It’s been exactly 2 months since I received the reader's report on Kalileia from my editor. I thought I was taking such a long time to get through this, but 2 months isn’t so bad considering I rewrote the entire first third of the book and had a number of character issues that needed dealing with! Today I got through to the end, and am so happy that this is now not only done but that I’m thrilled with the result. And now… the querying begins!

Yes, that’s right, with this novel (which will be a series) I am going to try and get a traditional publishing contract. I am loving the indie-author journey with my Laura the Explorer series, however since I’m planning on authoring being my long-term career, I really would like to experience traditional publishing as well. So, the plan for the second half of this year is that while I work on writing the sequel to Laura the Explorer, I will also be querying agents in the US and UK for Kalileia.

I will hopefully have some updates soon on the query process and how I’m doing!

In the meantime, I'm working on LTE2, as well as getting back to marketing activities for LTE1. I’m really looking forward to getting back into this story over the next few months, and am aiming to have LTE2 ready to publish for early next year!

Until next time.