Wednesday word count starting: 107,142. Wednesday word count ending: 106, 593. The cuts are going to get deeper now, since we’ve reached the middle of the book. But then we have to add more to the finale. Bleah. We’ve received an extremely long email from someone named Bill Turner. His email address is turnerspianos@gmail.com. Mr.
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WCB Day 2
Tuesday word count starting: 108, 273. Tuesday word count ending: 107, 142. Progress. Sadly Sgt. Munoz had to go. I really liked him, too. I wanted to address the censorship brigade that decided to complain about sex in the books. Not sure what possessed you to show your good china in public, but your comments
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Word Count
The edits for SAPPHIRE FLAMES have landed. The good news is that our editor liked the book. The bad news is that it’s 108,000 words and it needs to be closer to 100,000. In the mixed-bag news, there are no obvious places to make a large cut. Typically, the easiest way to make large cuts
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First Draft Done
Yesterday we officially typed The End on the first draft of SAPPHIRE FLAMES and sent it to our long-suffering editor, Erika Tsang. The manuscript is a bit long, almost 110, 000 words. so about 7,000 words longer than WILDFIRE. It was a big book, and it had to start the relationship and the trilogy arc.
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Sapphire Flames
The green exit sign flashed over our heads, an orange warning strip across it screaming, “EXIT CLOSED.” If h is the difference in height between the two sides of the gap, θ is the angle of the exit’s slope, V is the velocity, and g is the standard acceleration of free fall at 9.8 m/s
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Shifty Liars
Celia frowned. “I’m so sorry, but it is our policy to process such requests in writing. If you submit a written request, I should be able to get back to you in a couple of weeks? By Friday after next, at the latest.” Two weeks. We didn’t have two weeks. More importantly, she was lying.
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Phone Calls
Yesterday, Nancy, our awesome agent called to discuss the upcoming cover shoot for SAPPHIRE FLAMES and the following conversation took place. Me: No, we do want a guy! We absolutely want a hot guy. … No, the problem wasn’t that he was a guy, the problem was that he was naked and they processed him
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A Pithivier
Steps sounded behind me. I turned. Runa caught up with us. “Matilda said you would be out here. That child is odd.” More like unsettling, until you got to know her. “She’s an animal mage. They are unique. Did something bad happen?” “You mean in addition to everything else? No.” We both watched Shadow sniffing
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