Veiled Innocence was my very first book. Okay, so it wasn't my first book. I've had my fair share of fan fiction, journal-books, and stapled-together paper books. But it was the first ever book in which I created my own world, with its own rules, characters, and storyline. I wasn't borrowing from anything else. Which is probably why it took so long to get it right.
I went through four complete rewrites of this book, and scores of revisions after that before I arrived at what I felt the story "should" be. Is it perfect? No. None of my stories will ever be. If I kept striving for perfection, I'd never publish anything. Sometimes, you just have to know when "enough is enough," and let it go so you can move on to the next book. But at the same time, therein lies the danger of pumping stuff out too quickly, before your ideas have had time to reach creative fruition.
And that is precisely what's held me up in getting Darkest Destiny done.
I'm going to go ahead and flat-out say I don't have an exact publication date yet, though I am going to try really hard to finish The Soul Cycle next year. I'm shooting for a summer and winter release on the remaining two books of the trilogy, with the prequel following in 2014.
The main reason why this story has taken me so long to just get started on is its outline. I have a lot of open plot lines from VI, and I'm introducing one more viewpoint character because I felt it was absolutely necessary to the central storyline. In DD, you'll have not only Lian, Vishka, and Rowan, but Ana-Elise's viewpoint as well.
Some of you might be gagging right now. I know, I know. She's a "royal bitch," quite literally. But I think you'll like the direction her character is going to take, and I promise you won't be miserable being stuck inside her head for a few scenes.
My biggest dilemma came from trying to decide how to present the different subplots. Should I keep the scenes grouped together by viewpoint, or should I jumble them all up like I did in VI? Ultimately, I decided things would play out best if it was all jumbled together. My outline is almost completely finished, and I want to start seriously writing DD in January so I can get it out in June. We'll see how things go. If there's one thing I've learned since I began publishing, it's that things usually take twice as long as you think they will. Sometimes not, but most of the time, I've found that's the case.
So in a nutshell, that's where The Soul Cycle is at right now. I'll post more updates as I go, including info about some upcoming giveaways for VI. I should finally have a print edition of it soon, too. That makes me really excited, because its cover is by far my favorite. Don't get me wrong - I love all the beautiful covers Robin does for me. But VI's is just so dark and girly and pretty. I love it to pieces.
That's all for now. I'll be back soon with giveaway info, and a special holiday promo starting in December!
Much love to all of you who stop by here and support my work.
Krystle
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