Amazing what you can do when you’re awake all night listening in disbelief to the US election and then decide to dedicate the day to writing in order to escape thinking about ‘the really, really scary thing’...
Anyway, the first draft of the next Barclay & MacDonald novel, provisionally entitled Bad For Good, was finished today. It’s around 54k words, which translates into approximately 250 paperback-sized pages.
As with When She Was Bad the first draft is very, very rough, and the hard work will come with the second and subsequent drafts where the story is refined, events and characters are shuffled about and the majority of words are reworked big time. My first effort had five drafts (six if you count the typo corrections after the initial release) and I think this will require similar work.
I’m aiming to publish it as both a paperback and eBook on May 1st 2017.
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I’m being asked by a few readers when they can expect the next Barclay & MacDonald book. The good news is there’s a paperback col... -
The second Barclay & MacDonald novel, Bad For Good , has now been on sale for a few weeks as both an eBook and paperback and sales have ...
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The third draft of my follow up to When She Was Bad was finished mid-February. I was pleased with it and thought it was pretty good, but ...
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