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New Book, Slower Pace…
Working on Privileged Access has been interesting. I’m about two weeks into it now, and I’m sitting at 28000 words. This is still a very solid pace, but compared to the last two I have slowed it down a bit, and given it more time to live in my head. I think this has produced…
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Books I’m Reading…
Along with writing there is always obviously reading. Below you’ll find the stack of books that has been recently on my nightstand. They are a mix of genres, some I am reading again and others will be for the first time. Specifically I am finishing up The Shining. While this book is well outside my…
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Two Books Done
I’m extremely happy to report I have completed November Sunrise. The editing is done, the scrutiny of every line all the typos and formatting are finished and I will be sending it out to beta readers shortly. I will be getting a list of crime-procedural agents together and sending it out next week. The query…
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77,000 Words and Beta Feedback…
I have been working to edit November Sunrise over the past week and have found that I’ve been able to grow the draft rather than cut it. I wrote a very lean 71500 words originally that did the job reasonably well, but now I am adding the texture and detail that make it pop. For…
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34,000 Words in a Week…
When it rains it pours I suppose. I started my next novel November Sunrise last Wednesday. I’ve sent Listen Closely out to a number of agents. Here I am thirty-four thousand words later well into my next work. I’m finding Crime/Procedural to be an extremely engaging genre to write. I’m trying to take what worked…
