Melanie Nilles

It’s done.  Dragon Prophecy is out but the others will not be from the same publisher.  You’ve probably noticed that all the books except DP have been taken off my website.  When I find a new publisher for the rest of the series, I’ll be sure to post about it.  For now, I’m back to the query/submission queue.  It’s a lottery I hate playing, but hopefully, someone will see the value in the story and pick up the rest of the series.

Actually, the rest of the series could stand alone well without Dragon Prophecy.  DP introduces all the characters and their backgrounds and brings things together.  The next part picks up where that leaves off, and it’s easy to jump into the action.  In fact, it almost works better, since by not having info dumps or slow scenes to show things, the action is faster paced and more exciting.  It also leaves lots of questions to be answered about how one character relates to another and what happened to get them where they are.  (I’ve been editing.)

Now, the hard part is writing that darned summary called a synopsis.  With 300,000 words of manuscript total, condensing that down with more than two dozen characters is quite a chore.  I know I can do it, but it will take some time to get it right.

In the meantime, I’m finishing up an editing pass on the entire three books worth of manuscript.  It’s been interesting, but I’m so ready to move on to something new that it’s almost sickening.  I love the dragon series.  Don’t get me wrong.  But I can only digest something so much before that cud is over-metastisized.  I need something fresh and exciting.  This isn’t exciting and new anymore.  I’ve worked on it for almost eight years, give or take a year, even around other writing projects, and I want it done.

Moving on will be exciting again.