Greetings, friends and readers!
Thanks for bearing with me while I took the holidays off. I’m
happy to share that my head is feeling mostly better, and I’m writing again. It
feels GREAT to be back behind the keyboard. I’ll be putting the first few
chapters of Nadya up on Wattpad as soon as I can mock up up a cover for them
(ping me if you’re interested in helping), just as a teaser to tide you over
until I can get the final thing whipped into shape. I can’t wait to hear what
you think of it.
In Soulwoven-related news, we’ve crossed the 100,000 reads mark! This is a big moment for me, as (in my head, anyway) it marks a boundary
between “Should I publish this or not?” My relationship with Soulwoven has
evolved significantly since I started writing it. It’s my first novel, and the
things I’m trying to do in it (creating a complete secondary world, telling
eight different sides of a complicated story in alternating points of view, and
working in a pretty saturated genre) are wildly ambitious, given that. I’ve
gone from seeing it as my ticket to the big-time to seeing it as a sort of
off-beat, interesting, arty project that, if it finds great success, will find
it through the love of a few dedicated fans and word of mouth, rather than
through the enormous, heart-and-soul-powered mechanism that is the publishing
industry.
Thanks again for being a part of it.
Three Dances is coming as soon as I can get these copy edits
finished. You may also have noticed that I posted an interview with Gytha Lodge, author of The Fragile Tower. I plan to do more of these with some of
Wattpad’s top-ranked authors, and they’re worth checking out. Gytha’s got a
very interesting personal story involving a literary agency, a theatre award,
and a stationery company.
And, of course, Happy New Year! All the best to you and
yours, and thank you for bringing a little bit of your light to my world in
2012.
-Jeff
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