Here you’ll find a variety of tidbits related to Access Deniedlikeearly chapter versions, deleted scenes, and other fun stuff.
Grab your chopsticks and enjoy! (To read a leftover, click the fortune cookie next to it)
ORIGINAL OPENING BLOG
This was one of my early drafts of the opening blog for the book. After getting feedback from my critique group, I made LOTS of changes.
BLOG AFTER ERIN GETS HER PERIOD
This was one an early draft of the blog, which appears at the end of Chapter 17. Some of it’s the same, some of it’s different.
DELETED SCENE – MBMS – ERIN, MARK, KARA, REEDE
I don’t have anything before this, but I believe Kara had asked Mark what he thought of the Thanksgiving play. In this draft I don’t think Kara was in the play.
DELETED SCENE – JILLY’S HOUSE, ERIN’S HOUSE – ERIN, JILLY, JILLY’S PARENTS, ERIN’S PARENTS, ROSIE, AND REEDE
This scene originally opened Chapter 29, but I decided it wasn’t necessary to the story so out it went!
DELETED SCENE – MARK’S HOUSE – ERIN AND MARK
I really loved this scene, but decided Mark wouldn’t handle the situation this way – it was too much how a girl would handle it. So I took it out and tried to find another place to put the hair cut thing but couldn’t! But you get to read it here!
OLD CHAPTER 2
This was one of my first attempts at Chapter 2. Notice how different it is from the actual chapter 2 in the book!
CHAPTER 29, EARLY DRAFT
In this early draft, I have Reede coming over to Erin’s on Halloween. But it didn’t feel right and I knew I needed to bring Mark into the story again so the actual Chapter 29 is very different!