In the words of Christian rock band Petra, IT IS FINISHED! The #firstdraft of my latest #JackDinero #novel, Christmas in Creosote Canyon, is in the can at a whopping 150,000 words! That's literally 3 #NanoWrimo novels worth of content that I wrote in the last 3 months! It's in a rough state and I've got to trim out a third of that if I want it to be publication ready, but at least I can take the summer off and still have it ready in time for #Christmas . #novel #ya #youngadult #teen #lgbt

After three months of toiling in front of a hot computer, my third novel, Christmas in Creosote Canyon, is now ready to start editing! #Obsidian says it is now about 80,000 words long.... I kind of wanted to make it a novella sandwiched between my second and fourth books, but I guess I had more to talk about on the subject of #christmas than I had originally intended. And yes, no #aislop ever touched this story. This is 100% #human slop. #novel #arizona #creosotecanyon #jackdinero #youngadult