New Writing

Sorry for the lack of posts last week — I’ve been busy writing. I finished the rough draft of a Christmas novella—a prequel to Marry In Haste—and am letting it sit for a week or two before I go back and go through it again, adding, deleting, correcting and improving it.

I need that “fallow” time, otherwise I will miss some things. It’s surprising how easy it is to read something you’ve written and think you’ve made it clear, when actually it’s only clear in my head.

Once I’ve gone through it again and fixed everything I think needs to be fixed, I will pass it over to some writer friends to read. They will give me feedback. Once it’s ready, I will write a back cover blurb, and commission a cover design, and when that’s all done, I will schedule it for preorder. It won’t be ready for several months though—I’ll publish it closer to Christmas— so don’t expect it soon.

While I’m letting that one sit, I’ve started on another story that I think will be a novella. I know I said I’d be thinking up a new series, but when the muse sends me a story, I listen. This one is a spin-off from A Bride for Marcus and involves Marcus and Tessa playing matchmakers to a sad-and-grieving farmer and a shy, abused vicar’s daughter. They will marry as strangers, so we’ll see how that goes. I’ve only written a dozen pages so far, so I don’t know whether it will be a short story or a novella. But I’m enjoying it.