October 4, 2009
I finished the last (red) edit of Looming Thunderheads last week. I’ve sent out a few queries and have had one rejection (already!). I just wrote a 6-page synopsis, very bare and plain, and that needs some serious revision before I start including it in query packages. I’m very eager for this book and I’m hopeful for its prospects. I do think it will be easier to sell than Angie, as its themes aren’t quite so dark.
I think that my next project will be a draft of Death and Life, rather than Baleful Deluge. I’ve decided to do this despite the danger of setting aside The Redemption Saga for two reasons: first, if I do not sell Looming Thunderheads before I complete Death and Life, it will be better to have two separate stories to try and sell rather than a part one and a part two; second, I’ve already written this story as The Invasion, and although Death and Life is a complete re-creation of the story, it is more complete than Baleful Deluge. I anticipate it progressing swiftly once I begin the endeavor. Much like Angie, it’s a single-perspective story (I’m going to try it in the first person and see if that works), and so I expect the same facility such a narrative voice gives (Looming Thunderheads suffered in its early drafts from a surfeit of characters).
We shall see…
Filed under Death and Life, The Redemption Saga, Writing.
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