Here I plan to post links to my creative works in progress for constructive criticisms. Ultimately, I hope to set up a writer’s workshop to help aspiring writers.
Currently I’m working on 3 different works, all novel-length or greater.
“The Escape of Motley’s Rose” by Aylya Mayze. This is my failed attempt to write a quick formula fiction – a werewolf romance. It is turning into something much better.
Years ago my literary agent had asked me to write a “real world fantasy.” He correctly identified it as a genre quickly gaining in popularity. I had my hands full with raising kids, homeschooling, and struggling to figure out how to afford basic necessities, so I shelved the project, picking it up now that I’m divorced. “Mistress of Calistar” by Aylya Mayze, is the reason I was researching alternate ways to market. It is currently a 2-book series, which seems to me an awkward length. Bringing it out chapter by chapter might be a better way to release it, if I can find the right platform. It has gone through hundreds of rewrites over the years. Currently, from the fifth chapter on, this work hooks me so completely that I cannot stop reading it, no matter how recently I’ve read it before. This needs to happen from the first chapter, however.
Mistress of Calistar by Aylya Mayze (coming soon)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
The last project is “The Hawk’s Wife,” the second book in the “Jovai” series by B. Muze. The author had given me a single, epic-length work, which was up to me to divide into book-length segments. Her first book, “The Shaman’s Apprentice” was released in 2018, and won three (3) international awards. The release of the rest of the series was delayed by my husband claiming joint ownership of Wittily Writ Publishing, (the publishing company I established, against his opposition, with my inheritance from my mother), and all its funds (which was only my small inheritance) and its intellectual properties. “The Shaman’s Apprentice” ended at the perfect point, I believe, and could stand alone. The scene following it, however, where this second book would have begun, didn’t work as an opening chapter. The author left it to me to rewrite it. While trying to adapt to her style, I aimed to make this book one a reader could enjoy without having read the prior book. I need to know if I accomplished that and also if the first chapter sufficiently hooks the reader.
The Hawk’s Wife by B. Muze (coming soon)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3