I feel like I’m back in the saddle after the pre- and post-release insanity surrounding Daughters of Suralia. (The print edition is available on Amazon, by the way.) The next project I’m going to complete (book 3) is going along nicely; the first few chapters are in much better shape than I’d left them, and I got through the bonding scene in chapter 3.
Bonding scene? Did I write that out loud? *blink*

<evil grin>

Anyway, I’m shuffling things around, writing new scenes and chapter openings, all that revision jazz. Laura’s settling in in Parania, but if there’s one thing you can go to the bank with when it comes to fiction, it’s that if there’s a story, there’s a conflict, so yes, there’s trouble in paradise.

I had to do really a lot of free-associating to find it. I wanted to tell Laura’s story, but going off to Parania to live happily ever after with the man of her dreams is an end-point, not a beginning. I started writing anyway. It was a diary of sorts: Laura’s daily life, learning her way, living with a Tolari ruler, and it was nice for world-building, but it was all very, very boring. Until my subconscious started sparking. And I remembered something. Then something else. And new stuff started bouncing off it. Scenes I really liked appeared in my head. And I thought, Hot diggity. There’s book 3.

The Fall is just a working title. Whether or not I can come up with a better one is anybody’s guess. Just plain Laura would be just as applicable. Or Laura Howard’s Excellent Adventure. No…

Eh. I’ll come up with something. <grin>