I’m happy to report that the craziness of my life has started to calm down.

Hopefully I didn’t just jinx myself.

I am settled in my new house, mostly settled in my new job and settling into a new routine. I was able to complete the scariest part of revisions for The Blood Between Us. And soon my pup will be coming back home! It’s all a huge weight off my shoulders, so I am starting to feel like a fully functional human being again. Yay!

What I Read

GRAND TOTAL: 1 (womp womp…again)

Wilder Girls by Rory Power 

What I Wrote

So as I wrote last month, my biggest challenge for this round of TBBU revisions is to cut my word count. I started at 137K, and my goal was to get to at least 115K. I was extremely stressed, nervous, doubtful – you name it – that I could accomplish that goal without losing important scenes.

But to my surprise, I was able to cut a whopping 27,331 words to get to a grand total of 110,018!!!!!!!

Even crazier, most of my cuts were just from going line by line and deleting any unnecessary words/sentences/paragraphs. I only cut five short scenes, so the integrity of my story is intact – just much tighter. I am extremely, extremely proud of the work I got done this month!

Coming Up

September will be another month chock full of revisions! I have a few running issues that need to be fixed/added throughout the draft, and I want to do one final read through for word count and consistency after those are done. I also have to write a query letter and synopsis (UGH). The submission deadline for Pitch Wars is September 25, so I’ve got a lot of work to do!

For those of you unfamiliar with Pitch Wars or who are curious about my decision to enter, I’ll have a blog post coming soon all about that topic as well as a dedicated post on The Blood Between Us since it’s been a while since you’ve seen a sneak peek 🙂

Depending on how everything else goes, I am hoping toward the end of September, I can also start plotting my new romance novel.

Stay tuned!