Dream Smasher is now on Google Play and Google Books. You can find your copy here --- Dream Smashers on Google.
As you know, the Lords of Shifters series is unavailable at the moment. But don't fret! The path is now clear and the next book is in production as I write this. Thank you for your patience with me and these stories. Please check back early 2015 for the re-release of the series and for the next book to become available to you in March!
A.C. Davis has moved out! You may find information on her psychological horror stories at their new home ---> ac-davis.blogspot.com. Watch for the upcoming release of the next Velvet Nights and Black Lace Stories novella, The Woman in Black Lace, and the short story, Mathilde, a Woman of Circumstance, by the end of December, 2014. The pre-sale of the entire compilation will be available at that time also, with a release date of January 24, 2015.
Her wealthy husband is cheating on her and she's about to
put a stop to it. She spends her days and nights plotting a way to murder him,
to finally put an end to his betrayals and lies. But when she does, she’s
forced to face his lover as well. Winnie discovers that she may have made a grave
mistake and there is no going back. Will this error in judgment so long ago be
the end of her life too? What has this killing business gotten her into?
THE WOMAN IN BLACK LACE, a Velvet Nights and Black Lace Stories novella, will be available for
pre-order next week and out in December, 2014.
Until then, be sure to check out the other Velvet Nights and Black Lace Stories available now for only 99 cents each until October 31st!
My friend, who also happens to be a very talented author, challenged me to post the first sentences of the first three chapters from my current work in progress. I'm choosing to share from Woman in Black Lace, which is a novella by AC Davis due out this year. I don't write chapters in sequential order and this is an incomplete draft, so I have chosen to share the first two-ish sentences of the first three chapters that I have written. They most definitely will not be chapters one, two and three by the time this book is finished.
First Sampling:
I'm going to kill my husband.
The decision to make it a slow death, allowing him time to marinade in his sins toward me and our beautiful son, to suffer as I have, or to make it a quick and satisfying death, showing him mercy on my part, has yet to be determined.
Second Sampling:
"Tsk, tsk, tsk." She clicks her tongue from behind me. I jolt around, bright red blood dripping from my hands and soaking through my satin nightgown.
Third Sampling:
If life was truly like every photo ever taken, this world sure as hell would be a beautiful place, a happy place, a place of love and laughter and joy. Photos are a bunch of lies, so maybe they really are like my life -- at least like life before my husband died.
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I hope you've enjoyed the little peek into what I'm working on. It's a story of love and of betrayal. It's a story of longing and hope. And like the other Mathilde novellas, Jenny's Blue Velvet and Still Nights, it's haunting and entertaining. Watch for Woman in Black Lace by the end of 2014!
In celebration of this fabulous month, my A.C. Davis stories, Haunting Tales of Mathilde, are on sale for 99 cents! A third novella, Woman in Black Lace is due out this year. I'll give you more details soon. For now, check out Jenny's Blue Velvet and Still Nights to get your haunts on this Halloween season.
There's been something on my mind for a long time. Well, you know that there's always something constantly running through the neurons up in my noggin, haunting, but this one thing has been persistent and comes back frequently no matter how many times I try to clamp it shut. I feel you should know. In fact, I stopped this morning's run short to come home and write to you.
Back in 2008, I was inspired to start and finish my first full-length novel. My main inspiration? To write a book I thought would sell based on what was selling in the market then. One I thought you'd be interested in, instead of a story I could put my soul into. Okay, okay, you can stop laughing now. My point in telling you that dark secret is so you can understand why I'm pulling the Lords of Shifters series.
That first book I wrote is titled Loramendi's Story, A Lords of Shifters Novel--it had several titles as it was morphed into what it is now. It's actually my best selling novel, though not in any way a best seller as far as best sellers lists are concerned. After I wrote it and moved on toward the next books in the series, I wrote them to shift into what I felt were more important themes that also entertain. Originally though, my intention was to mimic what readers were buying at the time. Loramendi's Story wasn't about anything I'd ever be interested in reading then until I was able to shift the series a bit like I did.
The second and third books (Spider Wars and Dark Horse) head more toward what I would enjoy writing and, in fact, the rest of the books will end up exactly where I would want them to be, with a message and a story I'd be interested in sharing. I'm not sure if I intentionally knew they were going that way or if it was my conscious making its way out through my fingertips subconsciously.
Since 2008, I published three other stories outside of the Lords of Shifters series. I feel good about sharing these three, Dream Smashers, Jenny's Blue Velvet, and Still Nights, with you. They may not be about subjects I'm heading toward in my writing at present, but they have important messages and/or observations that will make some think and wonder and, perhaps, inspire.
The Lords of Shifters series will be unavailable after September 7th until further notice. While I contemplate on how I can turn the series into stories I believe contribute to the world instead of taking, I'm moving forward on some other projects that have that potential.
Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your support. I will do my best to get back to the Lords of Shifters as soon as it is right, and I hope the stories will then have the ability to move you and be worthy of your time as I put more of my heart into them.
Loramendi's Story was first published in 2011. As you know, it's the first book in the Lords of Shifters series. Spider Wars, which runs along the same timeline as Loramendi's Story, and Dark Horse came next in 2012. Since then, they have sat and you have waited and waited for the next story to fall into. I love you for your patience and have some wonderful news! The next book is currently in production and it's all coming together. I'm excited about it and hope to give you the best book yet this summer. The title will be released in July.
Until then, take a look at the new covers Steven Novak has given the Lords of Shifters series. Do you love them? I do.
In celebration, you can now get Loramendi's Story for FREE at these retailers:
Please welcome the talented author and my friend, Lisa Nowak, to the blog today and learn about her amazing dystopian serial. I'm loving these books. I know you will too!
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Almost a year and a half ago,
while my husband and I were driving to a friend’s house, he told me about a
story he’d read in the Portland Mercury. According to the article, fifty
years from now much of the United States will be devastated by climate change.
The Pacific Northwest will remain relatively unchanged in comparison, which
will result in an influx of climate refugees.
“That sounds like a great set
up for a dystopian YA novel,” I said. Within minutes, I had the basic premise
outlined. The Pacific Northwest, disgruntled over the population boom, secedes
from the United States to form its own country with a closed border. Wealthy
Americans want to buy their way in, so poor people begin disappearing off the
streets. Naturally, I needed a romantic aspect, but I wanted to give it a
twist. I decided my protagonist would be a girl whose family had disappeared,
and the love interest would be the boy whose family had displaced hers.
Over the coming weeks, the
idea grew to include an existing political movement to form a bioregion called
Cascadia, Portland’s major league soccer team and its rowdy band of fans, the
Timbers Army, and a rock star-turned-activist who becomes the first president
of the new nation. My husband, friends, and fellow writers supplied me with
myriad excellent ideas and educated me about the subjects of history, politics,
computer science, medicine, and soccer.
Several writers I know have
been experimenting with serialized stories, and this idea seemed perfect for
that venue. I envision it much like a season of a television series. Each short
episode gives you part of the story, with the entire plot-line playing out over
a nine-book “season.” I currently have the first three episodes published, (you
can buy them individually, or as a box set) and the fourth will be released in
early March. If you aren't sure this is for you, fear not. You can try the
first episode absolutely free at any of the retailers listed below.
What if the Pacific
Northwest seceded from the United States?
The climate change that’s
devastated all but the Northwest corner of the U.S. has been around since
before Piper Hall was born. She doesn’t spend much time thinking about it, the
secession that created Cascadia, or the closed border, erected to keep out
climate refugees. All she wants is to get through high school and earn a medical
degree so she can pull her family out of poverty. Piper’s sure her little
brother’s stories about poor people vanishing are just rumors—until she comes
home to an empty house. Losing her future, her family, and her freedom and
forced into hiding, Piper has to find a way to get to the bottom of the
disappearances. But the only one who can help might be the very boy whose
family has displaced her own.
