To give readers a little tastes of what is in the book this is a sneak peak from one of my favourite chapters. Joe and Laura have just found the camp of the bikies who have trashed the homestead and are hell bent on revenge. I will only leave this passage on the blog for a week before I take it down.
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Joe may have been over sixty, and with adrenalin now surging through his veins, he forgot his recent tiredness. Running back to the site where they’d kept watch, he picked up his rifle and settled into a sniper’s position. Taking aim, he took a deep breath he relaxed, letting half of the air escape slowly his lungs. He caressed the trigger with his right index finger. It was cold and, feeling it come against the trigger spring, he knew exactly what he needed to do. The rifle punched into his shoulder as he sent the first bullet toward the shell under the Harley where the girl had been tied.
I'm really looking forward to reading the finished product, Terry. It sounds like a great read. You are so lucky to have Merlene copy editing your work. Please keep us updated with its progress.
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris it's been a big learning curve but operating with a professional copy editor. If anything seems out of place we can pick up anything that has been missed in the process, if I think a suggested change is unwarranted then we rework the sentence para etc. Working with Merlene has been a two way process and looking at a complete manuscript only in need of a line by line edit I'm surprised that most of our changes have been contractions and punctuation.
ReplyDeleteReading the list of changes in the comments column will help my future writing as some of the changes will be incorporated as the keystrokes appear on the page.
Now we need to decide on a publisher and get a marketing plan happening.
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