It's been a while...

These last weeks have been swept up in a whirlwind. We've been editing/rewriting Swords of Winter. We'd been putting off editing two chapters for almost a year and a half as the story changed around them. So much of our old work has had to be scrapped and reworked. It truly is a real reminder of how far away we were to begin with.

After our first draft we had assumed that we'd have a publishable manuscript within the year. Oh, how we were wrong. We guess, like most first time novelists we got ahead of ourselves and soon realised how much hard work goes into a finished product. Despite how long it's taken us to get around to finishing those few chapters, we're a thousand times happier with them, because we've learned a lot.

In other news, A King's Gift has been through it's final and we'll be sending it away tomorrow with hopes of grabbing one of the top twenty spots in the Bristol Short Story Prize. The result would see our work in a second anthology, but we'll have to wait until October to find out. Waiting always sucks!