The novel is complete, finally. After seven revisions over a period of nine years, it’s finished. I have nothing left to edit. It’s in a final form ready to be sent off to agencies for representation. The next part in the process will be to polish the query letter I’ve already written and send it […]
Filed under: Novel on November 29th, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I’m finally in the last stretch of completing my novel before sending queries out to agents. I should be totally done within the month of November. After that, I will start querying agents for representation. Below is a narrowed list of agencies and agents that accept both fantasy and historical fiction:
Literary Agents
Victoria Sanders & Associates
Bernadette […]
Filed under: Novel on October 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve provided an update on my novel. Unfortunately, I’ve had lots of other things going on, so I’m not as far along as I’d like to be. I’m still on track to start sending out queries before the end of the year, I just have to research the query writing […]
Filed under: Novel on June 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »
I’ve added a couple of new pages to my site. The first one, “Bio,” is a shortened version of the About Me page. The second, “My Novel,” includes the first chapter of my novel. I’m currently in the process of researching literary agents to send queries out to, as well as doing some final, small […]
Filed under: Novel on January 17th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I finished revising Chapter 2 of my novel yesterday. Since I had almost entirely re-written the chapter, I wanted to revisit it one more time before declaring I was done with the latest draft. So revision number five of my novel is finally complete. I’m posting a portion of Chapter 2 below, not the entire […]
Filed under: Novel on October 20th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I finally finished revising chapter one of my novel. Thanks to everyone who read it and provided feedback. Your suggestions were invaluable. Please let me know what you think of the revised (possibly final) version.
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Chapter 1
Cobus held the parchment next to the flame on the desk, the firelight twisting and pulsing as it washed over […]
Filed under: Novel on September 28th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The latest version of my novel is complete. I finished it over the weekend. My next steps are to go back and edit chapters one and two, since I overhauled those the most in this latest revision. In fact Chapter 1 was an entirely new chapter I wrote from scratch, with a new beginning to […]
Filed under: Novel on August 23rd, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I’m now within the final 100 pages of my fourth draft edits. Estimation for completion of the fourth draft has been revised from end of August to mid-August. After the fourth draft is complete, the novel will be much closer to the finished product. I still want to go back and do some minor touch-up […]
Filed under: Novel on July 6th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve given an update on my novel, but as of now, I’m still on track to finish by the end of August / September. I’m done with the majority of the re-writing, I believe, so I should be able to keep most of what I already have while making edits […]
Filed under: Novel, Creative Writing on May 21st, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I was on vacation at the end of last week until Sunday, which is why I missed a couple of days of regular posting, like my Friday medieval history term of the week. But I’m back now and should be able to return to a normal posting routine.
While on vacation, I did have a chance […]
Filed under: Novel on March 29th, 2010 | No Comments »
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