Life is interesting at the moment.
So, the book is coming along nicely. I've gone from having a working title (Charlie), to a title that didn't fit (Begad! They made me blush!), to a title I am now very happy with, Pure Phallusy.
I've also written the blurb to go on the ebook;
“No, it wasn’t a dream, unless I was really sick and twisted in the head.”
Unsurprisingly, when you get kidnapped and whisked away to bizarre magical lands, things aren’t going too well. Add to that the threat of evil, multi-world dominion, a very determined secondary kidnapper (who wants to capture you from the primary kidnappers), meddling Gods and demons, and the off chance that you might fall in love in a truly awful Stockholm syndrome sort of way, and, well, you have a problem. Or rather, Charlie has a problem.
Charlie would like to think that she handles most things with ease, that she doesn’t fall into the classic ‘helpless, beautiful, damsel in distress’ stereotype, but when there’s a humanoid penis chasing after her, intent on making her his ‘wife’, she’s willing to run and scream with the best of them. After laughing first, of course.
Thing is, every rose has a thorn, every light casts a shadow, and for good, there is evil. There is a larger picture to see, beyond Charlie’s troubles, and unfortunately for her, she’s too embroiled within them to leave.
Unless Charlie can find her light, and understand that her own problems are part of a greater threat, darkness will prevail.
I wanted to write a blurb that not only reflected the silly, comedic aspect of the book, which is quite strong, but also the dark side, which remains dormant, on a personal level, until close to midway in the book. I've run it past my beta reader and now friend, Lea, and she says not to change a thing with it.
I will admit that I'm surprised she said that, because this is only the first draft of the blurb, which is almost the most important thing about a book. Either I got lucky when writing it, or my skills as a writer are improving...
Now to buy lottery tickets to the Euro millions!
So, pretty happy that my idea to give myself some sort of a time frame is working. I've also managed to figure out the problem with one of my characters into something that is a lot more satisfactory. It's interesting, because now he'll have a lot more of a part to play further along in the book, so although I'd hoped to have the book ready very shortly, I'm finding that I'm wanting to add more chapters, or pieces in, from this characters perspective. And now I'm really looking forwards to writing him.
My beta readers weren't always happy with him, and his role. I mean, it sort of worked, but it didn't have any sort of strength. Not like my other characters (their words, not mine). I ran my new rewrite of his chapter along with my plans for him past one beta reader and friend, Colin, and he liked it very much.
I have an idea for the cover now too, something that will make a sort of brand that will fit the next two books in the trilogy. I'm still working on the details, and working with an artist about them, but things are looking promising on that front.
I'm now good with the titles for the books. I always knew what the second was going to be, and I hadn't thought about the third much since it isn't written yet, but the first really was difficult. I did some brainstorming, which was how the third title popped up into my psyche, and suddenly Pure Phallusy popped in too. I don't know how I didn't think of it before, because it seems so simple and obvious. Never mind.
Aside from that, I'm halfway through my second to last edit, and my laptop is broken. Luckily nothing is lost, and I managed to get it all on my external hard drive before my laptop really threw a tantrum and blacked out. At least I can still use the boyfriend's netbook, or the grumpy old computer...
Lots more research to do, editing to work on, and things to think about.
