A quick update. This is new. I don’t think I’ve ever finished a first draft before deciding on its title. Not until yesterday, that is. I rounded off the first draft of Delamere Nine yesterday, and I am reasonably pleased with it, though I’d like it to have a little more emotional depth, so I need to work that in during the next stages. I also realised how many Suffolk and East Anglian dialect words I used, so there will have to be another glossary at the start of the book.
I can’t start thinking about a cover until I have a title, but once I have, I will also commission a drawing, but who will it be of this time…?
This story has a background theme of coming of age. The emotional theme is tied in with that as there’s some father and son discussion, a mild debate about when do boys become men, and so on, and there is an action theme which is to do with smuggling. There are also two mysteries, the main one, which develops into something else, and then a side one which ties in, and hopefully isn’t too easy, and yet isn’t too unrealistic.
All will be revealed in time… For now, it’s on to the second draft.
