This is K.N. Wyland.

And you're listening to the 420th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

This week I'm excited to announce I'm officially finished with final edits

for my superhero historical wayfare. Yay! Final edits are always my least favorite part of the process since they're mostly just

moving commons around.

Now that that's done, I'll be moving forward into formatting the various versions

ebook and paperback approving cover art my favorite part and eventually

doing final proof fruits depending on how fast the cover art part goes

sometimes that can be quite lengthy for fiction.

We may even be able to up the publication date on this to late summer instead of early fall.

We'll see.

I really can't wait to share this story with you all. It was a fun one to write on so many levels from its wacky premise idea of basically a Charles Dickens type story meets a Spider-Man type character to what has felt like some of the most epic

thematic stuff I've tackled yet. I'm planning for it to be the first in a trilogy

although the next two books will have to wait until I finish Dreambreaker and its sequel.

Anyway, that is what's in the works right now.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast. First chapter checklist part three introducing the story

the reason the first chapter of a story is so complex is because it bears a

triple load of responsibility.

First, it must hook readers,

then it must offer a compelling and interesting scene of its own,

and finally it must set up the entire story to come.

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