Who I am:

 

I am Katica Locke, eleven-times published author, including my e-book Broken Wings, and the award-winning novel, Magebound. Feel free to make yourself at home and stay a while. I hope you enjoy unconventional stories of fantasy and romance, where the dragons don’t always need to be slain and the heroes aren’t always looking for their princess, where tales of hot, sensual male/male lovin’ are the norm and a happy couple sometimes turns into a happier trio.

 

If any of these things offend you, or you are not of legal age to read adult stories, I apologize and suggest you go on about your business, and I hope there are no hard feelings.

 

What I've been up to:

 

February was a pretty good month. I was not called for jury duty, I sold some copies of Broken Wings, I had only one attack of allergies, I heard from my publisher concerning termination contracts for Magebound and Spellwrought, I started making plans to go to Michigan this summer, and I didn’t miss a single scheduled update or post. Woot!

 

For a brief time, BW was ranked #1 in both the Gay Erotica and Fantasy genres on Smashwords. Then data from off-site sales came in and was tabulated and I dropped down the list, lol. Fame is fleeting. Last time I looked, it was #3 in Gay Erotica and farther down in Fantasy. I’m slowly looking to spread out, finding new places to promote myself and starting to be active on some old sites again. Who knew promotion was so time consuming?  >_<

 

You can find Broken Wings on Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.

 

The reason I’m flogging the book so much is that an opportunity has arisen for me, my mother, and my aunt to drive from Oregon to Michigan this summer for our big family reunion. This will probably be the last chance to see my great-aunts (my grandfather’s sisters – 97 and 99 years old) and the only chance the three of us will have to make this sort of trip. Unfortunately, gas prices are on the rise and money is tight around here, so I don’t know if we can scrape together enough to make the trip, but I’m going to do everything I can think of to make sure we can…so if you know someone who wants to buy a kidney, let me know. XD

 

Seriously, though, I’ve decided to try to publish another e-book before the end of March. I’ve decided to do one of the short story trios that I've been planning. I’m going to do a Winter/Spring one since April will be a fitting time, at least here in the Northern hemisphere. Long Winter’s End is already written and edited, so that gives me a little over a month to write and edit two short stories. I already have one completely outlined and the beginning written. It’ll be the story of a man who falls through the ice and is rescued by a kelpie who wants to have sex with him. The third one will be a modern setting with human characters, one of which happens to be a werebear.

 

For the third one, I had considered having the human werebear MC involved with a faerie, and I realized that most of my main characters are some form of human – vampire, mage, Were, empath, incubus -- involved with some kind of mythical or paranormal creature. Would you be interested in having some non-human MCs, or is it easier to relate to human characters?

 

Now don’t worry, this new project shouldn’t interfere with Moonlight Mondays, WIP Wednesdays, or Free Fiction Fridays. I actually have a couple of chapters of Moonlight saved up, and a couple of stories for FFF, and I love doing WIP Wednesday over on Tumblr, so I won’t miss that.

 

Concerning Magebound, I found out that the book will be removed from sale within thirty days of the termination contracts being signed. I haven’t gotten them yet, but it shouldn’t be too long. After thirty days, I’ll be free to seek another publisher for it and Spellwrought. If I can’t find a publisher with a reasonable amount of time – I’m thinking about a year – I’ll just publish them myself. They’ve been edited, so it wouldn’t take much. I might even look into CreateSpace or another book-binding company to make physical books for those that want them, since not everyone has a Kindle or Nook or whatever.

 

Although, you really don’t need a special e-reading device to read e-books. There are free programs to allow you to read e-books on your computer. That’s how I was able to check the formatting of Broken Wings in both EPUB and MOBI formats. Just FYI. ^_^

 

Wow, that was a long update. It’s been a busy month. The TL;DR version:

 

I need money; buy my book
Human MC or other?
Get Magebound now; will be gone soon