ACCIDENTALLY KIDNAPPED Final Chapter!
And that's a wrap!
So...what happens now?
Well, first I leave it alone and focus on my CaFae Latte novel, The Iron Witch, which I'll start uploading onto Patreon starting September 1st. I tend to set manuscripts aside for 2-4 weeks after finishing the first draft so I can come back to it with fresh eyes.
Once it's done marinating, then I revise and rewrite! I've already collected several notes on how to improve plot, characters, pacing, and worldbuilding. The story will remain largely the same, with the same major beats, just expanded upon and told in a different way.
The revision and rewriting process will last for a few months, at least. I hope to get a polished, almost-ready-for-publication-as-is draft to my literary agents before the holiday break in mid-November. (The entire publishing industry shuts down in mid-November and doesn't come back up until February. This gifts agents and editors the chance to catch up on manuscripts on their to-do lists.) But it's just as likely that I'll still be tinkering with it in February 2024.
But eventually, yes, this story--which will likely be called The Lord of Starlight--will go to my literary agents, who will give me their notes for edits and revisions. And when we're finally all satisfied with it, the agents will start pitching it to editors and publishers.
(If and when I do land a contract for it, the editors and publishers will give me their notes for edits, and the whole thing starts all over again. Don't expect this book to be on shelves until at least 2025.)
Thank you all for your continued support and encouragement!
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Comments (20)
I love this story. I understand that you have yet to do a lot of work on it. I am greatly looking forward to the final book. One request- can we have a bit more at the end? Finish it with an epilogue on how the next few years worked please
Just picked this up a couple days ago and I'm not ashamed to say that I've already binged the entire thing! Absolutely loved it. I honestly don't think I've breezed throgh a book this quickly before.😅 I really wish it would continue tho... The ending feels very abrupt, almost unnecessarily so, especially if it's going to be just a standalone novel. (Sorry if that came across too bluntly, I'm currently mildly sleep deprived from staying up so long reading). What I'm trying to say is that I'd really like for the ending to be fleshed out a bit more. How the coronation and funerals went, but mainly how the new outpost in Dawn gets built up and the sort of plans they come up with in that tent. Ik that you're probably halfway through the rewrite and most likely considered or already adopted some stuff I mentioned here long before I even started reading it, so I have no right to barge in and demand that things be changed, but I felt like I needed to ramble a bit. for my own sake😅 Ig I just didn't want the story to end yet...
I thought about this for weeks now... and I just have to ask. The Story follows Brea from childhood to Coronation. So why is the book named after Lucien? Don't get me wrong, I love him and how he is portrayed, but is he really the center of attention, as its not his story that is told, not really? Or will revisions and rewriting change the story in a direction where that will make sense again?
"Lady of the Sun" or "The Burning Princess" or something of the like has a nice ring to it, I think.
The book was so good!!! I hate that it is over already 😭😭😭 I wish it had more to it. But I've seen all the things you are wanting to add to it before it goes to print. I am beyond excited to buy it as soon as it hits the shelves! 🥰🥰🥰
Loved the online series and the book. I’m sure I’ll have a binge reread & rewatch very soon.
As a part-time bookseller I WILL get this book on our shelves once it's published, even if I will have to wait years for it to come out! (Can you tell I loved it? Cause I really did!) I'll be jumping into everything else you've written now, and possibly adding more books to my growing list of books to add to the store.
Don't forget to add Jaysea's (SeaYaLater) book to the collection too! (whenever that ends up getting pubished)
This is good. I think I am going to steal your setting for a D&D game.
Hey sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, I just joined, is there a way to download this in one file as opposed to chapter by chapter?
No, sorry! This is just a rough draft. Eventually, after edits and revisions, the final version will be sold as a traditional book. However, if you just search "accidentally kidnapped," all the chapters will come up in order.
I love this story so much!!! Cant wait to see the finished result, and until then read your other works😍
I binged the entire 48 chapters of this story in about 6 hours. (I was listening to music from Skyrim while reading, and I kept getting distracted!) I can't wait to read it again when it gets even more fleshed out and made into a real book!
GODS DAMMIT!!! I'm a big tough he-man! I'm not supposed to cry at the end of adventure books. You're a bully!
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I just binge-read the whole story in the last two days (aka started yesterday evening haha) and I have to say, I quite liked it! :) And because I tend to have a lot of opinions after finishing stories and like to ramble, I'd like to share a few thoughts (with spoilers); hope that's alright: Especially Janoz I found really charming and Gundin was sweet (hope they'll end up together, one day in the future :p). Also, both Lucien and Gioa were really cool! I did like that Brea's arc ended in her gaining the confidence to stand her ground against her parents - but I admittedly didn't really see how she ended up there. I wish she would have stayed longer in Starlight to make her mental health journey a little bit more believable. (Especially as I felt she never really talked to anyone about what happened to her either, just bits and pieces to Lucien, for anything else she mentioned was barely reacted to besides shock for a moment and then switching topics) A few weeks felt very short to me. Not the biggest fan of betrayals in stories, but I feel in this one the execution was at least done well and believable enough in regards to motivations etc. I really liked that the pace was generally quick though, as it made for an easy read. (Also a big fan of the representation of Non-Binary characters! <3 Hyrik was great and how the dragon was given gender-neutral pronouns as they all didn't know the gender was a fitting move too!) The ending (as in, mostly the battlefield scene in Dawn)... I found it a bit lacklustre? But I couldn't say why (perhaps I am sad that her parents didn't receive the rather fitting end from the sketches haha... Because making Brea do something she hated to someone she hated felt a bit... sad? Unfulfilling? Not sure) Still, all in all, it was a great story, and I'll happily read any future edited version of it (and most likely buy it if/when it gets published in the future. I'd even do it in the current version, despite my grievances!) If it was a published book, I think I'd give it around 3.5/5 stars as it is right now - but I feel like there is still a lot of potential, and I'm very curious about where it will end up in the future! :)
I'm so sad it's done! But it's a good ending so I'm not too upset. Am I gonna go and reread the whole thing multiple times? Absolutely
It is a good ending👍
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😭😭😭😭 Loved this