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WOW exciting Kriston! Good luck!

Thanks, Dazey! I'll take all the luck I can get!

LOL. Me too.

Congratulations, Kriston! This is huge! I say take a break for a week and by the time you are ready to get back to work you will probably know what you want to do/has to be done.

Thanks! But I'm actually in more of a "strike while the iron is hot" mode right now, I think.

I took pretty much all year off from writing because of my neck injury, migraines and homeschooling. Not a stellar year for writing, sadly! So now that I have child care, time and energy, I'm just trying to get it done and out the door. Ideally, I'll to send it out to agents/publishers by the 1st of the year, depending upon what I want to do with the narrative structure, of course. If I think massive rewrites are required, well, that would naturally change my timetable...

It would be nice to try to sell the thing sooner rather than later!

I've only been around briefly the last week, but I did catch the 'poo'! I was wondering why someone would want to publicize that, haha!

Kriston, if your book is long, would you be able to separate it and promote the last half first, then if it catches on to promote the first half as a 'prequel'? Our pastor's wife worked for a publisher, reading books(what a dream job!); we were just talking about how hard it is for a new author to get published. An established author can put out junk periodically, and it still sells. A new author really needs something to grab attention and build a reputation.

OHHHHHHH I SEE THE BOOK'S WITH FREELANCE EDITOR!

GO KRISTON GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny you should ask...

I actually envision it as a series of 4 books, with a possible 5th prequel focusing on the main character's husband and his family before he comes to Iceland. At the very start, the project was going to be one single book, but when I was 15 chapters or so in and the charaters weren't even married yet, I realized it was *not* one book! Too big a story!

There's no good place to break up the first novel though.

And BTW, I made the decision: I am not currently reorganizing it. Instead, I'm actually mailing the draft to a freelance editor, a former publishing bigwig! She's going to look at it for me and hopefully help me to get it published. She also has industry contacts that are worth more than gold to me, so fingers crossed that she likes what she sees and passes it on to a good agent for me!

I <3 questions!!! If I were having another child ever, I'd name it after her!