After all the heartache and rewriting after the first draft was lost over and over and over again, it's finally finished. I just might make my deadline after all!

Since deciding to publish Awakening instead of Legacy in June, my life has gotten so much simpler. No longer am I concerned about the historic significance of the prequel. I have plenty of time to finish the prequel. Legacy will be just as good (if not better) than I'd hoped it would be.

The only thing biting me in the behind right now is that I haven't worked on Awakening for so long that I'm not sure what I've already told and what I haven't. It's very frustrating, especially when you're trying to get things done on time.

So here's my plan for the rest of this month and next:

-Finish the first draft of Awakening. That should be done in the next week or so as I was pretty much wrapping it up when I stopped working on it.

-Start editing right away.

-Flesh out the story and clean up any errors I let slide before.

-Figure out a new cover scheme and get to work on it.

-Format and edit again in late May.

-Get it to CreateSpace at the end of June and take a deep breath before starting on Resurrection.

It's a little daunting to think that Resurrection is supposed to come out in November and I haven't even started writing it yet. Hopefully I haven't bit off more than I can chew. But so far, everything is right on schedule for release. Get it now? I'm writing on schedule and the title is Write On Schedule...it was clever when I thought of it. I'm going to bed now...

With my new job at Wells Fargo, I simply haven't had the time to devote to Legacy like I was hoping I would. Plus, I need to do some more research and spend more time digging through the story itself. This will be the story about the first vampire civil war, it just needs more care in editing and research than I've been able to give it.

So, with that in mind, I will be releasing Awakening in June/July instead of Legacy.

After reviewing the first draft (which isn't finished by the way), I realized I'm closer to having Awakening finished and ready for publication than Legacy. Awakening is going to be a little easier to edit and format in the amount of time I have left.

On the continuity point, Awakening makes so much more sense as the next release than Legacy. To throw the prequel out in the middle of the storyline just doesn't make any sense at all. Forbidden ended on a cliffhanger. To throw Legacy, which doesn't continue the plot really at all, in the middle of that would be to lose the reader entirely.

So the release schedule is now going to go like this:

June/July-Awakening

November-Resurrection

June/July 2011-Legacy

November/December 2011-Scandal

June/July 2012-Fallout (title subject to change)

November/December 2012-Order (providing the world doesn't explode in 2012)

As always, these dates are subject to change and if they do change, the updates will be posted as quickly as I know of them. Thank you for your time and patience with my creative process.