The END

I reached the end of the first draft of Unmask You. I mention it every now and again that when I hit that particular milestone it really is always a massive pile of fuck. As the book stands now, it sucks. Nothing makes sense. Someone has like three different last names within a chapter. I reference shit I haven’t even mentioned in the story. At all. I give no bask story, no details. I don’t even know how many chapters I have. I always stop writing chapter numbers by about the fourth one. It’s just “chapter”, instead of say “chapter five, chapter seven”.

I think if you were to read that mess right now, you’d burn me out of your life.

LOL It’s how I do things. It works for me and believe it or not, what comes next is the easy part.

I have to completely gut the beginning. Like, just delete it and write a new chapter one. Because things happened in later chapters that let me know the way I have chapter one now isn’t going to work.

I rarely ever go with full emotion when I write the stuff. So as of right now, even though Elias is this dude who goes around killing people, he’s not bad. He’s not tough. He’s not fucked up. This is what I do next, in the second go round. I add in the emotion.

I was thinking to myself yesterday, that the damn thing is one boring ass read. And the only time real and tangible emotion comes through right now, is through sex. And even that is pure vanilla, that soft serve shit. Second round is where I lay on the nasty stuff.

So you can say that the first draft is me drawing/constructing a box, and the second round is where I color inside that box, or fill it with stuff.

I mean I always hate my stuff by the time I type the end. There’s this thing that lets me know it’s all crap. So I go with that and I accept it, and I work my deliciously taut ass off to make it better.

I had to make some changes. For one, I wanted to write a little novella about what happened in Riker’s. Not gonna do it. Mostly because I don’t have the time, but also I’ve decided that I want the full impact of what went down to hit you in Tek’s book.

Oh, I mention it in Unmask you. Can’t not do that. But it’s not gonna be truly felt until you get to Tek.

What’s mostly messing with me in this story is the timeline. It needs to be a certain way since I talked about it in Body You. So since that is now set in stone, I have to keep it and work with it and make it make sense.

There are still some of my new readers who haven’t read the Brooklyn Sinners, and while I no longer have those books on my website, they’re easy enough to find once you search my name on Amazon or B&N and All Romance. You should really acquaint yourself with those boys. You absolutely have my permission to do so.

You want to familiarize yourself with some things because from here on in, it’s full speed ahead and you might find yourself lost, wondering who certain people are.

Jus’ saying.

So like I always do when reaching the end, I take a few days off to regroup and let the story marinate then I start the fixing process. That starts now, so I’ll be back to the second round on Monday. I’ll be spending my weekend reading and sleeping.

Helluva high life I lead. LOL

I don’t have a release date and I won’t have one until after I fix what needs fixing then let my betas, proofers and everyone and their mama have a go at the book. I can’t predict how long that will take so it makes no sense trying to give you a date. Soon as I know something, so will you.

Don’t hesitate to hit me up wherever, if you have questions or comments. I welcome that. And I’m off to find something good to read.