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Teresa Noelle Roberts: 2015 Dreams (Contest)
Monday, January 12th, 2015

At the close of the old year and start of a new one, the Internet sets itself on fire trying to keep up with everyone posting resolutions, goals, plans and wishes for the year to come. I’m definitely one of those ambitious planners  dreamers. I even spent part of December taking a wonderful online course, “How to Write 50 Books a Year,” offered by Delilah and her sister Elle James. (Writers: take this class the next time it’s offered. It’s amazingly useful.) With the help of that class, I developed not only an ambitious set of work-related goals for 2015, but a workable plan to achieve said goals.

As I write this blog entry, it’s the sixth day of 2015. (I know you’re actually reading it on January 12, but I had to get the post to Delilah ahead of time). I’m already behind on the word count I needed to finish all the planned books by the end of December 2015. I’ve also started a book that wasn’t on the original work plan, one that popped into my head on January 2 and demanded to be written now. According to calculations I made before I conceived this new novella, I have more than half a million words to write this year, and I can now add another 25,000 words minimum to that. You think I’d be panicking.

But I’m not.

At my age, which is older than Taylor Swift and younger than the average mountain, I’ve learned that no plan survives contact with the enemy, as Eisenhower should have said but didn’t. (It was actually a 19th-century Prussian field marshall named Helmuth Von Moltke, as I discovered when I went to double-check the quote. The literal translation from German is much clunkier, so I’ll stick with the version that Eisenhower may or may not have paraphrased.)

Life likes to keep things interesting. Sometimes it’s in good ways, like throwing a new book idea at you when you were already looking at six or seven books for 2015. Sometimes it’s in a more mind-boggling fashion, like discovering in December, while you’re petting your shiny new 2015 work plan, that you’ve just been assigned a new editor who may have her own ideas about which book she’ll want when. And sometimes it’s just plain stupidity, such as the gaping plot hole into which your almost-finished book falls. (By “your,” of course, I mean “mine.” I know by this point in my career there’s always enough narrative rope to pull the book out of the hole, but when it happens it does kind of spoil the hope of wrapping the first draft up by the end of the week.)

But I can handle these changes of plan. Realizing I’ve mentally committed myself to writing more than half a million words in a year is daunting, but it’s nothing compared to some of the things I’ve done to my poor characters. If I can guide my heroes and heroines in defeating angry demons or government agencies run by evil sorcerers—and finding true love in the process—I can write the narrative of my year so it has a happy ending, even if there are a few plot twists along the way.

What are your goals and/or dreams for 2015? Post something about them in the comments and one random commenter will win a copy of my new (sexy!) paranormal romance Witches’ Waves.

About Teresa

Teresa Noelle Roberts started writing stories in kindergarten and she hasn’t stopped yet. A prolific author of short erotica, she’s also a published poet and fantasy writer—but hot paranormals and BDSM-spiced contemporaries are her favorites. Or they were until she discovered that SF romance offers new possibilities for wild sex, imaginative adventure and love beyond boundaries, so she’s added that sub-genre to her repertoire. Oh, and she’s also half of the writing team known as Sophie Mouette, writing mostly light-hearted spicy romances (with occasional forays into erotica).

Teresa is a crunchy granola girl who enjoys belly dance, yoga, medieval re-creation, playing in the ocean, cooking, and growing more vegetables than she and her husband can possibly eat.  She’d enjoy sleeping, too. She thinks. But it takes so much time!

She shares her home in southern Massachusetts with her husband, a Leo in law enforcement, and two overstuffed cats. She and her husband often plan vacations around food, history, and/or proximity to water.

Find Teresa at www.teresanoelleroberts.com, like her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTeresaNoelleRoberts or follow on Twitter, where she’s @TeresNoeRoberts.

And check out her alter ego Sophie at www.sophiemouette.com.

About Witches’ Waves

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Witches’ Waves (Duals and Donovans: The Different, book 4)
Samhain Publishing

“The overall message is one of hope and the healing that love can help bring, w/some really hot sex […] for good measure.” Four stars—Romantic Times

“This novel definitely hooked me for this series.”—From Me to You Video, Photography and Book Reviews

“Well written and full of emotional depth.”— Manic Readers

Buy links: Samhain /Amazon / Amazon UK / B&N Nook / Kobo / iBooks (iTunes)

The ocean is on their side. But the fight is on land—and it’s about to get dirty.

Duals and Donovans: The Different, Book 4

Long held captive as the Agency’s secret weapon—a blind witch with visions—Meaghan has come to a line she refuses to cross. Rather than betray the infant “child of five bloods” to the Agency’s scientists, she chooses death. Except when she throws herself into the ocean, she doesn’t die. Her repressed water magic comes to life.

When the sodden, delirious witch drifts into Kyle’s arms, his otter dual instincts tell him to get her to the Donovans as fast as possible. Even though one particular surfer-dude Donovan broke his heart.

Declan Donovan continually kicks himself for pushing Kyle away, but his touchy combination of water, earth and lightning magic is too volatile, and Kyle wanted more than Deck was ready to give.

When they come together to help Meaghan control her new magic, it leads the Agency straight to the child of five bloods. They’ll have to dive head-first into total trust—in their magics, in themselves and in each other—to save the child and stop the Agency once and for all.

Warning: Contains an oceanful of sex between an ethereal blind heroine who swears like a pissed-off Marine, an overly serious otter shifter, a would-be beach bum who may be descended from a Norse god, in permutations as fluid as the sea – and themes of abuse and recovery.

Series blurb:

Welcome to an America where the non-human Different and magically gifted humans live among ordinary people. Witches are both feared and honored, but shape-shifting Duals are treated as second-class citizens. The Agency, a government agency that’s supposed to monitor illegal uses of magic and Different abilities, has developed its own dangerous agenda. But when Duals and witches join forces, the Agency and other bad guys aren’t going to know what hit them.

And neither are the witches and Duals. Witch magic grows from the positive energy of love and sex–and the only thing better than one dual for sex magic is two of them!

8 comments to “Teresa Noelle Roberts: 2015 Dreams (Contest)”

  1. shalla
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    · January 12th, 2015 at 7:56 am · Link

    i love the “idea” of new years resolutions but find everyone treats them like Lent… give up this, give up that, quit this or whatnot…

    why…

    i looked up a bunch of posts to see what resolutions are already out there in the web and i am compiling my own list (why reinvent the wheel).. i will post my master list of personal resolutions between now and chinese new years (feb 19)

    but one thing i started was my posts #SundayResolutions
    most of the sundays per month..all year.. i plan on posting my interpretation of what i am resolving to do with myself

    started with my health, being happy, romance & magic, no fucks given…. each one has humor and looks to the positive side of what i want in life

    i know i will NOT be giving up chocolate and energy drinks
    i might even smoke MORE simply because i can and it is MY choice
    too many years repressed, time to stop existing and start LIVING!!

    and one of the big things… getting my sex drive back
    spent too long slipping into a demisexual state of being… i wasnt born that way, i don’t want to stay that way…. i will find passion

    so yeah.. that sums up what i am doing for 2015
    take a look at my blog and see what you think
    no reason to find the bad resolutions and try to make them happen
    find the fun ones!



  2. Teresa Noelle Roberts
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    · January 12th, 2015 at 9:02 am · Link

    Shalla, I’ll have to check out the Sunday Resolutions blog entries. I like that idea of regular updates. And cheers (raises cup of coffee) for getting your groove back in 2015. Life can definitely get in the way of sex and romance, which is pretty sad for us romance readers and writers. ❗



  3. Elizabeth Andrews
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    · January 12th, 2015 at 10:55 am · Link

    I took the same class, Teresa, and it was terrific! Also, like you, I’ve had to adjust my plans for the year already. lol Best of luck with your goals and dreams. 😉



  4. ButtonsMom2003
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    · January 12th, 2015 at 12:46 pm · Link

    I don’t make resolutions – too depressing when I just break them all. 🙂 Paranormal romance isn’t my normal go to but yours sounds interesting. I won a copy of Elizabeth Andrews Hunting Medusa from this blog and really enjoyed it so maybe my tastes are changing.

    Reading sexy books helped me get my groove back a couple of years ago so I am thankful for all of the wonderful writers who keep the stories coming.



  5. Pat Freely
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    · January 12th, 2015 at 12:50 pm · Link

    Only one resolution, the word BELIEVE. At this time of my life that word is very important.



  6. Elizabeth Andrews
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    · January 12th, 2015 at 1:21 pm · Link

    Ooooh! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! 😀 Maybe your taste is changing. lol

    I don’t see resolutions and goals as the same thing. Maybe they are for some, but somewhere in my head, they’re different. lol Goals I can achieve. Resolutions are more like wishes.



  7. Sharon Chalk
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    · January 12th, 2015 at 2:20 pm · Link

    I wish my goal and dream for 2015 could be the same but this year it can’t,my wish is that I could go to Scotland which I have wanted to visit for almost 40 years. My dream is that the 3 upcoming biopsies I have coming up are all cancer free,though its doubtful,Im dreaming that we caught it in time if nothing else!!!!!



  8. Pamk
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    · January 14th, 2015 at 9:59 pm · Link

    to get healthy and possibly lose some weight. Love this especially the part about swearing like a pissed off marine.



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