Short Story by Dani

Hi dear blog readers,

How's everyone doing? I hope this finds you well and in good spirits. 

I miss being here, but I haven't had any new stories to post. All the ones I have are unfinished, and the ones you know have been published for Kindle. "No Strings Attached" would be my next big project, but I haven't gotten around to it as I've been working on new stories and making sure my published ones are good to go. 

The past almost two years have been a doozy, to say the least. I know we are all trying to get through this as good as possible. For me, my writing has kept me occupied, but it hasn't been easy. I work in healthcare, and it's been tough and very stressful to the point of burnout. Life has thrown me a few curveballs, and I tried to deal with it as best as I could. 

Anyway, I was looking through old files and folders yesterday, and I came upon this unfinished idea of a short story. I had about five pages written on it, and when I read it, I decided I needed to finish this gem. I think at the time I wrote this, it was kind of an experiment, but it deserved to be finished, and so I did this yesterday. It also brought back my story "Caoimhe's Hands" to my mind again, which has been sitting patiently on my computer, waiting to be finished. 

I thought about where to post this short story, and the blog came into my memory. The story is fantasy romance; it is probably not overly devy, but it's romantic in a way. I enjoyed finishing it yesterday, and I wanted to share it with you. I hope you enjoy reading it; let me know if you did. 

I miss you and sending hugs out to you.

Yours truly, Dani 

(If you want, connect with me Dani Deveaux on IG, FB, GoodReads,WordPress, or as DevDani on DeviantArt) 

Short Story Cahal and the Maiden of the Lake

New ebook in the making

Hi everyone!

This is a (slightly modified) repost from the original post that I scheduled for the wrong day. Sorry, Catarina!😅

I know it‘s been a very long time!! Ahhh… I’m so sorry! I literally have no excuse, life just happened. Picture me slinking in quietly again as if the past year hadn't happened (I mean... has it for anyone, really?).

I have great news! I’m currently working on publishing my story from this blog, Lobster with a straw, as an ebook. It took me a while to edit it but I’m finally done!! Yes, yes, yes! I added some chapters and a (steamy… 😊) epilogue and I hope you’ll very much like it. I got so much help from the incredible trio Rowan, Annabelle and Devo Girl - kudos, kisses and hugs to you three. I love you! So dear reader, if you are excited about this news, consider it their achievement.

I don’t have a publication date yet and I got overwhelming replies from those of you who read the original version of this post, calling for beta readers. Thank you so much to those who volunteered so quickly! I'm forever grateful and eagerly awaiting your feedback.

You can find the first, revised chapter of the new ebook here.

Cheers,

Lovis

 

PS: I am already working on new chapters of “Not Gay” as a thank you to those awesome beta readers I could win! 😊

Onde Anda Você is back!

 Oh wow, has it really been a whole month? If you wanna re-read the previous chapter or haven't checked it out, here's an easy link. I kept trying to finish this chapter, and when I did, I kept trying to post it but couldn't find the time. But fear not, I bring good news! I managed to get past it, I feel like the next ones will flow so much better. 

Here's the much awaited (I hope) chapter eleven!

I hope to make it next week. I've a bunch written already. Please please please let me know what you think! I'm worried the story is too... Stretched? What do you think? Should I try and be more concise and tie the loose ends already, or this pace feels nice for you? I've been writing it for so long that I can't really tell, haha 

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Be if from the comment box, or my email caterin.alighieri@gmail.com

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No update :(

 Hey, lovely readers!

I am so sorry to say I don't have a new chapter for you this week... I have about half of it done, but there's still so much to go and I just haven't managed it. Life's been biting me in the ass lately, with work and just stuff destroying my general mood, hence no decent writing. 

I think I reached a place in the story where I know what I wanna do, but I don't know how to get there exactly. But I hope to get past it. I just need to trigger the right plotline. I hope you're still following Ben and Liv's journey.But I wanna let you know that I'll be here next week for sure. I really hate being such a slow poster now—I'll get the story going once again, promise.

It would help immensely if you'd drop an idea, perhaps a prompt?, in the comments. It could be something you wanna see in the story, a phrase, a word... Just to get my juices flowing. I'd love some motivation!

Anyways. Thank you ;) and again, I'm so sorry that I showed up empty handed today. Posting here has gotta be one of my biggest pleasures.

Onde Anda Você Update!

 Hey, everyone!

I had this chapter ready last week, but I wasn't entirely happy with how it was looking, so I held it back so I could work on it. It's from Ben's POV, and there's not much of Liv in it. Sorry about that! 

Here's Chapter Ten

It goes back and forth between the present and his time in rehab—I hope it's not too confusing! I tried to get around it by putting the flashbacks in italic but I honestly think it's kinda lazy of me lol But I hope you like it, so please let me know. (This was also intially thought as a bonus chapter, but there's no way a bonus should be this long, so a chapter it is). Hopefully I'll have finished next week's chapter in time.

And the song is from brazilian queen of rock 'n roll Rita Lee, Reza.

Let me know what you think!

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The Sea Hag Update CH 18

 Chapter 18 is up!

Honestly, I'm sort of running out of written material at this point, so updates may be more sporadic while I try to finish it.

I thank you for reading and your lovely comments and I will strive to get this done in a timely manner.

<3

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Wednesday update!

 Hey! Thank you all so much for reading and commenting. It really means a lot to me, and I look forward to posting every week. 

I aaaalmost forgot about today's update because I hadn't fully edited the chapter, but I made it! So here we get to see a bunch of Ben's past. I feel like this chapter is kind of... Concentrated? It's shorter than the past ones, but there's lots of dialogues and I'm kind of wary about it, so please let me hear your thoughts.

Here's Onde Anda Você, chapter nine!

I actually had a different idea for this chapter, but then it was too late to change (if I wanted to post in time). Maybe I can still make use of it next chapter. Hope you like it! Again, I edited and posted this using my mobile, so I hope I didn't let anything nasty through—let me know!

And give Rubel's Partilhar a listen! It's a feel-good song, pretty hard not to like.

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