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An Accidental Book: Hell Hath No Fury
An Accidental Book :)
Hell Hath No Fury was never meant to become a book, let alone a series. I'd been struggling with the first chapters of my books... inserting too much back story, and I decided to play with the idea of writing an intriguing first chapter – not worrying about the rest of the book at all.
So I sat down and just let my juices start flowing... Hmmm.. A girl, of course, how about a girl who is drinking too much? I've never read a regency that started out that way. And how about I make her angry? Very Angry! Why is she angry? Well, she's been betrayed! By who? And the story just kind of rolled along from there.
It only took me three weeks to write the rest of the book. (My other books have all taken about 6 weeks.) It was weird how the story just developed on it's own...
I wrote the book in the summer of 2015. The agent I was attempting to land read through it and said she loved it but not enough to try to sell it... I later learned she'd basically stopped taking on new romance authors. At this point I still don't have an agent and I'm not sure I'll go after one... I'm learning so much about publishing right now!
I wrote the second book in this series last December (2016) and am prepping it to send in to Blue Tulip Publishing as we speak. It's present title is Hell in a Hand
basket. It is Sophia's story.
Harold is not all that he seems and Sophia has a rocky road ahead! I can't wait to begin working on the cover and hopefully this will release around Thanksgiving sometime! Meanwhile, I'll keep all of you posted as to all that I'm up to! Thanks for reading! Ya gotta love a happy ending, right?
Links to Purchase Hell Hath No Fury...
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2tC9RPg
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2u4Cnew
Amazon AU: http://amzn.to/2uFcmoZ
Amazon CA: http://amzn.to/2veqUZX
iBooks: http://apple.co/2toEbNP
B&N: http://bit.ly/2rAcyjn
Kobo: http://bit.ly/2rjnfHI
Smashwords: http://bit.ly/2s35v6s
Hell Hath No Fury was never meant to become a book, let alone a series. I'd been struggling with the first chapters of my books... inserting too much back story, and I decided to play with the idea of writing an intriguing first chapter – not worrying about the rest of the book at all.
So I sat down and just let my juices start flowing... Hmmm.. A girl, of course, how about a girl who is drinking too much? I've never read a regency that started out that way. And how about I make her angry? Very Angry! Why is she angry? Well, she's been betrayed! By who? And the story just kind of rolled along from there.
It only took me three weeks to write the rest of the book. (My other books have all taken about 6 weeks.) It was weird how the story just developed on it's own...
I wrote the book in the summer of 2015. The agent I was attempting to land read through it and said she loved it but not enough to try to sell it... I later learned she'd basically stopped taking on new romance authors. At this point I still don't have an agent and I'm not sure I'll go after one... I'm learning so much about publishing right now!
I wrote the second book in this series last December (2016) and am prepping it to send in to Blue Tulip Publishing as we speak. It's present title is Hell in a Hand
basket. It is Sophia's story.
Harold is not all that he seems and Sophia has a rocky road ahead! I can't wait to begin working on the cover and hopefully this will release around Thanksgiving sometime! Meanwhile, I'll keep all of you posted as to all that I'm up to! Thanks for reading! Ya gotta love a happy ending, right?
Links to Purchase Hell Hath No Fury...
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2tC9RPg
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2u4Cnew
Amazon AU: http://amzn.to/2uFcmoZ
Amazon CA: http://amzn.to/2veqUZX
iBooks: http://apple.co/2toEbNP
B&N: http://bit.ly/2rAcyjn
Kobo: http://bit.ly/2rjnfHI
Smashwords: http://bit.ly/2s35v6s
Edits and Rewrites
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT! For Hell Hath No Fury…
Necessary evils one must co-exist with as a writer.
Except that, sometimes, it’s during those excruciating rewrites and edits, that characters and plots gain the dimension and depth that cause them to be intriguing to the reader.
While executing what was supposed to be the last edit on HELL HATH NO FURY, I thought something was missing from the Snake incident… like. I mean, why an adder?
I don’t know a great deal about snakes, but even I KNEW that the adder would most likely NOT kill a person… So, WHY DID I make the snake an adder? Well, so that it would not actually KILL Cecily when it bit her, right?
But the attempted murderer WANTED to KILL Cecily… so why did THEY choose to put an adder in her bed?
AHA! The person who CHOSE the Adder, the person assigned to procure a snake for the deed didn’t really WANT for Cecily to DIE!
All of this came to me in the FINAL EDIT! LOL… BTW, my editor made me do one more run through after that… I’d added so many little rewrites…
Anyhow, I think that those last minute changes put the cherry on top for that character. It made him more interesting, more like how people REALLY are.
So, even though I whine and cry and complain about editing and rewrites… They always bring the book up another notch… And that is ALWAYS a good thing.
Hope I haven’t spoiled anything for any of you!
Happy Reading!
Necessary evils one must co-exist with as a writer.
Except that, sometimes, it’s during those excruciating rewrites and edits, that characters and plots gain the dimension and depth that cause them to be intriguing to the reader.
While executing what was supposed to be the last edit on HELL HATH NO FURY, I thought something was missing from the Snake incident… like. I mean, why an adder?
I don’t know a great deal about snakes, but even I KNEW that the adder would most likely NOT kill a person… So, WHY DID I make the snake an adder? Well, so that it would not actually KILL Cecily when it bit her, right?
But the attempted murderer WANTED to KILL Cecily… so why did THEY choose to put an adder in her bed?
AHA! The person who CHOSE the Adder, the person assigned to procure a snake for the deed didn’t really WANT for Cecily to DIE!
All of this came to me in the FINAL EDIT! LOL… BTW, my editor made me do one more run through after that… I’d added so many little rewrites…
Anyhow, I think that those last minute changes put the cherry on top for that character. It made him more interesting, more like how people REALLY are.
So, even though I whine and cry and complain about editing and rewrites… They always bring the book up another notch… And that is ALWAYS a good thing.
Hope I haven’t spoiled anything for any of you!
Happy Reading!
99 Cents! HELL HATH NO FURY
For the First time Hell Hath No Fury has been put on sale for 99 Cents! This weekend only! Great time to pick it up and move from your TBR Shelf to your CURRENTLY READING!
Hell Hath No Fury
Hell Hath No Fury
