First off, Happy Father's Day to those dads who read my blog! Hope you had a fabulous day spending time with your kids.
I just got off the phone with my dad and surprised him with my own special gift: a dedication in Parallel, because he's not only my dad, but my former high school physics teacher and since my book deals with alternate realities, I thought the dedication was fitting. And to my surprise, he was pleased. He wanted to know if it would be available in print (yes, it will be) and I promised him a couple books to do giveaways for his classes, after I assured him it was YA and appropriate for high school students.
In other news, I got in contact with a fabulous and talented cover artist, Sarah at Warm Onion Design, to create the cover for Parallel and I am thrilled to be working with her. You can check out her amazing covers here. While I enjoy doing my own cover art, my knowledge is limited to ebook front covers and am clueless on how to proceed with doing a full cover for print, so in an effort to save what precious hours and whatever sanity I have left, I decided I wanted to work with Sarah on this project.
ROW80 Update:
Two chapters left folks! That's all I need to wrap it all up and send to my patient beta-readers. How long will that take? I'm not sure, as a pantser, I could finish tomorrow, or next week. Either way, Parallel should be done by the end of the month. Yea! I know, I keep promising, and I really hope I can live up to that promise.
Congrats on your work on Parallel! Very interesting cover site. I love the cover for on a darkling plain.
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Way cool! Keep up the good work!!! I'm so happy I got to meet you through ROW. What a great program.
ReplyDeletePretty excited to see a copy of Parallel. Happy Father's Day to your Dad. Anyone who can make people understand physics deserves a special award. My poor teacher tried, but it was my first ever C in a class. I'm pretty sure C stands for "clueless" in my case.
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Two chapters? You're almost there! I'm a pantser, too, so I know what you mean when you say you have no idea how long that will take. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteYea for two chapters! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteI keep promising my husband it's only another month until I'm done as well. Too bad I am hopelessly stalled in my editing with 65 pages to go. Sometimes it sucks being a pantser!
exciting, the end is in sight - your Dad must have been chuffed to bits to have book dedicated to him - lovely present.
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Gabrielle - Thanks!
ReplyDeleteKate - I was going to say the same thing to you! And I am starting Part 1 tonight!!
Spot - You'll get it soon I promise! And I almost failed physics! But my dad always said, "math and science just isn't your thing." But Parallel proves that I don't dislike the subject, I just don't get it :)
Lauralynn - Thanks!
Amber - I know! Everyday I keep telling my hubby, "it's almost done, it's almost done." I think he's tuned me out now.
Alberta - Yea, he was floored when I told him :)
like. Like. Like. Lots of likes. Like the cover, the revamp. You are in a really good groove, and rockin' it so well I'm not even jealous!!! :-) (ok, I'm too tired to work up jealousy ;-) Awesome job on all counts - you are a FABULOUS sponsor, and as usual, always inspire :-) Great story about your dad, btw :-)
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