Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Wedding? I'd Rather Be With Rogers.

Wedding bells are in the air for Goddess-toting, now-immortal witch Garnet Lacey and her day-walking vampire lover Sebastian Von Traum. The caterers have been hired, flowers ordered, invitations sent, and Garnet is finally introducing Sebastian to her hippie, organic egg-ranching parents at Portabello’s, one of Madison, Wisconsin’s finer dining establishments. Of course, that’s when Téresa, the mother of Sebastian’s dhampyr son Mátyás, appears and ruins everything with her whole night-of-living-dead/raving-lunatic/he-was-mine-first shtick.

Sounds fun, right? Well, that's the beginning of the proposal for DEAD IF I DO (Book 4 in the Garnetverse), and I should be writing it RIGHT NOW. Instead, I've been diddling around reading comic books and dreaming about Captain America. (Makes you wonder though, doesn't it? Has someone done a superhero romance novel?)

I tell myself I'm allowed a little vacation. The revisions for ROMANCING THE DEAD kicked my butt into next week, so it's reasonable to want a little vegging time, right? Right? Thing is, I'm violating my own superstition, which is that I start writing the next book as soon as I get word from my agent that a deal has been struck. (Oh, if I haven't reported it, Berkley wants two more: DEAD IF I DO and HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD). I might just have to open up a Word Document tonight and do my initial formatting just to say I've started.

I dunno. I guess I'd rather be thinking about that dreamboat Steve Rogers....

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm,I'm not sure about a novel per se. But someone has done a "Sex & The City meets four superhero chicks"-type comic series. It's called 'Ultra', by Jonathan and Joshua Luna, published by Image Comics. Worth a peek, in my opinion.

tate hallaway said...

Rats!

Anonymous said...

OK now you got me curious about this "superhero romance" thing. So I went onto Amazon and checked it out. ....Found "Karma Girl" by Jennifer Estep: http://www.amazon.com/Karma-Girl-Jennifer-Estep/dp/0425215113/ref=tag_tdp_sv_edpp_i/103-5497379-2767805