Want to read the Without a Summer draft?

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 do post password protected chapters of Without a Summer.

Chapter 1 is posted, with a password, if you want to read along.

How do you get the password? Read on…

First, let me be clear: This is the sequel to a novel that isn’t out yet. Although I’m writing these books with the intention that you can pick up the series at any point, there will be spoilers for the previous books. Going back to the other two after this will mean reading them like prequels. I want a mix of readers so I know how it plays for people who have read the other books and people who are coming in blind.

Still interested?

All you have to do is ask me for the password. If you were one of my readers for Glamour in Glass and remember the password, include that and my email will autorespond with the Without a Summer password. Everyone else will have to wait for me to respond manually.

Before you click, I just wanted to take a moment to explain the ground rules, so to speak.

This is a raw draft. I’m posting it as I finish so you will see [brackets] where I’m making notes to myself, rough prose, and the occasional retcon as I change my mind about something you have already read.

What I’m interested in knowing is how you are find the story, but I am not over-worried about the language at this point. In particular, things that I’m interested in are: things that confuse you, bore you, or that you just don’t believe.

Basically, I want to know how the story is striking you, as a reader.

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