The sixteenth chapter of The Gold in the Dark is out! This chapter marks the beginning of Part Two, and it’s a good ‘un—aren’t you just dying to know what that gross thing is in the chapter illustration? New chapters, complete with brilliant chapter illustrations courtesy of Ally Grosvenor, release every other Sunday at 11 AM EST (and sometimes earlier). You can get started on the series right here.

These past two weeks have just been steady work on the Beauty and the Beast and Aliens WIP. I had to do a rewrite of the second chapter for major issues—the emotionality of the chapter was totally wrong, and I wanted to fix it before progressing. It’s funny how something can feel totally right when you get it down on paper at first, then a critique from a writing partner can totally change your view of things the next minute. So oh well, it was time to go back to the drawing board and give Chapter Two another shot… but it’s better now.

I also have found a new writing service, Dabble, that I can’t shut up about. As I mentioned in my tech tools of the trade post, I kind of hate Google, so I wanted to find a way to move away from drafting in Google Docs. Scrivener unfortunately won’t work for me for the time being as I need cloud capability, so that led me to Dabble—and I love it. It has online capability, a gorgeous GUI, word count tracking, dark theme, plotting tools… Honestly, I can’t speak highly enough about it. Thanks, Instagram ads—without you, I never would have found out about Dabble, and also about that adorable T-rex necklace that I impulse bought last week. 😉

That’s basically it! Hard at work on drafting, so that I can have the book out hopefully by next July. Have a great rest of your weekend, and enjoy Chapter Sixteen. ❤