Since the start of each month brings billing for the Firm (i.e., my time to shine!), I've spent the last few days editing time and money while I'm on the clock and making novel edits on a notepad over lunch.
Right now, I know there isn't much to change in the book--just a few scenes here and there that I feel the need to add, delete, or adjust for one reason or another. Over the course of writing the novel, I took many breaks from adding new material by checking back at the old stuff and rewording/deleting what I didn't like. In the past, I spent that time working out a block on a completely different piece, but I think the reread method worked in my favor here. In retrospect, it also didn't hurt that I took a handful of mind breaks to work on a few articles/fiction pieces for the Magazine.
None of that is to say that it is completely polished, because it isn't. My plan is to spend the next month talking out chapters and mapping out plot points to catch errors. I read an article that suggested paying a freelance editor to look over the piece so it is as pristine as possible, but a) I really don't want to pay someone for that and b) I see the next step like this: my first query is headed to a small publishing house who requests 3-4 weeks before a response, which gives me that amount of time to edit as much as I can (which should be the whole thing--let's be honest). Some of the information out there made it sound like other authors spend vast amounts of time editing their work before even thinking about sending out a query. Well, I don't feel the need to wait that long.
But, I'll talk more about my newfound love for queries next time.
This post, I wanted to give a rundown of my book:
The main character is a seventeen year old empath named Joelle, who sees the energies of those around her. After the death of her mother, she moves to another state with her father and older sister. Immediately, she befriends a girl who lives a few houses away, Lilly, and begins a flirtation with a boy interestingly connected to her tragic past named Clark. When her father leaves for business, she and her sister continue to make the new town their home. However, Joelle's world takes a new spin when a mysterious TA, Theo, saves her life and lets on that he knows more about her than even she does.
After enlisting Clark to help heal a set of wounds, Theo lays the cards out on the table: not only is Joelle adopted with no record of biological parents, she also comes from a blood line of demon hunters who possess superhuman strength and the ability to heal quickly. To make matters worse, her father--who is a hunter, himself--isn't away on business; he was sent by Theo and his brother, Eranon, to find the hunter ring that was set to be hers (it was actually taken from her mother by her killer--disguised as her wedding band). If Joelle doesn't get the ring back, her body will not be able to handle the changes of becoming a hunter and fighting evil and it will eventually break down.
Why does Theo know this? Because he and Eranon are both Angels and have been involved in many ways throughout her life, tipped off by the strangeness of a hunter with no clear birthline.
When Joelle starts to have heavy visions of her father held in captivity by a vicious demon, the group realizes that they need to act fast to get him back safely. Joelle speeds up her training and goes out on her own to fight any evil creature she can find to gain experience. After one particularly gruesome battle, Theo partially heals her--causing an array of dreams about Heaven. To her dismay, not only was Theo a friend of Lucifer when he was the First, but his sidekick Osius is the one who has her father!
Torn between the anger of being thrust into an age old fight that isn't hers and the desire to get her father back unharmed (as well as the ring), Joelle reluctantly joins forces with the Angels and enlists the help of Clark--who has abilities of his own, Lilly, and her sister to hopefully end things once and for all...
*Kayla*
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