Link: Free Digital Shop – This is where downloads of free books, previews, and other bonus features will be. Right now, there’s a Mad World ebook and previews from Fool Me Twice.

Hey! I’m just dropping in with two pieces of news.

The first draft of Fool Me Twice, Book 2 is FINALLY completed. I’ve been working on this draft since January and last night, around 11 PM, I finally finished the last chapter. It’s really messy and needs a lot of work, but I’m happy with it. It clocked in at 503 pages and around 191k words.

The next step is to let the draft sit for a few days while my brain recovers — I really covered so much ground since June 16, and it was a huge push towards the finish line. On Monday (July 10) I’ll start my beta draft reread, so I can start making notes about how to edit and what to add or cut. Then, the following Tuesday (July 18), I’ll start the beta draft. At this point, I can’t tell you how long the draft will take because I don’t know the scope, but I figure around six weeks, until around September 1. Then we’ll go into the posting draft edits, which is my final cleanup. This means we are on track for the October release, as I hoped 🙂

If you’re a Patreon supporter, the Stalker tier has all the chapters right now.  I’ll be posting the July chapters for the Obsessed tier tomorrow, and then the full Alpha Draft will be available for the Adored tier. Once the draft goes up for the Adored tier, it’ll also be available in the digital shop for $7 (the same price as the Adored tier). If you want to check out the Alpha draft, you’ll also have the option to participate in my beta reader survey so you can help me shape the next draft.

The other piece of news is just a Flash Fiction note. On Monday, my mother called around the time I was setting up the update, and she’s impossible to get off the phone, lol. And I had a busy afternoon getting my new hire paperwork completed for my new district. By that point, I’d eaten up all the extra time I usually use for Flash Fiction and had to use my writing time for Fool Me Twice. And of course, yesterday, I wrote 14k for Fool Me Twice.

Today, I am exhausted from writing around 100k for FMT over the last three weeks. I’m taking today and tomorrow off just to rest and recharge. On Friday, I’ll come back, and we’ll have our Flash Fiction schedule back on track.