Urban Fantasy/YA
Date Published: November 2nd , 2020
Publisher: Phenomenal One Press
Rei was nosey. She’d been told it would always get her in trouble, but it never did. Until she met Megan, who promised her the job of a lifetime. Sure, the high school newspaper wasn’t the ideal job for most, but for Rei, it was a dream. She’d never considered putting her investigative nature to work, but what Megan was asking her to do was way beyond the requirements of a school newspaper. It was part of an underground news-for favor-service. Her partners, Asher and Eli, annoyed her by never trusting her to do a job alone. Maybe, this one time she should have listened, because being trapped with no one to bail her out may surely be the death of Rei. Spilling the secrets about her family she’d been withholding, will place every one of them in grave and serious danger.
Guest Post
A Day in LM Preston’s Writer’s Life
Well as November 2020 hits us head on, my writing life
is taking a typical turn of normal as I dive into another year of Nanowrimo!
It’s a great motivator for me being able to finish my books in record time,
while I flush out plot details and my outline.
My writing day starts with a quick review of my
outline and glance at my world map I created for my series. I select music that
fits the mood of the scene I’m writing and make sure to set a word writing goal
for the session. I write in thirty minutes to an hour spurts.
During Nanowrimo, I attend virtual write-ins, and
other writing events where you meet up and play games that get you to write
faster to accomplish the 50K word goal by the end of the month. It’s how I trained
myself to write through any writer’s block.
I also spend my day gathering photos, and scenes for
inspiration and place them around my writing area to spurn my creativity.
THE WRITING PROCESS
I always start with the main idea for the plot. I
usually write the back cover blurb before starting to write the book. Then I
create a loose outline, character bios, scene and world map (usually pictures
and themes for the world). Once the world and characters are defined, I create
an outline. From the outline, I spend my time daily writing with a goal of
finishing the novel within 120 days of the completed outline. I use several
tools to help in my personal editing process. Grammarly, Autocrite and
Prowritingaid are some of my favorites. Usually, after extensive editing, I
will send the copy to a few beta readers. The comments from the beta readers
are compared, then changes are made. Then I have a final group of beta readers
review before I send the corrected copies to the editor.
MY BOOK BREAK THE DARKNESS
This book my writing process started with re-reading
all of the prior books in the series. I do this with my series in order to
immerse myself in the world I created after I’ve been away from the creative
process while promoting the books. Break the Darkness was a special book within
the series, as it revealed the purpose and drive for a minor character that was
mysterious within the previous books, but who’s intentions are clear within
this introduction to Rei, the youngest twin sister of the Lewis bunch. Rei was
fun to write and discover how she fit into the plan and the world.
By LM Preston, www.lmpreston.com and blog:
lmpreston.blospot.com
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