To Eltrand and Beyond...

I started out this morning on the fabulous podcast This Week In Indies, and had a great time chatting with fellow authors Don Sawyer, Tricia Copeland, Steffanie Costigan, and host SM Hillman. You can check out the episode below, where we talk about the monsters in our writing and how to make them VERY scary but also believable.

​​And now back to my Author Versus AI project! I'm back on track this week with what felt like a tiny bit of a surreal project for me to tackle. A book that was a short story that was a book... well, it's finally finished, roughly thirty years after I began writing it. And that's pretty cool! (And a good example of why never to throw away a draft of a story, even if it's terrible. You can always resurrect it!)

So, what I wanted to do with my excerpt reading this week is a compare/contrast. In the video below, I read the first page or so of each piece and would LOVE to hear your feedback. Which version do you like the best? The original book draft written by teenage me? The short story written ten years ago? Or the most recent one, Ruin of the Sceptre, written this week?

​You be the judge. Here they are:

Please vote in the comments below! I really want to know. ❤️

Okay, I'm going to take a rest for tonight and try to catch up on some other writerly stuff. Tomorrow will be the start of a brand new book, so stay tuned!