I am deep into editing my newest novel. I have over 104K words and 354 pages! It’s the longest book I have ever written. With editing I have so far read it four times! It should count as four books for my Goodreads Challenge! Shouldn’t it? Ha!
I hope to send it off to my beta readers soon and begin collating my cookbook in the meantime. I hate to waste time. It’s nice to keep busy and productive.
This book was written in memory of my grandmother who lived to be 100 and five months. She was a formidable character.
When I wrote this story and dedicated it to my grandmother (Avoa), I drew from her own personality traits. My grandmother was a resilient, cantankerous and relentless, in her will to survive, woman of her time as is Lubelia Alycea. This is an historical/romance novel.
I think most writers create stories and base the characters on people they know or have met at one time in their lives. Each book I write I put a little of myself in them also. It is much easier to write about someone or something you know than not. But, at the same time it is a joyous adventure to create something out of nothing and ride with it. In my newest creation I did a little of both.
Though this story is a work of fiction I did form many ideas from some things that my grandmother told me about her life. I had fun embellishing and creating scenarios from these ideas that I thought would be interesting to my readers. Some of the places in the story are real and some are not. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
I hope you will enjoy this work of fiction. I think my grandmother would have loved it!
As soon as I have a cover I will share it with you. My husband will be working on it soon.
While you are waiting for this epic novel please check out my other books on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for all kinds of genres for you and your children.
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Novels for 18+ books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and also by clicking on covers to the right of this post.
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Your latest novel sounds wonderful. By the time I have edited my books and gone through them about 12 times, I have the book memorized almost!!
Thank you. I know what you mean. I do that too. 🤗
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100K words is a lot of work, Janice. My latest novel is 116K so I know exactly how much effort this is. Congratulations on getting this done. It sounds lovely.