According to the date on the file, it’s been three years (!) since I last made changes to Thread and Ties.  I just finished reading it from start to finish for the first time in at least that long — probably longer.  Did someone come in and work on this story while I was away from it?  I really like it.  Sure, it reads like an Advanced Reader Copy with some of the errors, but I love the story.

I thought I hadn’t come up with an ending, but now that I’ve read it, I think maybe I did.  I saw a few places where I could tie it together a little better — just a few small ways.  A little more detail here and there.

Unfortunately, I can think of a lot of ways it’ll get shot down, and I’ll need to consider those and see if I can address them.  One is the distaste some people feel for Nikki.  Nikki earns this distaste, but I hope she’s able to win people back.  But will they stick around long enough to be won back?

I suspect I have too many tertiary characters — walk on; walk off characters.  I have to make sure I haven’t promised they’ll be more than they are.

And finally, Nikki does some unsavory things in her personal life.  Do readers really want to know?  Is it too much of a contrast to go from Nikki to Jeff (who does NO unsavory things — and is that a problem?) and back again throughout the book?

I’ll be pondering it over the next day or two.  Then I’ll have to get to work.