Just lately both Laurie and I have been in a fun place called editing hell. For me, it's been round two on Keir's Fall - a sequel so overdue that even I'm tired of waiting for it. Keir's Fall has been through a long and protracted evolution since I first started writing it back in 2009. Yeah, that's slightly more than six years from the first words to the hopeful release date (as yet still unconfirmed but it's looking like the end of this month. Um, yay?).
So why has it taken so damn long? Well, Keir's Fall started life as part of the original draft for Keir (book one) back in August 2009. But as I began the first of many revisions on Keir, I quickly realized it was two very separate stories. I split out the second and put it aside, and only after Keir had undergone several rewrites, revisions and critiques, and gone out on submission did I return to book two.
By the time I completed the first full draft of what would become Keir's Fall toward the end of 2010, it was 110K, had 10 POVs, a secondary romance, and the title of Lost Serenity. It was also a complete and utter mess. I didn't realise how much of a mess until I'd been through my first professional edits on Keir with Danielle Fine under Lyrical Press Inc. Boy, did I l learn a lot during those! Even then, I wasn't very confident that Lost Serenity worked as it stood. Over the next couple of years, I stripped out the secondary storyline (thereby halving the number of POVs and intending to one day publish the secondary storyline as a separate book. For those interested and who've read Gethyon, that secondary storyline follows Kauri - his niece and Quin's granddaughter). That cut the total word count to 70K. By this time Dani had left Lyrical Press, but wanted to stay in touch, so I ran Lost Serenity past her and she helped me fix some of the worst of it.
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Meanwhile, Gethyon (set in the same universe and featuring Quin, but some twenty years before Keir timewise) released, as did my SFR short Imprint in the Tales from the SFR Brigade. I also self published a SFR short - Terms & Conditions Apply - and tried to find a home for my SFR novella Tethered.
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Due to a change in circumstances, I now have two novels and one novella in edits with Danielle Fine (my January project got pulled forward). Yeah, I'm a glutton for punishment! Keir's Fall is with Dani after I finally crawled through the second round edits (getting there!), Reunion (the Redemption side story due for release in May 2016) is still currently with me for round one, and the January project is in first round edits with Dani (due for a June release including print). So Keir's Fall will release this year, with the side story releasing May 2016, a novel in June 2016, and another unrelated novella sometime in 2016. Aside from those, I'm currently refusing to even sketch out other plans at this time.
I've decided not to do NaNoWriMo this November due to the amount of editing I have. Once those are done, I have three short stories to finish and another novella to edit and release.
Happenings
I'm part of an alien invasion at Allie Ritch's blog HERE on the 7th. Read a snippet from Keir's Fall introducing my antagonist Tyra-Lee.
I'm also one of several authors taking part in a fun event over at Liza O'Connor's blog on the 8th of November - Earth Girls Love Blue Men.
To celebrate one year since publication, a print edition of my superhero romance - When Dark Falls - is up for giveaway at Goodreads.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
When Dark Falls
by Pippa Jay
Giveaway ends November 30, 2015.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
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