I have finished Cast in Blood, the provisional title for the next CAST novel. It is 15k words too long, and the last few chapters were therefore written in a state of heightened anxiety as I also began to consider what I could cut.
I’ve sent the book to the editor, regardless, because I want the extra set of eyes and thoughts when it comes to losing the extra wordage.
This is the first of two Barrani books, so some of the things that don’t directly impact this book’s story are necessary for the follow-on. The threads are left untied because it’s not the only book. I didn’t intend this, but it’s not the first time it’s happened. It happened with Peril/Sorrow as well as Deception/Oblivion. None of this was intentional; being 15k words too long for the contracted maximum was certainly not intentional.
The construction going on next door in the other half of our semi-detached house since December appears to have finally ended. Or at least the drilling, sawing, hammering parts have ended. When writing was being somewhat elusive, it didn’t really help.
Because the book was 15k words longer than intended, I finished it later than intended. But there were other upheavals and changes in the background. January: not good. February: less not good.
The next two weeks will be reviewing copyedits for Wild Road, which I didn’t get done. Usually I can split work, but this time I couldn’t.
I really hope the rest of February settles down, but even if it doesn’t, I’m not over-length and late on a deadline, which has to be an improvement.
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