you have never read my nonfiction content, my words in my titles might scare you off a bit. I write about sex but my books won't embarrass you. What I write about isn't about what body part to put where - I figure you already know how to do that part. What I write about is the psychology and hidden physiology that effects every persons sex life. What you don't know is hurting you. In my world I imagine that every adult really wants to have great sex, great relationships and improved personal potentials. What I write about are the peculiar issues that each of us face when we try to advocate (ask for) the sex, intimacy and the rich connections we want and deserve with other people.

I also write about humanist feminism and I explore why everyone is being shortchanged by the current and continuing efforts by the far right and feminists to criminalize sex. I believe we are all in this together. It's our sexual freedoms that are always at the front of the rhetoric over safety or religious morality. Most, if not all, of the arguments around human sexuality are fueled by false claims and misrepresented studies. Every time we (as a culture) listen to this nonsense our sex lives get worse, our separation from deep connections with each other widens and our mental health declines. I want to empower my readers with the information they need to push back and reclaim their basic human rights to great sex.

So, please join me. I'm posting my amazon author page here. Please be sociable and share my book links. If you have my new books, please review them on amazon or goodreads. I know that eventually my financial woes will level out but I write better and more effectively with less stress. http://www.amazon.com/F.R.R.-Mallory/e/B000APFVPE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Thank you!

Finding Focus

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:17:28 GMT

Yesterday was all about retreating from my financial worries and watching NCIS on television.

I've found that sometimes I just need to check out and not do, not make, not think and generally not be involved in the whirl that is often my normal. Today, I'm refreshed although I still note that my mood is not uplifted and I'm normally a positive person. I have a side job to do today and then at the same time I want to complete and load my kickstarter campaign. My shoulders are stiff a bit and I feel tension in my body. Hopefully my busy efforts will elevate my mood as the day wears on.

It's sunny out - I should probably head outside for some Vitamin D and distraction.

Cover Art

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:05:23 GMT

I've been making a lot of covers recently and some have been quite successful. In the process I've learned a few things.

Your book cover IS your story trailer. It's hugely important.

If your cover doesn't HOOK your reader in 5 seconds they usually won't buy it.

Pretty women on covers attract both male and FEMALE readers.

Your cover MUST tell a story easily and quickly.

Your cover title should be large, in a simple and easy to read font and appropriate for the tone of your book.

Your name should be large, in a simple and easy to read font but smaller than your title.

Your spine title should be as large as you can make it and easy to read facing out on a bookshelf.

Your cover image or art MUST be high dpi (dots per inch) or it looks sucky in print

Unless impossible, always bleed the sides of your cover.

People like looking at eyes, try to position your cover image person so they appear to look AT the reader.

When in doubt, add humor into your cover art.

Use contrasts in your cover art, it makes readers curious to see what's inside.

Marketing tips:

ALWAYS include a cover image when you talk about your book on social media sites

Have several image sizes ready to fit most sites. (resize with your photo-manipulation program)

ALWAYS include links to the sales pages of your books when you talk about your books.

Crosspost to all your social sites when talking about your works.

Spend 30 minutes each week finding new places to post about your books.

Remember that other writers seldom buy your books. They seldom reciprocate.

Enroll your family in sharing your book stuff on their social networks.

Join a local book reading/writing group and enroll the members in sharing your book stuff on their social networks.

Provide .pdf ARC (advance review copies) to a group of friends or fans with a REVIEW on amazon requirement.

Follow up with your ARC reviewers once your book is live.

Look for book clubs in your town and try to get invited to do a reading for their group. Bring books to sell.

Make business cards with your book cover on the card. Give them to people. Include a coupon code for the book ON the card.

Make postcards with your book cover on the card. Send 5-10 inside an envelope to your friends and family, they can mail them to their friends and family. Include the ISBN number - your website and social media stuff. Be sociable.

Make laminated bookmarks with cord or ribbon tassels. Use your book cover on one side, your ISBN and website. On the other side use a short summary of the book. Give these away at signings or other events, even birthday parties.

Carry your marketing with you. ALWAYS have stuff to hand to people when they ask you what you do for a living.

* I create interesting and inexpensive book covers. Email or message me if you want one.

Mallory

Importing video

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:12:04 GMT

So, yesterday I tried (in vain) to import my video from my video camera to my computer. The instructions were simple enough, plug in both ends, turn the camera on and toggle the send to computer button. Did that. Got a file even. Got the 'bits' in the file. iMovie, on the other hand, refused to 'see' the camera and refused to comprehend the files. Eventually my son rescued me and plugged the camera into 'his' pc and voila, the files magically appeared and he magically put them on my thumb drive and in a few minutes I intend to magically load and use them. I'm still irked though. My mac kept trying to open them with iphoto - uhmm no.

In theory this means I have enough footage to compose a workable trailer for my first ever kickstarter attempt. I have edited and composed a video before but long enough ago that I am once again learning the software and goodies. Should be both fun and probably aggravating. Still, no complaints.

I also drove a housemate to Novato today for a preliminary oral surgery appointment. It was so nice outside (the weather). As I waited with the sunroof open I could totally hear a million bugs all making bug sounds in the magnolia overhead. They were very loud. The parking lot was also too small and clients were annoyed trying to find parking - made for lots of annoyed people watching. I also saw a lot of dented cars. I believe these two are related.

Two reviews in so far :D :D :D

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:42:20 GMT

The Kinky Feminist has been out only 2 days and already two of my advance reviewers have posted reviews. I'm gobsmacked by what they said.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Kinky-Feminist-F-R-R-Mallory/product-reviews/1482700840/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

partial travel day

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:04:36 GMT

I'm off to Sacramento for a quickie trip to pick up the model for my trailer. This will tire me out but hopefully I will recover enough to get something else done today as well. I don't have to take her back as a second model will be driving them both back.

The positive of shooting models is that I will have some live footage to help out the trailer. The negative is the drive and hoping I remember to get all the shots I need for later. The other positive is I get out for several hours and get to see the world. I stay inside a bit too much and veg in front of my computer.

During the trip I need to sort out all of the details of the shoot and make a mental script.

creating a book trailer

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:32:59 GMT

Today I am working on props for my first book trailer. I am actually going to try out the kickstarter crowd sourcing concept and see how it works or if it will work for me so I can spend more time on writing and less on scrambling around to make ends meet. You can help me at the point where I actually need sponsors which will be a few days at least since I am going to hire a model for some footage for the trailer and that will take me a couple days to sort out.

Anyway. The first step to creating a trailer is sorting out images for the book cover(s). In my case I'm doing a double book funding so it was two covers. I've actually professionally designed a lot of book covers so if you want one or more done, comment here or message me on Facebook. I'm very inexpensive and very fast and best of all I can manage a really nice cover for your projects. Anyway, that's the first step. You need something to turn into a video and it needs to relate specifically to your potential or actual book.

Next, I determined I needed a few props so I am making them. After these bits are done I will write up a very basic script so that I know what I'm doing and including in the trailer. I'm intending on a 2.5-3 minute trailer. I have a voice over microphone and I will use that to animate my video images. I mix all of this using iMovie on my Mac.

Of all of this I'm only really nervous about the potential sponsors. Writing is fraught with rejections both large and small, so much so that the anxiety over possible rejections can inhibit actively seeking out publication or even actively writing your next project. It's what all writers cope with.

Oh, this is my first auto-posting to Facebook and Twitter - go me!!!

instability

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:48:51 GMT

I just heard about the bombings in Boston and my heart goes out to everyone injured or dead.

Without knowing anything in particular about who may be behind such bombs, I want to talk briefly about instability.

Over the course of my life the world has rapidly changed. Many of these changes have striking positive features and we like to interpret them as positives. These include advances against racism, sexism, sexual orientations etc. Unfortunately, these changes also have striking negative features as well. People adapt to what they interpret as 'normal' (this is the world they experienced or were conditioned to as children), when change alters their knowledge they tend to feel unsafe. When people feel unsafe they experience fear. When people experience fear they usually attempt to transfer their fear to others to 'share' their feelings or they attempt to end the change that they feel makes them unsafe. These responses are behavior management responses. Our culture, and most cultures of the world, do a very poor job at educating young people to manage their emotional states in productive and non-harmful ways. The result can be extreme acts that reflect the degree of fear one person or several like-minded persons share about change. We need to understand that these are behavior problems that can be identified and improved prior to acting out. We need to start investing in behavior management and to cease pandering to bad behavior.

We are entering a period of increasing world-wide instability. Each of us has a species obligation to assist the persons immediately in our proximity with learning and improving their behavior management processing. They will experience fear and feeling unsafe, it's okay, it's part of change. If each of us tenders and mentors each other we can disable this escalation process. Fear is best confronted with information, information, compassion and more information.

I've decided to reactivate here

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:39:54 GMT

Hi everyone,

Since I allowed my author website to lapse last year amidst much renovation busyness, I've decided to reactivate this account to give people another location where they can find me.

I am on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/F.R.R.Mallory
Twitter: mallory_twi
Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/users/955194

and other places...

Recent news: So far this year I've had 3 books published. Two are up on my amazon author page at:
http://www.amazon.com/F.R.R.-Mallory/e/B000APFVPE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365962898&sr=1-1
One is still heading over to amazon but you can find it here: https://www.createspace.com/4196727
Last night I uploaded a formerly published short story to Smashwords here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/306215

I am hoping to upload more of my short stories, novellas and other writings on Smashwords ongoing (neato platform).

Friend me on any of the locations and of course, go buy you some good reads from me or other authors you like. We need the support!!!

Nearly the end

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:05:47 GMT

Two more chapters in the can. I am estimating 1-3 till the end, depending on loose ends and things.

Right now my heroine is getting ready to do battle with the birds - think Alfred Hitchcock type birds. Actually, she is doing battle with the bird 'flu' but you won't tell anyone will you?

She is barefoot and in her bra and camo pants - cute huh?

Chapter 20

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:10:27 GMT

My chapters are under 3000 words in length so I am just over 45,000 words at this point. Still, I am quite pleased to be managing active chapter writing and actually a reasonable shot at finishing this book in a week or so. That is both cool and a bit scary. I think Jazi's story (Mata Hari's Headdress) is up next AFTER I edit ES for Chelsea and cash.

Mom is threatening on the horizon - probably Saturday with sister and sick step dad - OMG

Chapter 19

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:44:03 GMT

And, another one down :)

This was a fun chapter because Charlotte was asleep and in a magical war :) She found her ring, on the finger of a man and held his hand to force him to use it. Such fun!

She has discovered, that she is probably a witch -- who knew!