I’ve heard it said that the second book is always the hardest, and I’ve certainly found that with writing book 2 of the Hybrid series, which I’m calling Hunted. I started a very early draft back in my college days before I’d even done the first major redraft of Hybrid, but it’s taken me nearly a decade to finish a first draft, after years of struggling to find what direction the book needed to take. I had plenty of ideas of roughly where the story was going, but it took three re-writes of the first half of the book before I finally felt it was right, and that was before I even had the ideas to fill the second half! Other than the ending which came to me fairly early on, I had no idea what happened after the midway point I kept getting stuck at. And if it weren’t for all you amazing fans who’ve given me the motivation I needed to really bully my brain into working out what the story needed to be and then getting it written, I would probably still be struggling with the second half even now! Continue Reading…