Leslie Frazier-richmond
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Scott Hawkins:
Sigh, ready to start reading your web instruction books, lol, I miss your writing!!! Still hoping for a Mount Char sequel. Any stirrings?
Scott Hawkins
Hey Leslie,
Believe me when I say that I wish I had more for you.
I spent about a year after Mount Char got published working on another book that eventually died on the vine, as it were. I had something like 150,000 words of beginning and middle. I showed the first three or four chapter to five or six people--wife, agent, trusted beta readers. No one straight-up hated it, but it's fair to say the reaction was "lukewarm."
Eventually we all agreed that it would be best not to put out something substandard. Ouch. So I kind of gritted my teeth, scrapped a year or so worth of work, and moved on to something else.
That's where I'm at now. I don't want to jinx it, but so far so good.
As far as more Librarians--I just don't know. A full-on sequel might be tough to do well. What I'm thinking is I might do some prequel short stories featuring the librarians who didn't get as much page time in the book. I've got one concrete idea for that.
Believe me when I say that I wish I had more for you.
I spent about a year after Mount Char got published working on another book that eventually died on the vine, as it were. I had something like 150,000 words of beginning and middle. I showed the first three or four chapter to five or six people--wife, agent, trusted beta readers. No one straight-up hated it, but it's fair to say the reaction was "lukewarm."
Eventually we all agreed that it would be best not to put out something substandard. Ouch. So I kind of gritted my teeth, scrapped a year or so worth of work, and moved on to something else.
That's where I'm at now. I don't want to jinx it, but so far so good.
As far as more Librarians--I just don't know. A full-on sequel might be tough to do well. What I'm thinking is I might do some prequel short stories featuring the librarians who didn't get as much page time in the book. I've got one concrete idea for that.
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Jennifer
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Scott Hawkins:
Hi Scott! I LOVED Library at Mount Char. Currently I am attempting to write my own novel, but I am having trouble bringing myself out of the book-mapping stage. I have all of these almost done outlines but feel like I need to finish them before I start writing otherwise I won't have continuity throughout my novels. Do you have any advice for an aspiring writer? Library @MC was done so well!!
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