Writing and Waiting
Writing and Waiting
A couple weeks back, I sent my editor a draft of a very sexy, thriller/suspense novel I’ve been working on since forever. The idea came to me when I used to work at a dot.com in San Francisco and would walk from the Montgomery Street BART station to Bay Street (a little over a mile between the two, no hills so no sweat). At that time, phones weren’t in front of faces and while I did listen to music (via a portable SONY CD player—yeah, I’m that old), I used that half hour or so to think about whatever I wanted. What I wanted to think about was a fun, smart and sexy story where the main characters were complex, the banter was witty, and there was intrigue and action to keep the plot and story moving from one European location to another.
This is a long shot novel, as it’s way out of my usual genre and written in third person, and two of the three main characters are male with one being one hell of a man. I refreshed and revised it during my first pandemic summer, so there's a lot of pent up energy in those pages. (Honestly, the hot scenes are SO racy, they made me blush. Plural times, because why only have one!?)
I'm not a betting woman, but I'd put my money on my current publisher passing on it. This doesn’t mean it won’t find a home and I’ll keep you updated on what happens. I won’t be keeping my fingers crossed, though. I need all of them to keep working on the next novel.
Officially known as Book Six until it’s announced as a done deal, Book Six has finally cracked the first chapter phase. Yes, one measly chapter, but it was a relief to make this small amount of progress.
I’m writing thanks to the cracking playlist I created to not only put me in the mood to write, but also compliments the story. I better like those songs, since I’m devoting the rest of this summer to Book Six. Well, the first three chapters and a proposal for the entire novel.
Why not just commit to finishing the first draft? Thank you for asking! I have a great problem in that The Neapolitan Sisters is keeping me busy. This makes it hard for me to keep Dooley, Claudia and Maritza off my mind long enough to spend hours on end with Nicoletta Valencia, the main character of Book Six. I’m going to have to be okay with not having a complete draft to pitch to a potential agent who I’m reaching out to next week. For this, I will cross my fingers.
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A couple weeks back, I sent my editor a draft of a very sexy, thriller/suspense novel I’ve been working on since forever. The idea came to me when I used to work at a dot.com in San Francisco and would walk from the Montgomery Street BART station to Bay Street (a little over a mile between the two, no hills so no sweat). At that time, phones weren’t in front of faces and while I did listen to music (via a portable SONY CD player—yeah, I’m that old), I used that half hour or so to think about whatever I wanted. What I wanted to think about was a fun, smart and sexy story where the main characters were complex, the banter was witty, and there was intrigue and action to keep the plot and story moving from one European location to another.
This is a long shot novel, as it’s way out of my usual genre and written in third person, and two of the three main characters are male with one being one hell of a man. I refreshed and revised it during my first pandemic summer, so there's a lot of pent up energy in those pages. (Honestly, the hot scenes are SO racy, they made me blush. Plural times, because why only have one!?)
I'm not a betting woman, but I'd put my money on my current publisher passing on it. This doesn’t mean it won’t find a home and I’ll keep you updated on what happens. I won’t be keeping my fingers crossed, though. I need all of them to keep working on the next novel.
Officially known as Book Six until it’s announced as a done deal, Book Six has finally cracked the first chapter phase. Yes, one measly chapter, but it was a relief to make this small amount of progress.
I’m writing thanks to the cracking playlist I created to not only put me in the mood to write, but also compliments the story. I better like those songs, since I’m devoting the rest of this summer to Book Six. Well, the first three chapters and a proposal for the entire novel.
Why not just commit to finishing the first draft? Thank you for asking! I have a great problem in that The Neapolitan Sisters is keeping me busy. This makes it hard for me to keep Dooley, Claudia and Maritza off my mind long enough to spend hours on end with Nicoletta Valencia, the main character of Book Six. I’m going to have to be okay with not having a complete draft to pitch to a potential agent who I’m reaching out to next week. For this, I will cross my fingers.
Want to read more? Subscribe to my newsletter . And if you’ve read The Neapolitan Sisters (or any of my other four novels), please consider leaving a review. Thank you!
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