1. Denial: I am not blocked. I am not blocked. I am not blocked.
2. Avoidance: Today, I’m going to write up a storm, after I do the dishes and put away the laundry and run some errands”¦
3. Determination: This book will not break me! I will triumph in the end.
4. Desperation: Please, please, please let me finish this book. I don’t care if it sucks. I just want to finish it.
5. Panic: I’ll never finish this book. Why did I ever think I could be an author? I’m a fraud. A total fraud!
6. Anger: I hate this book. Hate it, hate it, hate it! My finger hovers dangerously close to the delete button, as I contemplate ending its misery”¦and mine.
7. Bargaining: Please, God, send me some divine inspiration. If you do this one little thing for me, I’ll be a good girl for the rest of the year. Except when I’m writing love scenes. Then I’ll be bad.
8. Panic again: Why am I still blocked? OMG. OMG. OMG. I’m dead. Done for. I’ll never make my deadline. My career is over.
9. Despair: This is the stage where I exist solely on chocolate and caffeine in the hopes that it will either jumpstart my brain or kill me.
10. Insomnia: I wake up in a cold sweat, thinking of all the crap I wrote””or didn’t write””the previous day.
11. Acceptance: It’s okay if I never finish this book. I still have my health.
12. Hope: Maybe if I go back to the beginning, I’ll figure out where I went wrong.
13. Epiphany: My muse finally wakes up from her cat nap, the angels begin to sing, and my manuscript suddenly makes wonderful sense. I’m jubilant, elated, walking on air. I remember why I became an author, and all is right with the world…until the next book.
SOUL DEEP, DARK SOULS, BOOK TWO
Save her life”¦or save mankind. His choice could cost him his soul.
For nearly two centuries, Marcus has been the Watchers’ most faithful soldier. Sworn to protect humanity, driven by an unrelenting compulsion to atone for past sins, he has rarely found a compelling reason to question his mission, let alone defy his leader.
His partner, Regan, is his exact opposite, an enigma he longs to solve. A free spirit and reckless to a fault, Regan acts first and thinks later. Her smart mouth and tender heart have fascinated Marcus for decades, but the Watchers’ strict vow of celibacy has forced him to ignore the sizzling attraction between them. Until now.
When Regan goes rogue to protect a very special little boy, Marcus is forced to make an impossible choice””commit an act of treason or watch the woman he secretly loves die.
Hunted by enemies and allies alike, Regan and Marcus run for their lives, fighting to thwart an age-old prophecy and guard a boy whose destiny may very well be to destroy the world”¦or save it.
Anne Hope is the author of emotionally intense romances with a twist””a twist of humor, a twist of suspense, a twist of magic.
As a child, Anne had the nasty habit of scaring her friends and little cousins with stories of witches and vampires. Eventually, she realized that at the heart of every dark tale a compelling romance waits to be told. Now, all her stories are about the redeeming power of love and the heart’s incredible ability to heal”¦with a scare or two thrown in for good measure.
Her paranormal romantic thriller Soul Bound, Book One in her Dark Souls series, received a Top Pick from RT and was selected as a 2012 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee. She lives in Montreal, Canada, with her husband, her two kids, a well-fed cat and a rambunctious Australian Kelpie. To learn more, visit www.annehope.com.
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