Well, I finished the polish phase of Hunter’s Moon<\/b>, the next Vampires Realm<\/i> novel, at the weekend and sent it off to a few kind readers who offered to run their eyes over it and offer me feedback. I have a few questions about it and just want to make sure that it’s perfect before unleashing it on the world.<\/p>\n
This week I’ve been doing two things: Reading and getting sick.<\/p>\n
I started the week with the intention of doing a read through of Ascension<\/b> and then starting the polish edit on it. Unfortunately, it’s just not sitting well with me. I feel there are quite a few things that need addressing and the writing needs a good buffing up session throughout the book. The trouble with Ascension<\/b> is, I started it as a short story intended for the Nocturne Bites line by Harlequin. They rejected two of my stories, and I felt this one really had a novel feel about it, and I wanted to extend it. I gave it out to around 30 readers, who mostly came back with the same feeling–it should be a novel not a short story. I never sent it to Harlequin, and instead extended it. I think in the extension process, I flipped back from trying to write for Harly to writing like my normal self. This means that the two styles don’t quite mesh. So, Ascension<\/b> needs another draft before it can be polished.<\/p>\n
Which is why I’m now reading Forbidden Blood<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Forbidden Blood<\/b> is a vampire romance with a twist. Not quite traditional, but nothing I write ever really is. It also has a nicely tortured hero. I have a thing for writing those too. I’m banking on it being in better shape than Ascension<\/b>, as I wrote it more recently, and therefore it will only need a polish as opposed to another draft. I’ve already done a second draft of the novel, and afterward I thought of a few things I could do to improve it. I have to add those into the story, but I don’t think it will be difficult to work them in. I’ve only read around 20 pages of it so far. It reads well, with the odd thing I want to smooth out or improve.<\/p>\n
Of course, I’m also touting a beautifully ugly cold right now, so chances are nothing I read is going to feel amazing because I’m so under the weather and just feeling vaguely cruel towards my stories because of it. I want to be able to sit down and just spend the whole day working on the stories and getting them into top shape, but that’ll take weeks and I want to get the story out at the end of March.<\/p>\n
At this rate, I’ll be moving another release date. I’ll have to do it if I don’t feel I have enough time. There’s only 3 weeks until my ear operation now, which probably isn’t enough time to do another copy edit on a book and then have time to proof it. We’ll see! I do love a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, I finished the polish phase of Hunter’s Moon, the next Vampires Realm novel, at the weekend and sent it off to a few kind readers who offered to run their eyes over it and offer me feedback. I have … Continue reading