Work continues. Draft three of Cloudnigh is underway now. A couple queries have been sent out to test the waters. No expectations. No expectations... right.

That's the latest with Cloudnigh. Most of my betas have gotten back to me, save for two, and the replies have all been good. Everyone's given me very good notes. Tweaks, mostly, and a few fiddlings to make things make a little more sense. Most of it is in the first 70 pages. So my hope is that there isn't too much more work to be done.

The bigger news is that I'm finally underway with Lanternfly. I use the phrase "underway" loosely, as I'm in that usual phase I get in when I start a new project where I wind up tripping and reshuffling things to give the story as good a foundation as I can. Not that this is a "new" project. Technically this is the third version of the story with these characters. I've changed a lot as a writer since 2009, and it's important I let the story flow naturally. The first version had a lot of issues with structure and pacing that I can't fix, and frankly, some of the old version just feels way too flat to really work. So I'm starting again with new elements, and a new backbone.

I'm hoping for a manuscript no longer than 115k-120k. I have 18k now. Seems doable to me. The problem is I'm trying out this structure that involves  back story sections in each book. Book one is Danielle's, although its told from Lionel's perspective, mostly. Each book has a prologue to launch that plot. I'm not sure if I like it. But then again, it's a great offset for a story that at the moment is fairly slow to start out. I have a bit of shuffling to do, but I'm still sleeping on it.

That's all that's going on in Benland. Thanks for reading.