My Muse's Musings

I thought I could write through anything. I used to turn to my writing to work through anger, frustration, and sadness. I wrote through disappointment, exhaustion, and loneliness. I wrote to remove myself from physical and emotional situations I couldn't escape. I had a very stressful job when I was first published, and my writing was my haven. But I couldn't write through the grief, anxiety, and financial chaos that followed my husband's passing.  It's been a journey to get to the point where I can put my fingers on the computer keys and write a sentence. I had started a book in October before his passing. But at the time, his illness had progressed to the point he needed me 24 hours a day.  I never left the house without my daughter or mother being there. And if I did, it was while he was asleep to go to the grocery store before he ever woke for the day.  I'm now trying to return to my past schedule of writing. But it's still difficult to sustain the schedule ...

Labor Day Greetings to everyone. I hope you're having a wonderful weekend so far. I thought I'd take the opportunity to fill you in on what the group of authors who released Hot Alpha SEALs:Military Romance Megaset have been up to since the anthologies release. Since I'm writing this blog I thought I'd go first.  Breaking Ties my SEAL Team Heartbreaker Novella with Oliver 'Greenback' Shaker and Selena is of course in the megaset.  I've just released Book 4 of the SEAL Team Heartbreakers Series Building Ties  .  Here's the blurb:  Navy SEAL Brett 'Cutter' Weaver is on a mission to Nicaragua when he learns his bride-to-be, Tess Kelly, has been injured in a car bombing. At Homeland Security’s demand, he’s rushed home on the next available transport and arrives to find Tess embroiled in three controversial stories. One may offer the key to her attacker. On top of the emotional and physical upheaval of the bombing, Tess has...

THESE PRICES WILL BE IN PLACE UNTIL JANUARY 15TH, 2014. SNAP UP THESE WONDERFUL ANTHOLOGIES. THESE ARE BOTH STEALS.  Seven stories in each by seven different authors!!! Mirth, Murder, and Mystery  Malice, Mischief, and Men TERESA R.

EBOOK BREAKING AWAY                                PAPERBACK BREAKING AWAY I LOVE MY COVER!!! I'm crazy about it. It think my guy is so handsome,  intense, and sexy.  He's perfect for Flash. An excerpt: He nodded, the movement brief. “Several parts of your body can be used as a weapon.   Head, hands, elbows, knees, and feet. And several parts of your attacker’s body can be your target. Eyes, ears, mouth, nose, throat, stomach, groin, knees, ankles, and toes. The key is not to be afraid to go after them with everything you have.” Could she do that? Go after someone with no holds barred? Her non-aggressiveness might be what allowed Will to target her in the first place. Sam shifted her weight, and nodded. “I can learn to be aggressive. I’m not going to be a victim ever again.” ...

We all want our books to be made into movies. The one I'd love to see on the big screen the most, besides my Navy SEAL Seal Team Heartbreaker books, is TIMELESS .  My romantic suspense set in Loch Maree, Scotland. The next best thing to a movie, is a book trailer and my cover artist Tracy Stewart at Simply Bookish has created me one. And it's fantastic. So here's the link and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. http://youtu.be/FsWNFXYTiQc   Archaeology student, Regan Stanhope, lands the chance of a lifetime when she’s chosen to work on a summer dig in Loch Maree, Scotland. The ancient monoliths hidden beneath the loch are the most important discovery since Stonehenge. And for seven hundred years, they have been waiting—for her. Saturation diver Quinn Douglas is contracted to recover some of the megaliths from the loch’s bottom. The job will breathe life into the struggling salvage business he and his brothers are building. But from the mo...

Breaking Free , the first book of my SEAL Team Heartbreakers Series is on sale for $2.00 for this week at Amazon and at Smashwords. It will be available at Apple and others for that price soon. Breaking Free So if you haven't read the book, this is your chance to get it at a reduced rate.  Here's the Blurb:  When LIEUTENANT ADAM “HAWK” YAZZIE rescues ENSIGN BRETT “CUTTER” WEAVER during a mission in Iraq, his faith in his team’s loyalty is shaken. Someone in the team attacked Cutter and left him for dead. But who? ZOE WEAVER races to her brother Brett’s bedside. He stood by her while she fought her way back from a devastating injury, and she’s determined to do the same for him. Though drawn to Hawk’s good looks and steady strength, she’s reluctant to get involved with a man in uniform. But with Brett lying in a coma, Hawk may prove the key to what happened to her brother. Hawk is torn between loyalty to his men and his need to see justice done. When he t...

Love is Timeless is the theme for my book TIMELESS.  Though it's a romance, it's also a paranormal mystery suspense book and has elements of science fiction as well. Because of all that it was difficult to categorize. Blurb: Archaeology student, Regan Stanhope, lands the chance of a lifetime when she’s chosen to work on a summer dig in Loch Maree, Scotland. The ancient monoliths hidden beneath the loch are the most important discovery since Stonehenge. And for seven hundred years, they have been waiting—for her. Saturation diver Quinn Douglas is contracted to recover some of the megaliths from the loch’s bottom. The job will breathe life into the struggling salvage business he and his brothers are building. But from the moment he arrives, Quinn is plagued by dreams and feelings from a past he did not live. Or did he? Regan and Quinn are drawn to each other as they research the monoliths and the reason behind their shared visions. But both sense something mysti...

When I started writing Captive Hearts in 2005 I had it in my head I wanted to try something different in my book than the Regency Romances I had read.  Most of the Regencies I'd read at that period were light fare. Drawing room dramas with romantic conflicts that though entertaining were not dark. I wanted to write a DARK Regency.With touches of humor here and there. I wracked my brain for several days trying to figure out what kind of story line I could do that would satisfy my suspenseful craving. And decided I needed a serial killer. I had just read several books on Jack the Ripper. One of the best I've read to date is titled THE COMPLETE JACK THE RIPPER CASEBOOK BY DONALD RUMBLELOW Rumblelow is a retired Scotland Yard Detective and I was fascinated by his book. It goes into depth how the lower class lived during that period, what London was like, and of course the murders there in White chapel. (It is not available on kindle but is in print and well worth the read.) ...

In 2007,  I accepted my first contract with The Wild Rose Press and my Scottish Medieval Romance, HIGHLAND MOONLIGHT  was released.  I've recently gotten the rights back to Moonlight and done revisions, rewrites, and updated the cover.  I'm calling it The Author's Cut because it's a new version of the book.  In honor of it's pending release, I'm revealing the cover. My BEAUTIFUL, GORGEOUS, EXCELLENT NEW COVER!! Done by my wonderful cover artist,  Tracy Stewart (Yes that's a Scottish Name which is very appropriate.) She is the  owner of a one stop shopping, everything you could need for your book company called  Simply Bookish,  And also Tracy was able to find a picture of the castle I wrote about, dreamed about, and studied while I wrote the book and we have put it on the cover. The castle is Kilchurn Castle in Scotland, now a ruin but in the day.... It is located in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It was actually constructed in 1450 (a litt...

This week I published my Scottish medieval short story, To Capture A Highlander's Heart: The Beginning. It is a spin off story tied to Highland Moonlight my first published book,which will soon be rereleased with a new cover, new line edits, and rewrites. To Capture a Highlander's Heart: The Beginning is the first story of a trilogy tied to Highland Moonlight. The next one will be To Capture A Highlander's Heart: The Courtship-- already in the works.   And the third story will be To Capture A Highlander's heart: The Wedding Night.  I set the short story for Free on Smashwords. And it's available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon . It's available at KOBO and Apple as well. All Free.  I hope you'll check it out. Read on, Teresa J. Reasor 

An Automated Death An Automated Death was published March 13th, 2013.  And I thought I'd post an except from the book for those who are interested. The story has two endings. One dark and one light.  I've published the story with them both.  Here's the excerpt: Automaton: A non-electronic machine that mimics the movements of an animal or a human.   A nineteenth century robot. London, England, 1863 Rain clouds rolled in over London, bringing with them a gray tinged afternoon light that struggled to penetrate the shop’s plate glass windows. Alan Cartwright turned up the wick on the oil lamp and moved it closer to the mechanism he worked on. Despite the gas lamps lining the interior walls, working on the small fittings of the automaton required additional light. The wooden clock cabinets and music boxes he built gleamed in the warm glow, their brass fittings sparkling gold. The smell of freshly cut wood and machine oil hung in...