by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on May.2.2008
I’d like to share an excerpt from chapter 2 of THE BEAUTY OF DEATH. Since the entire scene is a bit too long to post here, I just included a few pages from it. It is not a complete scene and you may be kind of left hanging, but I think it may be a good way to at least introduce the two lead characters.
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by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on May.2.2008
I feel like there are not enough hours in a day! I’ve got a full time job, 1 baby, 1 preschooler, a husband who for some reason keeps wanting me to give him attention, a book to edit, another book to write, an exericse routine I’m struggling to return to, a dirty 3,000 square foot house and a growing to-do-list.
In other words – no short story this week. *chuckles*
We’ll probably have to give up trying to do them every single week for now, and just shoot for however frequently we can. It is still a fun collaboration and we don’t want to end it though by any means, but life keeps getting in the way and the clock keeps skipping hours.
The book I am editing (AGAIN) is called The Beauty of Death, and it is the first of a paranormal romance series I am working on. It is set in a troubled fantasy world which can only be saved by the fulfillment of the Fate Stone Legend, which requires the search and return of the 7 Elemental Gems. It will take centuries and many different talented characters to find and collect all of the gems and reactivate the Fate Stone. I imagine this story being between 8 to 10 books long, with recurring characters throughout the series, with two different charaters being the main romantic focus with their own plot on top of the subplot about the legend in each book. So far, I have begun writing a little of the second book, The Beauty of Fire, and outlined the third, The Beauty of Rain.
Next up on my writing-to-do list:
- Finish making the edits that an editor from a major publishing house kindly suggested I make to TBOD to make my story even stronger.
- When done with the edits, go ahead and send this letter to this agent I have my eye on. With as many books as I’d like to write I really need to obtain one, and a good one.
- Continue to wait for the publisher I formally submitted TBOD to in February to give me a response. They said it could take about 4 or 5 months for them to respond, so I expect to hear something from them this month or before the end of June.
- Transfer these maps of the fantasy world I drew up from paper to my computer so I can color it in Photoshop. Yes – my series has maps, and genealogy charts, too! This is moreso for my own notes at the moment, I haven’t decided yet whether or not they need to be actually be put into the books.
- Have the first draft of The Beauty of Fire done by no later than the end of July (just my own personal goal).
As you can see, I’ve got lots to do! So let me get off this blog!
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I feel like there are not enough hours in a day! I’ve got a full time job, 1 baby, 1 preschooler, a husband who for some reason keeps wanting me to give him attention, a book to edit, another book to write, an exericse routine I’m struggling to return to, a dirty 3,000 square foot house and a growing to-do-list.
