Writer Wednesday

I had a busy weekend (losing one hour to "Daylight Saving Time" – as we switched this weekend) comparing comments and feedback from betas and editors for CVE2 – The Left-handed Warrior. First of all, I'd like to send a special thanks to those five wonderful people even if I had to work a lot this time! ;-) But their comments were spot on, so I was happy to almost delete a secondary plot, recycling some of it in an extra chapter – which means one of the Editors is doing extra work on this one, LOL! ;-)

Anyway, the rewriting and tweaking lasted until Monday night, so I didn't have time to check any blogs (because I also had to format and upload another short story, B.G.Hope's Legacy), hence this Writer Wednesday will be all about ME, mwhahahahaha! :-D

Because Juli tagged me and because the rewrites were so intense that p.77 is now completely different, I'm redoing the 7 lucky number meme. The original post was here, including the rules. The new p.77 etc follows:

The teachers observed their clumsy students go at each other, amused. Both pupils looked uncomfortable with the weight of their sword, but Beth managed to hit the other's arm with the flat of her blade, forcing him to drop his weapon with a yelp of pain.

"Noble lord." Beth made a mocking bow. "You still have a lot to learn. And I bet you started long before I did."

"I was born with a sword in my hand," the boy frowned.

"I started using mine three months ago."

"Damn!" Even Rupert was impressed.

"Yes, she's a smart girl," Kurt grinned.

"A girl?" Rupert gaped.

Betas, you might notice I changed the POV of this scene – but it's part of the modified subplot I was talking about! ;-)

And now, cover reveal for my faithful blog followers.

I hope to publish it next week, so stay tuned…

I have finished the first (handwritten) draft of CVE3 – The Half-blood, and remembered oh so long ago when I wrote the very first draft (almost 20 years ago, yikes! I haven't touched it for some 10 years, and now I've touched it again to fit the "new" Silvery Earth) and the fact that I imagined it as a French BD drawn by Rosinski – much as Thorgal. This occurred to me because one of the betas thought CVE2 was sort of episodic – well CVE3 is even worse! ;-)

Because I could almost see the different "albums" drawn by Rosinski coming out every two years, the format was kind of episodic…but then back then most of my novels or longer works were sort of episodic, as I watched lots of TV, so I had this "serial" or episodic format even in writing. Of course there's a beginning, a middle and an end, but I called them "serial novels" for that reason – although CVE3 was the first with longer chapter and less episodic than the previous works.

And this specific book definitely continues in CVE4 (but it doesn't end with a cliffhanger, don't worry! Besides, the next book will be out two months after this one – and in 2 months you might not even get to reading it, if you've loaded your e-reader, LOL! ;-) ). I might do the print version in one volume (lemme see… CVE1+Allan de Sayek, CVE2+Records of the Varian Empire, CVE3+CVE4… yeah, should work! :-D ) – but I don't know when I'll do the print version, LOL!

By the way, I've raised the price of Allan de Sayek to 2.99$ but Amazon might have not updated it… they're sort of slower than Smashwords where the change is immediate! ;-) I can't check because I'm on Kindle Italia, but you might still be able to grab it at 1.99$…

Anyway, I've updated the Silvery Earth Chronology (see the tab at the top of the page, enough pingbacks for today! ;-) ) and now I'm off to… reading because I have two reviews to do and I've fallen behind with all the writing of the weekend! ;-)

Oh, and one last thing: BoI – Prequels has finally made it to the Premium Catalog. You Nook users please kindly keep a look on my Nook page and as soon as it shows up on Barnes&Nobles, go to Amazon and tell them of the lower price, thank you! I'll remind you again next week – thanks, much appreciated! :-)