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Beware of spilling ink!
Skate is a thief, trained and owned by the local crime syndicate, the Ink. When she tries to burgle a shut-in’s home, she gets caught by the owner—a powerful undead wizard. He makes a deal with her: “borrow” books from other wizards in return for a place to stay.

Caught between her growing fondness for the wizard and her past with the crime syndicate, Skate doesn’t know where her loyalties lie. But she’d better figure it out, because there’s a new player in town, one whose magical hypnotism puts them all at risk.
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On the run!
Her mentor is dead, but he doesn’t have to stay that way. He’s left Skate a clue to bringing him back, and she and her friends are determined to follow it.

No sooner do they set out for unknown lands, however, than things get dangerous. Hot on their tail is the wizard Ossertine, furious over Skate’s part in her friend’s death and thirsty for revenge. Worse still are the attacks that come at night: dark, mysterious, and palpably evil.
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In this race against time, magic, and implacable foes, Skate must rely on her wits and her friends to save not just her mentor’s life, but also her own.
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12/7/2019

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Hopeful news: a publisher is interested in my book! They responded during the #PitMad event on Twitter to my pitch, and they were happy enough with the sample I sent in that they wanted the entire manuscript. I’ve only gotten this far with a publisher once before with a different manuscript, so this is very promising. I’ll provide updates next month, assuming I’ve got something more to report.

Whenever I’m waiting to hear back from a publisher or an agent, I usually get filled with too much nervous energy to get anything creative done, and I find that to be the case now. Try as I might, I can’t get any more work done on “Rainbow in the Dark.” I keep snapping back to the other manuscript, and I get flummoxed. I find it easier to exercise, though, so at least the energy is useful for something.

I don’t usually get writers’ block; I tend to have enough time between writing sessions to be able to come up with the next steps in the plot and a reason for them to happen. That is one of the nice things about revising and editing; I get to go back and smooth that stuff over and make it look all planned out. Neil Gaiman says later drafts are there to make it look like you knew what you were doing the first time, which is just great all around.

That’s all for me this time. Write your story!
-J. E. Ayers
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