Getting closer...

According to my publisher at Post Mortem Press, my afterlife-based horror novel, which pits three strangers against the relentless forces of hell, should be heading off to the printers next week.  I just finished writing the dedication for the book (I decided to keep it simple, as an overly sappy dedication probably doesn't fit in very well at the start of what's supposed to be a chilling horror tale), and it should soon be good to go.

As for my other projects, the YA dystopian thing's still on the back burner at 105 pgs.  I'll be getting back to it in a few days, though, since the Middle Grade elf novel my editing team and I have been polishing up is nearly done. 

Small detour.

Taking a brief pause from my new YA project to go back to a Middle Grade novel I completed a while back.  With the advice from my brand new editing team (aka my 10-year-old nephew and his mom), I've made a few changes to the start of the book.  So far, the kid seems to know what he's talking about.  The first chapter of this book had been giving me headaches for quite a while, and has been reworked and rewritten multiple times.  I cut out the bit that my sister said he had some trouble with, and the novel already seems to be much stronger because of it. 

Now I just need to finish revising the rest of the manuscript, and then I'll be ready to start sending it out again. 

Then I can get back to working on the YA book, and start figuring out how in the world I'm going to promote my horror novel, which, last I heard, was scheduled to come out this September. 

Current Project.

My horror novel set in the afterlife is still scheduled to come out this September.  I sent off my author bio and a photo to the publisher last week, and am waiting to hear an update on the book's progress.  In the meantime, I just passed page 100 on the book I'm currently chipping away at.  Not sure how much I should share at such an early stage, but it's a Young Adult novel set in a dystopian future Chicago, featuring a sixteen-year-old female protagonist who's starting to develop strange, dangerous abilities. 

I've had some trouble drumming up interest in the YA zombie novel I recently completed, so I'm hoping that I'll get this one finished before its subject matter becomes too passé.