Happy June, Sparrows and bookworms!
After I’ve burned myself out in May – badly – I vow to do better this month *high five*
The below may not read like much, but they’re all big milestones across all WIPs!
Brightened Shadows
My first priority this June is to go over the rest of my critique partner feedback and make some changes to my draft. Once that’s done, it’ll go to my editor for its line edit. I might also read over everything again before that to make sure I’m happy with the changes and that everything flows well.
Blood Wisp
As I mentioned in the May update, this book is a right mess. Once I’m done with Brightened Shadows and it’s in my editor’s capable hands, I’ll restructure Blood Wisp. I’ve already started, and it’ll be a fairly simple process of copying chapters from the current draft and pasting them into a new draft, without any of that repetition and now-unnecessary chapters.
I’ll have quite a bit of rewriting and adding to do afterwards, but it’ll be much stronger for it when I’m done.
The Rise of the Sparrows Audiobook
I won’t say too much here because details are what my Audiobook Diaries are for, BUT I’ve chosen my narrator and am ready to book her.
I’m a little unclear right now as to how the next steps work (mostly admin-y things), but I’m hoping to wait with production until July to make sure I leave myself enough for living costs.
I’ve gone slightly over budget, but this narrator is perfect for my book, so I’m okay with that.
If they are happy to wait, too, I’ll be booking my narrator this month. I imagine it’ll be fine, but as someone who’s never done this before, I don’t want to make any assumptions.
And that’s my little big update! What are you all up to this June?
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