Heather Ames's Blog - Posts Tagged "tapped-by-fate"
Final Edits, Final Title, Final Thoughts.
I finally found a title for the work-in-progress, stopped editing, and it is now a work-being-formatted.
Tapped By Fate also has a cover to go with the back blurb and the elevator pitch. This was definitely a marathon that didn't seem to have a finish line until the final draft. All these "f's" definitely gave it a theme to go with Fate.
There were a lot of firsts with this book. When the idea first came to me, I thought I was going to be writing a Romantic Suspense with a paranormal twist. Then I realized that the protagonists weren't going to become a couple in this first book, and might not become a couple going forward...or would they?
That was a first for me, too, because usually, my characters may fight, they may argue, they may not see eye to eye, and they always come from very different backgrounds, but they find common ground, and they always find each other. They may not always be together, but they work through their differences.
After I saw I had a platonic relationship between the two primary protagonists, I also saw I was writing the first book in a paranormal mystery series, not a stand-alone.
And then a cast of secondary characters appeared. Very well defined, and very different from any I had encountered in previous books. Some aren't even human.
Well, that was something very new to me, and pretty exciting. In the case of one character, even unnerving. I got chills during the first couple of drafts when he walked onstage and into the lives of the other characters.
I didn't sew up everything with a big bow at the end of the book. It would have been impossible to do, and that's what makes me want to dive back into the strange world of The House of Serenity and its very mixed group of returning characters. To see where they go, and what happens next.
It'll be a really interesting ride.
Tapped By Fate also has a cover to go with the back blurb and the elevator pitch. This was definitely a marathon that didn't seem to have a finish line until the final draft. All these "f's" definitely gave it a theme to go with Fate.
There were a lot of firsts with this book. When the idea first came to me, I thought I was going to be writing a Romantic Suspense with a paranormal twist. Then I realized that the protagonists weren't going to become a couple in this first book, and might not become a couple going forward...or would they?
That was a first for me, too, because usually, my characters may fight, they may argue, they may not see eye to eye, and they always come from very different backgrounds, but they find common ground, and they always find each other. They may not always be together, but they work through their differences.
After I saw I had a platonic relationship between the two primary protagonists, I also saw I was writing the first book in a paranormal mystery series, not a stand-alone.
And then a cast of secondary characters appeared. Very well defined, and very different from any I had encountered in previous books. Some aren't even human.
Well, that was something very new to me, and pretty exciting. In the case of one character, even unnerving. I got chills during the first couple of drafts when he walked onstage and into the lives of the other characters.
I didn't sew up everything with a big bow at the end of the book. It would have been impossible to do, and that's what makes me want to dive back into the strange world of The House of Serenity and its very mixed group of returning characters. To see where they go, and what happens next.
It'll be a really interesting ride.
