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[jana_denardo]

I did get all my pre-production stuff from DSP and have sent it back. YAY. The worry remains (and I suspect I should just email them) that if I'm not starting anything until Nov 4th and my publication date is Jan/Feb and I have to have freed up 12-16 weeks for this process, is there a time loop I should know of. I suspect the publication date is going to have to be pushed back or I might end up with really short turn around time. Either way one step closer to the novel being out. YAY.

Also another idea flashed in my head for a story so just jotting a bit of it down here. It'll be YA. It opens with a young mage in a cell. He's the captive of a seditious faction. I'm thinking he's to be the prince (princess?) mage and has been raised along with him. They plan to either torture him to the breaking point and send him back as the royal's killer once they've remolded his broken brain. Failing that, they've still deprived the royal of his/her friend. His captor is a vicious snake of a woman who delights in his pain.

He escapes somehow (the brain is thinking on that). He is either busted out or met with a group loyal to the royals. He meets a young man with them, another mage. Naturally they fall for each other but only later does he realize his new boyfriend is his captor's son (not loyal to her). That's all I have at the moment.