Published!!

[Heather]

Wow! What a journey Broken was! This was a different experience from Chosen and Forsaken, as both of those were written during the time I was downsized and off work in 2012 over the course of 6 months. The editing on Forsaken was completed after I started working again, but the manuscript was finalized in very early 2012. This time, I worked full-time and wrote and edited and pushed Broken out in 6 months, and my husband and children are probably ready to disown me. I set unreasonable goals at times...Oops. I accomplished the one goal I had though - first year as an author, 3 full-length novels published in 1 year. Holy Cow - Insanity! Broken would NOT have been completed so quickly if not for my amazing Beta-readers (Bec, Debbie, Lorna, Laura) and my amazing husband (D.A.), taking one for the team and spending his weekends entering edits from my horrible-chicken-scratch-written-notes from the print version of the manuscript (yes, even the mushy scenes, he breezed through like a champ - and, he liked Broken enough that he has begun reading the 1st two books in the series - that is a secret though, he is afraid they will take his man-card). Broken is @129,000 words, while Chosen is @111,000 words, which translates into about @72 pages more in length (by the standard 250 page per word old-publishing guidelines). That was not planned either, I was hoping I could get it to @100,000 words when I started. I never expected any book in the series would surpass Chosen in length. I hope you all like it - if Amazon and B&N are feeling really nice, you might even be able to get it in time to start reading after dinner tonight - Broken was uploaded to them a short while ago - a whole day early. - XOXOXO -