When I wrote my first mystery novel back in the day, I wrote the first 100 pages or so in one summer, then went back to college, then wrote the remaining 400 pages the next summer. Seven or eight drafts later it got shortlisted for the St. Martin's Minotaur / Malice Domestic contest (sort of - it's a complicated story), so maybe the time didn't hurt it all that much?
You're almost certainly at a different place now than you were last year, so listen to that as you re-approach the story; you might need to rewrite portions, shift some of the bones of the tale, or whatever, but it'll be much better for all that.
Re: mass market, that confirms my suspicions. Personally I look forward to the day when I have no mass markets and my physical bookshelves hold only good hardcover editions of books I actually want to reread over and over again (hence my investment in the Compleat Sandmans and NESFA's Roger Zelazny collection).
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You're almost certainly at a different place now than you were last year, so listen to that as you re-approach the story; you might need to rewrite portions, shift some of the bones of the tale, or whatever, but it'll be much better for all that.
Re: mass market, that confirms my suspicions. Personally I look forward to the day when I have no mass markets and my physical bookshelves hold only good hardcover editions of books I actually want to reread over and over again (hence my investment in the Compleat Sandmans and NESFA's Roger Zelazny collection).