The plan had been that I would query Prophecy to agents in February.  I was prepared for this goal and fully intended to achieve it.  As I prepared to send the first three chapters of Prophecy to the first prospective agent, I realized I had a problem.

The book is good.  It's just not quite good enough.

When Prophecy was originally written, it was to be a stand alone novel.  I packed it full of information that wasn't really important to the actual story line, but necessary to understand the world it was taking place in.  Characters weren't developed as well as they should have been because...well they were only hanging around for one novel.  If they were two dimensional it was okay.

Then I wrote Forbidden, a much better book all the way around, and I wrote Awakening.  Suddenly that one stand alone book had become a series of books.  All the information in Prophecy that wasn't relevant to the story line suddenly didn't need to be there.  Those two dimensional characters need to be filled out so they jump off the page.

So now I have a new goal.  After Resurrection is written (because to delay the release of Resurrection would, I think, lead to someone jumping me in a parking lot somewhere :)), I'm going to rewrite Prophecy.

I'm throwing out the original book (well I'm keeping it on the computer) and starting anew.  The story line will be the same, but it will be so much better.

I'm actually looking forward to the new book.  I'm looking forward to making it better and digging into that first novel again.  After I'm done, Prophecy will be so much more of what it should be.  When it's done, I think you'll like it.