This a preview of my new adult contemporary romance novel, How to Write a Novel in 7 Days. In particular, the new 2018 digital-only edition.
I originally had no intention of publishing HWN7D, digitally or otherwise. This was a product of my short attention span – Yep! Sorry, sir. I really wasn't taking down notes during your class. I was writing the first few lines of this story. I wrote on-and-off, what with the reality that is med school, and finally managed to finish the manuscript around 2013. Edits and proofreads and lots of tinkering around later, and here we are.
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It is Sia Valencia's ultimate wish to become a full-fledged published writer. But with her seventh rejection, this time from Liberia Publishing, she might as well bid goodbye to that dream and say hello to a life at law school, a life her dad has been planning for her ever since she was young. To make things worse, Marc Ramirez, her obnoxious classmate from high school, turns out to be the brother of the publishing editor who rejected her work.
But the editor sees potential in Sia and her work, and thinks it would be a shame for such passion to go to waste. So he gives her one more shot: she has to write a novel in one week, provided that she spends that same week with Marc.
Seven days with the insufferable Marc Ramirez, but a chance for her novel to get published. How far is Sia willing to go for her dream?
Copyright © Angeli E. Dumatol, 2014
This edition © Angeli E. Dumatol, 2018
Cover design for this edition by Chino Dumatol