Dr. Necropolis Update: Final Rewrite

Hello friends and Happy MONDAY!

I don't know who's still interested in this project, but in case you're wondering, I'm about halfway through the final rewrite. It's going pretty well, but I'll admit that it's also been a LOT more comprehensive than I'd expected. 

I've broken several chapters up into parts, reframed both Tiffany's and Blaine's introductions, and done what I can to make their arcs clearer. For example, where we once got two pages of Blaine's backstory straight-up, we now take a literal walk through his family's museum. With that, we can now see his family's military history, which informs his arc. A lot of the changes have been like that. I'll go in trying to make something read less like exposition and come out with a clearer statement of a character's motivations. Granted, I should've done that BEFORE I sent this thing to you, but hey, that's why God invented rewriting.

If you haven't read much, at this point, you might as well wait for the final version to drop. I'll be counting on everyone to leave me a review on Amazon's website. Those written reviews are the single biggest way their algorithm ranks books for people, and it takes *15* to actually get them to show your book to would-be readers.

Fifteen is a lot of reviews.

Sally and I went into Manhattan last week, shot a bunch of would-be cover ideas, used Photoshop to cut pieces together, and then cartoonified the result to get a cover that I like. Getting a good shot of the Empire State Building turned out to be much, MUCH more challenging than I thought it would be, but we got there eventually. The one we used came from the Sandbar, on the roof of the Hilton Fashion District.

Yes, that is me modeling as Frank. I bought the hoodie especially for that shoot.

I have to rewrite the boat scene tomorrow. That's what triggered this email. I'm about halfway through, and I expect tomorrow's rewrite to be the most complicated of this entire process. We'll see, but I'm nervous.

Anyway, thanks for your time.

--Dan