MONKEY FIST BLOG TOUR Day 10 - Words and Pictures

It's blog tour day 10 - the very last. Today I'm visiting Words and Pictures – Writer and artist Jeffery E Doherty will be interviewing me about writing illustrated novels – the artwork, graphics and working with an illustrator.

The complete tour schedule is here for anyone who wants to hit the rewind button and go back a day or two.

Tomorrow I am back in the office writing again, working on my bext book Mexica Runner. It's set at the end of the Aztec empire when the Spanish attack and the story opens with Atl, imprisoned in a box, waiting to be sacrificed.

SANDY WRITES

Sandy writes. And sometimes she rewrites. Which is what I am doing now. My editor and I have had a big talk, talk, talk about Mexica Runner (due for release March 2010) and I am loving the new ideas that came out of our discussion. Chronology has been an issue. I began Mexica Runner in 2007 immediately after Polar Boy. When Samurai Kids evolved into a series, I put Mexica Runner aside to write Owl Ninja (book 2). That was a long time ago - two more books and one and a half manuscripts ago. My writing has grown with practice and experience. Some of the imagery and phraseology has accidentally seeped into subsequent Samurai kids books and needs to be removed. What was once unique is now a little too much like the voice of another charcater. There's bit of work to be done but every new idea I touch flows perfectly. So I can feel the rightness of these changes.

I'm loving this rewrite.