I’ve made my first editing pass through The Lighting Giver, my contemporary YA project, with a slice of urban fantasy.

It is the best thing I have written. Ever.

Oh 30.3 readers, who wants to beta read it?

(it’s spooky how this poignant photo describes a scene in the book!)

Last night I finished my current work-in-progress, The Lightning Giver.

What an amazing journey! I can’t wait to get it into the hands of my beta readers after my Secret Squirrel Alpha Reader has given it a whirl. The novel needs an editing pass, and I’m eager to get opinions of the work.

The Lightning Giver is contemporary young adult and I wrote it in eight months. By far, this was the most challenging and difficult novel to write. Normally I take four to six months.

What’s the book about? It’s about love, of course! DUH. AND KISSING.

If I had to write a teaser, right off the top of my head, like RIGHT NOW, like, I have not put any thought into this AT ALL (really!), it would be something like this:

Before the accident, Sarah and Brandon were two normal Colorado teens, mostly kind, somewhat self-absorbed, and enamored with kissing each other.

When they kissed their world faded away, and while finding true love at a tender age was sweet and romantic, even a little sexy, the lightning bolt that interrupted their latest suck-face marathon was painful and horrific.

As they wake up from their comas, Sarah and Brandon realize that all they have left of their old life is each other. As the weeks of recovery turn into months and the months turn into years, they slowly realize the lightning strike may just be a warm up for the real trouble ahead.

Yeah, that needs work. It is a tease, though.