Magic Hound Update

The Magic Hound of Eastminster is completed! I finished the first draft just a couple of weeks ago, and at present I’m doing my first read-through along with my beta team to make the first round of significant changes to the narrative - tightening up the plot, fleshing out characters, removing extraneous scenes, &c. 

After that, I’ll go through the draft again with my #1 Alpha Reader - to whom I happen to be married - to make changes to grammar and syntax. The language is sloppy in too many places, and pretty wordy as well…but hey. It’s the first draft. Cut me some slack, Internet.

After that, I’ll probably do one last run-through with a couple of trusted readers who don’t mind reading through it again/aren’t sick of me and the book yet. Then it’ll be time to begin the hunt for that absolutely essential ingredient for writing career success…The Literary Agent! (cue one song or another from The Dark Knight Soundtrack.)

The goal is for the book to be completely finished and ready to send off exactly one year from when I started writing it: my birthday, October 24. That’s still a ways off, and I’m confident that with hard work I can knock this out. Onward!