Keeping the Tryst came out a little less than a year ago. I'm still hoping that it might be picked up by a real publishing house someday, but in the meantime I've been happy with it. It's sold enough to make a bit of money, but more important than that it seems to have been appreciated and enjoyed by the kinds of people I was especially writing it for.
Toward the end of Keeping the Tryst I allude to what else I want to do with my life. For the past many months I have been bogged down by a number of crises that have kept me from doing anything toward those. Thankfully - and I truly believe that God has been at work in these matters - I have emerged from that in a better position than I've ever been in my life. I can now throw myself fully into some of those endeavors.
I have decided to devote much of my "own time" for the foreseeable future on my historical romance novel project. I am still going to compose op-ed material because that kind of writing has been part of my nature since I was a high school student. But I'm going to give this novel as much focus as I gave to Keeping the Tryst. I believe that I have hit upon an original idea that no one has done before and I think it's unique enough to stand a good chance of getting published. It needs to be as good as it can be and that's what I'm going to set out to accomplish.
First up on this project: brainstorming. The basic concept is in mind, now it needs some elements that will make it really cool. All the while I'm going to be outlining and revising that, to get the basic endoskeleton in place.
I know how the story begins. I also know how it ends. That is how I like to start writing anything. Just need to fill in the long space between those extremities.
Consider this the first status update of my new project. As I did with Keeping the Tryst, I will be sharing reports from time to time, until the book is finished and I start trying to land it an agent.
This may take awhile. A few years, likely. But I think it will be fun to follow along 🙂
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| Depiction of the Sacking of Constantinople. This is a clue. Maybe. |
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