(Ancient history can wait)

This is not an official study-break...


Well, my busy week at Uni, bled straight into exam time, which is always a bit of a slog... I am finding it difficult to tear myself away from coffee and spelunky to get all those study hours in, fortunately for me I am a fastidious note-taker and don't really need to read anything. Being a total nerd pays off.

Tellan continues to wander through cyber space, visiting family and friends for a wee read. Things might get a little more exciting for its pages soon... we'll be keeping you updated on that one...

It's good to have so many friends willing to read Tellan, feedback and conversation has been so ridiculously helpful over the last -nearly two- years. I am particularly grateful for those friends who tirelessly read each chapter over-and-over and emailed me back and forth for so many months.

I promised to write about book two, my current work in progress, but, to be quite honest, I have been a bit mentally pre-occupied to really hash-out something interesting to say! 

I suppose I could write about how the second book deconstructs the idea of 'inherent evil,' but this comic says it better than I ever could just read it, please. This aspect of the book has been more fun than it should be. I guess, the circumstances and the idea make the book a little 'darker' and we all secretly love stuff that's a little dark.

Other fun things in book two:

• A kind of military circus.... 
• Some wolves that some people ride on... 
• A couple more super interesting 'bad guys.'
• A magical map-book.
• some more wolves that try and eat people.
• Bows and arrows.
• The love-triangle that all the beta readers knew was coming... 

xx

asap!

It's so much easier to write and study thanks to the recent arrival of a desk for my glorious computer! I now have a dedicated space to annoy you all from!

When I began this blog, I was endeavouring to document the writing process of book one. However, I finished writing Tellan long ago now, and have stated on many occasion how difficult it is to write about the editing process. It's even harder now Tellan is being queried, there is very little for me to say about it... but its all a part of the process, so I will try my best.

However, maybe its time I talked more about my current project? Part 2. I am endeavouring to pull together a small synopsis and some other thematic bits and pieces to throw up asap! for now though you'll just have to wait. Uni is pretty busy this week so while i promise to provide all of this is the next 72ish hours, i can't be entirely sure that I am not lying.

xox

Young Readers!

It's been such a crazy few months that I nearly forgot to mention what I consider THE coolest opportunity Tellan has given me so far! My Mum lovingly hunted down some Beta readers that were within my target age-range, gave them an old copy of the manuscript and then told them they would have to email me feedback (In the end they insisted on meeting me face-to-face, so I popped into their high-school on my way from Wellington to Dunedin).
It was utterly amazing listening to them rant and rave about all of the characters they loved! I was worried going into the classroom that they would have nothing to say and it would end up being really awkward, but it was epic. They inspired me to go home and finish the round of edits I was working on at that time.

To see the manuscript met with such enthusiasm certainly makes all of the hard-work worth-it!

xx

And this one, woodkid make amazing videos (try 'iron' and 'run boy run' also)

Let this music video inspire you.