Thank you, friends!
I appreciate your wonderful support!!
Ena, in answer to your question,
Butterfly Girl was scheduled to be released over a year ago, but shortly before the manuscript went on to pre-publishing final stages, I asked my editor for a "quick read." I had drafted a new novel, and I wondered if
Butterfly Girl could use a few tweaks, based on things I had learned while writing that new novel. That quick read surprised me--after a long break from reading the manuscript, I realized that what I wanted to accomplish would require more than a few tweaks. There were several elements that could be improved, but it would require a slow, methodical approach--in other words, a lot more time. I revised several scenes and sent my editor Before and After examples, to see if she'd allow me to revise the entire novel. She liked what I did--it kept the content intact but smoothed and tightened the writing . . . and in the process it pushed us back a full year, since I was working on two novels simultaneously.
So, now the timing is slightly crunched with launching
Butterfly Girl, a picture book release next month, and a new novel on its way out for submission this very week! But now I am in the position of having nothing in the works and wondering how I ever wrote anything at all! It feels like a mystery to me each time until a new idea grabs me and I remember I can do this, I think (I hope!)