Gentlemn, start your typewriters!

Here we go!

My NaNoWriMo effort for 2008, Death Plays an Accordion, is now being posted in three chapter blocks.

Remember, this is all the raw chapters. Very little, pretty much none, went into the work you see there. This is a rare look into the first draft process.

I welcome comments, but I won't be going back and applying any edits you suggest until at least January. :)

This is projected to be a 25 chapter novel, and I'm thinking I might slip another chapter in as things get rolling. That makes for a total of 9 posts by the end of November.

Enjoy!
-Nate

As one adventure ends...

Yes, it took forever.

There were a few unavoidable delays with the epilogue that involved a dying computer, an editor on the move, and a change in momentum.

That said, the long awaited Epilogue for Chanson Noir is now live.

Starting Friday, November 7th, I will begin posting the raw chapters of "Death Plays an Accordion," the mystery novel I'm writing for National Novel Writing Month.

Let me repeat the important part. "...raw chapters..." What goes up on the site is a first draft, and will require a significant re-write and edit. But this gives my readers a look inside of the process, and allows my informal editors a chance to pass an eye over it and make suggestions.

Enjoy the mystery as it unfolds. "Death Plays an Accordion" will be a bit of departure for me -- a straight detective mystery, there will be no speculative fiction elements present.

Until next time!