New YA Title Cleaned up and Being Read

I finished the second past on the first draft of my new YA book last night, and sent it off to my trusted reader to see what she thinks about it. I’m a little worried, because it’s an extremely sensitive book in some ways. It deals with some issues that may be considered controversial (well, they will DEFINITELY be considered controversial by some people), and if I get the details wrong I could annoy people which is not what I want to do.

Luckily, she is well-versed in the subject matter. Hopefully, she’ll like it and tell me all is well. Or like it and suggest changes where all is not well. Hopefully, she won’t outright hate it.

The book has a lot of heart, I think. At least I hope so. I was going for that. It’s dedicated to my son, Legend. With the dedication: May you always fight for the truth. Which might tell you a little bit about what the book’s actually about.

Once I get her comments back, I will second draft it and start the process of putting together the actual “book”. The guy doing my cover art is currently in Europe until the end of September, so there’s no hurry. Besides, I think I’m going to take my time with this one. It’s also the first in a series, and I’d like to have the second book in the series at least outlined before the first one is released. It would be awesome to have cover art for the second book before the release of the first so that I can have an ad for it in the back, but that my be a pipe dream.

Michael out.