random rain – https://glendalarke.com Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:34:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 166493378 Five chapters revised… https://glendalarke.com/2009/01/five-chapters-revised/ https://glendalarke.com/2009/01/five-chapters-revised/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:45:00 +0000 Continue reading →]]>

RANDOM RAIN
Book 2
Second draft progress

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So here it is: 2,500 words longer than my goal.
Which leaves me 7,500 to play around with in the numerous rewrites coming up.
I love rewrites. They are so much easier than the first draft slog.

Book Two of Random Rain


First draft progress

Due Date: March 1st 2009 … for a polished version
Publication date: March 2010

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Book Two of Random Rain


First draft progress

Due Date: March 1st 2009 … for a polished version
Publication date: March 2010

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Book Two of Random Rain


First draft progress

Due Date: March 1st 2009 … for a polished version
Publication date: March 2010

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Was delayed by a blackout while I was away, but I am still chugging along.

Book Two of Random Rain

Due Date: March 1st 2009 … for a polished version
Publication date: March 2010

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Book Two of Random Rain

Wow – hit the 90% mark of book 2 … first draft.

Due Date: March 1st 2009 … for a polished version
Publication date: March 2010

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…until Book 1 of Random Rain is published. Sounds like a baby’s gestation. Would you believe, discussion is still ongoing what to call it? Things get a bit complicated too, when there is more than one parent publisher involved in different countries.

Today, though, I felt as if another milestone was reached. There was some discussion about the cover and I know who is the artist for one of the publishers involved, and the name has blown my mind… wow.

I am officially getting excited – but birth publication day is still so far off! How can I keep my cool that long? I feel like a kid finding out on Boxing Day that Christmas only comes once a year.

Or a woman realising she’s got to be pregnant for nine whole months…

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Yeah, I’m writing, folk. Don’t interrupt…

And Book 1, STORMQUEST gets delivered to HarperCollins Voyager Australia next Monday.

He who commands a stormlord, commands the water of a nation…

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As some of you may remember, the titles for the three books of my present trilogy presented me with a problem. I can write a 180,000 word book, but I can’t come up with a three word title. Or more or less words than three. At least, not without help.

So with the help of an agent and two editors (they all rock) from two different countries, it seems we have finally found something that all of us like. And glory be, they are not as yet used by half a dozen genre writers and film-makers, although there is a spy thriller with a name that comes close to the final book title.

So here is the unveiling…

Trilogy name: RANDOM RAIN

Book One: STORMQUEST
Book Two: STORMSEEKER
Book Three: STORMBREAK

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The Random Rain trilogy is going to be published by HarperCollins Voyager Australia.

Book One will be out in September 2009, a year from now, if all is well, with the other two books to follow in 2010, just 6 months apart.

Yay!

P.S. So, Joanna, you will get your free book! 🙂

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