Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just turned in Without a Summer, book three in The Glamourist Histories. It is a full three days early. La! Seriously, this thrills me, what with the move and everything, to have this completed and turned in. Please join me in saying, “Whew.” It’s just a brief respite before I […]
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I just realized that I have an 1814 copy of Elegant Extracts. I knew I had a couple of books from the early 1800s but it had been a decade or more since I acquired them and had forgotten what they were. We were cleaning and I picked this up and then exclaimed. Why? Because
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Or at least, a draft of Without a Summer is finished. It is 84,000 words, which makes it 10k longer than the other two books. I am a little baffled because I wrote it in 39 days. Granted, this is only a first draft and it needs revisions, but it is still a lot of words.
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I’ve just done my read-through of the first eighteen chapters of Without a Summer and adjusted them based on that. My readers can expect a giant list of ret-cons when they dive into this chapter, including a brand new Chapter 1. Chapter 16 is up for those of you reading along. But since I could
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If you are reading along, I’ve posted Chapter 4 of the Without a Summer draft. (If you want to be reading, read the ground rules and drop me a line.) Because I knew I would be travelling, I front-loaded my month with a fairly high per day word count. I was writing between three and four thousand
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With Shades of Milk and Honey, I posted the first three chapters in the clear as I wrote them and then password protected the rest. For Glamour in Glass, I also had people reading along and found it very helpful. After talking it over with my editor, the lovely Liz Gorinsky, I’ve been given permission to
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