New video up on TikTok / Instagram with another snippet from #HowToBreatheUnderwater ...
Izzy is learning to manipulate fire...

the first of a series of TikTok/Insta videos with snippets of #HowToBreatheUnderwater . I thought you might like to see them too 😂😂

check out the new website header!
#HowToBreatheUnderwater
still on target for Christmas...
https://www.josordoni.co.uk

update on the cover for #HowToBreatheUnderwater ...
When I did a wraparound cover the image for the digital front cover wouldn't expand out to cover the back cover. A friend pointed out it was likely that print on demand would muck up the spine positioning, so the solid line backing the spine would likely bleed over the front cover. Not good. So I'm hitting Canva again, and have created three possibilities. All in pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/josordoni/jocelyn-sordoni-covers-in-progress/
What do you think? Anything with potential?

@Sazzle sounds like me right now, trying to edit #HowToBreatheUnderwater !

@nlowell I am so behind. I am concentrating on the edit to #HowToBreatheUnderwater and hope to rejoin the #dailyhaikuprompt when I'm finished at the end of the summer.

@paul well I've joined, if only to have somewhere else to yell about #HowToBreatheUnderwater when it's out...

#writingwonders July 5
Has your MC ever been involved in a physical altercation?
#HowToBreatheUnderwater
yes, though mainly as the object, and often as an afterthought.

#WritingWonders
20. Do you have any LGBT+ characters in your story?
#HowToBreatheUnderwater
Again, it's not discussed, but Anya is very attached to Mayleen. Nobody is sexually active, so it isn't something that comes through in the writing at the moment. But the book isn't finished, so...?

@CA_Hawthorne yes me too. I'm happily playing with covers again today... want to see them? They're all in the pinterest mood page...https://www.pinterest.co.uk/josordoni/jocelyn-sordoni-covers-in-progress/
It's so hard to stop!
This is the latest, assuming I retitle #HowToBreatheUnderwater as #TheTowerDoor

#WritingWonders 10: Your story is: fun, epic, dark, sad, etc.?

The Orson Chronicles (four titles: #HowToBreatheUnderwater #HowToWearYourDragon #TheHoneyedScentOfIron plus one more -- all titles are in flux and may change btw...) are YA fantasy, full of leaps of imagination, magic, friendship and love. Good endings. All my things have good endings.

#WritingWonders 6/8: How are weddings celebrated in your world?
#HowToBreatheUnderwater
#TheHoneyedScentOfIron

Orson doesn't have marriage, so there is no celebration.
People are free to form and release relationships of any kind, as they please, as often as they please. Women may have children if they choose, and it is also their choice how involved they wish the father to be. But it is a matrilinear society: after all, you know who your mother is, but you can't be certain of your father.

@strangeseawolf I think that's true! I use shortened versions of names, in #HowToBreatheUnderwater Izzy is short for Izabel, she calls Beatrix Bea, Will calls Saurine Rine. But not real nicknames per se.
#WritingWonders

#WritingWonders Day 6.
Does your MC have any nicknames? If so, how’d they come by them?

#TheHoneyedScentOfIron
#HowToBreatheUnderwater

Strangely, no. Now I think about it, none of my people in any of my writings have nicknames. Am I missing a shot here?

#WritingWonders Day 3rd June - Share art, pics, and/or mood boards of your WIP world.
#HowToBreatheUnderwater

Here you are, the characters from How to Breathe, translated into manga style AI images...

#WritingWonders Day 2: Were any of your settings inspired by real world locations?
#HowToBreatheUnderwater
The staircase at Minx Hall is inspired by the staircase at Hertford House, the home of the Wallace Collection museum. & a rare example of a London town house occupying the whole side of a garden square.The grand staircase features a Louis XV balustrade made 1733-41 for the Bibliotheque du Roi in the Palais Mazarin in Paris, sold as scrap iron before being bought for Hertford House.

#WritingWonders 6.1 — Intro Day: You’re transported into your WIP world, where is the 1st place you’re going?

#HowToBreatheUnderwater

You've never seen a fountain like the one outside Tower? Well, come and have a look with me...

#WritingWonders Day 30 - What colours do you associate with your WIP? Why?
This is interesting. I have a definite attachment to colours around each book.
#BarkyTheSpaceWolf is without doubt black for space with silvery stars.
#HowToBreatheUnderwater is green and teal. With russet streaks for hair.
#TheHoneyedScentofIron is burgundy for the shoes and gold for Shayne.

#WritingWonders Day 29: What type of government exists in your story?

#TheHoneyedScentofIron and
#HowToBreatheUnderwater are both in the same world. 2/2
The Edge, although it has a heriditary leader, has a large insurgent faction who wish for an elected democratic leader instead: this causes friction in #TheHoneyedScentofIron.
Leaders are often overthrown and a new family will take precedence. In practice, this is of little interest to normal people, since nothing changes for them.

#WritingWonders Day 29: What type of government exists in your story?

#TheHoneyedScentofIron and
#HowToBreatheUnderwater are both in the same world. 1/2

Orson is split into regions, each with a leader. The regions of interest in this book are Liberty, Tower and The Edge. The first two have an unelected hereditary leader, each part of a council who decide on world-wide laws, and each leader may also decide on laws that only affect their own region. 1/2