Before Doing That I Need To Do This

I had an idea earlier this month for a new novel. I was all gung-ho, ready to go... and then I looked over at the milk crates full of binders and spotted two novels that have been sitting there since 2011 and 2103, respectively. I began a series of novels back then based on a book I started writing for Kelly as far back as 2003-4 about ghost hunters based at a college (an idea she borrowed for her novel Parapsychology, but she created her own location and characters and her novel is vastly different from mine, but she does give a nod to my character, Dr. Beeler and his Amberton Paranormal Investigation Society based in Vermont. Her characters talk about my characters.

I began to feel guilty for never doing anything with the two complete novels. I actually wrote the second one first, then went back and finally wrote the first novel two years later as my NANO novel in 2013. Both need some work because a couple characters in the second novel had different ARCs in the first novel- so I'll have to catch all the continuity issues between the two novels during this initial read through and the subsequent revisions to bring them up to snuff before self publishing them.

I also have books three and four in the series started. However, if I get these two books out there I'll take a break and write the werewolf novel- the one my daughter is chomping at the bit and hounding me for now (well- she did gift me the big plush werewolf for Mother's Day to inspire me! I really can't disappoint her!)

So- off to read and edit some more. It shouldn't take me all that long to get this done! It's just something that kept getting pushed aside for new novels...and I'm feeling guilty that they're still sitting there neglected 4 and 6 years later!!