Update on the Karma Stone

The warm weather has been a boon for editing. I love the sun, yet the heat is so strong it keeps me indoors, so I am able to find time to complete my editing. I am about a 3rd of the way through my final edit, and I have set several query letters as well as a submission to a publisher.

I am still on track to finish up and be ready for publishing by July, which is very exciting. This is a paranormal horror story and quite brutal and graffic, so I am not sure of my audience. It is quite different then my usual work. My frist being a paranormal YA, Splintered:Sierra's Legacy, The Christmas Star, a heartwarming holiday paranormal, and then Face the Music, still in the editing phase, but a paranormal mystery with zombies and two female sleuths.

I plan on another installlment of the Karma Stone, but have not yet begun. I am just very excited to move forward.

Book Covers and more edits

While waiting on my book to be through the contest, I have been looking a pictures for the cover. They will be somewhere along this line. I will be posting my choices soon, and hope to get some feed back from my readers. Due to the dark nature of the book, the pictures may follow that direction as well.

In the meantime, I am also working on edits of Splintered: Sierra's Legacy. I have gottern through several chapters and will upload and re-release when it is complete. I will be looking for reviewers at that time and will be sending out requests.

The reviewing world is a difficult one, there are so many authors looking for reviews, it is more difficult to get them now. You have to catch the eye of the reader, and connect in some way. I am looking forward to getting back into the swing, and ready to move forward. I will also be considering another installment of the Karma Stone, as I have had some requests, and will move forward on the rest of the Splintered World Series.

2 days more before the first faze of the contest is completed. Hope to make it through, but if not will re-submit next year. In the meantime, the book will move forward, I will just have to build a stronger pitch, the book speaks for itself. .

Editing the past

Ready to update and rebuild, I am now in the unenvialbe position of editing and updating my book, Splintered: Sierra's Legacy. Released in 2011, to decent reviews, I find I am not interested in just decent. I am revamping and adding a bit more action. A YA, it is fun and surprising, but I had chosen to not include too much action due to the nature of the work. However, as I re-read I find that action is what it is lacking to bring it up and make it even more exciting.

This is my project while waiting for the ABNA contest to get underway. I am amazed at how much I am enjoying the editing. Initially that was the part of writing I did not enjoy, but I find that I get so caught up in writing, that I am not always aware of what is actually written until I get to this juncture.

Once completed, I will update the information and begin marketing the work. Thank you so much for your follows, and for your gentle encouragement as I move forward.