Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Status Update

I finished chapter 12 of Black Coven over the weekend, and I'm working on 13 today. Things are speeding up as I get towards the later part of the book, and if past experience is any guide I'll probably turn out two chapters per week from this point on. Since the book is planned to be about 19 chapters I'm definitely in the home stretch here.

I've also started doing some early planning on other projects. One of these days I'm going to write a military SF series that's actually based on real science instead of meaningless technobabble, but getting that right requires a lot of setting development.

5 comments:

  1. Any chance for a snippet or Ch1 excerpt, or is that planned to be post-Ch19?

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  2. I lost track of how many times I read the first book, I can't wait to find out what happens next. Definitely my favourite book.

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  3. The first book didn't suffer from bad editing. Do you expect to go through an external editing process or do you use beta readers or is your work pretty polished as it is produced and we can expect the book to be released pretty much as soon as the first draft is finished?

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    1. I do incremental polishing and rewrites as I go, but I do have another cycle of polishing and proofreading to do once the first draft is finished. I'd guess the actual publication date will be 3-6 weeks after the draft is finished, depending on how things go.

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    2. I do incremental polishing and rewrites as I go, but I do have another cycle of polishing and proofreading to do once the first draft is finished. I'd guess the actual publication date will be 3-6 weeks after the draft is finished, depending on how things go.

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