Sunday, June 5, 2022

Revising for a Contest

[Romance novels-source]

Last blog, I mentioned that I was working on a couple of Christian romance novels. I started my serious revision on the first one, including filling out the story, adding to the first section that will be going up on Kindle Vela soon. I then submitted that first segment for a contest. I've also been reading a lot of romance novels, so I would better know how to revise and structure these novels. As any writer knows, a good writer also reads their genre. 

[McGuffin Puffin-source]

Meanwhile, my boy, Ax the Narrator, worked on revising short stories for the same contest.  He has a character who is a silly parody of Indiana Jones, McGuffin Puffin, who is always on the quest for a new McGuffin and drags the chickens along. We worked on fleshing that story out as well as revising another. He now has 15+ books and several shorter pieces that just need a final revision and a cover.  

[Main Character of book 1, by Ghostelle.]

Meanwhile, I'm finishing the major revision for book one of Doomimals, Cockadoodle-DOOM, today, and then I will be proofreading as well as choosing and prepping a cover and formatting, hopefully this week. We're close to getting ready to launch on KDP. I'll soon be announcing a release date as well as the launch of a new webpage since we took the old one down.  We're really close.