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January 17, 2012
"Teaser Tuesday"
- Gabriel said my name again. I looked at him pleadingly, my brows pinned together. He held my stare. I slowly stood and turned my back to him unable to hold eye contact. The moment he sees this everything changes.
January 13, 2012
Woo hoo!
I have officially finished the first draft of book three of The Watcher Series, tentatively called The Sacrifice! I am so relieved. I wrote the first 400 pages in May through August, then it took me four months to write the epilogue. Ugh! I think I need to celebrate! Since it is after 10 PM I guess dancing in my pajamas will have to do.
January 12, 2012
Book 2 Teaser
There was a flash of movement, and Gabriel jammed his hand inside his coat for his Durateus dagger. In what seemed to be one movement, he had leaned across the table and placed the blade at the throat of the visitor who had silently joined him. The veins on Gabriel's arm stood out like ropes as he blinked, shocked at the identity of the intruder.
Bowen sat calmly on the bench with hands raised in surrender. There was not a hint of aggression in his posture. "Please, you will want to hear what I am going to say."
January 11, 2012
I read and loved your book! I was wondering how long it is (in words). It felt short, but I think that was because I was totally into it. Are YA novels a different length than adult novels?
After seeing this question, I decided to do a search and see what the average length of a novel is, whether it is Young Adult or not. I found I fell right in the norm for even an adult novel.
My books:
Book 1: The Unintended is 85,000 words
Book 2: The Nexus is 100,000 (thus far)
Book 3: The Sacrifice is 110,000 (again thus far…I still have the epilogue to add and that is 5,000 so far…and I'm not done!! ACK.)
All the info said pretty much the same thing…here is one example:
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The average length of a novel is 60,000-120,000 words
Some people say 80,000 - 100,000 is average. It isn't really well defined, but there is no maximum. You might be interested in the rules for the Hugo award:
For the Hugos, written fiction is divided by length into four categories: Novels (usually any full-length book, but defined by the rules as any work over 40,000 words); Novellas (from 17,500 words to 40,000); Novelettes (from 7,500 to 17,500 words) and Short Stories (7,500 words and under). Several magazines indicate which category a story falls into, but collections and web sites often do not. Not to worry — give it your best guess where a story fits, and the Hugo Administrator can relocate a nominated story to its proper category. There is even a 20% gray area. The idea is that if a story is within 20% of the boundary and gets most of its nominations in the "wrong" category, the Hugo Administrator is allowed to leave it in the category that most of the voters felt it belonged in, despite the official word count of the story.
Source: http://www.laconiv.org/2006/hugos/hugonom.htm
Sources: http://www.write101.com/dgnovel.htm
January 7, 2012
North Star Charm
I was messaged this question on FB:
Josh gives Ali a necklace with a charm of the North Star on it. What do you picture the charm looking like? Thanks.
Answer: This is the closest to what was in my head.
eBook Available!!
My book is finally available on Kindle! If you have Amazon Prime it is free right now. If not, it is only $2.99. What a bargain!
