#1SENTENCESATURDAY - Pride & Joy (NA Urban Fantasy)

Every week, I'll be sharing a sentence from a WIP. This week's snippet is from the Pride & Joy series, my urban fantasy that'll be released December!

Come back next week for another snippet!

~Saruuh

#1SENTENCESATURDAY - Pride & Joy (NA Urban Fantasy)

Every week, I'll be sharing a sentence from a WIP. This week's snippet is from the Pride & Joy series, my urban fantasy that'll be released December!

Come back next week for another snippet!

~Saruuh

#1SENTENCESATURDAY - Pride & Joy

Every week, I'll be sharing a sentence from a WIP. This week's snippet is from the Pride & Joy series, my urban fantasy that'll be released December!

~Saruuh

#1SENTENCESATURDAY - Pride & Joy

Every week, I'll be sharing a sentence from a WIP. This week's snippet is from the Pride & Joy series, my urban fantasy that'll be released December!

~Saruuh

#1SENTENCESATURDAY - Pride & Joy

Every week, I'll be sharing a sentence from a WIP. This week's snippet is from the Pride & Joy series, my urban fantasy that'll be released December!

~Saruuh

#1SENTENCESATURDAY - Pride & Joy

Every week, I'll be sharing a sentence from a WIP. This week's snippet is from Pride & Joy, which has witches, murder, and plenty of snark. It's technically more than 1 sentence but whatever.

Let me know which book you'd like to see next - my fantasy WIP Kelebek + Savas, my witchy detective series Pride & Joy, or The Revelation, the third Lux Guardians book!

~Saruuh

#1SENTENCESATURDAY - Pride & Joy

Every week, I'll be sharing a sentence from a WIP. This week's snippet is from the Pride & Joy series, which features a coven of outcast witches, a supernatural murder, and a private investigator. It'll be out late this year.

Victoriya, the character in this quote, is everything I aspire to be tbh.

Let me know which book you'd like to see next - Ottoman-inspired fantasy Kelebek + Savas, my witchy detective series Pride & Joy, or The Revelation, the third Lux Guardians book!

~Saruuh

#1SENTENCESATURDAY - Pride & Joy

Out with the old journal, in with the snippets!

Every week, I'll be sharing a sentence from a WIP. This week's snippet is from my urban fantasy witchy detective series, Pride & Joy, the first book of which will be out late this year. And because it's the first ever, I'm totally posting two sentences. Use the hashtag to share a sentence of your own work in progress and feel free the share the image if you like the quote!

Let me know which book you'd like to see next - Pride & Joy, an Ottoman-inspired fantasy, or The Revelation, the third Lux Guardians book!

~Saruuh

Words & Wonders (76)

Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- Slow week this week, but I wrote 9,009 of Pride & Joy, my f/f witchy murder book. It's finished, and I think pretty good! Estimated release next December, to give me time to write the next two and release them all close together.

- I wrote 4,906 words of Kelebek+Savas, my Ottoman-inspired fantasy.

- I'm fleshing out the world and characters of my NA UF Dragons book and hoping I can finish it this month.

- And finally, I'm in the middle of plotting out Pride & Joy book 2

In my life:

- Not much to report

Discovery Found or Lesson Learned:

This great post on planning a novel and the pitfalls of not doing so.

What have you written this week?

~Saruuh

Words & Wonders (75)

Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- I wrote 9,830 of Pride & Joy, my f/f witchy murder book. Nearly, nearly done.

- I wrote 3,970 words of the Ottoman-inspired fantasy I mentioned a few weeks ago. I'll refer to it as Kelebek+Savas after the main characters but names could easily change.

- I also read 60+ pages of my NA UF Dragons book I half wrote a few months back. It's not nearly as bad as I remember. I might finish it, but as I'm working on Pride&Joy, my side Ottoman Fantasy, and will soon be editing The Revelation ... it's low on my priorties.

In my life:

- Christmas is soon, Christmas is soon!!

- Also I'm LOVING superhero books right now. I burned through Relentless (Deebs & Lynn Childs), Zeroes (Westerfeld, Lanagan, and Biancotti), Illusive (Emily Lloyd-Jones), and yesterday I read the so so so cute m/m superhero/supervillain novella Superior (Jessica Lack.) I recommend all of them, especially Superior and Zeroes, which has some pretty awesome diverse rep, although no gender or sexuality. Still, read it for endlessly adorable Thibault!

Discovery Found or Lesson Learned:

This week, I'm sharing this blog post on the book a year schedule in traditional publishing!

"I also want to say . . . it’s not for everyone. And that’s okay. Some books take longer. Some authors need more space. Overall, you have to do what works for you. Sleep deprivation and caffeine addictions might keep you going for a little while, but ultimately, taking care of yourself is most important."

What have you written this week?

~Saruuh

Words & Wonders (74)

Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- Nanowrimo was pretty awesome for me! I wrote 50,050 on The Revelation, my Nano project, and a further 30K on side projects. Not too shabby.

- I edited 28 pages of a Christmas Gift novella for my newsletter subscribers. This will be delivered to your inboxes right before Christmas!!

- I wrote 13,150 of Pride & Joy, my f/f witchy murder book. I probably won't release this until I have more than one book ready to go, to cut down on time between releases.

In my life:

- Writing took over 99% of my life last month so I'm hoping to catch up on All The Things. You may have noticed my content on this blog is sorely lacking. Hoping to fix this in the next month!

Discovery Found or Lesson Learned:

It's literally impossible to do everything. Sometimes I think everyone needs a reminder of this little fact. You can't do everything at once.

What have you written this week?
~Saruuh

Words & Wonders (73)

Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

It has been an entire AGE since I last updated. November has been crazy hectic, writing wise for me, so blogging and everything else took a back seat. Here's what I've been up to this fortnight:

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- I wrote 32,353 words of The Revelation and IT'S DONE! It's a goopy, inconsistent mess but at least it's vaguely book-shaped!

- I accidentally started writing another project that DEMANDED I write it. I'm loving it so far, and I've written 16,146. It's Fantasy NA, with YA crossover appeal. Not super sexy though - just going on character ages and the theme of finding your place in the world. I'll say three things about it

+ The characters are a race of immortals
+ It uses the LightVsDark trope and then LightAndDarkVsGreaterEvil
+ The world is inspired by the Ottoman Empire

In my life:

- This is my entire life:

 Writing, Christmas, Writing, Christmas, ACOMAF!

Discovery Found or Lesson Learned:

I somehow get way more done when I have twice the workload?? I progress much faster working on two projects at a time. It makes no sense but it works for me. Try it!

What have you written this week?
~Saruuh

Words & Wonders (72)

Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

Missed a week because I went on holiday.

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- I wrote 11, 801 words of The Revelation. It's not going well tbh.

- I've planned, prepped, and plotted a Christmas short story (could be novella, could be novel, we'll see how it goes!) It's British urban fantasy, with witches and fae and elves, and f/f. I'll be sending this story out to all my newsletter subscribers for free as a treat for the holidays, but it'll also be up on Amazon. At some point, it could become a series, but I don't know for sure yet.

In my life:

- I went to the beach for a week!

Discovery Found or Lesson Learned:

Before I start developing any characters, I HAVE to know their names, and from their names I build personality, looks, habits, family, etc. I also find it really helpful to have a list of surnames and male and female first names common to where the story is set (i.e. England, North West.) for unexpected characters and easy reference.

What have you written this week?
~Saruuh