I am still plugging away at my novel. I realized that I was hasty in my initial editing estimate. There is still a ways to go before I will be ready for beta reading. Every day things get into better and better shape. I hope to be finished by the end of the summer.
A brief note: I absolutely love MM romance so I want no one to consider my mention of it a slight. I read quite a bit of it. But I do feel that queer fiction of a non-romance focus is underrepresented.