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I Sent It! 😅
Not by Sword” went off for its final round of professional editing this weekend! Selecting an editor was tricky (especially since prices seem to have gone up from a year ago). I looked at several different editors—on Reedsy and Google—and ended up requesting sample edits from 5 of them. I sent them the first chapter…
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Timothee Chalamet in the Dune: Part 3 Soundtrack
Maybe I’m crazy, but I just watched the Dune: Part 3 trailer, and that sounds an awful lot like Timothee Chalamet chanting in the background. (I’m not crazy! Polygon confirms it here.) You can hear him humming softly to Chani as they talk about having a baby, and then he leads a group of Fremen…
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Writing Update – January 2025
I didn’t make my revision goal. I wanted to have draft 3 all done by the 17th, but I’m only halfway through. Behold my list of excuses! So we’re still chugging along, but it’s going to be even slower now that school has started back up. The professor assures us that this is one of…
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Editing Is Hard
I’m just starting the third draft of my first novel, “Not by Sword,” and boy is it taking longer than I expected! I remember the optimism of midsummer, thinking that I would have my second draft done before starting school in September, then my beta readers would finish it by the end of that month,…
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Hey!
I’m A. E. Henry, and my first book, Not by Sword, is coming out this winter! It will be the first in the five-book Milo Cycle. Not by Sword is a space opera adaptation of the story of David and Goliath. Milo, our David, has been told he’s the chosen one, but chosen for what?…
A. E. Henry 