by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Now that I’ve cut the first novel in two, I find myself with an interesting situation on my hand — I can now simply focus on the first book and try to sell it ASAP.
Here’s my thinking — while I’m going to continue to develop the other four books in this massive series, I’m going to work mostly on the first book with an eye to using it as the basis to sell the other books. I’ll try to wrap the first book up — it is an independent story, after all — and I’ll use it as the basis of my attempt to get a literary agent.
So, instead of facing two more years of not having a finished product, I find myself with something in maybe six months? This would be non-exclusive. I could still work on the other books in the series as I was doing all of this.
The looming (enjoyable) issue at the moment is fleshing out character profiles and studies so when I do sit down to work on the first book again I have my canon all figured out.
