Falling For Nightmares
Blurb:
Jessica Ashford has been living with her grandparents since she was two months old. At sixteen, her life is relatively easy--save the bullying at school. That is, until her house burns down, her grandfather dies, and she wakes up with some very mysterious powers after being bitten by a small house spider. Two days into escaping the hospital, she begins having these ruthless, untamed dreams, always including the same person, a being Jessica has begun to call Tarantula. The person who killed her grandfather. Jessica must band together with family, friends, and enemies to avenge the person she loved the most. But what will it cost?
Author's Notes:
Man, I had great plans for this book. This is a secondary multi-edited version of my first book, a Spider-Man fanfiction I called Spider-Girl, a book I fell so deeply in love with I just had to write more of it so I could get it on library shelves. Well, those plans didn't go so well: I never published, and even after multiple rounds of gruesome edits with beta-readers, I still look back and cringe a little. Then I'll gasp and be like: 'I wrote that!' 'cause I'll have forgotten what the book sounded like in my head. I still love these characters so much and I think I'm going to do a rewrite and give it a third book because, uh, this story is pretty basically amazing (I am going to say this about all my projects, so beware.)
Plans:
Edit, publish, get it on bookshelves... I never accomplished these goals with this book.
Drafting Report:
Started: August 2023
Finished Draft #1: November 2023
Beta Readers: November 2023- January 2024
Finished: January 2024
Progress Report:
94-100%
Wordcount:
103,376