Category: Books

Well. I expected this, but not so soon.

Gotta review it, change a few details on the back cover, and then… tell ’em to go ahead and publish it, I guess. Then order the hundred copies that I need. That’s the next step.

…filling out paperwork. Tax information, ISBNs, biographies, websites, author pictures – that angelic giraffe head is getting a workout – and all the rest. All of this counts as being productive, right? And even creative? After all, while there are many legitimate paths to gaining the status of artist, one has always been seen as more or less infallible: did you get paid? So if I’m getting paid, well, there you go.

Moe Lane

PS: I think that FROZEN DREAMS is kind of up on Smashwords now. With a publication date for the end of the month, because I’m pretty sure that ‘learning by doing’ is going to have a learning curve to it. I read their book and managed to avoid most of the gross tech errors, but… hey, first novel, am I right?

Today was a day of first edits of the short story sampler. One of my beta readers there looked at grammar and style, the other offered content feedback, so between the two I’m well-served. But dear Lord but editing is dull[*]. Although not everything gets to be endless fun, when you’re a writer.

I’m also looking at proof copies – well, PDFs of the proof copy. The actual proof appears next week, and I think that I can check it in a day, maybe two. Once that’s done I can see how much it’ll cost me in time and money to get a print run done and delivered. I won’t mind at all filling that obligation early, either. But in-between then I plan to get the stories revised for the sampler.

And then I can work on the RPG. This may be the biggest pain to fulfill…

Moe Lane

[*Edit: it’s dull for me. There are people who like editing, and I should jolly well be grateful for that, hey?]

It hasn’t gotten a nibble in a week – which is fine, and not a veiled hint or anything. I suppose that it doesn’t cost me anything to keep it up, but the temptation to poke at it every so often remains. Or maybe I should advertise it more? Although that costs money, and right now we’re doing a bit better than our budget assumed. I’d be more confident about advertising FROZEN DREAMS if I knew what kind of return I’d get on that.

Continue reading Debating whether to shut down the FROZEN DREAMS pre-order store.

…tomorrow is the effective deadline for letting me know about any typos. So far there have only been a couple of minor oopsies, which were invariably my fault and not the editor’s. But that always happens. Anything that gets found can still be corrected, but after tomorrow the Kindle copy’s pretty much locked in place. That’s how the system works: if I want to publish the Kindle version Monday, I gotta submit it a couple of days early.

If you haven’t gotten your copy of FROZEN DREAMS because you never ordered it, well, here’s the link.