05/22/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS.

Did a second revision pass-through of the entire book, mostly. That mostly involved formatting stuff, but there was a plot hole or two that needed to be rectified. And, yes, that ate the entire day.

In other news: we have a cartographer for the RPG worldbook! I went with Robert Altbauer of Fantasy Map again: he did the Cin City map in plenty of time and with no fuss, and it’s been popular with my Kickstarter backers. So having him do this one, too sounded sensible.

Long day. More productive than I was giving it credit for, but still very much a long day.

05/19/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS.

Spent most of it fiddling with the RPG setting, and hunting down every stray space-and-carriage return I could find. I am starting to get sick of the sight of the book itself, which I understand is normal! This cheers me up, no end.

In other news: if you haven’t filled out your survey, fill it out. Also, if you bought a sonnet, get back to me about what you want in it. And, finally: feel free to let people know about the pre-order store, especially if they missed the Kickstarter and feel bad about it. Or if you think that they might get hooked. I mean, reading my stuff’s gotta be better for them than cigarettes, right?

05/18/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter.

The last of the short stories for the sampler has gotten its pass-through: next, I will hand them off to my alpha reader and have her tell me what’s wrong with them. I will probably have to proof-read them myself, though, and won’t that be fun? But that’s OK. This is good practice. So is putting them together in e-book form. I learn with this so that the book itself goes smoothly.

Also: the pre-order store is up. By all means, encourage people to check it out. I need to consult with Backerkit about exactly what goes on with locking orders, particularly when it involves digital rewards, and whether I can still do pre-orders there once I’ve locked down. Hrm. I may not make the Dragon Award deadline this year after all. Ach, well, it’ll be eligible for next year’s, then.

05/13/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter.

Tomorrow is the time when Things Happen. It’ll be fourteen days since the FROZEN DREAMS Kickstarter ended, so the money should be released; and that means people get paid! Also, it means that I can start up Backerkit and get surveys going. Once the Backerkit is fully up, there’ll be a store for pre-orders and whatnot. I don’t expect very many pre-orders – but then, I didn’t expect very many backers, either, so what do I know?

05/08/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS.

I need to get off my butt and finish processing these revisions. I wasn’t even going to mention that, except that I need to make a confession. You see, I just had to type out the following sentence, and I am ashamed of myself that somebody needed to point out the problem that made me write it:

Dammit, I should have realized that there weren’t enough monkeys.

And this is why editors are good, brothers and sisters.