Kevin Klehr 🏳️🌈<p>I've been working on my first self published novel as part of a book series penned by ten different authors.</p><p>I usually work on my books, on and off, over several years. But this project has a tight deadline. So, very quickly, I changed aspects of one character as she was originally coming across too bitter. I switched to multi-person first person POV (from 3rd person limited) when about two-thirds was written (I didn't feel the connection between character and reader was strong enough). And I've already done about five edits on this thing.</p><p>Yesterday I completed edit number six, doing my usual thing of changing the font (this time to one no one would print a book in), and both deleted and added text. I know this story so well, I also caught some behavioural differences in a couple of the characters. They're now fixed.</p><p>I'm reading the last two chapters this morning (the ones that have seen the least edits) before I send this off to my designated beta readers.</p><p>My obsession with this has kicked it into shape sooner than I imagined. There are a couple of last minute characters who need further development in my next (and final) rewrites before it's off to the editor.</p><p>So, just as Halloween approaches, watch out for this year's instalment of the Haunted Hearts Series of MM Horror/Romance novels. The covers have all been done and they look fab.</p><p>BTW, the image in this graphic is not the cover. Cover reveals will come soon.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/MM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MM</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MMRomance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMRomance</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/wizard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wizard</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/warlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warlock</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/amwritingfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amwritingfiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/thehauntedheartsseries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thehauntedheartsseries</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/hauntedhearts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hauntedhearts</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/urbanfantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>urbanfantasy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/magicrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>magicrealism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/authorlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authorlife</span></a></p>