We Have a Date!!!

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I'm thrilled to announce the official release date of Altercation, the sequel to Perilous!

Are you ready???

Drumroll!

June 5!!!

I know you've all been sitting on pins and needles waiting, right? :)

So I've been sitting here trying to think of what teaser I should use. It was easy with Perilous; the first page had an intense hook. With Altercation, I think the best hooks are midway through the book, but I can't use them. They give away too much of the book. 

I'll probably stick with the first page. In the meantime, I think it's time I came up with a sort-of back cover blurb.

The FBI promised Jacinta Rivera and her friends that they were safe. Jaci wants desperately to believe them, but weeks of hiding from their kidnapper have left her wary. Locked away from the public eye, Jaci looks forward to a few days of healing before finally getting home to her family. And there's a lot to heal from, starting with the murder of her best friend and ending with her father's disappearance.

Plans change when a betrayal lands her back in the grasp of her kidnapper. Even if she manages to escape, she has her doubts that she'll ever be able to piece together her broken life.

Yes, it's rough, I know, but it's a start! I'll make changes as we go along, so give me feedback. And let me also add, this book is EVEN BETTER than the first. I hope you're excited!

Notes from my Editor

Just an update! My editor really liked draft #2, with the detective updates. So we moved onto draft #3. She really liked that one too! So now another editor is going to look at it. This editor wants a hard copy. I bought ink and paper and printed out the entire MS so I can mail it off.

Allie (my editor) said not to expect a reply for about a month. In the meantime, I'm to get to work on my sequel!

Okay. The hardest part for me is writing a rough draft. If I can just get that down, I can embellish it, rewrite it, cut it, perfect it in revisions. But the rough draft is hard. So I'm going to set some goals. Let's say, 1,000 words a day. That's about two pages a day. That means it should take me roughly three months to write this draft. Minus Sundays. Yikes.

I'm not stopping. The first draft may be choppy and awful. I've just got to set my mind to this. I'll post my word count at the bottom of every blog.

Sequel word count: 2,716
tomorrow's goal: 3,716