Books in the Works
What’s it about?
The Surrogate is a romantic suspense novel about a woman, Daphne Morgan, who loses everything , tries to hide from the world by living a simple hermit life. She gets hired as a Jr. Designer at her best friend from university’s firm, Hephaestus. Daphne soon learns that life is not done with her and it’s pushing her to center stage.
Despite a messy divorce and not wanting to ever be in a relationship again, let alone raise a family. Daphne is falling for one of her bosses. A man she’s not sure she can trust. She get’s a promotion she’s not sure she can handle, and after hearing her best friends heart breaking story of infertility she becomes their surrogate! What possibly can go wrong?
But, let’s add a mysterious death an unexplained illnesses in the company, and a company trip to Cancun… and see if Daphne can hold onto her hermit dreams?
New Project
On June first, 2022, I decided to just jump feet first into writing with KDP’s Kindle Vella platform. Now, I didn’t just learn about KV, I’ve been aware of it and planned to experiment with it since around May 2020. However, I had to prep and outline, and think, and research and and and , if you’re a writer then you know the drill. 😜
I then learned that KV was giving bonuses to authors who just wrote. They didn’t have to have a big following, they just needed to consistently publish. And I said, forget about it (actually I used the expletive), and started writing this story that’s been peculating in the back of my head. for a couple of weeks. And thus, The Surrogate is being birthed into the world, pun sooo intended. Try to stop me.😈
Currently 13 episodes are available on KV.
What’s the Goal?
Currently I am publishing two episodes a week and writing four episodes ahead.
I hope to keep up this paces through the entirety of the book. I hate to toot my own horn but this is the fastest and most constant writing I’ve ever done. I’ve actually hit 24,000+ words in 29 days!
I’m pushing for 30,000 before this weekend and getting my book to cross into the midpoint. So, that come July we’ll be in the heart of the action.
My goal is to finish this book by August, 2022 and start the companion novel then too. Though The Surrogate is a stand alone novel, there are at least two books that I can think of that will take place in Daphne’s universe. So you’ll see some of the same characters plus more. 😊
Once The Surrogate is complete on KV, I plan to publish her wide on all platforms. She’ll get a new cover, and I want her to be sent to a professional editor, just for a little buff and shine.
How it’s going so far…
Well, I guess I kind of answer that in “What’s the Goal.” What I haven’t mentioned is that I’m thinking of either starting a kickstarter or a Patreon to raise the cost of production to publishing The Surrogate wide.
So, i’m currently researching what the best option for my project would be. I know that I would offer supporters e-books, illustrations, minor character roles, and much more at select tiers.
I’ll have to do my homework and get back to you. if you are interested in supporting me or have suggestions feel free to reach out to me on twitter @mjcrotz or email me here.