May 10 Update

 

Here's the check-in for  Portrait with Death.

Word Count for the very Rough Draft = over 70,000 words. That's 87% of the goal.

The Final Draft is started. It's over 15,000 words. It's running longer than the very rough draft.

• Revision and Proof-Plus come after the Final Draft is finished.
• What is Proof-Plus? The cycles of proofreading and corrections followed by formatting for ebook and paperback. I haven't contracted for the paperback yet. I hope to have the ebook out in July while the paperback will be ready by the end of the year.
• Book description (or the market copy) still needs to be written. Promotional posts need to be planned. Advertising for the series completion needs to occur.

Research that has happened since the May 1 update

• reasons that men were not conscripted for service in Great Britain for WW1.
• London Library
• architectural styles in England
• public telephones in 1920
• what teachers at British Public Schools are called
• art supplies / oil paints / turpentine
• asphalt / macadam / bitumen
• typical British surnames starting with C
• Ambulances in 1920: size / appearance / sound
• wounds caused by broken glass

I had broken glass at the end of book 1, Digging into Death, and it's coming back for the end of the final book of the series, Portrait with Death.

Writing the Story

Witnesses.

An arrest.

Interviews.

More with Isabella and Flick and Michael. 

Yesterday I poured out over 2,000 words on the rough draft and over 2,500 on the final draft. This story is just pouring out. I think I'm going to write my minimum for the day. When I look up from a writing session, I've doubled that -- which is excellent.

Writing this book is F.U.N. !!!!

Watch for Portrait with Death.

Also coming after PwD publishes will be the Into Death bundle, available later in the year.