DAUKHERVILLE IS FINISHED!!!!!
Daukherville Cover Art
That’s all. What more is there to say? It’s approx. 170,000 words, which is probably a bit long. It probably needs a lot of additional work, editing, rewriting, and paring down. This is actually probably only the halfway point. But you know what?
I haven’t finished a book since 1996. Not even in draft form, which, let’s be serious, is all I ever write anyway. The book is done. I could pass out copies, and people could read it and get a complete story–beginning, middle, and end.
And I know it’s late, and I’ve just been balling my eyes out as I typed, but sweet baby jeebus, I think this one’s good.
I think it’s really good.
Secret vault for now. There’s a deus ex machina bit in the end that I have to get rid of before I let anyone else read it. But soon! … very soon.
You’re on the list, most definitely! Glad you liked Duma Key, I did, too. Thought it was one of his better ones in a while. Some of the scenes of painting / ghostly interaction scared me.
Publish it so all can read, it is time
Not time yet, trust me.
Thank you, Dave. I wish I could say it was going well, but it’s not. I’ve turned to short fiction to teach myself how to edit.
Daukherville is very much on my mind, but editing, at least for me, is an exceedingly hard fight against the urge to tear it all apart and start again from page one. Which I did. With Daukherville. Again.
The book sucks. Still.