Saul Matthews, the son of a wealthy landowner, dreams of breaking free from his father's over controlling ways and striking out to build his own empire in the Australian bush. He longs for his own land and the space to breed fine horses, rather than following his father into the beef cattle trade. To achieve his dream, Saul has trained a fine gray ( Read more... )

I have just finished first round edits for Midnight Blue and sent them in to my editor. The book has come together nicely.

It is an Australian Historical novella set in Queensland in the 1860s and tells the story of two men who initially meet due to the theft of a horse, but whose passion for each other sparks and grows like wildfire after their ( Read more... )

Today's word count 483 words, bringing my total to 10,740 not too shabby.

Tomorrow/today may be a bit of a dead loss writing wise as I am going out to lunch with my kids for my birthday. :D



10740 / 10000 words. 107% done!

Heading off now. Night all!

I have been working on Midnight Blue this evening, set in the Australian Bush, sometime in the late 19th century, not sure on exactly what year atm, just getting a draft on 'paper' and will worry about details later, but I am literally in tears. I've missed writing Historical (this will be my first foray back into it since The Keeper) but most of ( Read more... )

Okay, so today I managed to actually bring the story to the first climax, -- and the characters to their second ;) -- The writing progressed a little better today. Still not convinced it is not 85% crap, but that's up to the betas.

On the home stretch now.

Guardian Word Count

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