19 January
Novels and Writing Updates
Helsinki Vampires
The synopsis for Helsinki Vampires, the second book in my series, is 10 chapters into the synopsis stage and it’s coming easily. This time I’m leaving no room for error that could lead me to doing an entire re-write like it did with Village of Vampires. So each chapter is being carefully outlined and each subplot is being taken into consideration. It looks like I have another exciting cast of new characters as well as the old one from book 1 which are sure to be reader’s favorites.
Village of Vampires
Village of Vampires is still being beta read and I’m taking a well deserved break from it. After all, I did write it twice (the re-write was a complete re-write where nothing was copied or pasted from the old manuscript, the only thing that remained was the skeleton idea and the characters).
Main Website
Some more work on the main website will go ahead this week, including the gallery intergration. All exciting stuff.
Query Letters and Book Proposals
I’ve drafted a query letter for Village of Vampires already which I hope hooks a good and trusty agent. The letter has been emailed off to the Query Shark for critique. Hopefully this will get the bones of the letter into a good shape to send it off (if the Shark chooses to critique mine, that is).
I’m also researching the world of book proposals ready for when I begin querying those trusty agents. You can never be prepared enough in this game.
On the Cards
I’m hoping to complete the synopsis for Helsinki Vampires before I get the critiqued manuscript for Village of Vampires back from my beta reader. If I have time before I get book 1 back, I’m hoping to work on the bones of the synopsis for book 3, thus saving me time and energy in future.
