The Cat Who Came in From the Cold is complete!
Well, sort of.
I finished the final scene for "The Cat Who Came in From the Cold" which is a prequel to my first novel, "Road Kill". This is the origin story of Hyperion and Meagan, how they met, and their first adventure together. By the end of the book, you'll know a lot more about Hyperion, but not everything. Some details will remain a mystery until at least book four. But that might be a while as I only have the first three planned out.
By complete, I mean all the words for all the scenes are out of my head and into Scrivner, reaching a total of 77,000 words. There's still at least a month's more work doing all the editing and revision. Plus, I have one important detail that happens near the end of the book. I'll need to go back and put a sentence or so into one or more of the previous scenes just so it doesn't come out of nowhere. And another detail that is mentioned in a rather important early scene might cause people to think that it's more important than it actually is, so I'll need to put a few sentences in later scenes just so readers will recognize it as just a detail of the world.
Still, that's a major milestone met. And, after a short rest, I'll be pushing forward with "The International Criminal Conspiracy", book 3 in the still unnamed series. That one is already about half done. I put it on the back burner so that I could concentrate on this one. "The International Criminal Conspiracy" is an adventure featuring all the major characters of the first two books.
I'm hoping "The Cat" will be available in ebook and paper by August and, with luck, I might be able to get the 3rd book into Alpha shape by the end of the year.
I finished the final scene for "The Cat Who Came in From the Cold" which is a prequel to my first novel, "Road Kill". This is the origin story of Hyperion and Meagan, how they met, and their first adventure together. By the end of the book, you'll know a lot more about Hyperion, but not everything. Some details will remain a mystery until at least book four. But that might be a while as I only have the first three planned out.
By complete, I mean all the words for all the scenes are out of my head and into Scrivner, reaching a total of 77,000 words. There's still at least a month's more work doing all the editing and revision. Plus, I have one important detail that happens near the end of the book. I'll need to go back and put a sentence or so into one or more of the previous scenes just so it doesn't come out of nowhere. And another detail that is mentioned in a rather important early scene might cause people to think that it's more important than it actually is, so I'll need to put a few sentences in later scenes just so readers will recognize it as just a detail of the world.
Still, that's a major milestone met. And, after a short rest, I'll be pushing forward with "The International Criminal Conspiracy", book 3 in the still unnamed series. That one is already about half done. I put it on the back burner so that I could concentrate on this one. "The International Criminal Conspiracy" is an adventure featuring all the major characters of the first two books.
I'm hoping "The Cat" will be available in ebook and paper by August and, with luck, I might be able to get the 3rd book into Alpha shape by the end of the year.
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