Writing Updates 24/7/2021

Well! We’ve been very busy lately. My husband has just turned 30, so my eldest son and I made 30 cupcakes for the occasion. It is also my youngest son’s first birthday next week, so we’ve been very busy with that, too, but, nonetheless, I do have a writing update for you…

This week’s exciting news is that I have had a short fantasy story, Wheat and Gold, accepted into the Hero’s Anthology! It isn’t coming out until next year, I believe, but I’m still very pleased to be included.

I have also finally got my Dev edits for Felgrim in (and we have officially settled on the name Felgrim for Book One, so that’s exciting, too.) We have decided to call the overall series title the Darkwatch Trilogy, so the name hasn’t disappeared entirely.

I also got a couple of new reviews for The Heir of Drymote, so that is always encouraging. I still don’t feel like I’ve quite cracked marketing for it yet, and I still need to work out how readers’ mailing lists work, but reviews are worth their weight in gold, so they say, so I’m not going to complain about that!

In less good news, I’ve had all my queries for Factory and Forge back now and no one has accepted it yet. I did get some quite positive feedback from one agency, who gave me some suggested edits and told me to reapply in six months time once I had implemented them, so that’s my next job I think.

I am also trying to crack back in to the weekly Reedsy competitions. It’s a good practice to write every week, and I want to get back into it again, I’ve just been so busy with the edits for Felgrim lately, that I haven’t had time to do anything else! (I don’t have that excuse any more!)

I think that’s it for now. (I still need to work out how to finish these posts. It feels weird to say goodbye, and it would be weirder still to sign them, like a letter. Possibly I should ask more questions to round it off, but does anyone ever actually answer them? Perhaps I will experiment, and see what works best.)

Lizzy