Hola readers!

I thought it was high time I posted a book update post. I'm still going for the publishing goal, and...I've started writing a new book...AND AND I hired a publisher this past week who's polishing The Broken Prince (my  currentYA fantasy novel) so I can resubmit it to publishers this winter.
I'm super excited to see where my writing journey goes, and The Broken Prince has been my growing baby for awhile. I started her in 9th grade and you've heard bits and pieces about it ever since then. I saved money from working two summers and my new job at Panera, and it all paid off since I get to hire an editor and see The Broken Prince shining to perfection.
Not only that, but I've struggled with writer's block for a long time, and finally decided on another book to write as I edit The Broken Prince. It's my newest baby and I'm so scared and excited to write it!

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I've started writing another book people, and today, offically, I can say I've hired an edtor. All the feels and excitement people!!!!! My current WIP I'll talk about later in a blog post because there's so much to say and I'm super excited about this baby. However, it's a YA contemporary speculative fiction, and I've never done ANYTHING like this before. I'm super scared writing this because it's taking a risk on a different genre, but let's just say C.S Lewis' The Screwtape Letters will be a big help to me on this writing adventure! . . . #wip #newbookalert #hiredaneditor #shereadstruth #bookerd #bookstagram #classicbooks #thescrewtapeletters #currentwip #author #yawriter #books #writerscommunity #christiancommunity #blogger

A post shared by Kara Lynn (@kara_lynn_author) on Oct 11, 2018 at 4:08am PDT

The War Inside is my newest WIP, a YA speculative birthed after reading The Screwtape Letters from C.S Lewis. If you've read the book before, than you have an idea of what my novel involves...the supernatural side of the universe.
I've never written contemporary fiction before much less something that deals with spiritual warfare and battle, and that's what my newest WIP deals with. I'm only in the beginning works of this one, and with editing my other novel, this one will need to be set aside quit a bit. But overall, again, imagine The Screwtape Letters. It's basically a book that deals with a girl who can see bits and pieces of the dark spirit world, who can see first hand the devil's temptations...and what she plans to do about that.
So.
Introducing.....


Celia. She's INTP so basically she's Sherlock Holmes in nutshell. She's also a painter, her best friend is a guy, and she's pretty much a loner. And that's all before she begins to see things...like scary things....unnatural things.

I made an aesthetic for it too.

But anyway, The Broken Prince is coming along fairly well in the edit world. I'm scared for it too because I know it needs a lot of work. My 9th grade self didn't see all the plot holes see now. I didn't see how silly some ideas my characters had and I'm baffled now at what my fourteen year old self did.
At twenty I wish I'd waited to write The Broken Prince until now. I could have addressed a lot of things differently now.
But I'm not giving up. I can't.
I know if I stop now, that if I let go of this dream, than I will always wonder what would have happened if I didn't. I know I would regret it.
I may fail. In the end The Broken Prince may never get traditionally published. In the end that may not be where it is supposed to go.
But when I close my eyes I see myself writing. I don't see myself in college. I don't see myself a social worker or police officer or in the military like the little girl in me dreamed.
I just see myself a writer.
And for now, that will be enough to keep me going, whatever stories God gives me to write.