“What do you mean?”
After grabbing a drink from another table on the other side of the room, Grace explained how she’d been struggling to develop Cassandra, her new protagonist that she’d changed from Luka, to fit into a world she didn’t get to create from scratch, so was always feeling like she was playing catch-up. She’d been reading and rereading the original book series; going online to read the lore posted by fans; and rewriting several sections, but she was still getting nowhere. “I’m almost done, even if I do not like what I’ve written. And as my friend Mindy would remind me, my sixty percent is most people’s eighty percent, so I’ll be fine and not let down the publisher. I just feel like I’ve lived sixteen lives the past two months. I’ve barely had time to consider my real one, le
