totally of the freaky …

Posted on September 8, 2011 by deneane elise clark

So I spent Labor Day weekend with my parents in south Mississippi.  The weekend was supposed to be a writing weekend dedicated to finishing the rough on Mercy, but I neglected to give my parents explicit instructions about my visit, which should have included the phrase “tell no one I am here.”  Because of this, I wrote very little and spent time visiting with a revolving door of people I love dearly.  Not a bad thing, of course.

Unless you’re on a deadline.  Oops.

But why did I title this blog post “totally of the freaky?”  Well.  When I sent the .jpg of the cover art on Mercy to Mama and Daddy, she told me that the cover looked remarkably similar to the house they lived in while Daddy was stationed in England with the Air Force.  So she dragged out the old picture boxes and we started going through them until we found the picture below.  Keep in mind that I have no control over the cover art on my books … that is totally handled by my publisher.  Also, this is the house in which I was conceived, though I was actually born in the US:

And, of course … the cover of Mercy:

Totally of the freaky, yes?  : )  I love everything about it.  Be beautiful, my friends.

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sunday nights …

Posted on August 29, 2011 by deneane elise clark

… are always difficult for me.  i become almost nocturnal on the weekends, staying up all night writing, and then sleeping into the middle of the afternoon.  This week is no different.  i’m typing this at ~glancing at the clock~ 3:36am, even though i know my alarm will be going off in less than three hours for me to begin my day with a workout, a shower, and a grueling workday.

Monday nights often end early, sometimes as soon as i get home, in an attempt to reset my internal clock to a “normal” day.

You’d think i’d learn, and try not to get so far off kilter in two tiny little days, but i don’t, i haven’t, and i doubt i ever will.  Someday, perhaps, i’ll be able to live off just my writing alone, but that day has yet to arrive, and so i continue this cycle.

i do get a great deal accomplished, writing-wise.  But then i hit that moment when i know i have to put the notebook aside, close the word processing program and go to bed.  That’s when it really begins to suck.  i stare at the ceiling for a while.  Then i think of little things i need to do.  Tonight, it was organize my makeup bag and attend to my manicure.   At 2am.  And now it’s … this.  Typing up a boring blog post about why i should be sleeping, but am, instead, up typing a boring blog post about why i should be … etc.

You get it

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cover art on Mercy

Posted on August 25, 2011 by deneane elise clark

It’s small.  I’ll get a better one soon.  : )  But here it is:

Will be posting more stuffage soonish.  My brain is crowded.  For now, be beautiful my friends.

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Patience

Posted on August 15, 2011 by deneane elise clark

Okay, I give.  I call uncle.  I’m rolling over and accepting my fate.  I have heard your requests, your demands, your questions, and your concerns.  I have read the emails, posted comments, Facebook messages, and Twitter mentions.

The answer is yes.

Patience has been, well … um …

… patient.

She has raised her sisters faithfully and with good humor.  She has watched her younger siblings go off to fall in love, to marry and make babies.  (Well, technically, she hasn’t watched them make babies, cuz, like … ewww.  But you know what I mean.)  Now, with only one of her charges left to marry off to one last hapless nobleman, what is to become of steady, reliable, quite decidedly on the shelf Patience?

I am here to tell you that Patience will get a chance to dance at the ball.  It’s only right, you see, that she not be left in Pelthamshire to grow gracefully old and darn her Papa’s socks.  And, now that I think about it, it’s high time absent-minded ol’ Bingham retrieved his nose from his dusty tomes, ventured out of his study and into the real world, and tried his own hand at love.  Don’t you agree?

I’m so looking forward to this.  ~rubbing hands together gleefully~  Hang on to your hats, my friends.  : )

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search engine terms

Posted on August 8, 2011 by deneane elise clark

You are all important to me.  I’m serious about that.  While I don’t write with a particular audience in mind, I do write with gratitude that an audience exists.  You are the reason I am able to continue doing what I love.

Because of that, I very much enjoy interaction with you in whatever form it comes.  If you send me a request, no matter who you are, I am happy to add you as a friend on my Facebook page.  If you prefer Twitter, my account there is open and no follower is ever blocked.  If you post a comment to an entry  on this blog, I respond to it.  My email address is prominently displayed on this blog, and I answer every email I receive.  Seriously … I do.  It might take a couple days, but I get to them, and am grateful for them.

I also follow my statistics on this blog closely.  I know how many of you visit me, and I mostly know how you got here, if you were referred by a link.  The other thing I can see, though I don’t have the ability to see who placed it there, are the search engine terms entered into the various search vehicles available to all of us on the web.  Those terms show up on my stats page in a daily list that looks something like this:

Today’s search engine terms, when I looked at it as of 6am this morning, included three questions.  So, because I don’t have the ability to address the person or people who asked those questions, I’m going to answer them here.  : )

1.  Is Mercy the last book in Deneane Clark’s Virtue Series?  Yes.  It is.  But I’m working on another series starring the ancestors of the heroes in this series, set in the Middle Ages, which takes place in and around the world of Tournament Knights.

2.  When does the next book come out by Deneane Clark?  Mercy is slated for a March 2012 release.

3.  Will Deneane Clark write more than 4 books in the Virtue Series?  No, and it feels a little bittersweet to me. : )  I wrote this series while my children were growing up.  My youngest is 19 now, and the Ackerly youngest is getting ready to spread her wings, as well.  (I’m a sappy girl, I know.  lol)

As always, thank you to everyone who takes time out of their day to read my books, contact me, visit my blog, or interact with me on my various social networks.  I really do feel like the most fortunate girl in all the world.

Be beautiful, my friends.  : )

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