The Baby Epilogues

Today’s rant is going to be short and sweet… mostly because I over did it at the gym yesterday and my whole body hurts and typing doesn’t help that, hee hee. Plus, if I don’t finish the next Midnight Matings soon I’m going to start banging my head against the wall because I freak if I’ve been working on one project so much longer than it should take me.

But, back to the elves. So for those of you who’ve ready the first or second books, you know I didn’t use a very big timeframe. About nine weeks to be exact. Yeah, that took a LOT of planning on how the hell I was going to squeeze 12 different stories in 9 weeks. Kinda like sticking a circle in a square hole. (Dirty. You totally just went dirty with that, didn’t you?)

So there really wasn’t time for each elf to have his own epiphany or epilogue at the end of the book when I was already tip-toeing into the next one. That’s kind of how I ended up doing someone’s epilogue at the end of the next book. That and I screwed up. I got to the end of Horse’s book, Screw Santa, my intern did the pre-edits, I submitted it, signed the contract, and went… Oh. Shit. I never resolved his issues with Santa!

That’s how I figured out how to give them their own epiphanies and why they end the next book of the series. I think it worked out well, ends each book with little fun, and keeps it a series instead of 12 individual books!

Today’s Contest Question: So who won’t get an epilogue in the books?

Read these directions because only the people who do it right get entered!

If you’d like to enter please email Andi, my intern at joyee_intern@yahoo.com. Put the title of the blog in the subject line so she can keep them all straight. In the email, put your answer, full name and address.

The prize for this contest is one of the Who Needs Christmas? Books! So please include which one you would like!! *Contest ends Dec 15^th at noon MST.

Good luck and today is the release of Hell’s Bells, the one I dedicated to my ma!

-Joyee