ptmichelle | P.T. Michelle

About ptmichelle

P.T. Michelle is the NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY and International Best Selling author of the New Adult/Contemporary romance series IN THE SHADOWS, the YA/New Adult crossover series BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS, and the romance series: BAD IN BOOTS, KENDRIAN VAMPIRES and SCIONS (listed under Patrice Michelle). She keeps a spiral notepad with her at all times, even on her nightstand. When P.T. isn't writing, she can usually be found reading or taking pictures of landscapes, sunsets and anything beautiful or odd in nature. Come chat with P.T and other fans on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PTMichelleAuthor Sign up to be informed of new book releases via P.T.'s mailing list: http://bit.ly/11tqAQN

**WINNERS of the DESIRE Giveaway Announced!**

And the winners of the DESIRE Giveaway contest are…

Entry #4073 Chloe B. ~ Corvus Medallion zip-up electronic case
Entry #6950 CJ S. ~ Desire in print
Entry #4435 Terry L. ~ Ethan Tattoo T-shirt
Entry #2818 Maria M. ~ Corvus Crew T-shirt
Entry #2052 Rose W. ~ Destiny in print
Entry #4750 Cherry M. ~ $50 Amazon giftcard
Entry #6430 Shana B. ~ Desire and Destiny print set

Congrats! I will be emailing the winners individually over the next few days ( I have family in town visiting) to get your mailing addresses. If you don’t hear from me by Friday, email me at ptATptmichelleDOTcom (replacing the AT and DOT with @ and . 🙂 )

Thank you to everyone for participating. This was a very fun contest.

P.T. Michelle

I posted this on my Facebook page, which is where I’m the most active with my readers if you care to join us…

I wanted to address a couple of questions I’ve seen about DESIRE’s length. Yes, DESIRE is shorter. I stated that up front (on my FB page) when I was about to publish DESIRE. Please keep in mind that most Young Adult (YA) books are 60-80K words. My BKoD books have been long, running from 93-123K. That is VERY RARE in most YA or even NA (New Adult) books. I had no intention of DESIRE being more than a novella length (35K words max) when I first started it. As I’d initially planned it, DESIRE was supposed to be an aside to the main story, since it was going to be more about Nara and her family and Ethan and his family. But the story took on a life of its own, and before I knew it, DESIRE turned out to be almost 65K** and WAY more than an aside story. I added so much more to the development of Ethan and Nara in DESIRE, things that fundamentally tie back into the main story arc. **As a FYI, 65K is considered novel length by industry standards.

In a follow up question on the thread, I posted this about book 5.

Here’s the long answer about book 5. I don’t plan to write another honking doorstop book like DESTINY. 128K is too long and becomes unwieldy to edit and dangerous in Microsoft Word, due to instability issues with files larger than 120K. I know, I had it happen with my book A TASTE FOR CONTROL years ago; ATFC’s file data got corrupted and it was a nightmare to fix. I would’ve split DESTINY if I could’ve found a natural place to split it, but I couldn’t, so I left the length.

If book 5 turns out to be 110-120K, I can deal with that length. But if book 5 is going to run over 130K I will consider splitting the book into two parts, and instead of one more book, the last “book” will come out in parts I and II. There’s a lot of story left to tell…so we shall see. 🙂

As for more books…after that. I’ll see how things pan out after this last leg of Ethan and Nara’s journey.

Thank you all for loving ETHAN and NARA, for cheering for them and telling others about their epic journey. I hope you’ll continue on their path with them.
P.T.