I FINISHED MY BOOK!!!!!
From May 10- Aug. 28! Officially my longest book yet, at 195K!
I'm FINALLY DONE THE HOLIDAY HACKER!!!!
So it's a whole book set in one night? Can you let me know how you get on with it? Because I want to write a holiday romance set over a week one day, and I'm not sure how I'm going to make 40K - 50K worth of worth stretch that long.
Tehehehehe I love stumbleupon
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/07/28/portraits-of-dogs-as-they-shake-off-water/
Oh, and I finished chapter fifteen of TWWR! Yay!
Wait, Ally, your summary from the page before-- just remember that you can't query in first person, yeah?
ETA: Also, Tally, can you explain how the 3 Act Structure would work in romance? I'm sure the original act of this beginning ended wrong (them meeting at the end of Chapter One).
Dancing with demons always comes with risks. In Reinette’s case, the risk is the collapse of the universe.
Reinette is the original Sin. She doesn’t really know what that means, except that she can seduce pretty much anyone and gets to carry around a wicked soul-stealing sword. But when she saves a little girl from a gang led by her very, very human ex, she digs herself into deeper trouble than she’d ever imagined Sin could get into.
It turns out this girl is the original Virtue, whatever that is. But more importantly, she has in her possession the Pendant of All Souls, the one object anyone in Hell would sacrifice the planet to stumble across. But now they’re actively searching it, going so far as to enlist humans like Reinette’s ex for help, and there’s only one reason they’d be doing that; they’re planning a war to overtake the higher powers in Hell’s hierarchy. And that includes Reinette.
If Reinette wants to keep her wicked sword, her freedom, and her entire universe, she has to ally herself with the girl. And the only way for Sin and Virtue to cooperate is to taste a little of the other. So Reinette has four months to teach a twelve-year-old desire; and in return, she has four months to learn humanity.
SWEET AS SIN is a XXX-word YA urban fantasy.
Reinette Chevalier likes to walk along beaches, eat Chinese food, and poke dead things with a stick. She spends her days flirting her way into restaurants, shopping for criminally provocative clothes, and trying to convince people that the sky really is green. She spends her nights dancing with demons, ruining changeling’s lives, and fixing up rips in reality.
Reinette Chevalier is the original Sin, one of the highest positions in Hell’s social hierarchy. She spends most of her days on earth, playing games with humans—until she saves one from a gang led by her very human ex-boyfriend.
The human turns out to be in possession of the Pendant of All Souls, the most powerful artifact a Soulless could get their hands on. And Reinette’s sworn to protect the Pendant. So when it turns out that the gang is starting a rebellion in hell and needs the Pendant to have the upper hand, Reinette literally has no choice but to save the world in the time laid out for her: four months.
Generally speaking, Reinette could do all that and invade Heaven in four months. But Reinette has to take care of a small, very human, and very afraid girl. And that means stealing souls to heighten her powers is out of the question.
Reinette has only one choice: learn humanity in 122 days or watch the universe fall.