Hello Everyone!
Once again, I know it has been quite a long time since the last time I posted. As you can see the website has been updated in look and will continue to change over the next few weeks! Things are moving again as I always knew they would. Various things have gotten in the way and took up my time, but once again, I am working on the book! It has been right at four years since I started working on it, and started to share the different chapters with you on this blog.
This novel started off as a short story, which I wasn’t happy with ending at that length so I started a group of short stories, which turned out to be longer than most novels. It started out with the first chapter setting up a week-long trip to Jessica’s aunt’s house. Once I had done the rest of the novel, this didn’t make sense. It was too fast, too much happening in a week. I decided to break up the chapters and spread out the time over the whole summer. This turned out to be a little more difficult, going through every word and making sure the timeline made sense.
Of course life gets in the way of our best attempts at getting some things completed. It was months before I could get back to the book. Then I had to start over. Then it was months again, and I had to start over again. I was able to continuously get through the first and maybe second chapter, but never had enough time to sit down and go through the whole book! Well, this has finally changed. I have finally carved out the time to work on the book the way I intended. Right now I am on Chapter 14 of what will end up being 17-18 chapters most likely.
I am working on getting everything done this time through by the end of the week. I will put the book together, re-do the cover image and get a proof created by the end of next week. Then it will start all over and I have to go through the whole book one more time and make sure everything is perfect, then it will happen. I will finally release the full novel on the website, on amazon, on IBooks, etc. I hope to have this done before the end of the year! I don’t think that will be difficult this time and it will finally be out!
If you are reading this blog post, then most likely you have really been waiting for this book to come out! I am very sorry about the time that it has taken to get to this point. But, I am really grateful that you have stuck with it through all this time of not knowing what is going on and not knowing if the book would ever see the light of day!
For those who have stuck with me through all of this, I am thinking about doing a little something special! I am thinking about selling signed, and personalized copies of the book. I am not sure how I am going to do this at this time, but I will definitely let everyone know in an upcoming blog post! Let me know in the comments below if you are interested in something like that!
Thank you all again, and I will hopefully have an update for your all soon, when I get the proof back!
XOXOXO
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