This is the most beautiful picture I think I have ever seen. If you’re a longtime, hardcore Korn fan like me, you’ll get it. If not, I can’t even tell you. Just…it’s been a long seven years without him, and I think the first step has been taken to him finally coming back home.
The emotion on Jonathan Davis’s face just kills me. That does it, I have GOT to write this rock star book burning in my brain. :)
Ghost and Macy are shaping up to have a longer story than Brian and Candace. I’m sure that’s probably good news to you guys, but I’m not so sure it’s good news to me. More work! lol. After numerous starts and stops, after completely scrapping chapters upon chapters and crying and starting over from scratch more times than I care to admit, Leave Me Breathless now stands at 70K words. That’s novel length. A shorter novel, but still a novel. And there’s still some story to tell. So I’m looking at a true 100K novel for them. To think it was originally supposed to be only a novella. Ha! Looks like I got carried away, right? There’s just so much to these guys.
I think this is the first book I’ve published that had a title before I was done with it. It’s certainly the first to already have its dedication written before I’ve even submitted it. Believe me, I know *just* who this one is for. :-)
And I totally never noticed “Leave me breathless” was a lyric in this song, but now that Adrian Patrick has sung it, it is DEFINITELY the title of Ghost’s book. It’s like fate. :p (Unless my editor makes me change it for some reason, that is…which I really can’t see happening.)
But WOW!! He is just…INCREDIBLE! I love the original song, but I must say he’s done it justice. Love the screams too. *drool*
They got me a little sniffly tonight. :) This is fresh on the page, too, so as always please forgive anything that isn’t polished.
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Reaching up, she captured his face between her hands. She could gaze at it from now on, she realized. So full of character, so beautiful. She’d laughed more with him in the past couple of weeks than she had in the entire year. And she had to leave him. The thought of not touching him, not hearing his own laughter in her ear or seeing that devilish glint in his eyes for who knew how long, laid her heart wide open.
“I’m really going to miss you,” she said, hating how banal it sounded. If these damn threatening tears began to win out, she was going to have to let them. They would speak more for her feelings than her voice ever could.
“Macy…” Her transition into his arms was seamless; she didn’t know if she went into them or if he pulled her in first—it was simply a fluid, instinctive motion. As if they both knew she belonged there.
“I don’t know what to say,” he breathed into her hair, squeezing the air from her. “Fuck. Just wait for me.”
Woo hoo! You might have seen me mention Otherwise in a previous post. I became interested in these guys when I heard Adrian Patrick sing “The Promise” with In This Moment. *swoon* I thought, WHOA, he’s incredible. I gotta look that dude up. So I did. At the time, his band Otherwise was unsigned. They have since remedied that, and their first video, for their single “Soldiers,” debuted today.
I guess I’m so excited for them because, as someone stated on Youtube, they are a testament to never giving up on your dreams.
Another reason could be because I love following his hijinks on Facebook and Adrian actually wished me happy birthday there last year. *sigh*
Yet another could be because Adrian Patrick has become my Ghost. Oh, yes. He doesn’t have to be your Ghost, but he is SO totally my Ghost. :-)
I am so obsessed with this song. It’s been on repeat on my iTunes for days. For that, In Flames gets the distinction of being Ghost’s favorite band. And this song will certainly make the soundtrack. Enjoy!
All For Me by In Flames… I burn when I do the things I do for you
Apparently my blog hasn’t been allowing comments for some time now. So sorry about that, but it looks like Frauke got me working again, so feel free to comment away!
Many thanks to Luigia for pointing it out to me. I never would’ve known, just gone on assuming no one loved me. =P
…and hope I’m not setting myself up for massive failure. With all the love and respect due to Candace and Brian, I think Ghost and Macy are shaping up to be more fun as a couple. I’ve laughed so hard at them the past few days. :) Both have their inner sadness and past traumas, but I think that’s what makes it all the sweeter that they have such a good time together. The truest, unlikeliest of soulmates.
The past couple days, I’ve received more emails than usual asking about Ghost & Macy and an expected release date. Believe me, if I had a date, you would know! Because *I* would be so freaking excited to have a release date for these two, I’d be shouting it from the rooftops. Let’s just say they haven’t given me an easy time. But that isn’t your problem, it’s mine. You just want to read the book! :) So here’s the low-down. It still isn’t finished. If I stayed up for two weeks straight and got it done, it would still be a five or six month process while it went through edits with my publisher. So, we’re looking at late summer at the absolute earliest. I’m fervently hoping it won’t be any later than this fall.
Thank you so much for your support and your patience. I appreciate everyone who has written to ask about the book–it humbles me to know these guys are so in demand. I wish I had better news for you. I wish I had *any* news for you. Just know that I *am* working, and I’m thinking about you all and how much you want this story. I’ll do my best not to let you down. :)
Some of you might have noticed the site took a little vacation for a couple of weeks. My web host, Janus Portal–also home to a lot of other romance author sites–was hit by a nasty hacker and most of us were down for quite a while. Hopefully all is in working order, but if you find anything still wonky, please let me know.
Also, if you sent me an email during that time, most likely it was lost since my email is through my host. I apologize. If I didn’t reply, it’s not that I’m ignoring you; it’s that I didn’t get it. I can always be found on my Twitter or Facebook, so you can always hit me up there too.
Thanks so much for your patience through that ordeal. As celebration for my site coming back, I thought I’d share some man candy. ;) Now, usually, I don’t have any celebs in mind when I write my characters. I didn’t have any in mind when I wrote Brian. Candace sort of became Jordan Lloyd from Big Brother because I was finishing up writing the book while her season was on. Cute, blonde, southern, sweet. Yep, Candace. But Brian? Nope, he was himself. But shortly after Rock Me released, a reader sent me a message letting me know she imagined him looking like Toryn Green, who used to be the lead singer of Fuel. She attached a pic. I have to say I agreed. And then I found THIS pic. And…OMG. I thought he was SO Brian in this picture, from the cap, to the hair, to the EYES–he just needs more tattoos and piercings, of course (though he does have some pretty cool ambigram tats), and he’s a little too clean shaven for Brian. But yeah. This is about as close as it gets, really, at least in my head.
I feel this is sufficient explanation for why poor Candace’s mind was short-circuiting much of the time. Hehe.
Now, about his sidekick, Ghost. I described him a certain way in Rock Me. As far as his description in the book, he has to stay the same. But damn, things go soooo much more smoothly in writing him when I imagine him as Adrian Patrick. Who is that, you ask? He’s the hooded guy in this video…
That’s Ghost and Macy’s song, incidentally. Mmm. Look at his hands. Look how he touches her. AUGH! It’s no surprise Ghost is wearing a hood in the first scene of his book. ;) And the best thing about Adrian is that he seems like a really cool guy. He wished me happy birthday on my Facebook page last year. Called me “Ms. Lynn.” HOW FREAKING AWESOME IS THAT? I nearly fell off my chair. Check out his band, Otherwise. They’re on the upswing!
This concludes a little peek into my inspiration of late. I hope you’ve enjoyed it. ;)
