Today is the official start for Sandra to edit Artemis Rising. I uploaded the manuscript Saturday, as nervous as before I go onstage to speak. Unfortunately, I can’t turn that nervousness into energy onstage – it takes the same amount of energy to depress the keys whether I’m nervous or not. I am looking forward to the feedback. From what Sandra has told me so far based on the 3000 word sample I gave her, what I’ve heard from my beta readers, and what I’ve picked up about story telling, I suspect I have good story bones.

I’m not sure if I will be disappointed or relieved if there isn’t anything major. No matter what, it is beginning to look like the book I’m currently working on, Selene Unchained, may need to be split into more than one. I always knew that the story of the Selenite Revolution (Selene Unchained) and the continuing story of Walter and Eleanor’s adventures (Secrets of Kilimanjaro) were going to be separate books. But Selene Unchained, that started with the arrival of Artemis from the moon before dawn on Friday, is already at more than 50k words, and it is only late Tuesday afternoon.

Maybe I’ll need to split the story of the development of the political and military materials necessary for the revolution (Selene Unchained) from the social tour-de-force introduction of the Selenites to Earth society in general, Galveston and the Presidents’ Council in particular. I could always call that one Mirim for the WIN…