I meant to post last week that I had finished Hunter’s Moon in first draft. It turned out to be almost 50,000 words in the end.
I’m quite surprised by that. I had chosen to write Hunter’s Moon first rather than Masquerade because I had calculated that it would be the shorter of the two Vampires Realm novellas that I want to release next year. Well, colour me wrong! I had anticipated that Hunter’s Moon, which is a werewolf and vampire romance based in Canada, away from the main stalking ground of the seven pure bloodlines of Europe, would only be around 30-35,000 words. While it has plot and action, it’s more of an emotional story compared with Masquerade, which has lots of emotion too but is more action-based. Lots of fight scenes. It turned out that there were more fight scenes in Hunter’s Moon than I had thought there would be, and it grew to accommodate them. Now I’m left wondering whether Masquerade might turn out to be a novel rather than a novella!
I still have some work to do on the outline of Masquerade, so it’s entirely possible that it will be a novel rather than a novella.
I’m quite pleased with how Hunter’s Moon has turned out though. I think fans of Winter’s Kiss will enjoy it. It has a lot of emotion, turmoil, and will probably have you rooting for the hero & heroine and wishing those pesky laws against such relationships didn’t exist.
Now I just have to let it sit for a while and then come back and tackle the second draft!
