My New New Book

Happy May! I've been working on my new book. I've decided to incorporate some themes of my first short novel "Life and Death - the Path of Lu" into this new manuscript. This current book I'm writing is a New Age suspense teen romance fiction. I've been inspired by the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer. Her style of writing looks easy and effortless but there's a lot to it...so much more than meets the eye obviously. She's very hugely successful for a reason. Her background is in classic English Literature, somewhat like my background but her books are very modern in style. She's nailed it.

Another inspiration is the college course I've just completed. It was a blast to meet with 10 students every week and learn more about writing, current publishing and marketing techniques to help us with our manuscripts.

I'm on chapter 7 right now and plan to have around 21 chapters in total, about 450 pages when the book is done. I'm moving along quickly. The 6 chapters were written in April. I've also started a blog at wordpress (on the college instructor's advice) but I've not posted much there yet.