Chapter One

So, with me waiting to hear back from everybody about just about everything I'm writing, I wound up back at The Novel this week.  It's been a month and a half since I looked at it, but that doesn't mean its problems haven't been percolating at the back of my brain--especially the big one, the killer, the thing that will doom this book before it ever gets off an assistant's desk: a bad beginning.

( Way too many details )

So I sent my new beginning to my editors, and hope they will like it better than the old one.  I certainly feel more hopeful!