Yay!!!! It's Done And Off To the Publisher!!!!

So, Return is done.  Like a dinner.  Is it perfect?  Probably not.  Personal issues kept coming up (and down, and up, and down), which made working on it rough.  Not to mention -- starting the sequel was hard.  I had an idea of where everyone needed to be at the end of it, but not really an idea of how to get there.  So I wrote alot of stuff, which needed some serious editing and changing around when I went back over it.

The good news is that I got my groove on, and I'm really happy with the final work.  There will probably be mistakes, and it might not be as polished as the draft of Release I submitted way back when to Vamplit, but it was time to turn it over and get the juices flowing for Redeem ;-)

Yay!!!!  And here's a sneak peek (from Cray's POV, if you couldn't tell the voice ;-)

It’s a common misconception that vampires intermingle with humans, courting them and seducing them, in order to feed regularly. The fact is that the majority of my race prefers to find, feed, and disappear all rather quickly, with the humans retaining no residual emotions or memory of the encounter. In the latter half of the 20th century, we’d stopped killing, although lately, my sister and I had killed our prey merely out of convenience -- we had demon friends who could burn the remains, thus greatly lessening the questions and superstitions that arose when bloodless bodies were found. The only humans we allowed into our daily lives had been cursed by voodoo and dark magic, thus giving them a taste of what our lives as vampires -- as outcasts -- are like. These cursed humans have become our friends, our family. For my sister and me, the two – friends and family – have become one and the same.