Okay, the book is relatively finished. It's all in order and it all makes sense, which is good. I need to add two things and change a third. Shooting for about two weeks or so to have it in the hands of my proofreaders.
I'm hard at work on the second book in the series. Angling for an early February release date. The goal is to finish the rough draft by Christmas and then ignore it for a week. Then I'll have to buckle down and tidy it all up. Then my editor, Paige, will be reading and telling me why it sucks.
I swear the next series will NOT have a crazy person. Do any of you have any idea how difficult it is to have a conversation in Raven's head? There are grammatical rules authors must follow, and yet she doesn't do what's demanded.
Paragraphs contain a single, cognizant train of thought. If Raven's thought processes were broken down into individual paragraphs every page would look like this.
Pie.
Sarah's squishy bits.
Be mean to Sis.
Sarah's squishy bits with pie.
Sis is awesome.
Crap, I'm in danger.
Oh, something shiny.
Just finished the latest chapter. Everything is building towards a crescendo but I really like this chapter in particular. Somethings from this won't be answered until the third book.
Also of note is how quickly things take a turn for the dark. I don't know if it's because I've been reading A Song of Ice and Fire, but I finally have the overarching plot for the fourth book. I've known what happens, just not how to make it both interesting and remain true to the characters. I think I managed it.