Not Quite There… Writing Is Rewriting

I took some time this weekend to finish up a promo image if you will for Adamsville. More of a suspenseful teaser shot than anything. Hard to say when this book will be available to everyone to read. I am very excited to share it more.

Things are not quite over yet. I got my first set of reviews back from some friends I have shown the book to and the reponse has, overall, been very strong. The action and suspense are ringing true and the mysteries of the town are keeping people excited. Which is all that I was hoping. It seems that the area needs some fleshing out are the characters. Mainly our female lead, Chloe. There was some opportunity there to draw us into her conflict more and fleshout why we should care about what’s happening to her. So I got to writing.

At first it was hard to think about or really desire to do, but I took a look at the book with some good friends and we tried thinking through what could be done to make this book better. I ended up writing 16 new pages, which made up two new scenes and 1 additional filler page later to bring it all home.

I started inking those pages now and they’re coming together pretty well. The first scene I am adding is pretty difficult to draw because it’s a full stadium shot as we watch the end of a basketball game. It’s like they say though, what doesn’t kill you… Here’s an inked page from that sequence.

I expect I’ll be quite busy with these pages for the next month or so. When they’re done this book will tonally feel quite different, but in the end more character focused. So fingers crossed, that will make it a better book.

Hope everyone is doing well and I’ll share a bit more of these scenes as I go.