February report

I'm still madly writing my way through King Tide (the second book in the The Hope Gray series). I'm roughly 75k words into the first draft. My first-draft final wordcount was around 110K, so that means I'm a bit under three quarters, which matches up with where I feel I am in the story right now. I still have a bit ore action and the stunning conclusion to write up before I hit the editing hard.

As for the first book: The Conjunction. The first edit is complete, but I still have some hard editing and proof-reading to go, to polish it up ready for publishing. I aim to publish in June on both Kindle and Kindle-Unlimited, and shortly after that I'll hopefully get a paperback version available through Ingram Spark. At which point I'm hoping I'll also have King Tide ready enough to put up for pre-order too.

I'm not yet ready to start plotting out the third book, though ideas are bobbing about on my backburner.

Meanwhile I'm also building up a quick-and-drity website, starting the blog (waves hello) and looking at options to start up a newsletter for people that like to be kept informed about all this stuff.

So - I feel I got a few things ticked off the TODO list, and made some good progress on both my current projects.

Meanwhile I'm reading: Book 6 of A practical guide to evil which I'm still finding enjoyable, though it's very long. I'm also reading White Fragility By Robert Diangelo.

Onwards and upwards!

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