Christensen if you want more details but basically, I want to know how the story is striking you, as a reader. There’s a great post on alpha-reading by L.A. I don’t need anything fancy, just your honest reader reaction. In particular, things that I’m interested in are: things that confuse you, bore you, or that you just don’t believe. What I’m interested in knowing is how you are find the story, but I am not over-worried about the language at this point. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen wrote Ocean’s Eleven. I’m posting it as I finish so you will see where I’m making notes to myself, rough prose, and the occasional retcon as I change my mind about something you have already read. Everyone else will have to wait for me to respond manually.īefore you click, I just wanted to take a moment to explain the ground rules, so to speak. If you were one of my readers for Glamour in Glass or Without a Summer and remember the password, include that and my email will autorespond with the Valour and Vanity password. I want a mix of readers so I know how it plays for people who have read the other books and people who are coming in blind.Īll you have to do is ask me for the password using my contact form. Going back to the other two after this will mean reading them like prequels. Although I’m writing these books with the intention that you can pick up the series at any point, there will be spoilers for the previous books. Some of you already know the drill, but let me explain for the newcomers.įirst, let me be clear: This is the sequel to a novel that isn’t out yet.

For Glamour in Glass, and Without a Summer I also had people reading along and found it very helpful so I’m doing the same for book 4, Valour and Vanity.Ĭhapter 1 is posted, with a password, if you want to read along. With Shades of Milk and Honey, I posted the first three chapters in the clear as I wrote them and then password protected the rest. Valour and vanity Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.