Gosh, it’s only three weeks late getting edited, formatted, and uploaded to Book Funnel, but it is ready now!
I have a long and twisted tale about getting this book ready for you to read. It started as a novella, but then it grew.
A tale of plots, missing chapters, and villainous setbacks…
I started out with a reasonably straight forward plot, but it went awry in the writing process as more characters dropped in and my heroine had to struggle to save her theatre. (Spelled that way because her great aunt was British.)
So, I ended up with a 40,000-plus word novella that I soon farmed out to a critique group. When I got the notes back, I started going through and making adjustments. One note asked a question about a set up for something that seemed to appear out of the blue. I was stunned. I knew I’d written that scene.
So I went back to the original draft, which I’d divided by acts. As I went through, I discovered I’d not transferred three chapters to my final draft. I fixed that and edited those. A few days later, I came upon another jump in the story and found I’d missed another three chapters in the third act.
Along the way, another character waved and asked if I remembered him. Of course I did, but I apparently hadn’t included him in the second half of the book, so I added another chapter. By the time I finished, my sixteen chapter book had grown to twenty-four and was now a novel. Sigh… even when I try to write short, I can’t!
Then I turned to a formatting program, whose name I shall not mention. After two days, I got the layout exactly how I wanted it and went to compile the book, and it hung up. I tried to get the digital reader version for PDF and it wouldn’t complete. I sent a trouble ticket, but knowing it could take a long time to get an answer, I formatted the book in WORD.
In the meantime, I got a response and tried three or four of the long list of suggestions to try to get the formatting program’s version. No luck. I finished the WORD format, then tried the other program one more time and it worked! So, the PDF version and the ePub version are now happily loaded on Book Funnel and appear to be complete.
If you would like to read A Trapdoor Tragedy for FREE, click on the button below. This is a prequel to A Fatal Sweetness. If you enjoy the book, please check out Book One on Amazon.
