Tuesday 28 August 2012

Lust in the First Degree

Lust in the First Degree was submitted to Siren last night. Fingers crossed.

My next project is a book called Undercover Desires. I haven't looked at this book for about a year. I've already done 26000 plus words before I went and typed the Andersons series. When I looked at it last night, what I'd written made me laugh and cry. Laugh because some of the dialogue is laugh out loud in a good way. Cried because I had to go through all 111 pages and delete a space after each full stop. You see when I worked for the police typing statements etc, I was told to always put 2 spaces after a full stop. So for 18 years I did this. It was so instilled in my brain that I did it at home with letters etc. I also did it for  my first book to be published - Secret Eyes. When I got the edits back, I noticed only one space after a full stop, the other one my editor had deleted. Therefore from then on I adopted the one space after a full stop approach. I've done it for all my books apart from Undercover Desires. But then again, like I said, I hadn't looked at it for about a year. At the end of the 111 pages my hands were hurting from deleting all those spaces! But it's done now and I can now read through what I've written, edit if need be, and then carry on finishing it.

After Undercover Desires, my next books to be written are Addiction and Edge of Heaven. I don't know which one to write first, though. Then I want to write another series called Sins of Silver Creek. The first book is already half written. I have two more books planned for the series, and then I'll see how it goes. Sometimes it's not easy thinking of story lines that are original and different from what I've already written. I have ideas for two other series, too, but at this point in time, I have just the titles and not much else.

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