"S. L. Viehl - Now or Never" - читать интересную книгу автора (Viehl S. L)

1
 2




For Lily
Muri ga toureba douri hikkomu




First Electronic Printing December 2003

Copyright 2003 by S.L. Viehl
All Rights Reserved

Cover Art and Design by Lazette Gifford
http://www.lazette.net/
 3

Introduction


ItтАЩs the end of the year already?

That was my first thought when I started putting together this e-book.

2003 was the Year of Landmarks That Whizzed Right On Past Me. My
first hardcover novel, Blade Dancer, was released in August and sold out
almost immediately. My first Christian adult fiction novel, Going to the
Chapel, was published in the same month (as was my sixth romance, The
Kissing Blades.) I sold and wrote more novels than I have in any other
year since I turned pro. As I write this, I am nearly finished Heat of the
Moment, which will be the ninth book IтАЩve written in 2003.

While all these important things were happening, I was, well, writing.

IтАЩm not complaining. Any author who complains about having too much
work should be smacked in the head a few times, then forced to re-read all
the rejection letters he or she ever received as an aspiring writer. The
latter would take me a good month.

You guys have stuck with me through it all, even when I up and
disappeared for eight weeks back in September (I was writing three books
at the same time.) I canтАЩt tell you how much your loyalty means to me. I
can show a little well-deserved appreciation, though, so along with all the
web site stories from 2003, IтАЩve included in this e-book two never-before-
published short stories, Defense Mechanism and The Widow, and a
sneak peek at BioRescue and Into the Fire, two of my new novels for