I've been so busy over the weekend celebrating my birthday and catching up on life that I've been a little MIA. I'm back now, with some pretty thrilling updates (at least thrilling for me!), I'm starting the promotion process for Farro this week and I've started writing Sulfur.
A note on the first, I've been contacting book blogs about Farro. The act promotes deep, uncomfortable memories of my very brief and wholly awful stint as a telemarketer. I experienced the same feeling when querying agents, with about the same amount as success. So far responses from the book blogs have been incredibly kind and helpful, invalidating my fears, and I hope they continue to be that way! I'm excited for their opinions -- good or bad!
The Bigger News -- and the thing you probably want to know most about: Sulfur has begun. I have wrote the opening line, the opening dialogue (spoken by Bomani), even the opening event (secret for now). I love starting books almost as much as I love finishing them. I love picking where I should start in the story and scraping that and starting later. Farro originally began the day Khensa was kidnapped from Junktown, and her subsequent months in the temple. After writing this however, I didn't like the feel of it, the drag and the flab, and so I said, "Screw it, we're just starting at the end of it." Low and behold, a beginning. With Sulfur, I had a similar work through. Originally it was to begin with "the gang" getting ready to depart on their big quest and heading out on their mission and evading guards and staying under the radar and ugh, when does it end? Bang, Sulfur starts in the middle of the desert.
But when do we get to see it?
After my Beta-Readers have had a chance to go through it and reply.
Wait, what? Beta-Readers? You have Beta-Readers?
For Farro I had two teenagers reading it and acting like my cheerleaders. They didn't make any changes despite the grammatical errors, they are just reading it for the fun of it. A couple more Beta-Readers have been added to the Sulfur list because they have asked to be included and I was only too happy to oblige. "Why yes, you may read Sulfur and critique it, as long as you wave a pair of proverbial pom-poms in my face while you're doing it." Oh Beta-Readers, like dogs nipping at me heels.
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