BIG NEWS X2!
Wow! What a week it’s been!
First, thank you to every single person that signed up for the newsletter and free e-book coming out Oct 24th (just the free ebook - formal book release date is still OCT 31st)! Thanks to each of you out there helping get the word out; we’ve reached the first milestone: 250 registered readers!
250!
I’m supper grateful to everyone who shares, likes, and comments on the social media posts. Still got a long way to go and I can’t do it without your support. Thank you! Please keep spreading the word. We’ve got a goal to reach 1000 by August 1st!
Oct 24th is coming fast. Still a lot to do. And that leads me to the second piece of news: the final content draft of The Growing Darkness landed on my editor’s desk this morning! Thank you, Steven Moore, for the great feedback and tough love. Your notes were spot on! What a slog that was. Full disclosure: as a new author publishing for the first time, I’ve never experienced the editing process. Finding my way through the manuscript, making changes to fix the weakness all while trying not to create new ones, well, let’s just say that wasn’t easy. Fingers crossed it worked!
I’m happy with the story now. There were major changes to the first 100 pages, (you’re welcome, mom), and a full restructure of the story. Everything from pacing to plotline layout to underdeveloped character arcs to droning sections of meandering thoughts have, hopefully, been corrected. It was an exhausting reread and rewrite but the end product is significantly better.
And now the book is ready for line editing! For those that don’t know, that means now that the story is structured well, poor Steven has to reread the book again and pick apart the prose for overly flowery language, repetitive phrases, ugly and cumbersome sentences, to dreaded clichés and pedestrian word choices (ick). Let’s face it, I’m no Truman Capote.
There you have it. My baby is out of my hands for the next few weeks, so I’m going to work on a few short stories for the coming anthology (details coming soon!) In the meantime, Book II of The God Killers is only halfway through the first draft, but since the recent changes to Book I significantly impact the rest of the trilogy, it looks like I’m starting over there…yikes.
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The Growing Darkness releases on Oct 31, 2024!