Well, I finished writing Her Dark Angel in first draft this week. In the end, it turned out to be 28000 words, which is a pretty respectable length for a good quick read. It was nice writing something that was pretty much unplanned and which I hadn’t even thought of before last week. Funny when that happens. I have novels waiting to be written, and there’s always something that jumps the queue.
Speaking of queue jumpers. Forbidden Blood second draft is underway. I had Wednesday-Friday off this week to use up some remaining holiday and managed to not only get sick on Tuesday afternoon, as though in preparation for time off, but have managed to completely work through my holiday days too. I’m not sure what that says about me. I take time off work to do my other job. Lol. Hubby says that I need to remember how to have fun. There was a time when I was happy to spend a whole day playing PlayStation and was happy at the end of it. I’ve completely forgotten how to do nothing and be happy with it. If I spend a day like that now, I feel as though I’ve wasted it. Enough of life stuff, back to Forbidden Blood.
I read it on paper, as a reader, as I always do when starting an edit, on Wednesday and Thursday morning, and it’s actually in better nick than I had expected it to be. There’s a few things to address, but nothing major, not like I sometimes get with stories (Love Immortal, you know I’m talking about you… and you Winter’s Kiss… and Cabin Fever!).
I don’t think it will take me too long to do the second draft on it. I need to do my usual process but that shouldn’t take me more than a few weeks, and then I can get on with my other stories, and then decide what to do with them!
Her Dark Angel is probably going to be released through Alinar Publishing. It has been a while since I had a paid for release there, and I really need to keep my name out there. Everyone has come back with very nice comments about the cover that I’ve made. I’d like to get it out soonish but edits take time and I can’t rush them. People have asked about the summary and when they can read it, but I have none of that side of stuff done yet. I’ve only just written it! I hope that I’ll be able to get the story released this summer.
I have a couple of other novellas to write too. One is a werewolf/vampire romance, and the other is vampire/vampire romance. Both of them are Vampires Realm stories.
I need to go and plan out my writing schedule and see how punishing it will be!
