Comments
Listed below are several comments posted by our authors about the development of their books. Click on a post heading to read more of it. If you would like to read more posts regarding a particular book, click on the book’s title below a post.
Prologue from St. John Novel
Although it’s not yet published, you may find the Prologue of this new novel interesting. It gives you a sense and preview of what will follow.
Finished Revising
I’ve finished revising my new novel. It went from 600 to 350 pages and is a much better read. Now I need my editors, Andy Oram and Elena Kartushina to do their part. If all goes well, I hope to publish it by early November 2018.
Humongous!
I received a first printing of my new novel, Not a Step. I still need to revise it, which will cut at least 100 pages. But I was surprised to see how much I had written over the past year or so.
Draft Finished!
I finished the first draft of my new novel, Not a Step. I need to do some significant revisions to a few chapters. I also need to condense it — it’s almost six-hundred pages now, but needs to be around four-hundred.
Finding Traction!
My new novel, Not a Step is coming together really well. I haven’t had much time to work on it, but I’m very excited about the progress I’ve been making on the weekends or when on board planes and trains.
Continue or Start Over
I’m frustrated that I’ve made so little progress in the past few months on this novel. Sometimes I think I may do better to delete it and write a new novel, a different story.
Martin's Father's Secret
To make for a richer, more interesting story, I’m rethinking the depth of the secondary characters, in particular the father of the protagonist. I’m thinking about his sexuality outside of his marriage.
A New Pen
I bought a new pen to encourage myself to resume work on my new novel. It’s a Mont Blanc, Meisterstuck Platinum classic ballpoint pen. Since part of the story is set in the late 1950s and the 1960s, it’s fitting to use a class pen.
A New Beginning & New Ending
Now that I finished writing the novel, I Have No Friends—it’s published and available on Amazon—I’m ready to write another novel, which is actually one I already started years ago.
Transcribing Soon
This novel is actually one I started years ago, but did’t finish—I was busy writing a computer book. Since I now prefer to handwriting initially, I will transcribe what I typed previously.
Restarting
I enjoy writing novels and I’d like to write many more. Although I can’t financially support myself as a novelist, I want to write one every year—or maybe ever eighteen months or so.
