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The Risen Dead - reblogged from http://www.nwdavies.co.uk (July)
Tidying up The Risen Dead, a novella, the first in a series called The Givers Of Life. At the moment, with the sad demise of Screaming Dreams (who it was placed with), I have no publisher and am having difficulty finding one willing to take on a series of zombie-based novellas. Therefore (and with my children’s permission… read old blogs to find the relevance of that!) I may consider self publishing it.
No absolute final decision yet, and I am still looking at publishers (anyone know any zombie and series friendly ones out there?).
I thought I’d take this unexpected and unfortunate opportunity to go over the novella one final time… it was originally finished over a year ago, and I haven’t read it since then. Fresh eyes will always find things to change.
The novella does stand on its own, but I really wanted to go further into its world, which is why I plan to do a series. And there are some questions deliberately left unanswered, or at least vague. Lots more to write on this.
And if you don’t like zombies? Give it a try anyway, when it comes out from whatever source. I hope I’m bringing a slightly different slant on the genre, rather than retreading the same old themes, but ultimately you, the reader, will decide that.
No absolute final decision yet, and I am still looking at publishers (anyone know any zombie and series friendly ones out there?).
I thought I’d take this unexpected and unfortunate opportunity to go over the novella one final time… it was originally finished over a year ago, and I haven’t read it since then. Fresh eyes will always find things to change.
The novella does stand on its own, but I really wanted to go further into its world, which is why I plan to do a series. And there are some questions deliberately left unanswered, or at least vague. Lots more to write on this.
And if you don’t like zombies? Give it a try anyway, when it comes out from whatever source. I hope I’m bringing a slightly different slant on the genre, rather than retreading the same old themes, but ultimately you, the reader, will decide that.
1st Draft - 2nd Draft
Finished editing the printed 1st draft of the new novel tonight. Now to take all that scribble back into Scrivener, add a few bits, move a few things around and voila!, 2nd draft :)
Very tired (again)
When it takes forever to copy one correction from the annotated draft onto the computer, because you keep forgetting what you're doing and try to fall asleep instead... it's time to take a break from draft 2!
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New interview and an update
And here's another of my very rare blogs on here. I'm not good at this :)
Dove Winters has just published our interview. It's now live at https://dovewinters.wordpress.com/201...
On the writing front, I am currently focused on my SF novel, The Wizards Of Yradion. Progress is slow but reasonably steady. Currently in that sticky middle part where things have been set up, and I know in broad terms the end which I'm working towards, so it needs to be kept moving, progressing the story towards the climax, building the characters and keeping it interesting. You know, it's a lot easier writing the beginning and the end of a novel than it is the middle!
Currently on hold, because of the focus on TWOY, but very much underway is the second DCI Emily Sanders novel, the follow up to Eyes Of The Raven.
Unless I get completely stuck on TWOY and need to take a break, work on Emily's novel will have to wait until TWOY is finished. But it is currently next in line.
That's all for now. If you have read or will read any of my books, please consider leaving a review and, by all means, drop me a line. Any questions, just ask. Hopefully blog again soon. Bye for now.
Dove Winters has just published our interview. It's now live at https://dovewinters.wordpress.com/201...
On the writing front, I am currently focused on my SF novel, The Wizards Of Yradion. Progress is slow but reasonably steady. Currently in that sticky middle part where things have been set up, and I know in broad terms the end which I'm working towards, so it needs to be kept moving, progressing the story towards the climax, building the characters and keeping it interesting. You know, it's a lot easier writing the beginning and the end of a novel than it is the middle!
Currently on hold, because of the focus on TWOY, but very much underway is the second DCI Emily Sanders novel, the follow up to Eyes Of The Raven.
Unless I get completely stuck on TWOY and need to take a break, work on Emily's novel will have to wait until TWOY is finished. But it is currently next in line.
That's all for now. If you have read or will read any of my books, please consider leaving a review and, by all means, drop me a line. Any questions, just ask. Hopefully blog again soon. Bye for now.
