The 'New' Chapter Eleven...

We are just weeks away from the launch date of MARTINKA!!! So exciting! Through my final edits, some things have changed a bit. We started with 26 chapters and now finish with 23.  There were a few short chapters, so some were combined. There are now also two amazing interior black/white illustrations drawn by Samantha Erin Dube. One is in chapter 11 and the other is in chapter 21. Samantha Erin is a very talented artist and can be reached on Instagram at:  samanthaeriinart. I thought about posting the two drawings, but decided it would make it all the more awesome to wait until the book launches.

​So chapter 11, this is a fun chapter. Tink gets ready to go to an event that she's dreamt of her whole life. What is fun here, is that there is a meeting prior to the actual event, and it's at this meeting where Tink has her "coming out" of sorts. She is introduced as a leader of her people and is challenged by someone. Here, we witness some pretty awesome magical skills Tink possesses, and she "wows" everyone in the room.

​This chapter was especially fun to write. Even though this is a fictional story, different realistic issues are addressed throughout the book. Here, we see an empowered Tink, now all grown-up, confronting a bully from her childhood. Of  course, she handles things in a magical way, which is not real, but with a twist. What I take away from that scene is her strength, self-confidence, and fearlessness. You would never tell a child to handle things the way Tink did, lol, but in our world of, all things fantasy, it's poetic justice, with perhaps a hint of revenge, lol. 

​The other fun part, for me, is the actual building description, outside, as well as inside. I want the reader to envision exactly what I see in my mind, so it's all about detail, detail, detail. The meeting room alone is pretty cool, but as everything in this book connects to something else in some way, the outside of this building has four specific towers built at very specific times, and named appropriately. 

​Once the meeting ends, we move on to the main event in chapter 12. And just because Tink came back to the US for this one event, we are just getting started. This event is not the climax of this book, but it is pivotal, a stepping-stone to what happens next. This is where we start to travel outside of the US. Get ready... the decision Tink made becomes her reality in the next chapter.

​I will be posting more often now, so we can wrap up this book just before its launch.
Til then, dream on...