Dear Deserted Lands readers,
Thank you so much for sticking with me through this fantastic journey. If you’ve been with me since the beginning, you’ve been waiting to hear more of Lizzie’s story for a long time! Good news? The last book in this section of Lizzie’s story—the end of the 1st Deserted Lands Trilogy is currently sitting at 49,632 [Update: Broke 50,0000 on January 20th] words. That’s pretty much 50%. Whoa-hoa, halfway there… Still aiming for a release in the first half of 2017.
I’ve been chipping away at that goal successfully, 609 words a day, for the last 20 days. My daily average of fiction words for the last 72 days is somewhere above that, about 644 words at last count. I save the non-fiction and the non-NML for after I’ve finished these every morning. At 8am on February 6th, I will have written more than 22,222 words [Update: Hit this goal on January 26, 10 days early.], 10% of my total for the year: 222,222.
What can you do to help? Check in with me. Ask me how the word counts are going. Suggest things you think should happen with Lizzie and her friends. Sign up for beta reading the manuscript [rough draft], volunteer to proofread for typose [my hand always does that. Is that ironic?] missing words, and grammar issues. The one thing I really feel is difficult with Indie Publishing is not having a small army of interns and layers and layers of editors to catch all but the tiniest of errors. I’d like to release a book somewhere with less than half a dozen of those things that hang up a reader.
What do Deserted Lands fans have to look forward to this year besides NO MAN’S LAND in paperback and ebook.? Print book of Toils & Snares and Outward Bound. Yup, that’s right I’m printing my ebooks! 😉 Hardcover of Straight Into Darkness At least one more Deserted Lands short story. Something completely different by the end of the year. Still YA, still at-risk teen, but this time, it’s got travel to alternate fantasy worlds and a ring. The working title is Thumbscrewed.
Send me an e-mail. Make a comment. Sign up for the newsletter. Tell your friends. Review one of the books. Request one at your library. Books I & II can be had on OverDrive, the ebook system available through your local library.
Thanks,
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