One Step Closer!

Good morning, Readers! Image by Michaela from Pixabay I have some awesome things to share. If you've been following my socials, you know that I now have the comments from my second beta reader for The New Haven Incident. Along with the comments, she sent a long email explaining a few things. Honestly, it's the frikkin' best list of comments I've ever received this way.

As of the writing of this blog post, I haven't yet opened the document to work through the edits. But I have read over that email several times. I might print that email and frame it. Honestly, it's great.

I thought I'd take the time to share with you some of my favourite things my beta reader sent to me about this book. So, in no particular order (but my favourite is the last one), here are some quotes that I adored.

​On the character of Lilith:

Goddamn. We need more characters like this, kind, compassionate, and BADASS. Also, her backstory. Man. I was not prepared for that.

On the story overall:

Jesus Christ. What a whirlwind of a novel. It's compelling, interesting, and also quite terrifying.

On the character of Sebastian (which made me laugh so hard):

He may be blond but he's smart, fast, an opportunist, and generally seems to have a good moral compass despite all of his rigorous and brutal training.

On the characters in general:

I love how you wrote the characters... They aren't cardboard NPCs. These characters are real.

On an event I won't spoil:

Patricia Cornwell eat your heart out.

And my personal favourite:

I'm sure you had a great time writing a PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR SEX SCENE. Jesus fucking Christ I was crying Sonia. CRYING. DURING A SEX SCENE. Fuck my life.

​So, I traumatised my beta reader, for which I am very sorry... but I am heartened to see that everything I tried to achieve in this story landed. I'm now even more excited to bring this one to you.

I'm working through the edits now and will send it off to my final beta reader soon. I'm excited about this one! Right, we all have work to do.

Ciao!