Sierra Torrin's Blog

My intermediate novella, House Glasses, is going to be published through Mirror Publishing!!!! Heather has been in too many foster homes, and she has finally been adopted by Jessy and Peyton Tenterden. It is a new house for all of them, though the old place has been in Peyton's family for generations. In her room, Heather finds a rabbit doll she names Oliver Mayflower Appleworth. When Oliver takes her to Verdimuir, a place where stuffed animals' souls go when they aren't being played with, Heather discovers a magical world she could never have dreamed of - and has to save from the evil ringmaster, Crowleigh.

I actually wrote a short story with no dragons, elves, faeries, or unicorns in it. No, no werewolves or vampires or shapeshifters, either. It's completely "normal." **GASP** I had entered The Old Victorian (which is posted here) in the last contest, and now, I'm going to enter Confessions of a Mafia Wife. I got the idea from a dream, no less. The entire dream was a woman with her head in her hands across the table from a detective in an interrogation room. I expanded a wee bit. :) Tully's husband has been arrested in the murder of Reeves DeLuca, and she is claiming innocence to his Mafia ties to Detective Gato. I resubmitted to my writers' group, so we'll see how it goes next Saturday!

In the Dead of Night, my first vampire book in the Sanguin Nights Saga series, is still fighting back. I'm editing the first section, Call of the Night. Sebastian Desnesti becomes a vampire at the end of 2002 and learns the intricacies of being undead. Originally, the novella traveled to Europe, but now, the entire novel is set in central Ohio, mainly in Columbus. I'm nearing the end - on chapter 10 of 12 of the first section. I'm also working on The First Plague, technically the first book, with In the Dead of Night being the second. Ankhenferu, a Jew at the time of the plagues in ancient Egypt, is made a vampire right after the first plague of blood. Her journey goes through present times and does interact with Sebastian and his friends. I'm working on that for my writers' group at my synagogue. I made the rule that whatever we wrote had to be of a Jewish nature. I'm stretching it, aren't I? :)