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Alyssa Drake Novels
Steamy Romance with a Twist
Alyssa Drake
Oct 13, 20211 min read
Day 64 - An admission
I went into tonight with the explicit goal of completing the Devoured revision, which has carried into day two. I should have finished...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 12, 20211 min read
Day 63 - Death by chocolate
The tale of Grammy Sue, also known as Devoured, was born from a combination Hansel and Gretel, and a dark comedy I watched many years...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Day 62 - Welcome to the family
Because I'm introducing Suze (Grammy Sue) as Dr. Jack's sister, that means two things. First, Dr. Jack knows the secret ingredient in...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 10, 20211 min read
Day 61 - No romance here
Electrified is one of the few stories that I wrote without romance in the plot. I intended to develop a relationship between Dr. Jack and...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 9, 20211 min read
Day 60 - What did I just read?
The bridge section between Afflicted and Electrified ended up to be roughly 650 words. I wasn't quite certain how to introduce the story...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Day 59 - I brake for blurbs
My historical co-write went off to the editing team today, and periodically I see a comment pop up on the document, but I haven't read...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 7, 20211 min read
Day 58 - Flexibility
I am not going to change the Point Of Views in the paranormal/horror collection. Here's my reasoning: There are two stories that appear...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 6, 20211 min read
Day 57 - Return of the killer haystack
Haystacks. Those friggin' haystacks are going to be the end of my sanity. Once again, I'm writing in the past, and the hay baler that...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 5, 20211 min read
Day 56 - We don't eat the patients
While I told myself I wouldn't limit my words on this introductory chapter, I also didn't want to spend the week working on it, when I...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Day 55 - It's not fluff if you need it
I've hit another snag again. With the revisions for the first story in my paranormal/horror collection complete, I began writing the...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 3, 20211 min read
Day 54 - A call from beyond
According to my calendar, today is the day I originally planned to release this paranormal horror collection, so I'd estimate I'm roughly...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 2, 20211 min read
Day 53 - Faster than a speeding turtle
When I set out to turn the short story Carved into a full chapter, I didn't realize how quickly that would occur. It took me two days to...
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Alyssa Drake
Oct 1, 20211 min read
Day 52 - Reordering
My paranormal horror fun starts with Carved, which was a campfire tale that was 850 words. I'm going to take this short story and turn it...
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Alyssa Drake
Sep 30, 20211 min read
Day 51 - Imaginary conversations
You would think, on my next pass through Departed, that I wouldn't question my twist, but I did (insert screaming here). ---below is a...
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Alyssa Drake
Sep 29, 20211 min read
Day 50 - Wrong again
I sat down expecting Departed (my free paranormal story) to be a quick edit. Nope. While reading, I changed my mind regarding the twist,...
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Alyssa Drake
Sep 28, 20211 min read
Day 49 - Firefly Island
The first romance I read was a Harlequinn historical that one of my friends lent me; I was hooked. However, I'm not a one-genre kind of...
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Alyssa Drake
Sep 28, 20211 min read
Welcome to Mendsville. Population: Declining
A woman's third fiancé dies under mysterious circumstances, but the truth behind his gruesome death is far more sinister. Dubbed the...
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Alyssa Drake
Sep 27, 20211 min read
Day 48 - I'm short
I'm short. That's not true, I'm actually quite tall, but the final chapter of my historical co-write is short. Before you get out the...
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Alyssa Drake
Sep 26, 20211 min read
Day 47 - Get all the words
Saturday night I had great plans to "get all the words", but as I was reading through what I'd previously written, I started revising the...
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Alyssa Drake
Sep 25, 20211 min read
Day 46 - Limiting my playtime
Dates on the calendar are closer than they appear and tonight starts the Fall for Romance hop that runs through this weekend celebrating...
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