While I may have posted a bit about our home remodeling adventure, I am still working very hard on my creative projects.
I’m on track to have the romance novel about Daniella and Callen ready by this fall. Yes, the same Daniella from To Love a Prince. She needs her own happily-ever-after.
I finished my fourth round of revisions on this story and sent it to my editor and beta reader earlier this month. This is my first time using this editor, but I got her name from a blogger friend, so I am hopeful. My beta reader is amazing, and she’s done a better job than paid editors I’ve used.
I am both excited and nervous to hear back from them. It’s always hard to let your baby go. Yes, it’s not perfect. Yes, their honest critique will make it better. It’s still hard to hear, even if it’s needed changes.
While I’m waiting for their edits to come back, the short story I wrote about Sir Gabriel didn’t shake him out of my head. Rather, it wove him deeper into my thoughts. So, rather than work on the novel I’d been planning, he’s getting his own story. I’m 100 pages into it already, so it’s going to be a full length novel rather than a novella.
I’ve started to think of stories for Eli and Auburn’s children, but I’ve put those plot bunnies in a pen for now.
I think I will save them for a future series called the Sleeping Dragon or the Dragon Wakes.
I still have several more story ideas for future novels in the Knights of Valor series, and I’ve had more ideas for the the series I started that involves dragon brothers and their riders.
Ideas aren’t my issue, but time sure is! The day job is quieting down as we head into the summer months, so hopefully I will have more mental bandwidth for writing and editing.
My goal is to release one more book this year and three next year.
Yes, I put that in writing. Hold me to it!
Plot bunnies! Wonderful! 😊
Good luck with your goals, and I hope your new editor works out 🙂 I can’t imagine releasing one book in a year, let alone three! If only I could cement my plot and stop changing it, maybe I’ll be able to publish! I have to lock up plot bunnies too. Most of my short stories demand expansion!
I really enjoyed the mini story with Sir Gabriel, and it did seem like there was more of a story to tell there. Glad he’s getting his own story 🙂
Plot bunnies are *so* hard. They seem like such good ideas, but they really steal me from finishing the work I’m focused on that may have hit a rough patch. I guess we’ll see if they’re still a good idea when it’s their turn to get a story!
Best of luck with your goals. It seems a little decorating has boosted your creativity. 😀
It seems to have helped. Like tapping into it has helped other areas rather than exhausted them. The human brain is amazing and strange.
How very true. 😊