I set up this spiffy new website (and by “I”, I mean my hubby), promised everyone I would reform my dismal blogging ways, and then promptly didn’t. I do recall mentioning something about bananas—and I intend to blog about bananas—but first I want to rant about Grass. Grass will be my very next blog post after this one.
This particular post is dedicated to letting all my readers know that I am aware of the typos that slipped through on Worlds Collide, and I want to send out a huge THANK YOU to “Jack”—one of my favoritest readers (is that a word?)—for giving me a helping hand with that. And my favorite proofreader—Christina Galvez—is a little miffed at me for not sending her the final book before I published. I admit…I rushed it. I was already one month passed the time I promised all of you it would be released, and my husband was just getting back from a year in Afghanistan, so I put a little too much trust in the editing company I hired. Bottom line, I should have read it word for word, line by line, myself before publishing it. It’s my own fault. Lesson learned. It won’t happen with the third book. Worlds Collide has been corrected, so anyone who purchased it from Amazon may be able to upload a new version (I think).
I’m busy writing the third book, which includes a lot of research (and surprises! I’m even surprising myself with this story!). I’m a big proponent of research because although I love writing fiction, I want my story grounded in reality. Sunset Rising begins as a dystopian, but the series as a whole is about society’s journey toward finding utopia in a post apocalyptic world. It’s more about the restructuring of civilization. My biggest hope is that this series engages the reader to think critically about our world and how we can change it for the better now. And please feel free to share those thoughts right here on my spiffy new website! I’d love to hear from you and get a discussion going.
I’ll have another promotion on Sunset Rising coming up in the summer, so stayed tuned for that (I’ll post the dates once I have them). I know I’m pass-due for a satellite too… and Reyes Crowe has been bugging me about that. I need to write it just to shut him up 😉 And speaking of writing, it’s time to get back to it.
Thanks for popping in and feel free to leave a comment or ask me questions. I’m always happy to hear from you!
Cheers – Susan
Happy to hear that you are hard at it Susan. And I’m sure that you will have a lot of pressure to get book 3 finished as book two left us hanging.:0) But writing is like baking, it will be done when it’s done! I appreciate that you are doing the research to make the next volume deeper and more involved than the last two. A goal I am sure you will achieve. I love your characters and story line. While not unique (what story is?) it is current, exciting, and is written is a way that anyone from young adult up can read and enjoy. Keep the series going, I think it will sustain. Satellites or back stories are a great way to flesh out the overall story line, and I’m sure they will give you a chance to regroup for the bigger tomes. In the meantime, we who hunger for more, can dine on those tidbits…
Thanks Gail!!
A huge YOU’RE WELCOME, and a big THANK YOU to you, too, Susan, for such a well-written, well-intentioned, and well-researched series. I love that it’s not just an entertaining dystopian about good rebels overthrowing a corrupt government; it’s about the “how?” and “why?” of our real-world problems that lead up to this (hopefully) fictional post-apocalyptic world and the “what now?” of the difficult aftermath of a revolution. I cannot wait to read “New World Order” (but take your time ;)!