I’d rather be writing… A story of beta readers and taxes

I’m working on taxes this week. Normally I’ve completed this task by mid- to late February, but I wanted to get to “THE END” of For King and Country before I dove into the tax forms. Yes, round 2 of edits on the novel are done! I should have done the taxes last week, but…

rough draft of Battle Scars is done!

“The first draft is nothing but your ingredients. Once you have them in front of you–a beginning, a middle, an end, and all your characters–then and only then can you write your novel.”–Tiffany Reisz. I call it my rough draft. Rough, first, whatever. I took a different approach to Battle Scars. I’d worked from an…