Monday, August 15, 2016

Sad Crazy, Plus Excerpt!

The last few weeks have been kind of crazy.  We had an unexpected loss in my husband's family, and it's still hard to think of how suddenly the death came.  I'm still grieving off and on.  However, I press forward with my writing, and I hope the event will serve as an inspiration for me.

Working on several projects really stretched me thin creatively, so I pushed aside many of my projects, written and art, to work on the revision of Incarnate Memory.  The more I work on it, the more I'm excited to publish it!  I've added a lot more material to the original draft, including a completely new POV, and am having fun expanding on the story and Sabra's world.  I even met a new character I didn't expect to pop up in revision, and she's definitely going to help strengthen Sabra's story arc.

Incarnate Memory is going to be the first Legacy Incarnate book that will be published for the first time without the POV of Lithia McCail.  I edited out everything about her in the first two books and re-uploaded them to Createspace.  Doing this actually allowed me room for that new POV I mentioned, and will help tie this book a lot better into Book IV of LI.

My goal is to publish Incarnate Memory by the end of the year.  That's a real push, but if not by the end of this year, then by the end of March 2017 at the latest. It's no promise, but that's my ballpark estimate of publication date.

I created a new blog to post my book reviews, so I won't be posting book reviews on Xenithar's Lair any longer. [Edit 1/20/17: I will still post some reviews on here as well as on SDR.] It's called Silver Dragon Reviews; some of the reviews I took from Goodreads and re-posted on SDR.

I would like to share an exclusive excerpt with my readers from Incarnate Memory.  This is not from a finished edition of the manuscript, and may still have issues, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless!