Golden City, book 3 of the Realm Trilogy, is coming along. Lee Murray (https://www.leemurray.info/) has done such an amazing job with my manuscript. She was only supposed to be a beta reader, but she’s done quite an edit on it. I’m working my way through her comments, fixing word echoes and dialogue tags, removing cliches… Continue reading Editing, schmediting

I’ve had a couple of beta reader comments back and I have a LOT of work to do. My very first sentence didn’t even make it un-edited: “Freya’s heart thudded in her chest.” Reviewer’s comment: “unless she is an alien or an odd animal, where else would her heart be? Delete ‘in her chest’.” Good… Continue reading Golden City – 2nd draft here I come

I’m looking for beta readers for my third novel in the Realm Trilogy: Golden City. Reply to this post or email me at realmtrilogy@gmail.com if you’re keen. Prerequisites: you must be able to read 🙂 I’ll be wanting the feedback in the new year. So if that’s you – let me know & I’ll send… Continue reading Call for beta (test) readers

I read my whole Golden City manuscript through for the first time yesterday. I picked up a whole lot of word echoes: that’s where you use the same word twice or more in close proximity. If it’s a really common word, that’s OK. But if it not so common, then it sticks out like a… Continue reading Word Echoes and eyebrows

My first draft of Golden City is COMPLETE! I wrote from 7.30am to 4.45pm (7.5 hours) on Tuesday, adding 4,400 words to my manuscript. Then on Wednesday I wrote for nearly five hours, adding just over 4,000 words. I use the word ‘adding’ deliberately, because there was a fair amount of writing, then deleting and… Continue reading Mission accomplished!