Update: BASICALLY finished!
Okay, so I didn’t even think to say anything about Sekaran last week, but in fact what I was doing last week was smoothing it out plus musing upon the possibility of rewriting the epilogue from a different pov.
Which I’m doing. I might not leave it that way, who knows, but for now it’s (a) an epilogue for Sekaran, and also (b) a teaser for Tathimi. Which should not be taken to imply Tathimi’s first book is actually underway; it’s still in the gleam-in-my–eye stage. But it’s a sufficiently bright gleam that it seems reasonable to handle this epilogue in a way that will serve both purposes. I guess it kind of would serve both purposes regardless, but anyway, I’m putting it in Tathimi’s pov for now and then we’ll see whether it stays that way. It’s third person, though, while I expect to eventually write Tathimi in first person.
So Sekaran is essentially finished! It’s novel length — a bit over 100,000 words — and who knows what might happen? I’m open to adding a chapter or two if anybody suggests a chapter that isn’t there yet. FEEL FREE TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS!
Meanwhile, I’m sending this draft to early readers and I will be super, super, super interested in reactions to this odd thing that isn’t a novel. It does have through-lines of various kinds. Anyway, we’ll see!
Oh, and btw, for the first time ever, I added chapter titles. They’re lines from the chapters. Sekaran’s most interesting cousin. Allure is hard, isn’t it? Splinters of ebony and gold. He tried to tell me. The reader will be able to guess from the table of contents what each chapter is about, though I’m sure some will be obscure. Some are the opposite of obscure. Sekaran Kansa Shavet, Regat Sul.
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Also, there is now a permanent list providing within-world chronology at the top of the Tuyo series page. I’ll have to remember to update that, as I will undoubtedly (I mean, I’m certain) keep writing books that are not in chronological order. If you click through, you may notice that the cover for Sekaran isn’t there yet. I went ahead and put a blank cover on the Books page as a placeholder because that cover should be ready in about … I’m guessing … three weeks or so. A lion, of course; what else. Regal, I said, so we’ll see how what the cover artist thinks of that.
When the cover is ready, I’ll put up the preorder at Amazon. I’m going to schedule the preorder for NOVEMBER 2 rather than OCTOBER 2, because if anybody DOES suggest, “Hey, I would love to see a chapter in which [this neat thing happens]” and I think Wow, that would indeed be neat, I want to have time to add that chapter.
If I don’t wind up adding a lot, then fine, it can be a relaxed, calm tweaking-and-proofing job, which will make a nice change.
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What else is going on?
Oh, Haydee has ONE MORE eye appointment this coming Wednesday. Last week the vet said, “So much better! 95% perfect! Continue the eyedrops and we’ll look again in ten days or so.” So that was good news, basically, but there is one more — hopefully just one — follow-up appointment.
Ish is totally back to normal as far as the prostate issue and showing no signs of overt symptoms of anything nasty lurking in his gut. He is thrilled with his new IBS diet, but to be fair, he is basically thrilled with all diets of every description. I’m avoiding giving him fatty treats, like peanut-butter-stuffed cow hooves. He’s okay with that because he gets different treats.
Left to right: Haydee, Joy, Morgan, Naamah
As Sekaran winds down and it’s barely past the middle of the month, I’m going to take about two weeks to … I realize this is shocking … read books that someone else wrote. It’s been a while. I’m currently reading Body and Soul by Frank Conroy. It is splendid. I’ll post about it one of these days, and in the meantime, thanks to whoever recommended it! I don’t remember who it was, but it was certainly someone here! Thank you!
I have lots of other books at the top of my TBR pile that someone here recommended! I have no clue how many I’ll get to in the next few weeks, but this one by Conroy is going slowly because it’s too good to rush through.
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