2 October 2016 – S. K. Dunstall

Confluence giveaway – we have a winner

The response to our blog giveaway of Confluence was great. Thank you all for entering, and thank you for all the great comments.

All the names went into our ‘hat’.

And we then proceeded to draw out a name.

But why stop there, since you’ve all been such lovely people in your comments, and we did receive ten books this time, when we only expected eight.

So we drew out two more names.

The winners!

O. Jimenez
Kristine Friday Ahlskog
trishhenry

Congratulations to you all.

And thanks, everyone, who took the time to enter.

We’ll be in touch with the winners. (We have your emails from the entry. We’ll send an initial message there. Let us know if you don’t receive it.)

First chapter now online

As gently prompted by Janaki P., we now also have a sample chapter online.

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Winter is coming for half the world. For us, Summer is coming.

I’m sitting here at our local McDonald’s, blearily trying to calculate whether the onset of daylight saving last night means we have to leave our Confluence giveaway open an hour longer than we said we would. (I know, but the caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet, and I did stay up late reading Connie Willis’ Crosstalk, which wouldn’t have been too bad except I put the clock forward just before I got into bed and suddenly it was 1:30.)

But I am writing.

I haven’t written much over the last few days, so it’s nice to feel the words coming so easily.

Writing can be like that. Ilona Andrews describes it well with her writer’s circle of woe.

Right now we’re both at the ‘Just get to the end, just get to the end’ stage.

Most writers I know go through stages of something similar.

“I love this idea. I love the characters. I’m enjoying this.”
“This book is terrible.”
“Maybe it’s not so bad.”

The trick is to not stop writing. No matter what. Not until a draft is done. Even if you have to find somewhere else to write for a while.

Hence my trip to McDonald’s. We’ve got to get this big first draft finished.

Once that’s done, the next step is to put it away for a while and work on something else. But that’s a while away yet, and another blog.

In other news. Giveaway winner coming soon.

And we’ll put the first chapter up online (as soon as I get home from McDonald’s) for those who want to read it.