by kristinoakley | Dec 30, 2022 | Creativity & Craft, Newsletter, Writing Life
Good news! I’m working on the final edits of The Devil Particle! It was touch and go for awhile as I struggled to figure out what the heck my villain was up to. I had a couple of brainstorming sessions with my editor Tim Storm and we had a breakthrough....
by kristinoakley | Sep 2, 2022 | Creativity & Craft, Newsletter
Last week, I finished writing and editing the third draft of my young adult dystopian novel The Renegade – Book Four of The Devil Particle Series. Woo Hoo! On Friday, I sent the manuscript to my editor Tim Storm. Tim will work on the manuscript for two to three...
by kristinoakley | Jul 8, 2022 | Creativity & Craft, Newsletter, Writing Life
Last week, I finished the first draft of The Renegade, the fourth book in The Devil Particle Series. WOO HOO!! But, while the draft is finished, the book certainly isn’t. The ending doesn’t have the impact I want and the whole manuscript needs a lot...
by kristinoakley | Jun 10, 2022 | Creativity & Craft, Newsletter
On Wednesday, I sat in on Reedsy’s First Line Frenzy with Martin Cavannagh and Rebecca Heyman. Participants were encouraged to submit the first line of their manuscript; Rebecca would then offer feedback. My first sentence of The Devil Particle manuscript...
by kristinoakley | Apr 15, 2022 | Creativity & Craft, Newsletter
As I mentioned in a recent newsletter (“I’ve Hired a Book Designer”), I’ve been working with highly-acclaimed book designer Patrick Knowles to create the cover for my soon-to-be-released book The Devil Particle. Next month, I’ll tell you...
by kristinoakley | Feb 3, 2022 | Creativity & Craft, Newsletter
While revising the fourth draft of The Runner – Book Three of The Devil Particle Series, an odd sensation hit me. With only forty pages to go in this 340-page manuscript, I didn’t want to finish. It wasn’t because I found revising hard, though...
