A year ago today, I learned my novel WILD CONVICTION was a winner of the Inkshares 2020 All-Genre Manuscript Contest!
WILD CONVICTION is a winner thanks to you, Awesome Supporters, through your engagement with comments, reviews, nominations and pre-orders supporting this novel and my journey to publication of my first novel!!
So, where are we one year later on the publication and release of WILD CONVICTION?
I am currently writing some edits based on suggestions from publisher Inkshares that I received in mid-January 2022.
After these edits are read by the Inkshares editorial board, the next step should be the final polish edits, then onto the actual production for publishing!
When will you have the finished novel to read? I don’t know exactly, but my heart is hoping for less than a year from now.
In the meantime, I have posted the first 8 slightly-edited chapters on
https://www.inkshares.com/books/wild-conviction
(Well, Chapter 3 isn’t posted, as it is the mysterious letter from GrandMama to Twilight. But remember, those who have pre-ordered or who still pre-order can received that “actual” letter with “magical” gifts tucked inside if you want it, so you receive Chapter 3 in that way.)
I also have a contest going on now based on these posted chapters to win gifts related to the novel.
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I hope you enjoy reading those posted chapters!
And I hope that by reading them you continue to be intrigued to have this novel in your hands to discover the twists and turns of this story and its significance concerning our society past and present.
(Photo by Alex Iby on Unsplash, seen here only as a placeholder cover photo. Placeholder cover design by Mary Dezember. Actual cover to be designed by Inkshares.)
