The Evolution of Horizon Skies!

Honestly, I can't believe it's been fourteen years since I put pen to paper, and started on the story that eventually became Horizon Skies. Years during which I not only went through a lot of life changes, but my novel also metamorphosed from a messy, directionless fantasy into a manuscript that hopefully, resembles something a bit more polished.

In those years, other than writing, I moved house three times, changed jobs five times including relocating out of London, worked full time, and battled with depression and anxiety.

• 2012 - Drafting on Red Sky Dawn begins.

• 2017 - First draft finished!

  • A year spent on edits and revisions.

  • Title change to Horizon Skies.

• 2018 - First round of querying literary agents.

  • My first experience of rejection.

• 2018 - Worked with Lucy Rose York (editor) on improving manuscript.

• 2019 - Procrastination, editing, revising, and more work with Lucy.

• 2020 - Sporadic work on Horizon Skies.

• 2021 - A very tough year, copy edit on opening chapters done.

• 2022 - Fresh beta read, deep dive editing and revising.

• 2022 - Back out to literary agents!

  • Rejected again, ugh.

• 2024 - Another beta read and work with Miblart on the cover design.

• 2026 - After a tough couple of years, I picked up the manuscript again and managed to get it finished.

  
  

I’ve been at the point of no return with Horizon Skies several times; whilst the overall story has remained the same, there have been chapters and paragraphs cut, new chapters added, and the word count has fluctuated from its original 93k to 108k to 104k.

Querying agents again is no longer an option, as the resources available for self-publishing are plentiful, but it is a lot of extra work (writing really is the easy bit).

Horizon Skies will be released on the 4th May!

I'm working with a print-on-demand distributor and as soon as I've sorted the plug-in, Horizon Skies will be available for purchase from the website.

Thank you so much for your interest, I hope you'll give this new author a chance and buy a copy of the book.