Been Super Busy Working Things Out With My Book

I made merchandise for my series, a new blog that showcases chapters part by part, and I'm hoping to gain more followers for my work this way while also doing videos, spreading the word, and of course - writing and reading.

Sorry I haven't been on here. I'll still keep this around. And use it to write about my writing experience and whatnot.

Here's a FAQs page I made on my other blog:

FAQs

<3

I've burned myself out, going to lounge in front of netflix and waste away. :)

How have all of you been?

Hell of a Lot of Work on The Immortal's Guide

I've had some chapters just sitting there for the longest that I'd written sometime last year or even the year before that and I'd never gotten around to doing anything with them. I was just...stuck.

Then I went to Florida for two weeks recently, had a lovely time. Now I'm back home, started a new blog on Tumblr, loving it.

But for the most part I've been tackling The Immortal's Guide - so far I'm up to Chapter 8, and I'm rather pleased with it all. Working my butt off on it, and there's nothing more to say, so I'm off to continue doing so.

How are all of you? I've missed you.

;)

Edit.

Just saw the new Pirates movie and I found myself itching - absolutely itching to go home and write. The bloody mermaids, the ships, the PIRATES. Gah. I had an idea years ago, mind, to add pirates somehow into my book. Pirates and Vampires. It'd only be a chapter or two but still. YUM. And the mermaids. [faints]

Enough of this, then. I'm off for real this time. :D

Queried 3 Agents So Far...

The first of this current batch was done in the wee hours of the morning, after I had Julian read-over my query letter. He said he got the point of it and I sent it off immediately. Isn't that the point of it all? Short and to the point, straight to the heart of the matter. That's what I wanted to get across.

Anyway, after I sent it off, there were no anxious jitters or anything, just...focus. I found some other literary agents' emails I hadn't sent in my drafts and revised them, reviewed the agents' websites, and once making sure everything was in order, I sent those two off.

Now I'm reading The Immortal's Guide from the beginning, and writing as I go.

I feel incredibly content and brilliantly centered. Everything, is as it should be.

Differences

Mkay so, tons have happened.

The other other week, my boyfriend, Julian came up to New York to spend some time with me. Needless to say, I had an amazing time and didn't get sick of him after the third day of waking up next to him. ;) So that, to me says something.

On another note, school. (Sigh) I began to get disinterested in school -- in it all, honestly, and stopped going. Literally. I just stopped. I already had tons of absences, and was falling behind even though I was showing up every day - it was just impossible to grasp any of it - and the week after Julian left, I received an email from my English professor -- I'd been dropped from the class.

At that point, it was like I was being given new lease to change my direction. I'd only went to college to shut my mother and -mostly- father up about "where I was taking my life," and I knew since my last year in high school that I would never make it past one year in college. No one listened. Maybe now they will.

April 26th, I'm going down to Florida to spend some time with Julian and our friends (I miss them all), and I'm staying down there for two weeks. Here's the deal though, I may or may not come back up to New York after this visit.

I honestly hate it up here, I feel like I'm being stifled, and my potential for anything I would want is being crushed.

I've meditated on the matter and I must follow my heart, be open to new opportunities. Go where the wind blows, all that mess.

I guess this is what growing up is all about, huh?


-Sheron Parris

My Short Story's in the College Newspaper

And I couldn't be happier.

Other than that, life is excellent.

How are you?

The Dark World Book Covers

 

One of the covers I did for my first book in the Xavier Delacroix Series entitled, The Dark World.
When I found that picture, my eyes widened and I gasped immediately. She matches the main antagonist, Eleanor Black to a T. It made me extremely happy to see the final outcome.

Yet, knowing my book is not mainly about Eleanor as far as the story goes, I was hard pressed to find another picture that could better depict the main protagonist: Xavier Delacroix.

Here's what I came up with:

 

I admit, it isn't all flashy and eye-catching, but it has the sublime grittiness that I believe the first book holds. And hell...he's holding a sword. That's enough for me. If you read the book you'd know what significance that sword holds to the story. Either way, I like them both and am hard pressed to choose which one I prefer.

Eye-catching beauty that does nothing to showcase the story, or lone Vampire, armored-up, sword in hand, looking down as the world around him is rent into chaos, sans eye-catching beauty?

Which one do you prefer my fellow writers?

-Sheron Parris