A Little Late Posting This

So sorry. It's been a crazy week. So without further ado...

Congratulations, Robin. I will contact you by email to get your book to you. Thanks to everyone who played along.

I can hardly believe it's the last week of June. Where did the month go?

I'm starting to rewrite The Devil's Shadow this week, and getting ready to start The Devil's Due. Finally book three. I have mixed feelings here. A part of me is looking forward to finishing this series, seeing it all come together, and working on something new, but a part of me will miss these characters.

This past weekend the hot weather finally hit. I'm officeless again until I find a window air conditioner for the attic. Kijji here I come.

Hope everyone is enjoying the lovely summer weather.

The End is in Sight

I am so close to the end of The Devil’s Shadow, I can practically taste it. Taste is probably the wrong word, but I’m at that point in the story where I can see how the whole thing unfolds in my head, and if I could manage to sit and write without being disturbed by pesky things like food, sleep and using the bathroom, I could probably finish it in one sitting. But since I do require all of the above, I think I’ll probably be done by the end of the week. Fingers crossed. A good thing too. The characters for The Devil’s Due are becoming more and more demanding of my attention.

As well as finishing up The Devil’s Shadow, I’ve been hard at work putting together my website, which I hope to launch in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for a launch date because there will free books a plenty for the first week.

As is often the case when I’m deep into writing, I do very little else. I’ve been reading the same to books for about a month—maybe longer—one at the day job, one at home. The day job book is closer to done than the home book. I read for about a half hour at lunch. I think when I finish this book, I might take a break for a few days and catch up on reading, socializing with friends who might be wondering if I dropped off the face of the planet.

I have, however, managed to get out and enjoy the nice weather at least. Yay, for laptops!

Okay, back to burying myself in my story. See you all when I emerge next. Hopefully, I will have just typed ‘The End.’

Back From The Dead

Yeah, I know. I kind of dropped off the face of planet there for a bit. I've been working on a mad rewrite of The Devil’s Eye. This story has been driving me crazy almost from the start. Something about the pacing was off. No matter how many times I looked at it, or tried to fix it, I just made it worse. After few months since I “finished” it, I pulled it out and started to tweak. Then it struck me. The problem with the pacing wasn't not enough happening, the problem was too much happening. With that epiphany, the rest of the rewrite fell into place.

I back burnered The Devil's Shadow while I did that and now I'm getting back to work on it. I'm at 70,000 words so I there's still a real possibility I could finish it by the end of March. I'll keep you posted.

And lastly, I'm building a new website. Hoping to launch it soon. Will keep you posted.

I'm reading The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson--or least I was. I've put it down somewhere and can't remember where. It's driving me crazy too.

That new show Bates Motel starts tonight. I loved Psycho, so you know I have to check it out. The actor they have playing young Norman Bates kind of looks like Anthony Perkins, don't you think?

Party's Over. Back to Work

Hope everyone had a lovely, safe New Year. It was a fairly quiet one around her. The kid had been down with a cold, so we elected to stay home and bring in the new year quietly. We had a nice dinner together and managed to stay up until midnight to wish each other a happy new year. Though, if I'm honest, I barely made it. We have a new kitten and he's far more effective of having me awake between six and seven than any alarm clock I've ever owned. :-)

So with the new year well under way, I have set my goals and started working toward them. This year, I'm determined to wrap up My Devil series and--hopefully--see all three books released. I'd like to write three books this year from first to final draft. (I'm almost done The Devil's Shadow so I'm not sure if I'll count that as one of the three. I'll decide closer to the end of the year, I guess.) Keep posting regularly on the blog. And get my website up and running again.

What does everyone else have planned for the new year?

Don't forget, there's still time to take part in the Happy New Year 2013 Blog Hop, and lots of prizes to be won.

Zombies, Rain and Random Lines

 

In case you're wondering, the season premier of The Walking Dead was well worth the wait. The ground work for future episodes looks good. Though, I was left wondering why, oh why, the group would allow their only doctor to go exploring the dark, zombie filled prison? That decision just had bad idea all over it.

This weekend went by in the blink of an eye. (They always do, don’t they?) The hubby and I were supposed to take some pictures. I need a new author pic—actually, I need an author pic--and we figured this time of year would provide a lovely, atmospheric background. Unfortunately, it poured rain all day yesterday, and that would have been too much atmosphere.

I did however get some writing done, and since I'm particularly pleased with how this story is flowing--at least for now--here's a random, unedited line. Happy Monday!

The Devil's Shadow

Copyright Dawn Brown 2012

Kyle reached out for his pen and pad. His responses from his conversation with police earlier that morning seemed to glow from the top sheet. The detectives had been in again--third time since he'd been admitted--but his answers were always the same.

I don't know.

I don't remember.

I'm sorry.

 

Rewriting the Weekend Away

So it another lovely weekend has past--at least it looked lovely through the attic window where I spent most of it working. I can't even complain, really. Three days of straight writing is kind of my ideal weekend. Does that make me a nerd? Yeah, don't answer. I probably don't really want to know.

What was I working on so diligently? The Devil's Eye. The wonderful cop who answers all my pesky research questions got back to me last week, so I made some changes there. Also, I'm making sure that certain details that will tie into books two and three are introduced. For a non-plotter, it's an interesting experience thinking two books ahead of where I am now.

As I wrapped up the first draft of The Devil's Eye, I realized that I just had to trust that what I needed for the other books would come to me. For instance, while I knew who my heroine was for the second book, I only had a sketchy idea for my hero and wasn't at all certain how he would fit. Then, about halfway through The Devil's Eye, he showed up fully formed and ready to be written about. Gotta love that.

The only thing I'm not certain of is the title for book two. I keep flip-flopping between The Devil's Shadow and The Devil's Secret. Both are applicable. There are secrets in the second book, both revealed and discovered. There are shadows in the second book, both real and figurative. So which title do you like better? Maybe I should have poll.