I sent off the edits for Capture the Sun to my editor this morning! 🎉 Overall, edits weren’t too bad this time, and I only added about 2k to the manuscript, bringing it up to 111k words. This is pretty much right in line with the other two books. In fact, all of my trad books have been around 110k-115k words, so I’ve got consistency going for me!
I shared the image above on social media when I was doing a final read-through of the book after most of the edits were done, and I’m sure some of you were yelling “ENHANCE!” like this was CSI (no? just me??), so here’s the full text, since it was too long to fit in an alt tag. It’s not final-final, and it hasn’t been copyedited, but here you go, the opening of Capture the Sun:
I’d sworn I would never set foot on Valovia again, but I was about to prove myself a liar. That fact had never been in question, but I tried to keep the promises I made to myself. The screen in my cabin gently mocked me, displaying a green and brown close-up of the planet while the atmosphere buffeting the ship’s hull grew denser as we sank toward the surface.
Valovia had burned me twice already. I usually learned from my mistakes, but once again the promise of money had overridden my good sense. I mentally winced. My former captain, Octavia Zarola, would be so disappointed in me. Tavi had a strict moral compass. Mine was a lot more flexible.
And a lot more lucrative.
Case in point: the sumptuous first-class cabin surrounding me, paid for by Besor Edfo, my contact and potential employer on Valovia. It was an obvious ploy for him to demonstrate that he had money to spare, since I hadn’t agreed to take the job yet, only to meet, but it was a nice touch. As was the prepaid first-class return ticket.
Besor had offered me a truly ridiculous amount of money to recover a stolen figurine for him. Apparently, he and a rival had been feuding over the piece of art for close to a decade, and it had switched hands a dozen times thanks to the efforts of a few recovery specialists.
Officially, recovery specialists were experts at tracking down items that had gone missing, whether through negligence or theft. But in reality, we were often the reason items went missing.
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Now I’m going to take the weekend off (woo!), and go mattress shopping (boo!). That sentence was a real roller coaster, lol, but fingers crossed we find something we like that doesn’t cost a fortune. 🤞🏻
I hope you all have a good weekend!
Have a good weekend! I’ll be preordering Capture and if you get a hard copy of the other book I’d love to have it. I don’t have Kindle.
Thanks!
Print books for Honor and Shadows will be available at/on release! :)
Enjoy the weekend and hopefully there will be a perfect mattress out there waiting for you.
Actually discovered that Capture the Sun is available for preorder when I ordered Honor and Shadows (which I loved- but the Cover and the tweaks you added made it impossible not to add it to the Collection) and so am all set for the books to arrive ✨️🌓☀️
Thank you! I’m pretty happy with how the H&S cover came out! 😍
This is so exciting, the snippet reminded me again of how much i love this series! :) May can’t come soon enough.
Enjoy your weekend! You deserve some time off after all the work you’ve put it. Thank you for this awesome series.
Hi, I can’t find the preorder on Amazon Australia. Will those go up later?
Yeah, it’s still pretty early and the cover isn’t out yet, so I’m sure it’ll be up later on. But thanks for trying! 😍
Thank you for sharing a snippet! Although I am not a writer, I can only imagine all the hard work and creative energy you have put into your books. Your work is much appreciated. I am buying extra books to pass around for our book club at work. I have my pre-orders in. Fingers crossed for the wonderful and talented Frankie Corzo narrating this next book. Also, love the mug!