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I am at the final copy edits. Can't wait to share The House, The Spheres Book Two with you!
Yay!

“Let’s take her home, Kazik.’ A pause. ‘Oh, and have them drop the cage.’

I finished Mark Lawrence’s - @mark___lawrence - The Girl and the Stars and it did not disappoint!

Call for ARC readers will go out soon!

Loving it. Mark just writes beautifully!

Ahhh .... the new trade paperback and eBook editions are out!

The Fragments really shines in the New Amazon Trade Paperback edition out now! :)

Check out the new cover for the revised first edition!

Guys I am soo excited to show you the new cover for the upcoming revised edition! Follow me to keep posted!

Writing update! This year is racing by in a blur! I can’t believe we are already heading towards the end of April.

Last week went okay-ish … I guess? There is still a good amount of jumping backwards and forwards in the draft, but I am heading towards the final confrontation and the end. So … I guess a soldier on and hope for the best.

Writing update! The first revisions are done-ish up to Chapter 30. The narrative strategy of The House is quite different compared to The Fragments where I moved from Part to Part based on location, so breaking the book up into Parts might not be the best way forwards … . We’ll see!

Progress in numbers
The House revised draft — 103,250 words
Chapters revised – 2 prologues, 30 chapters, 2 interludes

Writing Update! I have until May 14th to finish the first revision of The House and I am stuck in the dreaded middle of the book in a Middle Book … ARGH!
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Middles are hard.
Doubts are creeping in from all sides.
Why exactly am I doing?
And what am I doing exactly?
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Time for a writing update \(^-^)/ — It’s the first update in April and the goal for this month is to finish the first revision! This is going to be very, very tight! To make it a tiny bit more feasible, the actual deadline is May 14th—six weeks to go!

So how did last week go? I met my three chapters a week goal! The first revisions / re-writes for Interlude 2 and Chapters 17 and 18 are done!

Time for a writing update \(^-^)/ — The end of March is looming and the month’ goal for my #shutupandwrite2023 #writingchallenge is to complete the first revisions for three chapters a week …
And I did it—but only because I spent most of last Sunday frantically writing.
So ... I completed the first revisions for chapters 14, 15 and 16.
Total word count for the first revised draft of The House is now 98,500 words.

More reviews coming in! Thank you to everybody who took the time to read and review the Fragments. Means the world to me!

Time for a writing update \(^-^)/ — my #shutupandwrite2023 goal for March is to complete the first revisions for 3 chapters a week. Last week, I completed the re-re-write of Chapters 1 and 3, cleaned up Part 1 and its 9 chapters, wrote one interlude, and re-wrote chapter 10

I think that counts!

Time for a writing update \(^-^)/ — my goal for March is to complete the first revisions for 3 chapters a week. Last week, I completed the re-re-write of Chapters 1 and 3, cleaned up Part 1 and its 9 chapters, wrote one interlude, and re-wrote chapter 10

I think that counts!

Time for a writing update \(^-^)/ — First update in March, high time to review goals for this month for my #shutupandwrite2023 #writingchallenge … make more progress than last month? ;) … I need to get the first revised draft done, and changes are pouring from my fingers across all pages …

The House, first draft is now at 91,000 words

Today is the last day in February, and I missed my goal for my #shutupandwrite2023 #writingchallenge … :____ (. I am still stuck in chapters 7 and 8, so only 6 chapters are done (The target was 12). But … I have a completed rough draft for The House, and the first draft is now just above 87k words. Target is between 100 and 120k. So there are things to celebrate! Yay!!!!

Done! Loved it ... but that is one evil cliffhanger! ... now I need to buy Book 2!

Revisions are going well and the first draft is taking shape! Follow me on @freitagbooks on Instagram to see more updates :).

Reading this for the #FSFwritersalliance and my Indie reading challenge ... well written and plotted ... really liking it so far!

Enjoying it so far :)!

I just typed 'the end' in the very first, very rough draft! Yay!!! Super excited to start editing!

Want to review the Fragments. I have free review copies! Grab yours. How to is on my blog!

The first draft for The House is taking shape! In part thanks to #shutupandwrite2023
Words written in 2023 — 7,788
The House, first draft — 71,800 words

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My first Indie read in 2023! I finished the Kindle sample and bought the book!

As you might have heard ... The Fragments, The Spheres – Book One is now available at Amazon in a Trade Paperback edition! Other booksellers will be following in early 2023.

Many, many thanks to all first readers. Your input, suggestions and feedback are immensely important to me and vital to making this all happen.

Let me know if you are keen to became a first reader for Book 2.

The Amazon Trade Paperback Edition is now LIVE! Yay!