The revised draft has gone to beta readers. It doesn’t have the energy it did and endless reworks have stolen the dynamic it started with. My central character has lost all his edge, the bad boy is a composite and all the things that made him difficult to resist have been dulled. But, legals are happy.
No more posts for a while. Discussions on title, the cover go on. The ‘can you guess how the story plays out’ notebooks have been redone though and will be posted out to the list with no title. Someone said the author has no obligation to explain to the reader what’s going on. You can drop them in the story and leave them to work it out and the notebooks do that.
With thanks to Paulo Nutini whose song ‘Last Request’ somehow got woven in to the ending which had to change substantially.
Slow down, lie down
Remember it’s just you and me
Don’t sell out, bow out
Remember how this used to be
….
Grant my last request…
Lay down beside me
Sure I can accept that we’re going nowhere
But one last time let’s go there
….
Lay down beside me
Oh, I’ve found, that I’m bound
To wander down that one way road
Oh, and I realise all about your lies
But I’m no wiser than the fool I was before
Spellbound and Swallowed 