Life at just shy of 9000′ isn’t quite like living on another planet – but sometimes it feels like it. This week, my grandparents’ farm (just shy of a thousand miles south and east of us) is seeing highs into the 80s, and my mother is talking about the blackberry harvest she expects to have next month. Up here? It snowed again this morning (with more predicted tonight!). I love where we live, but I’m definitely ready to get some plants into the ground – which I can’t do until it warms up a little more consistantly.
So instead of planting tomatoes and pruning seedlings, I’m planting future stories and pruning existing ones into shape. Escaping the Omega Bond is complete in it’s initial format (available now on Kindle Vella – a serial platform by Amazon). While I did edit as I went, I’ve found the usual rocks in the garden (mostly in the form of continuity errors. Poor Mal had two hair styles and colors at different points in the story that took place about 48 hours apart. Oops.) and fixed the glaring ones, but mostly left it intact. Now that I’m preparing to publish it in book form, the main changes will be expansion on some of the different emotional notes that I didn’t hit as hard as I wanted the first time through. It’s an interesting experience and I hope I learn as much from each subsequent story I finish! The perspective from above- reading a story end to end- is just plain different from what you can see writing individual chapters or segments.
At the same time I’m editing ETOB, I’m also outlining The Alpha’s Dilemma, which is the second book in the story of Mountain Call Pack. The initial crisis that brought Aura into the boys’ lives is resolved, but that resolution has brought new problems – and Aura’s secure in her new position, but with new responsibilities and challenges that she never anticipated. The relationships continue to develop, and well… there’s more exciting stuff yet to come.
-Sapphira
