Guess what I finished?! (+ blog tour stop)

[rkvincent]

This week is packed with work for me. I have to finish and send off all the BIW blog tour posts--I'm dreadfully behind on that, because until two days ago I was busy FINISHING WITH ALL MY SOUL!!! I also have to start (and hopefully finish) rewriting the seventh/final Soul Screamers novel, because two days ago I FINISHED THE FIRST DRAFT OF WITH ALL MY SOUL!!!

And, my birthday is this week (I'll be 34) and I'm taking that day off. I'm also taking part of Friday off to go to a work function with No 1, then we're going to see Brave, and I'm excited, because I love the premise.

[Note: Yes, I watch animated movies. Not all animated movies. Just the good ones. We saw Madagascar III this weekend, and loved it. I love how they've managed to maintain the level of hilarity in all three of those movies and I LOVED the third as a series ender. It really brought things about full-circle. I may have taken notes. I am, after all, a writer. ;)]

Also, did I mention that I FINISHED WITH ALL MY SOUL? Because I totally did. The first draft, anyway. For those interested, here are the numbers:

• I believe this is my 18th full-length novel written. (Three of those are "trunk" novels you'll likely never see.)
• WAMS is my second novel written in 2012, out of a projected four novels.
• It'll be my fifteenth full-length novel to hit the shelf (April 1, 2013).
• The rough draft weighed in at around 89,000 words, which is shorter than I expected, but I believe that makes it the longest SS novel, in rough draft form. I expect it to top 100,000 words in rewrites and revisions.
• With All My Soul was written in four weeks, over a five week span, with a week off near the end when I went to BEA and had company over. I managed 25,000 words a week for the first three of those weeks, but after my week off, I promptly forgot how I'd intended to end the book and spent several agonizing days trying to remember, which slowed me down drastically. (Note: I never remembered my original intentions and had to come up with something new, but I think it may actually be better than what little I remember of my original intent. What did I learn from that disaster? ALWAYS WRITE STUFF DOWN!)
• WAMS is the seventh and final full-length novel in the Soul Screamers series.

For those who will inevitably ask (and I love that you're all so interested!), yes, I have started both a new YA and a new adult project. No, I can't talk about them yet. Mira Books already owns the first book of the new adult project (it was the fourth of four books on my most recent contract, and the only one left to write), but the YA project has not yet sold. Because it hasn't gone out on submission yet. Because it's not done yet, and I want to sell it as a completed book, rather than as a proposal, so it will be as strong as possible.

I plan to finish the first books in both projects this calendar year, but it'll be tough, because I'll also have revisions for both OATH BOUND and WITH ALL MY SOUL.

And I'm sure that's all the business talk anyone wants to hear for now, so here's something fun: today's Before I Wake blog tour stop has an interview with me, and another chance to win a copy of the book and to be entered to win the grand prize! Go check it out and enter the giveaway!

Here are the previous posts:

Monday, June 11th- Fiktshun
Wednesday, June 13th - Harlequin Paranormal Blog
Friday, June 15th- All Things Urban Fantasy