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Gifts Chapter 1

I'm behind on the BTLN epilogue because I've been revising another book in the hopes that my agent can sell it. (I'm almost done! Weee!) However, since I didn't want to leave you all high and dry, I sent the first few chapters of Gifts, the follow up to Curses, to Mel the copy editor, so we can start posting that story right away. Yay!

Gifts is very much a working title. There HAS to be a better one out there, I just don't know what it is yet. I posted a cast of characters in the collection so you can brush up at will. I edited the one I had from Curses, so some of them may or may not show up. And I noticed that I copied it from a pre-copy edit draft and there had been some changes. (We changed the way we spelled Diadora, for example.) Hopefully I caught all the changes, but if not, I'll fix it as soon as they come to my attention.

Hope you're excited to get back to these goofballs. I sure am.

--Lish

Gifts Chapter 1

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Thank you! I'd love to know. I had hoped Curses would reach more readers, but several factors were against us. (Like the pandemic, for example.) I'm hoping the paperback release will get it into new hands!

Yeah! Curses was favorite work after everything from Sam and Eva. I actually just did school outreach today and got a young lady to check out Curses. If I hear back from her if she liked it, I'll let you know.

Brandon Digwood

Yeah, it works okay, I just think a better title exists. But then again, I thought Curses was a placeholder title, too. Good catch on the missing words there--I fixed it, I think.

Gifts is not a bad title, since it names the central problem of the book. I think it would be particularly appropriate if surrounded by sneer quotes -- "Gifts". And this sentence fragment -- "slid through life with a tempting allure that made a large population of Veritess go weak at the knees." -- doesn't quite make sense to me. Maybe there should have been 'percentage of the ' there before population?


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