Edits and Proofs

So, June has come and gone. I have been waiting so much for the month to come that it just flew by me. If you remember, I went to Disney World as a graduation present to myself. I LOVED it. I’m a big kid, so I had a lot of fun. I would go back in a heartbeat–if I had the money. It was nice to be able to relax and just be a kid again for a little bit.

I also got His Haven‘s edits back from my editor. She said that the story was so well-written, there weren’t even many things to fix! I was shocked. I was expecting red marks all over! I was even more shocked when I went to start the edits and found that she was absolutely right. I finished editing eighteen chapters out of twenty-one in just one night! I also made a friend in my editor. She writes Victorian and paranormal romance too, so I found out we had a lot in common there. Now, His Haven goes to proofs. I get to see different versions of the finished copy and approve them as we go. I still haven’t heard from my cover artist. That is the next big thing I’m excited about. I can’t wait to see what she has created for me!

As for writing, I have been working on my shape-shifter novella The Hunt more than His Haven‘s sequel. I know I should be concentrating on that series since I have been contracted for three years with the publisher for that series, but my muse has been pushing for something different. My comfort zone is long novels (usually 60k-120k words) with a Victorian or vampire influence. So, with The Hunt, I am trying a novella (about 15k-35k words), and I am writing about giant cat shape-shifters and their origins. No Victorian era. No vampires. Shorter story. I’m not even a cat-person! It is very, very different, but I like challenging myself. I’ve been writing Patterns in the Ivy (His Haven‘s sequel) a little at a time. I have a hard time with starting novels. I especially hate writing running scenes, which this story starts with. You can see why my muse is shying away from this one.

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~H.A.B.