Hello one and all!

This has been a very busy week one way and another, but I did find time to squeeze in a little bit of art.

I like drawing my characters! I spend enough time with them, I might as well see what they look like!

I’m so excited to share her with the world next spring. It’s a bit of a nerve-wracking experience too, but hopefully it will go well and other people will love her as much as I do…

This week has mostly been dedicated to writing Prowler. I FINISHED MY 0.5 DRAFT! Hooray!!

If nothing else, that means that I have the story plotted all the way through. Now I just have to go and back-fill all the holes, and then it goes into its resting phase before the first round of edits.

I have also been working on a new stand-alone YA dark fantasy novel, called The Mudborn Twins. I’m fairly happy with it so far, but it obviously needs a lot of work, and I’m still only on the 0.5 draft of it. I’m hoping to get it ready for Pitmad on the 2nd December, but I know that it quite a tight deadline. If I miss it, there is another pitmad twitter event on the 2nd of March, I believe, only that’s quite close to the release of Felgrim, so I didn’t want to muddy the water there? I don’t know, we’ll just have to see how it goes.

What else? Oh, yes! I have started a very exciting new project that I’m very pleased to be a part of–an international anthology of fantasy short stories. They are all set in the real world with a bit of a Cthulu vibe, and we’ve got some fantastic writers on board already! It’s not due to come out until next spring, we’re right at the start of this project, but I’m so excited for it!

Other than that, I’ve just been website wrangling and trying to deal with marketing and mailing lists! Fun, fun, fun! I’ve got a marketing meeting with the lovely people from Heroic on Monday, so wish me luck for that!

Lizzy x