Well, this will be interesting. I’ve never written a Young Adult (YA) novel before but I’m reusing the 24,000+ words of material in a previously published Amazon Vella story and its sequel. The main character is a teenage girl.
I was able to use about half of the first episode as part of the first chapter in THE HOMECOMING but in the interest of adding to the story and bulking it up to about 60,000 words, it veered off in a different direction. I can use the other half later in the manuscript as the narrative returns to the original storyline.
When this is finished, I’ll take the 36,000+ words from another three sequential Vella stories and rework them into a long-form novel called WE ARE ONE. It seems a shame to waste all that effort and it really gives the book a leg up when you have so much to work with.
Since Vella paid royalties on the original material, this feels like having one’s cake and eating it too, and who can hate that?
Linnhe McCarron 